Another thing that seemed to be making time slow down , was Jolea was home waiting to get another job on a boat. We enjoyed having her home, but you all know what waiting on job offers makes a person feel like. Even though she kept busy with Christmas decorating and cleaning house for me (our house hasn't looked the same since she left) she was still anxious and wanted to get back to work. We may not be decorating this year with much more than a table top tree, since the elf is not around. (You won't miss anything around here this year Jolea, have fun on the boat.)
In two more weeks school will let out for Winter Break (aka Christmas Break) and then a new year. Seems like years ago, someone older, I think it was my Aunt Elvia, or maybe Dad, told me something about the years flying by, that time started moving faster and faster. Well, this year I'm feeling that.
I've not traveled much at all this year, besides the trip to West Texas in July and..... I think I went to Houston in the spring. Didn't I go to New Braunfels too? I think I need to get out more. I'm behind on my road trips. I also think I need to make them more monumental if I can't remember taking them.
Final pair of Christmas socksI feel like I'm behind on my knitting too. I only knitted ONE sweater this year, that's not right! Knitting nine pair of socks in one year is too lopsided. I'm vowing NOT to knit so many socks next year. Last week someone asked me to knit them a pair of socks and I graciously declined. I'm going to finish this one last pair and then start going through my stash to start a sweater. I think I want to make an Irish Clan Aran sweater. But I can't find one for the Cruzan clan. Oh there's lots of other clans listed, but not a Cruzan in the bunch. I know we should have a pattern, Jody swears he was Irish in a previous life. Just like I swear I was a Native American woman (I think I can skin a bear...) and a Mexican, I haven't figured out man or woman yet.
(Sorry, my train of thought sometimes jumps the tracks.)
So I may have to create my own pattern for the Cruzan Clan sweater. Any suggestions as to what I should knit into the pattern? Little rum bottles? Tiny mandolins? I'm open to suggestions. Maybe I should research them to learn what all the twists and cables and bobbles in an Irish sweater represent.
In other news, we didn't have snow on Friday, just bitter cold. We broke a 60 year record for low temperature. It got down to 22 degrees Friday night. When I woke up Saturday morning it was 25, that's why there are no pictures from the deck. We had a heavy frost on everything, that reminds me.... I have a Chili Pepin plant on the East side of the house I should go check on, it was loaded with tiny green chilies, whoops!
Have a good week, 1 down 2 to go.... when you work in a school that's how you mark time, from one school break to the next.
14 comments:
Don't forget to add knitting needles into your clan sweater design, and maybe some type of water pattern to represent the love of water...I dunno.
Have a fun Sunday! Some parts to the south of me got a dust of snow, but I didn't and that's all I care about.
The year has flown by...where does time go...someone I think was shaking the hour glass to make it go faster this year...
I was going to suggest little rum bottles, but you beat me to it. How about fancy little cocktail glasses? Like the one in my South Park version of me?
Ha ha ha to that person who wanted socks - I WON!
And wow is that cold...
Finally, yes the years fly by - probably much worse for you and me than it is for those youngens like Slojolea and SeaHeather...
PS I am SO very glad Jody is feeling better. It is horrifying to watch a loved one go thru chemo & radiation. I am hating this again so much more the 2nd time. I guess because it brings back the 1st time. And the last Christmas with Donna 4 years ago... agghh! Tangent - let's hear it for JODY!!! YAAAAAYYYYYY!!!
Hevvar, I think we were colder than a lot of place much farther north of us. But hey, it's winter, it's supposed to be cold.
Heather, the person that asked for socks was the same person that I finished the pair she had started... I may have done them before yours. Now that's just greedy. I don't even get two pair a year. And I'm ready when you want to get on a tangent about cancer...
I love how you write.
Going off on tangents.
Makes me laugh as I read.
I agree that this year has gone at the speed of light and that each year seems to pass faster than the one before.
Is duder in a marathon this weekend?
p.s I used the word tangent before I had read the comments so I'm not laughing at your tangents, but the tangents, like the chili pepper. Tee hee.
Great post, and oh soo true, the years that I have been here in Iceland have just flown by, I think time always seems to go that much quicker when life is good.
M, you always say that, thanks. I'm thinking Duder does have a marathon, but I could be wrong... I didn't get her last post, it was a little vague.
Heather and I are just waiting for the chance to attack a Oncologist or the head of the Cancer Society. Whichever we run across first.
Sigga, I like that... the years flying by when life is good.
Another year. They all blend for me now. Thank God I have kids to ask about what happened when. Seems like I've known you for many many years now.
Maria was right about laughing while you read here. I do it all the time. You are a wild ride, honey cakes.
Awww thanks Brian, I've done my deed for the day if I made you smile or laugh.
I so want some socks made by you. I mean really really. I can't actually ask you to make me some but...I wish I lived down the road from you. I could mend a fence or help Jody fix the roof or rake your leaves in return for some knitwear.
You absolutely rock!
Awww Brian, haven't you noticed that I just make socks for random people? And you wouldn't have to rake my leaves. We don't do that around here. The wind blows too hard and you have to chase them down the street to get to them with a rake. What size shoe do you wear? I'll see what I can do for next winter. And what's your favorite color.
LOL! I tried to explain to a New York friend that we don't rake leaves down here, but I think he thought we were just a bunch of slobs. Now I know how to explain it! You are so funny, J.
Or I could tell him that we need them for random car decoration and/or for betting purposes.
LOL Debi, "don't touch those leaves... we're using them for the betting pool when football season is over!"
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