Just another day!

My house is a wreck! With the remodeling going on it is like a war zone in the kitchen...actually from the entry of the house all the way through it is kinda like a war zone!

The downstairs bathroom is in-operable until they finish whatever it is they need to finish (what a pain to have to run upstairs all the time to wee!), I have cut down on the coffee intake during the day, cause I am just too lazy to hike upstairs all the time! LOL

Jenn and Carl were here for a visit...I miss them like crazy! We had a nice dinner out and the visit seemed just too short!

The business keeps me hoping like a rabbit! Its good, yet I get nothing else done....in comes the gift from hubby! He hired me a cleaning lady!! She is here right now...and cleaning the upstairs of the house. She is going to do what she can with the downstairs a.k.a the war zone...but the kids rooms and the bathrooms upstairs needed her! There are not enough hours in the day to be tied to this desk (and I am) and still have a life....so cleaning lady #4 is getting a trial run....hopefully, she can make the cut! The last one I had didnt clean anymore than I did....she only used a swiffer to mop the floors and stuffed the girls stuff in their closet...the cleaning lady before that was unreliable and the one before that stole stuff from my house!!!! Fingers and toes are crossed on this one!

The knitting is coming....oh alright its still baffeling me! I tried to cast on two socks at a time, and made it around a couple of times, but put the darn needles down and got lost! I did borrow a couple of books from Kristie to see if i could make something simpler...found a lovely shawl that I would like to make! Maybe she can help me figure that one out! LOL But i think I started with something more than my really beginner skills could handle, so I may need to back up a little and start again!

I just finished reading a really funny book...Crazy aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair....that is a great read....even if you don't knit (or crochet!) I really enjoyed it!

I'm suppose to be filing right now...can you hear the joy in my voice about that! I could probably do it all in about one afternoon, but I try and keep stuff like that for when Chuck is in the office, so I look busy! LOL
Well its almost lunch time, and I feel like I am starving, so I am going to go make something to eat...I think I will go with my organic yogurt and some flax seed...that would be the healthy option, or some toaster waffles with butter and syrup, the unhealthy option!

Jen is coming for a visit~

Tomorrow Jen and Carl and the kids come for a visit! I can hardly wait to see them all, I miss them so much. I don't know what exactly we are going to do, or even what time they are getting here, but I can't wait to see them!

So I am trying to learn to knit. I am not being very sucessful at it though. I keep thinking I should be able to wrap my tiny little brain around it, because I can crochet and while they are different they are a lot alike. Well not so easy for my brain...I think starting with socks is a little too hard, so I may try something else, not sure what yet, maybe a shawl.

I am working on a cami tank top that I love the look of, it is curling up as I do it, so hopefully blocking it will help. I have tons of pictures to post...but haven't done it yet! I need to figure out the camera on my phone cause it doesnt want to work properly! Since we shut off Britts ability to text pictures and such I believe they shut all of them off. So I can't send the pictures I have on my phone to my email. I am also crocheting a couple of pairs of different socks...cause I need something mindless to do in the evening.

The kitchen is moving right along. I'm waiting on theplumber to finish and then I can go get m washer and dryer and start to do laundry on the main floor of the house. I'm also attempting to move all my craft stuff upstairs into my closet, that may mean that I need to clean some things out of the closet that I have been holding on to for a long time. I may need to get rid of more clothing that I don't wear...and I hate doing that.

I am reading two books right now...The Friday Night Knitting Club, its really good, and if they make that into a movie I will go see it for sure. I'm also reading Hooked on Murder its pretty good! I have one upstairs in my bedroom for when I can't sleep the other in the office for down time. I recently finished the Nora Roberts series called The Garden Trilogy. They were pretty darn good!

I will attempt to put some more pictures in my flicker account, if i can get them all moved to where I want them.

ahh the heat and humidity which is summer

Well I must say that the humidity is horrible...but the plus is that it should be gone by tomorrow sometime.
I have been working on my dear flower beds...weeding, and planting. Is it really called weeding if you have let the weeds go until they are 4 feet tall, and its already July until you start? Maybe it should be called something else...like, extreme weeding!
The kitchen is not doing a whole lot right now, we did buy a cabinet (for 10 bucks I might add) for the bathroom. We now have a portable air conditioner (there is nothing portable about it) in the office so that i don't die in the heat...its downright chilly now! We purchased lumber to stud out the walls for the bathroom and laundry room. I'm waiting on hubby to start that along with the plumbing. It is going slow, but it is going!
I am crocheting socks...athletic short socks. I started with a jacket which I'm in a quandary about, so I have shelved that for now in favor of whipping out a few socks. I also have a pattern I want to make for a tank top...I gotta go get yarn for that.
I am so addicted to podcast and Raverly. I have been listening to pod casts while I work in the flower beds, and while I work in the office. Is there an intervention for this?
I'm also reading blogs, and just having fun with reading about things others are doing.
So...my goal is to finish some flower beds tonight and listen to some pod casts! See you all again soon.