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Ok so the bed didn’t arrive until nearly 2:30 and they forgot the frame so that is coming on Monday and they’ll have to set it up but other than that, I’m in heaven! It’s definitely an upgrade from what we had even if it is still a box spring and mattress on the floor. We didn’t even have a box spring before! I have picture but I’m too lazy to go downstairs for the cable I need to upload it but you’ll get it soon enough.

Well I’m off to lay down in sweet bliss!

The bed is coming todaaaaay, the bed is coming todaaaaaay! It should be here between noon and 2 p.m. I hope sooner rather than later. Squee! I can say though that I did not like it none too much being booted out of my mattress this morning at 8:30 a.m.  Himself had to toss the mattress in the dumpster before he headed to work since we aren’t sure he’s going to be ab le to take an extended lunch to be here when they arrive or not.

In other news, another cute Hunter story. Well cute for me cause I’m his Momma but we were walking home from school yesterday and he said that someone had pushed him and that he fell and got his hands all dirty. He held up his hands and said, “But they are all clean now.” I asked him, ‘Oh? Did you wash your hands?” and he said, “No, I don’t know how they got clean. It was magic.” Isn’t that just adorable?

Hunter came home from school and asked if I liked his new shirt. Well the shirt wasn’t new, it had just been dug up from the bottom of his drawer and he hadn’t worn it in a long time, so he didn’t remember he had it.

I told him it was a very nice shirt and that I liked it. He replied with, ‘I love my new shirt.” I then went in to tell Himself how much Hunter loved his ‘new’ shirt. Himself said, “He didn’t even want to wear it this morning!”

I went back to Hunter and asked him “Why didn’t you want to wear your new shirt this morning? I thought you loved it?” He replied, “It wasn’t cool this morning but now it’s cool.” I said, “Ohhh ok…” figuring that he probably got some compliments at school or that someone said it was cool.

A few moments later he added, “I dealed with it.” which cracked us up because that’s what we tell the boys all the time whenever a protest can be heard in their voice, “Deal with it.”

It won’t be here before Saturday but I’m impatient! I want it now!

Nothing going on over here really, just waiting… waiting… waiting….

I don’t have anything to say really. I just thought I’d post to post. No reason! I guess it kind of fits into the theme here at MizJennah.com. Posts with no point to them.

Lesse, Hunter has a loose tooth. Already? Yeah that’s what I said but apparently so. It’s wiggly. He’s going to be 6 years old in a month and some change so I guess it isn’t too early, still though. Not exactly ready to see gaps in his teeth to remind me that he’s not going to be my baby forever. Sure, I want him to grow up and leave the house, pleaseandthankyou. It’s just… I love his personality, his manner, his way about him (when he’s not driving me crazy) and I’m sad to lose it.

So I think I told ya’ll about the bedding I got. Well I took a picture and so for your viewing pleasure…

My beautiful crimson bedding!

Don’t you just love it? Hopefully we’ll be able to afford the decorative pillows. I love pillows. Just invokes images of blissful sleep. Himself sees no point in having a pillow you can’t sleep on but he’s a man, what does he know. I don’t tell him how to arrange his tools do I? Ok so maybe I do but seriously, there’s a better way than just tossed in a box!

Just wondering, have I posted pictures of the new house yet? I don’t think I did. I’ll save that for later. I’m going to go nurse my headache that I’ve had for two days but I just felt the need to say nothing really in particular here.

Ok so I haven’t actually gotten any sweet sleep lately but that is all about to change. Well.. in a week! We were finally able to pay off our bed that we’ve had on layaway for the last 6 months and it is going to be delivered I believe next Saturday. Possibly as early as Thursday if it comes in sooner. We additionally got the boys bunk beds because they were in desperate need of new sleeping arrangements. JT has been sleeping on a pull out sofa bed from the love seat that Himself’s mother gave us. Hunter is still sleeping in his crib. Technically his crib anyway. The side comes off to make it a toddler bed but as he is going to be 6 in less than 2 months, you can well imagine that his head and feet are touching tops to bottoms. All that is left to get is the bunk bed mattresses and I’m hoping that we will be able to get that done this week and save on a second delivery cost.

Weather here has been pretty dreadful. I guess we’re getting all those storms that dropped bucketloads of rain on California. I don’t know but it has been raining and cold here for 2 days. It’s prevented my walking to get the boys from school. I know that I should be doing exercise at home on the days that I can’t walk the 2 miles to get them, but I’ve just been very unmotivated. I think it’s depression. Seeing the weight that I’ve gained… it makes you *want* to lose weight, and also very unmotivated to do so. I don’t know. I suck.

Oh! Back to the whole bed thing, we did buy some new bedding and sheets. They were all so pretty at Bed, Bath, and Beyond! But in the end we opted for a really rich crimson red set. It was also on clearance and $60 off. The only thing I’m worried about, now that I think about it, is that it is a satiny type of comforter and I can just bet it is going to be sliding off us all night long. Hrmm maybe we should take it back… I don’t want to fight with my bedding. It’s bad enough that I kick my blankets off, I don’t want them to be running away from me when I’m not.

In the fiber arts department, I’m working on another Traveling Woman shawl and another Angel Wings shawl. I guess I just liked the patterns so much I want to do them again. My friend Amy is trying to knit the Traveling Woman for the first time so I’m glad I’ll be able to help her with it the way Sarah helped me with mine. It was such a growing-pains pain in the ass but worth all the frustration in the end. I’m hoping the second go-round will be much smoother.

Alright, it’s early and maybe I can get some yoga in before the boys wake up. I don’t know. I’m not really into the whole ‘pain’ thing right now.

I’m at a bit of a stand still right now. I’ve spent the last 4 weeks working on a shawl about 85% of the time and now that it is off the needles… I’m kind of at a loss for what to do next. Oh sure, I have plenty of unfinished projects that I could, potentially, finished… but what fun is that? I’m anxious to use some of my new yarn (because it’s new and smooooshy!) but with every project there is that age old question every skein asks itself, “What do I want to be when I grow up?”

I haven’t found the *perfect* project or the *perfect* yarn for said project. I’m thumbing through Ravelry no doubt but nothing has jumped off the screen at me. I really need to get Hunter and JT’s hats and scarves done. Seriously, this is Texas. It’s going to be cold for oh.. another 5 minutes. There’s a few more shawls I want to make but… eeeee, just scared of 1) running out of yarn (thank you Sarah) and 2) picking a pattern that might end up making me too frustrated and I end up with another UFO. (Unfinished Object for those of you muggles.)

In other news, things are okay. Having a lot of unexplained anxiety. Just… feel scared, no real reason. Do I even need a reason anymore? I’m going to be going in for some blood work next month so maybe I’ll talk to him about it.

I haven’t picked up reading again. I started Everlasting Darkness by Alexandra Ivy which is book three of the Guardians series but I keep falling asleep two pages into it. It’s like my own personal sleeping pill now! I have Lover Avenged to read by J.R. Ward but I just don’t know if I want to. I have read the first 4-5 books and I can honestly tell you that I don’t know what made me keep reading them. Oh they weren’t horrible, the stories were good enough. The secondary characters were far more interesting than the main hero/heroine of each book. I guess it was just the….way they talked. Mind you, these are ancient European white vampires and they speak in… ghetto-speak? (Is that insensitive to say? Hope not!) It’s just… silly to me. Maybe because that particular style of talking wasn’t something I really grew up with or have many friends who talk that way. It’s different… and sometimes it makes me feel the vamps? Are posers. But I keep reading because once you’ve invested your time to reading an entire series, it’s hard to give up even if it is a trainwreck. (Who can look away from a train wreck?)

Oh and back to knitting, because I promised y’all pictures. Here is Traveling Woman shawlette.

Ok so I don’t know if I remember posting about finishing up a crochet shawl, but I finished one on the 19th. The first crochet project of 2010 finished. I’ve just now finished my first knit shawl of the year as well. It’s actually a first to finish such a huge knit project, and it’s also the first real lace project I’ve done. I will be adding pictures but since my internet connection is shite right now, I’m going to have to do it later. Needles to say I feel pretty proud, especially of the knit shawl. My blood, sweat, and tears (along with some very strongly worded tirades) are in that shawl. Shawlette actually. It’s small. Kiddy small. But I still love it!