I usually don’t sleep with socks one. Sometimes in the winter I am freezing when going to bed and will start off with socks on and then I will wake up in the middle of the night really hot and then take them off. since that is the routine, I have to be really cold before I resort to wearing socks.
I’m BAAACK!:waving:
Colorado was WONDERFUL! Compared to home, the weather was downright COLD some days. We even had snow one morning! But it was BEAUTIFUL to be in the mountains enjoying the creation around us.
I almost finished one sleeve and got a good start on the other on the Andoasweater I’m making for DH. I gave up working on it last fall b/c I couldn’t switch from k to p without pain, but now that I’m doing Portuguese knitting, it’s easy and painless!
DH is still working on my socks. He’s ready for the heel! He broke my KP needle, though! I’ll call KP and see if they’ll replace them. The tip came out of the cable.
Now to try to keep up with y’all!
Steve, I like your socks!
Dustina, I’m thrilled about Linda! Praise God!
Christine, good job on that blanket! I don’t know how to crochet, so I’m impressed with your efforts! DS’s girlfriend’s mom has Menier’s and just started going to physical therapy. She said they’re training her to do certain visual things so that the dizziness is reduced. I’m sure you hear of all sorts of remedies, but this is supposed to be a new treatment? Anyway, we sure care about you and want you to be well!
Tami, Can’t wait to see your hand-made Knitzi!
Sue, I love that yarn! I can see why it tempted you!
Lieke, good luck with your move!
Jess, your trip looks AMAZING! Great pictures! Love your socks! I hate it when tests are given like that.
I’m going to take the test to get Special Ed Certification (added to my current teacher certification) on June 21 and hope it doesn’t go like that!
I don’t sleep with socks on unless I have a cough and have put Vicks Vaporub on my feet to stop the cough. Works great!
Julie, your new camera sounds wonderful! I like your new avatar, too! Hope the kids stay healthy for a long while! I agree about some people’s kids! Being consistent is SO important! A pop on the butt is not a problem in my book and my kids are turning out great, IMHO!
Kaitlin looks adorable in her dress!!!
Chris, you are determined to have large people around you, aren’t you? I LOVE corn fritters! Haven’t made them for years, but YUMMMM!!! I’ve made them with Bisquick, too. Glad the AC is fixed! I’d stay gone, too if we didn’t have it!
Karina, that sock is LOVELY!
Hi Jackie! It’s nice you’re back home, too! I have loads of laundry to do , too, but I wanted to check in here first! It was SO DRY in Colorado! I started getting nose bleeds! I’m used to the humidity, but I noticed when we got home last night that my house smells funny. I wonder if I need to keep it cooler? It’s VERY humid here, so maybe there’s too much moisture in the house?
Reading is SUCH a good activity! The saying is, “The more you read, the more you increase your ability to learn.” So reading makes you smarter! I encourage kids to read whatever interests them. Even magazines, as long as you’re READING! Even forums and blogs count, right???
Okay, so I’ve spent the morning on here instead of doing laundry. Time to get on with it! Have a great day, everyone!
[COLOR=royalblue]Gina!!! Glad you’re back! NM is dry too, more so than CO if you can believe that?! I notice after using our swamp cooler lots that our house smells kinda damp and funny so I try to open the windows up every morning and let the fresh (dry) air blow through & then about (now) 10:30ish I close them all up b/c it’s hot and this year we’re very windy…I don’t like it when we’re windy b/c it just dries everything out more.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=yellowgreen]Tami??? are you on donught duty again? or knee deep in wedding cakes?[/COLOR]
[COLOR=darkorchid]Dotty must be really busy with her normal daily things and her volunteer work…but we sure miss you Dotty!!![/COLOR]
Gina thanks for the link to the sweater. I have been looking for a men’s pattern to do for my brother to make up for the fact that I washed and tumble dried one of his sweaters last year and it shrunk to about half its size. Did not read the label or pay any attention to what I was washing so it was thrown in with everything else.
Was thinking about you the other day when I was listening to the radio in the car for school pick-up. They mentioned that eating celery and especially celery seeds is supposed to help with the pain from arthritis. might be worth a try.
Christine - I am on raverly and didn’t think about there.
Julie thank for the link printed the pattern and will have to try those. Need some #1 needles first. I guess I’ll have to endure a trip to the LYS. Oh well.
you could try them on a size 2, I knit tight
knitty is up [U][COLOR=#810081]http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer08[/COLOR][/U]
[B]Gina:[/B] I have tried every known cure and therapy except the surgery. They won’t do that because it renders you instantly deaf and I will wait until it happens naturally instead of causing it to be immediate. I love the sound of my grandchildrens voices and the puppy barking and the waves on the lake and music so I chose not to do the surgery.
[B]Chris:[/B] I don’t know what you mean about Ravelry, but if you meant my blanket list I thought it was a good idea to show everyone just the blankets and not all my other knitted items, so I asked for an Oddball account.
[B]Julie, Sue, Dustinac and Ann:[/B] Thanks for caring. The barometric pressure sometimes causes me awful trouble. Hopefully this spell is over with for now. It is supposed to rain again on Friday so we shall see how things go.
Sorry I confused - it was Knitgal that asked about Raverly.
Also, I asked for the Oddball account because I am not the only one knitting on the blankets. I thought it only fair that if there are other knitters I should not get the credit, everyone should!
Here is a progress photo of the Rainforest socks. have finished both legs and the heel flaps now will do one foot at the time.
Lightning have to lay on top of them of course and get all the attention.
Here is a photo of a bag, which I also posted in the What you knitting section. I made it for Maisey so she can use it for playschool.
Great socks. I love the bag and I bet your DD does too! That cat is a darling. I love cats.
Hiya Cacunn,
I might be able to help you there with the baby sox things with the sherman method.
I’ve made them before for my GD and they fit perfectly. I would forego heels, but that’s just me. but I used baby weight yarn (no wool for the little darlins feet to get a reaction to). If yer following the sherm then you would co 10 (half the final amount) do your sherm toe down to 4 or even 2 then back up to 10 then pick up the other ten knit the foot til bout an inch from the heel part. then do the sherm heel down to 4 (baby heels aren’t very pointy yet) then just do the leg a nice stretchy bind off of your choice. n there ya go. BABY SOX!! using the ol’ sherm.
Morning,
Talking about humid, :angelgrin: , it is nice to be back home, HOME SWEET HOME, when we reached home the first night, we sensed that the tap water tastes funny too…:shrug:
I m back in full force again - 24/7 :roflhard: :noway:
Christine - feeling better today ?
Chris - I use for my baby socks. You might want to try, jus like it says Super Quick Baby Socks.
http://www.geocities.com/blossomknitwear/superquickbabysocks?200726 (sorry i dun know how to e quick insert link thingy)
Jess - the weather here is killing and when i tells ppls here that i knit socks, they LAUGH OUT LOUD !!! but hey, it is my passion/hobby…so i continue to knit socks and only where them (u guess)…yup in the aircon room when sleeping…but not always. It kind-of-funny of switiching on the aircon and cover ourselves with comforter and wear sock to sleep. (???)
Gina - welcome back.
Julie -thats for the Knitty link, there are so many lovely summer wear.
Karina - Hi to Lighting. The rainforest is nice. Jayne love the kitty bag very much, very cute.
Dustina - Busy 
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Julie, It’s too hot and humid here to open the windows. I won’t be able to do that until September. :ick:
Thanks for the link to Knitty. They have some cute socks up!
Karina, I made some modifications to the pattern. You can see my notes on Ravelry. Your socks and bag are GREAT!:cheering:
Can you give me a link to the article about the celery seeds?
Christine, I hope you feel better this week! You know we all care about you!
I forgot to tell y’all about my yarn-store purchase! DH was happy to find a yarn store in Colorado Springs before we left for the airport. I was tempted to by yarn, but my bags were already too full, so I opted for a Pattern for a lace cabled pullover. I’ve NEVER bought a pattern before, but they had this knitted up and it was SO CUTE! I also got some Eucalan wool wash.
I’m alright, thanks for caring! The vertigo has passed for now. Hopefully it will stay gone for a while so that I can get back to “normal”. I have blankets to finish, socks to make for DH with the yarn Abbily sent me, socks to finish for Gina, a baby outfit to finish for Crycket and one to make for someone else, plus my sister’s bed jacket which is OTN but just (I think I have one inch done on it)! I need to get back at it! It’s hard to motivate myself when I feel like crap and the weather is causing me to ride the vertigo rollercoaster from hell.
[B]QOTD:[/B] What would you do? You’ve heard about my saga of the people upstairs? Well here is more to add to it.
A few weeks ago, the woman upstairs woke me up at 8:20 in the morning demanding that I go downstairs and wash out the wash machine because I had washed my door matt and it had left dust in the washer. Now the rest of the story is that I DID wash the machine out for fifteen minutes with vinegar the night before, after I finished washing the matt. It caused the vertigo to start again because I am not supposed to bend down for any length of time. When I told her I had already cleaned it out she hung up on me. Half an hour later I took Boots out for his morning constitutional. When I came back in this woman started in at me. I was sick already from spending the night spinning, having to take meds and then being woken up before I was ready to get up. I tried to go back into my home but she would not let me and was getting louder and louder. I went to shut my door and she pushed it back open, banging it off my wrist and causing a large bruise that is only just now dissappearing. I kept telling her to get out but it was a good ten minutes before I finally got her out by forcibly shutting the door in her face. She then screamed that I was nuts. I got an e-mail a few days later about how we should treat each other with respect and thoughtfulness. I responded that I have been a good neighbour and resented her forcing her way into MY home. I said what I had to say and finished the e-mail with “and that is all I intend to say about this”. A few days later I got another e-mail from her where she went on and on about how sorry she was and how I was like a mother figure to her, but that I was in the wrong for not telling her I was sick. I don’t owe anyone an explanation, least of all her. I did not respond to the second e-mail nor do I intend to. I already said I had said all I intended to about the subject but that is not good enough for her. She knew she was in the wrong and was trying to make herself feel better. It was not a sincere apology. She said “she had made peace with herself that she had done all she could do and the ball was in my court”. I’m not the one that is nuts, she is, and I don’t want anything to do with her. Am I wrong?
This is the same woman that screamed at me for five minutes because I called the police to find out what my rights were when her husband “accidentally” pushed the green bin onto my car causing two major dents and several chips in the paint. The car has still not been fixed, but that fact did not stop them from calling the following week to ask for me to come install a toilet seat, which I refused to do, and later that day to inspect the shower doors, which I also refused to do. She claims I am treating HER like a criminal because I called the police, even though I told her that at no time when talking to the police did I mention anyone’s name or an address, just asked what my rights were. I also told her it had nothing to do with her, it should have been her jerk of a husband, the one who damaged the car, that made arrangements to fix it. It was none of her business! I saw no reason for her screaming at me when it had nothing to do with her.
This is the same woman that several months ago told me my problems with her husband were all fluff problems and not to come and talk to her about them again because I was going to “cause her a heart attack”. That was after her husband put the green bin on the hood of my car for some unknown reason. She claims it did no damage and she can’t understand why I got upset about it. I told her “because it is MY car, not his, it is NOT a table, and he has no right putting anything on it.” Am I wrong?
Last Friday the landlord put a new garage door on because this same woman got mad at me because I refused to talk to her, but sat quietly outside on MY verandah (which is right beside the garage) smoking a cigarette (also note that I voluntarily stopped smoking inside my own home when they moved in because their child has asthma). She slammed the door down, crooked, and smapped the frame. She then had MY husband who is 60 (she is 31) climb under and try to fix it so her precious little beasts could get their bikes out to play. DH and I had quite the discussion about that when he got back inside. When the new door was installed last Friday, the installer gave me the two keys. I then gave one to the jerk and told him “don’t loose the key because there are only two in existence, not even the landlord has one”. A day and a half later he had lost the key. He then started calling every fifteen minutes and pounding on the door in between calls yelling (not asking) for us to give him our key so he could get one made. My DH and I did not answer the phone or the door and agreed we would not give him the only key there was left. My DH took our key and went to get a copy made. The first place made a copy but it did not work on the door. We were having company that night. The jerk upstairs waited until our company was there, opened our front door, with the company sitting there, stood in the hall and started yelling for us to “give him the key so he could lock the garage door”. I told him no, that I would lock it later because I had company. He said “give me the key, I’ll lock it”, and I said no and walked away. The following day my DH went and got another key made in another store and this time the key worked. He gave it to the jerk and asked for the money it has cost to have it made. He told the jerk he was a “dork for loosing the key after he had been told to be careful with it”.
So we come to tonight. We put out our garbage as usual on a Wednesday night. Later my DH went down to put something else into the pail and there is the jerk upstairs’ garbage in our pail, UNWRAPPED, and our pail, which was half full of wrapped garbage when we started out tonight, was now totally filled with all kinds of unwrapped garbage. My DH then went and knocked on the door until the jerk came and answered it. My DH told him he could not put the garbage out unwrapped and he could not put it in our pail, to use his own pails. The jerk proceeded to go inside his house and lock the door. We had to remove the unwrapped garbage from our pail and put it into his empty pail, the one sitting at the side of his house.
This is not the first time the jerk has done this with our garbage pail. The landlord refuses to do anything about this fool. A week ago the jerk’s precious little beast broke his bike, so the jerk took the little girl next door’s bike and lowered the seat so his kid could play on it. He returned it three hours later after they came back from the park (where they had taken the bike without the owner’s knowledge), with the seat still lowered. All the neighbours hate this man. The landlord calls him an a$$hole. Why does he do nothing about him?
We give no trouble, I sit here and knit all day. I don’t have loud music, noisy parties, big fights. The dog hardly ever barks and is very well trained (no I am not bragging, it’s the truth, he is not a barker). We are good neighbours, she even admitted that in one of her e-mails. As a matter of fact we have repeatedly gone out of our way to help these people time and time again. That stops NOW! Am I wrong?
DH can go to work. I am stuck here. I have to go outside now and then to take the dog out. I am so sick of all this. I have to keep my doors locked at all times now. The poor cat can’t sit out at the front door in the sunshine. I have to take my cell phone outside even if I am only going for a smoke in case they trap me outside my home again and I have to call 9-1-1. I HATE living here. We can’t afford to move. We would never get the size of apartment (19 x 25 foot rooms) we have here anywhere else in this city for what we pay, utilities and laundry included, per month ($700).
What the heck do I do now?
By the way, stress DOES make vertigo much worse! They have me so upset that here I sit at 2:30 in the morning and can’t sleep. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
Christine, can you talk to a lawyer. If they are causing you problems, a lawyer might be able to write a letter that makes them leave you alone. If they lock you out of your home again, when you call the police, have them arrested for trespassing. Start making them as miserable as they make you, and Good Lord willing, they will move. I will pray that something happens that solves your problems with them.
Christine - sorry to hear that you have these problems. your home should be a place to feel secure and comfort.
If you are not the only one that have problems with these people, could you not arrange a tennants meeting and try to get as many people on you side and you all talk to the landlord as a group. If the rent is cheap then there should not be a problems getting new tennents in.
The situation you described sounds very aggressive and I think I would have involved the police in that, I am sure there is a law agains forcing your self inside somebodys home and acting like that.
Make sure you and other people make a record of all the things that happens with dates and times etc. I hope you can get something done so you can be happy in your own home. Sending you a big Hug.
Just thought I would post this photo of Maisey with her bag. taken this morning as we were rushing to get to school on time.
Christine - Sorry to hear about your neighbor. I would take all that you have written here and put it in a letter to the landlord, asking that they take some action. Sent it registered/return receipt. Then keep a log of what is happening, include dates and times. Every so often send the log to the landlord, registered/return receipt, and again ask for some action and if possible get other neighbors to do the same.
When they become aggressive call the police. If they enter your house and your have asked them to leave or asked them not to enter the house it is trespassing and you could call the police.
One bit of warning is that once the police get involved it sounds like these neighbors may get even nastier. This should be of concern.
Even more important learn and practice deep breathing relaxation techniques. Try meditation and prayer.
[B]Christine[/B]: So sorry to hear you are having such problems with the neighbours from hell. It must be so difficult to live like that. It is too bad that you cannot move and it is so hard to evict tenants these days even if the landlord wanted to. He doesn’t have to live there and as long as they are paying their rent, he probably doesn’t really care too much. It makes things so stressful for you especially as you have to share some facilities. I hope things ease up a little for you today.
[B]Karina[/B]: Your daughter is very cute. She loves her new bag.