Learning to Crochet

Russ and Heidi (Since I don't have a pix of me and Heidi)

Last Saturday Heidi and I had the fun adventure of learning to crochet. I have tried several times before but have been a dismal failure! This I attributed to being left handed. The last time I tried to learn, I even made the lady teaching me cry out of frustration. (Yes, I can be that dense!!)

But to my great suprise, I got it this time! YEAH!!! And Heidi even learned to crochet right handed. I am not nearly that talented but I did get the hang of it. So don't be suprised when you get some great homemade crocheted gift in your future. If I actually crochet something recognizable, I may post a picture!

Snow!

So, it's October 11th and it went from summer to WINTER in about 30 minutes. They say that it is suppose to snow tonight! Now truth be told, I love winter except for 1 thing, I can't were my sandals.

It hasn't started yet, but hopefully it will be nice and white when I wake up in the morning!

Here is a website to teach you how to make your own snow if you don't get any!

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/project/project.htm

Finished!

So, I finished Breaking Dawn at 7am this morning! I love these books! I am thrilled with the way the story ends! I love nice, tidy endings with all the loose ends cleared up! I may have to re-read them just to catch the things I missed the 1st go-round! Thanks Heidi for pushing me to read them! We need to chat!

I have succumed to the Vampires & Werewolfs

So Thursday night, I got home from work and didn't want to watch the debate. Truth be told, I am so sick the this election (it seems like the campaign has been going for YEARS!!!) I decided to read. I am currently in the middle of 3 books, one about John Wilkes Boothe, one about Magellen and I had just started Twilight (about 20 pages in). So I grabbed what was handy and started reading Twilight about 8:30pm. And read and read and read. Finished at 5:30am and had to be at work at 7:00am. So I went up to Meagan's room to see if I could find the 2nd book to get started on it before work. Its probably a good thing that she had it out in her car (unbeknowst to me) because I probably would have been late for work. So I get home Friday night about 6:00 and she brings me the book about 10pm. So once again, an all-nighter reading. I finished it about noon yesterday (just in time for conference). I watched conference and went to pick Mason and his friends up from lagoon at 10pm. Then I had to rush home to start #3. But tragedy of all tragedies, we don't have Eclipse. So I sent Mason and Austin on a emergency book run to get the book. Then I realized how tired I was from 2 nights up all night so I was determined to SLEEP! I watched both sessions of conference. Ate our annual conference breakfast of strawberry pancakes and picked up a bit. NOW, I am 300 pages into Eclipse and I need to call my friend, Christine and make sure she brings me #4 to work tomorrow so I can finish. This is so reminiscent of Harry Potter. I never read 1 of the books until my mom came up a year ago for surgery. I read 1-7 in a week.

Reading is the best escape ever!

P.S. What's not to love about a book with a Porsche in it (although mine would be red)