Super Ultra Issue Land

Okay I finally got around to taking pictures of the yarn that I spun on my new drop spindle. I love that thing so much I know that the 2 of us are going to have many, many happy years together.

Here is the first yarn that I made. 2 ply. It's a little on the thick/thin side but I love it all the same.

In reality that yarn was spun using some needle felting wool roving that I found in the bargin bin at Michaels. I had 4 packages .7 oz each. 2 blue and 2 white. It turned out to be 70 yards. But that 70 yards cost me $8. Much more than I would have paid for 70 yards of yarn that looks like that even it if was even.

After I was finished with that one I decided to go ahead and spin up one of the batts of roving that I bought with my spindle. I figured if it really sucked that much then I could just go back and buy some more. But then something wonderful happened and I got better!

I love this yarn. Again some how I got 70 yards. Someone told me that I must be spinning constantly. Which I'm told is a very hard thing to do. But the first skein I had 3 oz and the second I had 3.5 oz and I came up with 70 yards each time.

Yes I know what you are thinking. You had a whole 1/2 oz more on the second one. Why is there not more yarn. Well here is the thing. After I finished it up and plied it I saw something sparkle in the light. It was at this moment that I found a whole strip of the roving that I had forgotten to spin.

So I decided to try and spin it as thin as I could and see what happened. This happened:

I didn't think I would be able to do it to well. But wow look that that yarn. I am so happy with it. If you unroll it and really look at it is all consistent and the same width. It's like I was born to spin yarn. And everyone said that I was good at knitting.

I took the yarn to my knitting meet up and it was so funny. We all talk about crafts and everyone always asks me if there is I do this and that. Well 90% of what they ask about is things that I have done or currently do. Here is a quick list knitting, spinning, crochet, needle point, cross stitch, latch hook, loom knitting, macramé, beading & jewerly making. Just so that you know I don't weave. See there is something that I don't do, Oh and I can't speak Spanish either no matter how hard I try I just can't. So now everyone comes to me for help on everything. It's fun though.

I picked up all of these crafts over time. Some came from my mother like the latch hooking rugs. I didn't live with my mother and she managed hotels and she lived all over the county. So I was always going to visit her and would stay for weeks at a time. Once she bought this huge latch hooking rug kit. We would work on it rows at a time. We would take turns either laying out the yarn or hooking so that the process went faster. It was sad in years later my kids got in to the box and destroyed the unfinished (12 year old) rug. So I bought a brand new kit on ebay I was super surprised that I found it. That was 2 years ago it's still unfinished.

But it was the other things she did that I was never taught that got me interested in crafts. She used to really like to cross stitch. So once I went through her stuff and found a half finished project that Richard (step-father) had started. It was a door hanger with a Cristmas poem on it and should have said the O'neill family, but it was all messed up. I took my time and pulled out all of the stitches and finished it. They still have it up in their house year round today, almost 9 years later.

But to look back it was the feeling of wanting to be like my mother that lead me to pursue all of these crafts. She was always doing something and at the time I was like any other little girl and I wanted to be just like my mother. I am happy now that I did learn all of these crafts and hobbies. I always see people who have no hobbies or anything that they love to do in life and they seem so sad. But then again those are usually the same people that make the nasty comments about "I wish I had time for that". I would really like to know one day exactly down to the minute how much tv they watch because I must watch just as much but I'm also knitting and at least at the end I have sock, a sweater or something to show for it.

Don't you hate when people are mad at you and they play games about it? What's the point in being mad at me if you know I don't know what I did. My favorite is your not going to listen to me anyways so why should I tell you about it. Then that is followed about I'm not going to talk about it because I don't have time. Well obviously you do if you are so worried about staying mad at me.

I know this much at 8 pm we were fine. I asked a question and he was nice and calm and everything else.

At 10 pm he walked by to the kitchen and I made the kissing sound and usually he just makes it back at me BUT no this time he ignored me.

At 11 pm he walked by again and I did the noise again. No response so when he walked back I asked that was wrong. That's when I got the your not going to listen to me anyways answer. SIGH. So I sit here and try and figure it out. What could have happened between 8 and 10.

Well between 8 & 9 me and my daughter were playing a game. The toddler was running around like normal and Ivan was working. I doubt we did anything then.

So it much have been between 9 & 10. What did I do. I gave the kids baths. First Elena then Ivan. I dried them off and put Elena to bed. When Ivan was dried he took off naked like always into his fathers room. That shouldn't have bothered him he always does that. I got a diaper like always. I shouted at him (in a voice louder than speaking but not yelling) that I was going to pounce on him & he busted out in a fit of laughter. Ivan Sr. Turned and glared at me and I noticed he had his headset on I said sorry and he turned around. I took Ivan to bed and didn't see my husband until he came out and ignored me.

So I believe that the only thing that could have pissed him off is me playing with the baby. But I just don't get it. Even if he was in a meeting, I didn't know. Because of his hair you can't see the headset on him. Plus I told him I was sorry and took the child out of the room and closed the door. Not much else I could do at that point.

But also lets see this from more of my side. If this is the problem how dare he be mad at me over this one thing. Him and the people that he works with. All people that work from home value family and being about to be there with family. Then there is the fact that just earlier he thought it was hilarious that his partners son thought that he was the computer talking. So it's not just our kids that bust into the offices and talk and get into the meetings. So what's wrong with him.

He is still refusing to tell me. He says that it's a waste of time because I already know what I did and I just don't care to change it. Which irritates me. How dare you tell me what I know and don't know. Because here is a prime example: I have not a clue in this world as why you are this mad at me. Nor am I going to be able to figure it out. So the best thing to do is going to be to talk about it and tell me what the hell happened.

But you know and I know that he is never going to come around and tell me what is really going on and why he is mad at me. So for now I get to sit here all upset not wanting to do anything but for him to talk to me and tell me what is wrong which is the last thing on his list of things to do right now.

I don't know what is going on anymore. We are just so busy.

We have finally moved into the new house and all the boxes are sorted and unpacked. There was so much stuff that needs to go. I now have boxes of things that need to be sold or gotten rid of or whatever.

My daughter started Drama Class 2 weeks ago. WOW. Her teacher said that she was a natural. All the other kids are still struggling to read their lines off the paper. Elena has already got the 1st of 3 scenes memorized and is working on the emotion part of the play. They are having lots of fun. As time goes on and I embrace the life of a stay at home mother I realize how fucked up other parents are. There are 15 kids is this class and it lasts for an hour. I am the ONLY parent that stays there and watches or waits for their child. One of the other mother actually left her younger child maybe 7 or 8 in the lobby for 30 minutes until her father finally came and got her. I guess she figured that this was acceptable since her older child is in the class.

On the note of the drama class there was a little boy in the class and he stole my skittles. This is what happened. One of the girls from the class tried to get skittles out of the candy machine but they got stuck and did not fall. Being a mother I felt bad and got out a dollar. I figured that I would give the 2nd bag to my kids since I don't give them candy often and then the other girl could be happy too. So I put the money in the machine and as I expected 2 bags of skittles fell. The little boy comes out of no where and grabs both bags out of the machine. Declares "Wow too fell. I'll take these to (whatever her name was) and since 2 fell I can have the other and ran off. My daughter goes in and tells the kids that he took my skittles. He tells her that his. Elena explains that I paid of the second bag so that they would both fall. He tells her she is a liar and just wants his free skittles. So when his mother shows up later I tell her what happened. If my kid stole and told people they were liars I would want someone to tell me. She doesn't say anything she goes in her purse and tries to give me a dollar. I tell her that I don't care about the money. She asks so what is your problem then? I reply your son stole from me. Or do you not care that he is a thief. At that point she just grabbed his arm and walked away. As they were walking out I heard her tell him. Don't worry you didn't do anything wrong that lady is just stupid.

What the hell is wrong with that lady. I would be super pissed if either of my kids stole. Once my daughter stole these marbles from RClub. When I found out I took her back and made her explain to the people in charge what she did and personally say sorry to everyone that worked there. She was so embarrassed she will not steal again.

I have been knitting like crazy and I also have started spinning yarn. More of that to come. I just don't have the time or energy to worry about trying to get to the pictures right now.

School has started and I am lonely as I said before. I also miss having my kids. Elena spent so much so the summer with my mother this year that I don't feel like I got a lot of time with her.

It's hard going from 700 feet to 1100 feet. There is more cleaning to do and also more stuff to clean. And we don't even have the house full yet. We still need a living room set. If you would like to buy me one let me know. Plus the kids have separate rooms now. If you thought they could make a mess together try putting them apart. They now have 2x the room each and they are individually filling it up so now I have 2x the mess of toys. Also they are taking over the rest of the house. But the real challenge was getting back to normal life. Since we lived in that trailer I had give up hope on the house. I stopped really cleaning or doing anything in general. Now my house is clean really clean and I forgot how much effort it takes to keep it this way. Normal peoples houses stay clean because they are not there or 60 or more hours a week. Now us. There are always 3 or 4 people in the house. I stay home, my husband works from home, Ivan is home and Elena is here most of the time. But life is easier I now have a dishwasher and washer/dryer set so no more having to go to the laundry place for me.

We have started eating better and I am cooking so much more now that we don't have wonky electric in the kitchen anymore. I love to cook and with the dishwasher I don't have to worry about the mess that I am making with the pots and pans and stuff. I also went to costco so I don't have any shortage of anything fresh.

Well it's another day in my life.

I am meeting up with Angie today but we don't quite know what we are going to go and do yet.

Ivan & I went to go to Busch Gardens yesterday since they have a new exibit. But they were so full that even the overflow lot was almost full. We went to the mall. I got some nice shoes out of it though.

We are still trying to move but it's harder when you have a family. We dont' want to leave the area we are in, We can't move out of the zone for Elena's school and other things like that so it's really limited to what we can rent which sucks.

I was also knitting the other day on my big shawl:

So then I realized .. 105 that I had forgotten to knit row 100. So I had to sit there and unknit 5 rows. And you think knitting is hard try UNknitting something.

Well that's all for now.

I wanted to take some time to talk about Mothers Day.

This year it was a nice day in our house. I got breakfast in bed, roses, starbucks, and 2 kids jumping on me. We also went out for dinner and to visit my husband parents. All in all it turned out to be a nice day.

My husband told me to go and spend like $50 dollars on yarn. The only problem is I can't decide what to buy. I already have like 500 skeins of yarn in my house. What am I going to do with more. I know I should always want more and I do what more. Problem is I don't know what to buy. It used to be that there was always something that I wanted just to want it. But now that I have all that yarn sometimes it seems like there is nothing to make from it because it's not a color that will work or I just don't have enough. I guess I am just at a stage in which I don't want to buy a yarn that I don't have a use in mind for.

So I thought about that and I figured hey I would just pick a project and buy the yarn for that or for several. So then I couldn't pick a project. I just couldn't decide. So I am just going to start an account and put in it the money I have to spend on yarn. That way when I actually finish a project and am moving on to the next one I will have the money set aside for something else.