Wednesday, June 20, 2012

WIP or WIM Wednesday

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Both of the projects I showed last Wednesday are complete, so I’ll show them on Friday.

Today I am going to start the Dragon Gauntlets from Inside Crochet using Wool Candy.

This past week, I also purchased three new magazines that I’ve spent my time reading this past week….

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Summertime

Yesterday was the last day of school.  I am moving classrooms this year, so I had to pack up my entire classroom again…

I’ve had a rough couple of weeks.  I ended up in the hospital for two days about 2 weeks ago.  I had the worse heartburn of my life.  I get heartburn pretty regularly, but this was so intense and had lasted over 7 hours.  So I went to the emergency room, as I’d done everything I could…Anyway my family has a really bad history of heart disease, so I ended up being admitted.  They did all kinds of tests, etc….and my heart is fine.  It is in excellent health!  But it is good to have that baseline, since I am now over 40.

Then last week I had a major allergy attack.  I’m allergic to dust and classrooms are very dusty….Wednesday I got home, but my eyes were so bad I laid with a cool cloth on them for awhile.  Then with all the coughing and sneezing I didn’t have a voice for 3 days…try teaching without a voice!  The kids were really good.  I’m still congested, but better…

Yesterday I came home and was running a fever…..so today I am just chilling…but my nephew graduates tonight, and he was able to snag me a ticket last minute…so yeah!

And the Hubs has been bringing my home wildflowers..here’s the latest…

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Isn’t it pretty?

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Happy Father’s Day

Last year I wrote about the two men who have been fathers to me.  This year I’d like to honor my brother…

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Here’s my little brother, Michael.  He is 20 months younger than me and we fought a lot as kids.  We also have spent a great deal of time together and are also pretty close….I think I am about 5 or 6 in this picture, so he is about 3 or 4.

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Here he is again with my nephew about 12 years ago….

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A favorite picture of  him and his two kids.

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Resting in NYC, after working all night, he drove to NYC because that is where Kyle wanted to spend his 16th birthday.

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Absolutely exhausted, waiting for hours at the Hard Rock Café to get in because that is where Kyle wanted to eat for his birthday….

And every time I hear this song, I think of my brother Michael…

Why?  Because it came on the radio when I was at his house and he picked up my niece Allison and started dancing around the kitchen with her and singing to her….

I’m proud of the father my brother has become….

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Another WIP Wednesday

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At the moment, I’ve been reading student work…but I did recently finish this comic book run (my first comic books since I was a kid) by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie.  They used to write for Stargate…they are trying out new things…I believe a mini-series is going to be produced from these….

The sad little guy in the middle is my 1/2 done scarecrow for a Nerd Wars challenge…

The three blue panels are for my mosaic baby afghan…I finished the third panel and edged one of them tonight…I need to finish it by this weekend, so I can wash it and gift the momma before the end of school…

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Warwick Weekend

The Hubs took me away overnight for a weekend in Rhode Island.  Our home base was Warwick, where we were the furthest away that we could get!

This is the hallway..and I am about 3 doors up from our room…..waaaayyyyyy down there to the left are the elevators..

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Anyway, as we were driving along….

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I saw this sign about an Art festival…and then I saw all these tents from the highway…so we stopped….

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We had found the Garden City Center Art Festival.  So MUCH FUN!!!!!!

These guys were wandering around playing music and having fun…

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DSC02878 See this dog or wolf or something?  I was kissed by it….on the forehead….it was a surprise, but made me laugh!

And I purchased GEEKY stuff!!!!

DSC02918 Awesome T-shirt from Periodically Inspired.  We also bought a friend’s baby a Baby Genius shirt.

DSC02916 Very cool necklace and bracelet…very steampunk bracelet….can’t find the card at the moment for the bracelet…

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Awesome! Right?

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Long Week

I've had a long week....

- a two day stay in the hospital (everything is fine)
- awards ceremony for the students (and a rush to finish them when I got out of the hospital)
- report cards had to be finished
- end of the year fun field trip yesterday

How tiring was it?  This tiring...

Gonna have a relaxing weekend.....hope you do too...

Friday, June 1, 2012

Friday Finishes

Haven’t done one in a couple of weeks…So what have I finished?

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DSC02823 Basketweave square from Learn to Knit Afghan book by Barbara Walker.  It’s my third square completed and I love the basketweave.

I think that is about it…I’m also working on end of year stuff for school…correcting, grading, report cards…

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