Excited

I'm just so excited today. There's a lot going on in our lives, what with Isaiah's work, our moving, my work, the baby, the Toddler. Ah, it's crazy.
But I'm so excited about this baby. He's moving so much and every time he moves I am filled with so much joy. And we're moving to Arizona soon!! And I'm CRAZY excited about that! So, I'm just ...just really happy right now.
Maybe it's lack of sleep.
ah, well.

30 book challenge 2009

Today I've decided to do the 30 book challenge 2009. I'm super excited!! Especially since I've read a handful already, and just 2 weeks ago I got my library card. Looks like everything was aligning for this :D
1. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
2. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
I know I should have read the whole series by now, but I could only afford the two first books, and honestly I couldn't afford those. I was getting tired of everyone saying I should read them!! So, I did. The first two were good. I'll be excited when I can read the next two.

3. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
4. The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Does it look like I read books in twos?? I don't really hahaha, but I have the entire Hitchhikers collection and started reading it. I got bored though and just finished number one. Then while cruising the library I found the second half of the Dirk Gently collection and I hadn't read it in so long I thought why not. It was really good too!! Douglas Adams is the man.
5. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
I finished this last night. I cried, I laughed, I did NOT wake up the husband!! lol. I can't wait til they make a movie outta this :D Definitely worth a read!
Thanks, later!

Pregnancy Blog #1

Ok so last week we "found out" I was pregnant!! yay!! I say found out but I already knew. Just like last time. It was this overwhelming feeling and there was a moment where I just knew. I am pregnant. And I thanked God.
I looked back at the past few weeks and totally realized all the emotions and craziness were due to pregnancy. So that's good.
And everyone seems to be so happy about it!! Which is great. I love how much support I have. At the same time I'm a little wary. I guess I'm happy. I mean after all we've been wanting a baby. I just feel so sick, and even a little depressed. I know these feelings are not me though. that's what's weird, I WANT to be happy but i just can't. I can't be happy at all. So I might see about getting some medication for that, given my history.
I wanted to try and journal through the pregnancy though. I hear a lot of women do it, and I always felt sad that I didn't the first time. So I'm doing it now.
Here's a rundown of how I'm feeling today.
Nauseous. Like really bad. I almost lost it in my bread pan. I was maknig some savory bread for Isaiah and everytime I tried to portion the dough it smelled so sick, I almost blew chunks into the pan.
Thirsty. I'm so thirsty, I can't get enough water. Except when I'm nauseous and then I have trouble drinking because everything in my stomach feels like it's coming up.
Peeing. I pee a lot. Although I'm cool with that..I love peeing. I peed a LOT last time and I remember when it was over I appreciated peeing so much. I still do. Peeing gives me extreme satisfaction hahaha.
STUPIDITY!! I'm feeling really stupid. I have to retype half of my words, everything I say comes out mixed up and jumble and I forget the simplest words. You have no idea how much brainpower it is taking to write this right now!! hahaha
Fatigue. So tired. Sooooo tired. That's all.
That's about it really. I'm trying to remember all this stuff about pregnancy and plan out the coming months with knitting and learning about cloth diapers, registries, christmas presents. I'm really just trying to keep myself together. Still having money troubles...but I'm trusting in God.
That's something I'm feeling a lot of lately. God.
I missed Him and knowing He's here for me right now means so much. I know that it's only through Him that we are having this baby. And I know that He must think it's the right time for a baby and so that's what is helping me go with it.
Thanks for reading. More later I guess :D

Crap

Haven't blogged much. Life has been one big whirlwind since Isaiah got home. HE came home the first week of August. It was crazy, I had to work all day that day and only JUST made it back to meet him. We had a great time when he got home. We were still getting deployment pay so I did whatever I could to make him happy. Took him to the restaurants he had missed. Bought the food he liked. We drove around to some places. Visited. Had sex, hahaha. It was nice. I felt so lucky just to have my other half back. To have my life complete, the circle closed. Ben started talking a LOT once Isaiah came home, and he still learns two to three new words a day. Then abruptly everything went to shit. The money I had been so used to living on just disappeared. We are now only making enough to barely make ends meet. I can't even make the minimum payments on our credit cards. I've stopped paying one car payment all together, although I had payed it through next year so no repercussions for that yet. At the end of last month we ran out of food. And money. I had to resort to baking bread everyday. I know that doesn't sound horrible, but it's ALL we had to eat. That and canned vegetables. I guess we could have eaten the powdered potatoes. Ick. We had to replace all four car tires, and in order to even pay for that we had to get a high interest credit card.
I went to drill last weekend and could not feed myself. I had to ask a dear friend (adam, you have no idea what that meant to me, thank you) to buy me PEANUTS. Luckily my first sergeant is like the mom I never had and spotted me a 20. Enough for gas. NO food. But then when I got to Grandma's she fed me. Which was soooo nice. And she even loaned me a little bit for gas and milk. After two hellish days with barely any food, a pt test, and two 5 hours drives I got home. I even stopped at dairy dans and spent two dollars in change on ice cream for isaiah. They have gigantic cones and it was one of the things he wanted after Iraq. I got home and Isaiah had cleaned the whole house. Even put my Halloween decorations up. He was amazing. But after such a long weekend I could barely BREATHE let alone stop to appreciate him. So he started yelling at me and I broke down. I mean, here he was at home EATING, staying up late, watching tv, in a warm house, with food. And I was starving. I couldn't even think and he was yelling at me for not appreciating him. I DID appreciate everything he did. Immensely. I just couldn't show it at the moment. He understood of course, because he's amazing, but it just sucked.
I started selling my stash online. It was going great, I made almost 80 dollars in a week. But then, because we had recently moved there was an address discrepancy on my paypal account. And paypal says that someone tried to access my account. I was like "Yeah, ME!!". So I tried to resolve it, but I don't have a land line phone so they sent me a letter with a code in it that I'm supposed to enter on the website and THEN I could get my money out. Only I haven't received that letter. And it was sent October 16. And actually for the past month I have only received maybe two things in the mail, them being the "resident" ads that they put in there. I've actually gotten about 5-10 pieces of mail a day, NOT ONE of them addressed to me. NOT ONE SINGLE ONE!! Someone sent me a huge swap package that I haven't gotten, and then there's the paypal letter. So at the moment I have almost a hundred dollars in paypal that I have NO way of accessing.
Everything in my life is going to shit.
What really broke me down recently was when I heard someone recently was in a similar situation to me. SHe started selling her stash too. And it was bought. And then during pm s it turned out the person was buying her stash just to give it back to her.
And now I keep hearing about all this charity and I just wanna ...
I don't know. I feel so hopeless. I'm having trouble feeding my own child. I've applied for several jobs, but as I have no skills or job experience I can't get a job that would make enough to even COVER the daycare cost, let alone actually MAKE extra.
I'd sell my car but it's a piece of shit.
I just don't know what to do anymore. I"ve been praying to God more recently. I wonder if maybe I'm being punished. After all we made a lot during deployment and I Could have saved a little. NOt much, but a little.
Everyone else in ISaiah's unit is buying new things. NO one else is having trouble feeding their children.
I'm fighting hard everyday just to hold it together. Trying not to think too much about things, trying to be productive but it's so hard. IT's so hard, GOd. Why is this happening to me. Why is this happening to us??
Why, when I'm just supposed to be happy my husband is alive, I am miserable because we are starving.
I know this is all my fault, but I should be the one punished. Not my son.
God, please. Please. Everyone else has angels coming out of the wood work. Where are you, God? I'm not strong enough for this, I can't do this without you. I need help.
I'm so sorry, God, I know I haven't been the child you once knew as your own.
Without you I've been pseudo happy. And now, lately, I've needed you more than ever. I just don't know what to do anymore.
I just don't know.

Pile Of KNIT

Here's my first pattern I ever wrote. It's quick and easy, and hopefully won't have you saying "$h!t!"
Use any weight Yarn
Any size needles, double point, two circulars, or magic loop
Cast on 6 sts and knit one row as for I-cord.
Divide sts equally among 3 dpns. Place stitch marker
and begin to knit in the round.
Base Tier
Round 1: kfb all sts (12 sts)
Round 2: k1, kfb; repeat from (18 sts)
Round 3: k2, kfb; repeat from (24 sts)
Round 4: knit
Round 5: k3, kfb; repeat from (30 sts)
Round 6: k4, kfb; repeat from (36 sts)
Round 7: k5, kfb; repeat from (42 sts)
Round 8: knit
Round 9: k6, kfb; repeat from (48 sts)
Round 10: knit
Round 11: knit
Round 12: knit
Round 13: k6, k2tog; repeat from (42 sts)
ROund 14: k5, k2tog; repeat from (36 sts)
Round 17: k4, k2tog; repeat from (30 sts)
Round 18: knit
Round 19: k3, k2tog; repeat from (24 sts)
Now is a good time to stuff the first ball if you see fit…
Round 20: k2, k2tog; repeat from (18 sts)
Round 21: knit
Round 22: k1, k2tog; repeat from (12 sts)
Second tier
Round 23:k1, kfb; repeat from (18 sts)
Round 24: k2, kfb; repeat from (24 sts)
Round 25: k3, kfb; repeat from (30 sts)
Round 26: k4, kfb; repeat from (36 sts)
Round 27: knit
Round 28: k4, k2tog; repeat from (30 sts)
Round 29: k3, k2tog; repeat from (24 sts)
good time to stuff, if necessary
Round 30: k2, k2tog; repeat from (18 sts)
Round 31: knit
Round 32: k1, k2tog; repeat from (12 sts)
third tier
Round 33: k1, k2tog; repeat from (18 sts)
Round 34: k2, kfb; repeat from (24 sts)
ROund 35: knit
Round 36: k3, kfb; repeat from (30 sts)
Round 37: knit
Round 38: k3, k2tog; repeat from (24 sts)
Round 39: knit
Round 40: k2, k2tog; repeat from (18 sts)
Round 41: Knit
Stuff ball with yarn scraps, batting, etc.
Round 37: k1, k2tog; repeat from (12 sts)
Round 38: knit
Round 39: k2tog; repeat from (6 sts)

Cut yarn leaving a 6-inch tail. Thread needle with
yarn tail, pull through remaining stitches and knot
discreetly. Run needle down the center of poo and
through to other side. Snip excess tail close to poo’s
surface.
Embroider eyes and mouth as wanted or needed. Do what you like, it's poo, not rocket science!!

Green Sans Thumb!

So, for Benjamin's birthday I created some cute little mitt/fingerless gloves for him. I call them Green(SANS) Thumb. Get it?! Silly I know. This is a pair of fingerless gloves for kids, ages 2-4 I would expect. They are a skoch big on him, and he's two today.
Anyway here is the pattern. It is free for all, please feel free to use it, make them, and give them away! This pattern is not for beginners, mostly because I am not a good pattern writer. Please email me if you have any questions, suggestions, or anything. Here goes.

Yarn- Hazelknits Artisan Sock Yarn in Shady Verdant, 100 or so yards.
Needles- I used size zero 27 inch circulars, but I would recommend size 1 doublepoints. I'm a losse knitter. I don't know why you needed to know that. Shoot. Anyway.

PATTERN!!
WRIST!!
Cast on 48 sts using long tail cast on
Join, being sure not to twist!!
Work K1, P1 ribbing for five rounds
Work K3, P1 ribbing until total piece measures 2 inches, or until it reaches the base of thumb.
THUMB HOLE!!
Work back and forth in K3, P1 ribbing for 3/4 of an inch, slipping the first stitch of every row(creating a nice edge!)
FINISHING!!
Join on a RS row, and begin working in the Round again, doing K3, P1 ribbing for 3 or four rows(or about a quarter of an inch.
Work K1, P1 ribbing for five rows. Bind off.
TA-DA!!
oh yeah, MAKE TWO!!
(p.s. I tried these on a seven year old today, and they fit too! A little...stretchy, but still fits!! hahaha)

The Thirst For Knowledge.

I wonder and worry that my generation and even possibly the generation before me will not have great people come from it. By that I mean that the generations to come will only have the people before US to look at as great people. The great presidents of our time, the great speakers. The people we should all admire for their minds. People like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., President John F. Kennedy. Great scientists like Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk. I think that in our past there was more of an emphasis on our education, and growing our minds. And yet, maybe that's not right either. I know when I was younger it's all they EVER seemed to emphasize. But maybe as a lack of discipline grew in children so did a lack of those children's THIRST for knowledge.
And that's sad.
I know that this is short but I really just wanted to say that I have an EXTREME thirst for knowledge and I do believe that it's growing in our generation. I also hope that I can raise my own child with enough discipline to pass my thirst on to him.