The Taste of Victory

The salsa finally arrived. Someone was a little slow in the purchase of the prize, but she's been a little busy at work so I'll cut her some slack. No mere Green Chile salsa for us. Nope, we got the Black Bean and Corn Salsa, Chipolte Salsa (both medium) and a mild Green Chile. Mmm. We've eaten all the Black Bean and Corn (not too spicy, but some heat there. Not as many beans or corn kernels as I was expecting) now we're on the Chipolte. More heat in that one, but yummy!
To answer the question of what they taste like, they taste like victory! (of course) I'll post pictures another time, when I'm on the computer with the pictures.

I have done very little work since the last post where I did anything. We've started school and I am overwhelmed with school supplies for middle school, the forms to fill out, the uncompleted putting away of stuff from the move and the explosion of school stuff in the house. Plus, I have a job now. Part time, but it eats the middle of my day. Sigh.

I did go to a friend's for a stitching night. I got there late, knit for half an hour, ducked out to meet with a friend (a former S&B buddy) and we both did some venting, then headed back for another 20 min. or so, then took Jack's old twin mattress to the home of a fellow stitcher and then off to bed!

I have noticed a tendency for Darling and I to watch TV after the small ones are tucked into bed, so perhaps I'll have to pull out the knitting then. It will be easier when the pool closes and we can't go do that on the weekends.

.75 hours for me, 12.25 hours total.

Margie

Down... set... knit!

So I was thinking recently about why I like to watch football so much (a preseason game was on tonight), because in fact I like baseball very much too. But, I never watch baseball at home. Then - lightbulb - I realized it's because I don't subscribe to fancy sports channels. Maybe I've said that before, but it really annoys me that baseball is so hard to come by.

Anyway, I spent an hour knitting and am getting close to having a new little friend. I finished the body and another little piece; now I just have one more piece and a tail to make, and then have to assemble them. I hope I have enough stuffing?!

I also discovered today that I have only had 5 days off this whole year, of which 3 were spent taking care of my poor sick aunt. Time to plan a vacation!! Where should I go?

5 hours, and still far behind...

Catherine

You knit 16 rows, what do you get?

It is the most gorgeous day in my town today. I ate dinner outside and everything! I wish it was like this every day, though a friend of mine who used to live in San Diego says it gets boring to have perfect weather all the time.

I just took a few minutes to work on my surprise creature. I knit 16 rows in 30 minutes, though in my defense I changed colors several times, which slowed things down. Anyway, I have some work to do before bed, so knitting is over for today.

4 hours for me!

Catherine

Aw, shucks.

It is always fun to visit my seester, and to help out where I can. And, I am sad that I don't get to see my nephew and nieces more often, since (cliche warning) they grow up so fast! Actually, I really entertained myself by telling Smallest that she was smaller than the last time I saw her (she was definitely not), which caused much indignation. Hee hee!

Last night as I was falling asleep I was thinking about what knit creature I might make next, and I thought I would make a mouse. But then I knit some blue triangles for ears, and they ended up looking more like a tiny, tiny bikini, and it was very distracting. So, I decided to make something different instead. I worked for 2 hours, and in fact made excellent progress - another 2 or 3 hours ought to do it! You'll have to wait until it's finished to see what it is.

And yes, salsa is on the way. I think looking at all those yummy salsa options has helped rekindle my competitive spirit...

3.5 hours for me.

Catherine

What a Fabulous Sister!

As Catherine mentioned, she was down visiting us for a week recently. She was kind enough to help me unpack boxes at night, remove tape from our five foot tall pile of boxes so we could recycle them, collect all the packing paper and stash it in my car, along with more boxes, AND play with my kiddos while I ran errands! And to top it all off, she was the parent-in-absentia while I went to the Diocesan Stewardship Conference and Darling was in Bangkok, or Dubai, or somewhere like that. She is wonderful.

We did no sewing. I did loan her a very cute book about knit animals.

School starts in ten days. I cannot wait. Of course, my sewing time will be severely curtailed because I have agreed to engage in gainful employment. Fortunately, it's only part time, but I suspect my stitching time will still suffer.

The job is at Rice University. I have entered into the Land of Administration. I am the...BRC Community Development Specialist/Science Communication Liaison. BRC stands for BioScience Research Consortium. I think my job is to make the scientists play nicely with each other, and to tell everyone about how nice they are.

So no hours for me. I hear salsa is on the way. I've found some delicious chips to eat it with, but will have to acquire more chips when the salsa gets here because Darling and Middle also discovered the chips and they are disappearing fast!

Margie

A seamstress surfaces...

I'm not sure if it was the cool air today, or the preseason football, or my recent trip to visit my sewing sister, but I finally thought I'd check in on my projects. It turns out I had two sets of pieces for quilt squares STILL sitting on my desk, so I put them together. I used to be much faster, but somehow I forgot how to make them so I sewed them in the wrong direction, and then got confused and took them apart and put them back together again a few times. Somehow they still ended up backwards, but I don't think you can really tell. Perhaps it can be a puzzle for anyone who wants to try to find them in the complete quilt...

So, 50 minutes on that; 1:30 total. Eep! That's not very much for being ~6 weeks into this contest.

Catherine