Projects thus far

This is the little guy I made yesterday. His name is Toby. My sister in law went into labor Saturday night and she's still going at it this bright Monday morning, poor thing. She's locked at 3cm and it's not lookin' like she'll be havin' the baby naturally, but fingers are crossed!!

This is the blanket I made for my friend Andrea who had her cute little baby two weeks ago. :)

This is the blanket I made for my sis-in-law whose still dukin' it out in the San Diego hospital.

 This is the blanket I made for my best friend, Goose who had her baby last month (Holly will be 1 month on Thursday!!).

Aaaaand I made a bunch of flowers and hairclips yesterday cuz I was bored and Craft Sundays are always a hoot. Here's one of 'em.

And that's it for now. Ciao dudes.

I suck at the whole "blogging" thing

I have no idea when I have blogged last, but who cares? Lol. Nothing too new in the neighborhood. I started school a few weeks ago, but one is a self-paced internet class (computers. boring!) and I have done only like 5 assignments. I need to get crackin'. The next one that starts in a couple weeks is Intro to Multicuturalism and I am SOOOO not looking forward to that one, but it is a short class which is good.

My sister in law is gettin' ready to pop with the first grandbaby, and we'll all be headed to San Diego next week to see Brylie. Ma and Willie are headed out to today to spend the week there, then next week the rest of the gang will be riding up then. So EXCITED! I am trying to finish (well, actually start) crochetting the little lion I just saw on a website. Aah! I am so excited! It's so cute. Last night I meant to do homework and ended up crochetting flowers all night long for my next baby blanket. Oops! Tonight I need to go to the store and pick up some (lion-colored) yarn and such for the next project, and then Stace will be over to go for our walk with Penny and Molly. We're walkin' buddies now.

October is shaping up to be an awesome month. The first weekend, my husband and I will be driving up to Temeculah to see his cousin get married (Woot woot!) and he will be the wedding photographer so I get to sit by myself AGAIN at a wedding. Haha. Ah, well. It's for a good cause!
On the way home, I wanna go visit my little brother, Elyssa, and da baby, but we shall see.
Fast forward a week or so (my next class starts, yikes!) and Evan is taking me to see Beauty and the Beast on broadway at Gammage. OMG! I am soooooooo excited. (Been sayin' that a lot, huh?) and then two days after that, we jump in the car to rush back up to Anaheim to go to Disneyland and we get to go Trick-or-Treating at Disneyland!!! My mom is making my costume, which is already lookin' FAB. I'm going to be Zorro (Zorra?). Mom, Pops, Willie, and Lindsay are going to be pirates. I think Stace is too, and then Mark and Evan will be Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer. Lol. Evan already has his costume. He's rarin' to go!

With November dawns the 2nd year Evan and I have been married (Yes, yes, thank you. Thank you). But we're not gonna be doing anything for that (Evan says the dland trip in October will have to be our "anniversary trip." Sucks to be poor, eh?) On Thanksgiving, we're gonna have family pictures done because Bob leaves on his tour the next week (?) I believe. They're also gonna dedicate baby Brylie that weekend too. Then Elyssa and Brylie are coming down here to live with me and Evan while Bob is out with the Navy for the next 7 months.

Lastly, my phone is broken. It went whacko after the "upgrade" Verizon sent 'round, poor thing. So I can't take pictures or anything, use the internet, or you know, do anything with it, but my new one just got here and I hope I have better luck with this one. And maybe I will be able to put up pics again. :)

Toodle pip!

Screaming into the wind...

Ever had one of those days where you need help and no one is listening? It's panic-inducing, irritating, and mostly obnoxious, but you just keep working through it and hope, somehow, that someday things will get fixed.

My Summer Thus Far in Pictures

Here's my summer thus far:

Seems like all my friends are havin' babies this summer so I have been really busy with gifts and while I still have to wait to put pictures up of the others I have made because I haven't given them to my friends just yet, I gave this one to my bestie who's havin her first little girl in just a few weeks. Here's the blanket I made for her:

I love baby ducks.

My dog is an alien.

We got a snazzy new car.

We painted the bathroom.

My sister made me a little desk buddy. His name is Frank.

This is George. He loves mirrors and running into things.

And this is my parents' tree. It decided to lose some weight and dropped a whole branch!

And that's about it for now. :) After the next few baby showers, I'll put up more pictures of my snazzy blankets.

I did it!

I finished my story! For real! I don't hate the ending anymore, which is awesome. Lol. I uploaded the whole thing onto my other blog, all the chapters, changes, everything. Any further changes will be minor, if any. Check it out, let me know what you think. Comments, concerns, anything will be appreciated. Thanks!! :D

http://shatteredplanet-lori.blogspot.com/

Let's see...

New stuff. Hmm... Not much really. Same o' same o'. My VW is falling apart. The window kit went kabluey so the window has to be taped up with painter's tape, and the bumper cover fell off a few weeks before. We are trying to get the darn thing fixed so we can sell it, but our VW guy won't call us back. So that's obnoxious...

I finished my book. Seriously! I would put the rest of it on my story blog 'cept I am rearranging the ending and adding stuff here and there. It's gonna take a while to get through it all and edit since in 8 point font it is over 60 pages long.... Took me over two years to get through it all, and it's still not quite there yet so that's.... yeah. That. I don't care if no one wants to publish it. I would just get it bound for me and put it with my other books in my library. Hahaha. I just like how books smell and feel. It's boring reading it off a computer screen. One of my dad's friends from bowling league recorded his "life story" on audio tapes and wants me to go through it and make it into a book, you know, ghost writer stuff. I think it would be so much fun! Putting it all together and making grammatically awesome sentences. I should be an editor rather than an author. I enjoy proofreading so much more than an ordinary person.... Lol. But yeah. being a ghost writer would be really fun.

I finished a baby blanket for my bestest friend last week. It's so cute! I wanna put up a picture, but I gotta wait until I surprise Goose with it so she'll be surprised. I will put one up after I mail it. Haha. I know you are just so excited to see, oh blog reader. Not.

They have the most awesome ribbons at Michaels' and I have a ton of ideas for the 50 billion other blankets I gotta make for other friends hatchin' babies, including my sister in law's. Luckily they don't take too long, and they look super awesome when I aka the Master am done with them. I am just so humble. I may be the world's most humble person! Haha. Yeah, that was supposed to be a joke. You know cuz... Nevermind.

Evan is totally digging his new job at Intel. I guess they film a lot of stuff that gets shown on the Discovery Channel. Evan will get sent all over the place to shoots like China. The next shoot is in the Cayman Islands, and they wanted Evan to come, but since he's still in training. he has to stay behind on this one. Unless they change their minds at the last second... Who knows? But Evan is totally thrilled with the outrageously expensive cameras and sets and lighting and green screen stuff they have, you know, film nerd guy stuff. He likes to tell me how much the toys are while I gag in shock, usually muttering, "Holy moly," half a second after that.

Currently, it's hotter than the surface of the sun outside, my house is still trashed from our "not unpacking" after we got home from the funeral last weekend, and Evan is out grocery shopping. The fact that tomorrow is Monday sickens me, but hey, I have my random day off on Tuesday, so that lessens the blow a bit. It's always important to have something to look forward to in order to survive the drudgery that is "work" so my current fixation would be getting a new car as soon as the blasted VW dude gets his bum in gear. My other car guy is already looking for my Equinox. *Happy dance. But yeah, that's about it.

I leave you with this parting thought:

"I don't know what to say, so I'll just say what's in my heart... Baboom, Baboom, Baboom.
Mel Brooks

Productive Weekends

I woke up early this morning and cleaned my entire hour in 3 1/2 hours. So proud of me! I love having a spic and span abode. I even hung up all our clothes in one sitting. That NEVER happens. Lol. I tend to believe that closet floors are just shelves. ;) My family finally all woke up a little before 3 (slackers) and called us so we could all meet up and see Toy Story 3. It was really cute, definitely different feeling than the first two, but that's what usually happens when there's a different director. This lady starting choking in front of me, like serious "I-need-the-Heimlich-maneuver" choking and I thought she was going to die or something. But her husband/boyfriend/thing managed to help her out. We just got back from wandering around San Tan (thought my feet were gonna fall off) and now the boys are at Wally World picking up stuff to make chicken alfredo. Woot. Evan is finally starting his job at Intel on the 28th, FOR SURE. Lol. He's been contracting for another company so that definitely saved us from a world of hurt. That's about it on our end at the moment. We "might" be going swimming later tonight. Molly tried to eat the next door neighbor's dog (or the neighbor thought that she was, I knew she wouldn't, but I am still mad at her for scaring the poor little dog). I got my 8-hour days back at work so I don't have to get up so early anymore (haven't gotten my 40-hours back, but.... here's hopin.). Oh, and I'm getting to the end of my story. It's almost a hundred pages, which means if I am able to score a publisher, it should be a regular-sized novel, so that's cool. I just gotta figure out how to go about getting published... Well, if no one wants it, I'll just pay to get a copy made up for me. Lol. Gettin' published sounds like it's as easy an winning the lottery. Haha. Ah, well. I'll just keep my fingers crossed and see what happens.