My Grandma came to visit me! I am so happy that she's here- sure that I'm going to go a little nuts spending a week with a more-than-half-deaf 82 year old- but really happy. I'm not precisely sure how I'm going to manage my work schedule, although I already know she's spending all day here alone, in my apartment, today. Eek! But she mentioned baking cookies or something, so I guess I can't complain too much.
Insofar as this visit doesn't coincide with either of my Spring Breaks and so therefore I'm still crazy busy/stressed out during it, the timing isnt great. But I'm also in the longest radio-silence we've had yet from Ranger Man (which, thankfully, still isn't that long), but I'm sure if she wasn't here I'd be doing something silly like worrying about it. Instead, I have to come up with ways to entertain her. It's a win-win.
And the best part? One of the first things she did last night was ask me to knit her a pair of socks! Coming from a knitter, that's quite a compliment. So we went diving into the stash and she picked a skein of yarn for a pair of socks to wear with her clogs.
And now? I'm off to work and to brainstorm things to do with my (very energetic) Grandmother!
Have a great weekend, y'all!
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
In which I act like a 13 year old girl
My secret confession of the day: I'm watching American Idol, and it makes me cry... Good grief. I kind of feel like a teeny-bopper. Although I'm also really excited about the new show "Lie to Me," I watched the last episode on Hulu earlier today, and I am looking forward to tonight's episode. I think it's a tv show that Ranger Man and I would like to watch together... maybe. In the meantime Webster and I will watch it. If we ever stop tearing up from American Idol. Geesh. I feel a little less guilty because one of the professors came by at work today and confessed to loving watching it... so I'm totally taking that as justification.
Cookie asked for the details about yesterday's scarf. The pattern is called the Old Shale scarf (ravelry link), it's about 5'8" long and I knit it on size 4 needles.
What's important is the intended recipient, not the scarf.
I don't have a large family, but (up until last year), the family I did have was very tightly knit (no pun intended). My Father is an only child, and his parents lived only about an hour away from us so we spent some time with them. There was my GrandMa (who also knits), my Grandpa, and Josie. Josie is related to me somehow, but it's too convoluted for my pea brain, so as far as I'm concerned, she's my second Grandma. She is one of the funniest people I know- in an intelligent and quick witted way. She is one of those people who are just good hearted and it shines through in the way that she is. We had a dog growing up who was a fantastic judge of character, and Ruthie (the dog) loved Josie from the get go. Even Mr. aloof Webster would come out of hiding to say hi to her.
Josie's pushing 90, she recently had to move out of her home and into a group home/care thingy and around Christmas time she was hospitalized for a while. It hurts my heart that I'm not there with her and my GrandMa as they get older. I used to drive to my Grandma's on Sundays to go to church with her and then we'd go out to lunch with Josie afterwards- and I looked forward to it all week!
So I made the scarf for Josie. I want her to feel warm and bright and cheerful and that's why I made the sweater.
Cookie asked for the details about yesterday's scarf. The pattern is called the Old Shale scarf (ravelry link), it's about 5'8" long and I knit it on size 4 needles.
What's important is the intended recipient, not the scarf.
I don't have a large family, but (up until last year), the family I did have was very tightly knit (no pun intended). My Father is an only child, and his parents lived only about an hour away from us so we spent some time with them. There was my GrandMa (who also knits), my Grandpa, and Josie. Josie is related to me somehow, but it's too convoluted for my pea brain, so as far as I'm concerned, she's my second Grandma. She is one of the funniest people I know- in an intelligent and quick witted way. She is one of those people who are just good hearted and it shines through in the way that she is. We had a dog growing up who was a fantastic judge of character, and Ruthie (the dog) loved Josie from the get go. Even Mr. aloof Webster would come out of hiding to say hi to her.
Josie's pushing 90, she recently had to move out of her home and into a group home/care thingy and around Christmas time she was hospitalized for a while. It hurts my heart that I'm not there with her and my GrandMa as they get older. I used to drive to my Grandma's on Sundays to go to church with her and then we'd go out to lunch with Josie afterwards- and I looked forward to it all week!
So I made the scarf for Josie. I want her to feel warm and bright and cheerful and that's why I made the sweater.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
ahh, he's growing up!
My lil bro is a really cool kid. Not cool like hip/with it or whatever lame term signifies fleeting popularity, but cool as in mellow, deeply caring and intelligent.
Unfortunately for him, he's also got a healthy dose of teenage boy apathy/lazy. When he applies himself, he does great work, but you generally have to ask him to do it. He doesn't complain. Every once in a while, something will irk him and I see a teeny bit of something inside of him that lets me know that this mellow and chill dude is actually related to me, but for the most part he's extremely level-headed. This was (and is) frustrating to people like me who like to overract periodically.
Lil Bro graduated from HS this past spring, and he had been taking a few classes at the local tech college for his senior year alongside his last HS requirements. He's starting regular college (i.e. not running start college), and he's going to buy my car from me so he can be mobile.
One of the things that has seriously freaked me out about my parents is what it's going to do to lil bro. I just don't want him to feel like he is stuck taking care of one or both of them and that coming at a great cost to him. On the other hand, as far as anyone can tell, he was not bitten with the same "change the world in a big way" bug that I was, and maybe my parents --read "my mom"-- will respect that he's a person in his own right and doesn't need to be taking care of his adult and fully functional parents. We'll see.
I'm just very proud of the man that my lil bro is working towards becoming and every time I talk to him I am more and more impressed with what a together kid he is.
//end gush here.
Unfortunately for him, he's also got a healthy dose of teenage boy apathy/lazy. When he applies himself, he does great work, but you generally have to ask him to do it. He doesn't complain. Every once in a while, something will irk him and I see a teeny bit of something inside of him that lets me know that this mellow and chill dude is actually related to me, but for the most part he's extremely level-headed. This was (and is) frustrating to people like me who like to overract periodically.
Lil Bro graduated from HS this past spring, and he had been taking a few classes at the local tech college for his senior year alongside his last HS requirements. He's starting regular college (i.e. not running start college), and he's going to buy my car from me so he can be mobile.
One of the things that has seriously freaked me out about my parents is what it's going to do to lil bro. I just don't want him to feel like he is stuck taking care of one or both of them and that coming at a great cost to him. On the other hand, as far as anyone can tell, he was not bitten with the same "change the world in a big way" bug that I was, and maybe my parents --read "my mom"-- will respect that he's a person in his own right and doesn't need to be taking care of his adult and fully functional parents. We'll see.
I'm just very proud of the man that my lil bro is working towards becoming and every time I talk to him I am more and more impressed with what a together kid he is.
//end gush here.
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