baby it's cold outside

'tis the season for socks:

i like knitting socks but i don't like wearing them.  i like to be barefoot.  today seemed especially chilly and my feet and ankles are aching, so i dug out the thickest, warmest ones i had.

thank goodness for wooly goodness!

harbinger of the end of summer

every july/august, i pass this farmer's field of sunflowers.  please excuse the picture.  it really is craptastic.

actually, the sunflowers are on the downside.  they were in brilliant bloom a couple of weeks ago, when i passed them while taking the boys to the doctors.

i remember the sunflowers every year.  i remember passing this field on my way to and from the ob/gyn for 2 pregnancies.  they always cheered me up.

guess you can tell - sunflowers are some of my favorite flowers.

sweet 16

i just turned 16 weeks today. i'm nearly halfway through this pregnancy. it's funny, but it's going really quickly.

i celebrated week 16 by actually cooking MEAT today! i made sausage and pepper sandwiches for lunch, and i'm making meatballs (rather, packaged meatballs) in tomato sauce for meatball hoagies. i also boiled eggs for pickled eggs. i guess this is a really good thing! not being able to cook really sucks.

another harbinger of spring has arrived. YARD SALES! mom left a message saying they got a baby swing at a sale, plus clothes (for the boy or the babies, i have no idear). i like yard saleing, cos you can get great deals for not a lot of money. we were pricing swings at bRu, and they're actually quite expensive. now if we could only find another pack and play and a high chair, we'd be set!

i bought music on itunes for the first time since xmas. i spent less that $15 getting new stuff by the cure, morrissey, a song from lily allen that i liked, and some fall out boy. yesterday i saw on the news that itunes is changing some of the music pricing, so newer recent songs will cost more than older songs. everything i've wanted is new, so i really didn't feel like spending $1.29 next week on 15 songs. hubby usually gets stuff on itunes. we download a lot of songs we've heard on tv, like on grey's or private practice.

it's that time of the year

it's that time of year when the earth feels like it's dying. september was warm, and then as soon as october hit, wham, it's cold. no gradual warm to cool, it felt like it went from 80 degrees to 40 degrees.

as a result our furnace kicks on. since i'm not ready to up the gas bill, i turned the thermostat back to 60. the yarn harlot has her furnace wars - i have my thermostat wars. i hate giving in to the damn thing and keep the place as cool as we can stand it.

however, i haven't been ready to relinquish my short yoga pants and t-shirts. nope. yesterday i grudgingly wore a pair of khakis and a pair of my socks (which i think are shrinking and felting in the wash). today was the same. i bundle up in an afghan and a sweatshirt, denying the fact that i prolly should turn up the thermostat. but last year's gas bill was low, and pg energy actually owed US money, so i'm going for it for a second year.

i also gave in to burning a candle to get rid of the stinky kitchen smell. i begrudge doing this too during warm weather. candles are so warm! but when i came downstairs after my bath, i could smell asparagus, so i lit my beeswax candle. it's about an inch tall and i should replace it.

i used to have problems with SAD in the cold months. before i had the boy, my life basically stopped after bloom fair, and with exception of halloween, thanksgiving and christmas, i felt like i should hibernate until my birthday in march. after i met hubby, i inched it to valentine's day. after i had the boy, my depression seemed to lift and i no longer felt as depressed about fall and winter. this year feels different tho. i feel more down than usual. no gumption. cold all the time. maybe it has something to do with the miscarriage, maybe the fact that the boy is growing up. maybe the fact that the world is totally FUBAR right now and i have no control over it.

talk about feeling powerless. i am astonished that the bailout bill passed with so much pork to choke a horse. so disgusting. i don't know how politicians can pass something that pathetic. it's bad enough that they're (read: WE) bailing out the dumb nuts who have no self control or common sense. now we have to pay for stuff that has no business getting any money! i just don't get it.

i have to finish one praying hands dishcloth, then hopefully make the red one. i also have half a burp cloth made, i have to make another one for the set. guess i gotta get off my ass and work it.

speaking of working my ass, i swam on thursday and went for 30 (32 if i miscounted) laps. yesterday when i put on my khakis, they were actually a bit loose. they were tight last spring. i guess i finally lost the 5 pounds from baby a. or maybe 2 weeks of chronic diarrhea finally had a positive effect on me.