Words of Wisdom Wednesday

Righto. Simple words of advice tonight, expect the unexpected.

After a very crazy start to the week, all I wanted to do when I got home tonight was veg on a couch with my nose in a book. Instead, Hubs and I spent this evening cleaning blood splatters from all over the house. Within minutes of getting home, Bandit caught a back paw between two bars of his crate and broke off yet another nail. His reaction is to tear through the house running and jump on our bed. :( Again, I'm sooooooo thankful my parents bought us a Spotbot for this past Christmas!

This brings his grand total of nails heinously hurt up to 3. >.< Thank the doggie overlords that he all ready has a scheduled vet appointment on Friday. Guess he just couldn't stand the idea of going to the vet without some painful injury.

Normal life should come back around in a few weeks or so and regular blogging should start back then. I'm a bad blogger. *sigh*

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

If bad things happen threes, then disgusting things come in twos. Case in point, yesterday evening around our house.

After work, I made a quick stop at the local grocery store. After the shopping was finished, I popped the hatch of my beloved Escape to find something lurking for me. A quart of milk from last week's grocery store run, or newly forming cheese depending upon your point of view. So glad the top didn't pop off!!

Later in the evening, I stuck my head out the back door to see how Bandit was doing. He seemed to be playing and mouthing....something. I said "Bandit, what do you have in your mou....EEEWWWWWW!" He was bobbling a deceased robin in his mouth and started to shake it. Dogs can be so damned gross!

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Do not attempt to learn a new cast on method 20 minutes before you'd like to go to bed. I tried last night, and an hour later could finally do Emily Ocker's Cast On. Probably didn't help me that I've never used a crochet hook for anything other than picking up dropped stitches before. :)

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I shouldn't even bother making my bed. 10 minutes after making it on Sunday night, I was greeted by this.

Now maybe he could learn to make the bed since he has unmaking it down pat!

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Organizing can be addictive.

After accidentally missing a family wedding a few weeks ago, I decided it was time to try some calendaring options. Enter Google calendar. Now only can you record events and share them, you can make multiple calendar views. And, get this. You can text message your calendar from your cell phone to view scheduled events and ad new ones. I should get some type of plaque or reward for the geekiest calendar views - shared gaming view for tracking which RPG is to be played on a given night, TV view to remind me to set the DVR to record my fave shows, and an in depth view listing all our GenCon events. I'm also hooked on Ravelry. I've added add my recently finished projects and specs and my current works in progress. Now, I have to get more of my photos onto flickr to share on Ravelry.

Who knew a simple New Year's resolution to get more organized would lead to many hours being sucked into websites!

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

The worst possible food to leave forgotten in a refrigerator is sushi. And, no this was not in our fridge at home. *shudder*

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

As with so many other things in life, you can't have too many dice.

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

Today's words of wisdom are "don't burn the candle at both ends and then set fire to the middle, too." I've been keeping a pretty crazy schedule lately, and my body decided to revolt. Sunday and Monday, I felt a bit off - headache, burning sinuses. That was just the small beginnings of a nasty bout with sinusitis I have now. Much <3 for antibiotics, cough suppressants, and Puffs with lotion. Hopefully, I'll be able to rejoin the human race in a few days.

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

This week's words of wisdom are fairly serious. Don't allow other's perceptions of your vocabulary influence how you speak.

As a college sophomore in a program that was around 85% male dominated, I took an intro to computer programming course. Being one of five females in the class, I was clearly in the minority. I have always been one to keep up with the pace of lectures. When the professor or presenter asks questions to the class, I will go against my quiet nature and offer an answer to keep the flow of the course going; I don't like those long awkward pauses waiting for responses. During one early morning class, the programming prof had a Visual Basic code snippet on the overhead and asked for a critique of the code. Seeing that there was duplicated code and after waiting until the requisite long awkward pause happened, I raised my hand and stated "The second line of the code is superfluous. It has the same effect as the first." Apparently, using a four-syllable word was just too much, and the professor went on a sarcastic diatribe on my vocabulary stating that he would work "superfluous" into all his lectures. Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday for the next four months, he worked "superfluous" into every lecture, the ass. I was mortified, especially when I learned that he carried on the tradition into the following semester, too.

My intentions weren't to sound smart or try to impress the class; I was only attempting to get my point across. Looking back, this occurrence is one of those times of my life I could revisit and have a "do over" as it caused me to be quite unwilling to speak up in that class ever again.

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Being the spousal unit left at home stinks. *pout*

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

Dogs can hold grudges. After being away for 6 days over two weeks ago, as of last night, Bandit finally would acknowledge my existence. He's as stubborn as his mom! :)

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

Sprint cell phone service completely sucks. I've been trying for almost two weeks to get Hubs and my accounts combined, and can't get it done properly. >.< I'm thisclose to cancelling our accounts and telling where to shove their crappy service.

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Please refrain from answering or placing cell phone calls from public bathrooms. It compels people like me to flush the toilet repeatedly to let the person on the other end of the phone know exactly where you are. ;)

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or, "How I Plan to Take Over the World".

Simple plan using a simple tool, really.

Nice weighted piece of thick black leather

What's it for you're asking? (No, Zoe and/or Phollower, it's not for that purpose.) Behold!

It's a book weight (That's Genetics for Dummies if you're curious.)

Now I can knit a simple sock and read at the same time as it holds the pages down hands-free. I've been slacking a bit on reading as I've been all-consumed with knitting socks. Now, I don't have to choose between knitting and reading. So my words of wisdom for this week, if you're a knitter who reads, invest $10 in one of these bad boys, well worth it.

Surely, this makes me a candidate for world domination, no?

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

Heed your own advice. For example, the Words of Wisdom Wednesday post I made last week, clogs aren't good foot apparrel in the snow. I slipped on a pair of clogs this evening to check the mail. Completely forgetting the several feet tall drifts in our driveway and yard. I'm sure my neighbors think I'm an idiot now after fishing out a clog that slipped off and got stuck in a snowdrift.

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

When the forecast calls for snow, be prepared. Not prepared in a raid the grocery store for canned goods, bread, and toilet paper way. Prepared as in wear appropriate shoes for walking in show. Unexpected treks in through 5 inches of snow happen. For example, after a rough day, the battery in the garage door opener dies and you have to walk through snow drifts in sub-zero wind chills wearing CLOGS. >.<>still cold.

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No matter how deeply engrossed you think your significant other is involved in a video game, he/she will pick up on the words "hit the garage with my car yesterday morning" out of your conversation. Several strenuous minutes will ensue.

Speaking completely hypothetically, of course.

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

I have an updated version of the old adage "The cobbler's wife has no shoes". Newly updated to "The sock knitter has only crappy socks."

Today's the second day within the past week that heels in my store bought socks have had major holes develop. Friday, my poor crummy old socks blew out clear to my ankles. So glad I wore pants that went to the top of my foot. Today's heel mishap was confined to the bottom of the sock's foot and less conspicuous.

One of these days, I'll buy some more socks for myself. Just one of those things you shouldn't put off too long :)

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

My final planned weekly blog feature is Words of Wisdom Wednesday. I'll share my wealth of knowledge gleaned from years of learning from my mistakes. Plenty of blog fodder with this topic.

Today's words of wisdom are this, "Let sleeping blogs lie." After moving to the new version of Blogger, I updated my blog's template. In my overzealousness, I altered my blog's name. Which caused my Atom feed to be completely FUBAR-ed. Atom feed issues equate to a non-functional site feed which you, dear readers, use to be notified of updates to Knotts Knitts.

I have a working site feed now, but it has a different address. If you subscribe via Bloglines or other feed aggregator, you can re-subscribe by clicking the nifty subscribe button to the site or manually add the new feed address, http://knottsknitts.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Biggest apologies to my 8 subscribers; I just had to try out all the new "features" of the new Blogger version. :(