I made my first chart today for the doctors mask I am knitting D. He wanted a doctors like mask to wear when he snowboards, with a Swiss cross on it. So with the help of this site I made graph paper to fit my gauge and now I have a chart with a Swiss cross on it. Too bad that I started this project last night and found out today that D is leaving to go snowboard tonight. So I guess he will have it for the next trip.

While he is gone I am hoping to finish this project, clean the house, finish the laundry, and take Vito for a walk. Maybe if I am feeling brave I will clean out the fridge, but like always it is quite a science experiment in there.

Yesterday I was having a crappy day and when I can home from work I decided to watch Nightmare Before Christmas, in honor of halloween, and take a nap on the couch. My wonderful husband surprised me with candy from my favorite local candy store.. Yum sour strawberries and peaches. And he also brought me this for my desk at work:

It has brought a smile to my face all day. Damn I love my husband.

Their here, Apple has releases it new ipod photo. Now with 60GB... wow. It has a color display and will holds and shows photos. D and I were just discussing that this would be Apple's next step, a bigger ipod with a color display. It is pretty great, but I still love mine. I still have 30GB of free space and I am trying to fill it as fast as I can. Amoeba here we come.

Daily Candy has also brought some sunshine into my rainy day: The Soda Pop Stop, they sell many kinds of sodas, in glass bottles. Many are older, hard to find, and "original recipes" sodas. I really want to try the Original recipe Dr. Pepper and Bubble up. I think that I have found a present for LBG, she can share it with Kenny. How fun would it be to open the fridge and have a colorful array of beverages in glass bottles. Now all we need to do is install a bottle opener in the kitchen.

Yesterday I realized something very amusing about my husband that I never noticed before. He has no idea when any bills are due nor does he know if I have really paid them, these things are not a concern of his. He would never remind me to pay the rent, or ask me on the first if I have paid the rent. Car payment, gas bills, insurance, these things are not his concern. But he knows when a movie is due back at the movie store. He has chosen this as his all important due date. We could get a $50 late fee from our credit card for paying late, or ruin our credit by missing a few car payments, but he is worried about that damn $3.95 late fee. As long as we have been married we have never returned a movie late, and I thank my husband for that, the master of the due date. On certain movies if you return them the next day you get a dollar credit. That dollar is also very important to him, we might not be finished with a movie yet, but he wants to return it to get his dollar. I think he feels that they owe him that dollar, and he is not missing out.

Our weekend involved renting movies, eating pizza, naps, and D getting a new snowboard. I am not sure how that last one happened, but I am happy for him. When he gets excited, I'm excited. All that relaxing has left me with a laundry and a house to clean, but I'll get to it sometime its not going anywhere.

Even though Trader Joes Organic Lowfat Yogurt comes in a very cute container, with a picture of a cow on it, the cute packaging does not make up for its all around yuckyness. Sure the cow has orange blossoms in it hair but I think that they forgot to make the yogurt taste good. Well at least I only bought one, because in my current effort not to waste food I finished this one, but I do not think I will be able to finish another one.

My lack of a good breakfast has been remedied but the wonderful rain we are having. It is actually sideways rain right now. The current sideways rain might pose a problem at home, because our bedroom window is open. I am sure the Vito is very mad at us right now if the rain is coming through the window on to his warm bed. I am not concerned for him, if he is getting wet he can go lay on the couch. I am sure that by the time I get home for lunch he will not only of brought a blanket in to the living room but built a tent as well.

I am planning to stay in all night, not answer the phone, and watch more Futurerama. So basically it will be like any other night, but this time it will include rain. I am praying for the power to go out, so I can go home now, and get this party started. Soup and all.

I am not posting a picture of the finished fingerless mitten, because it is not finished. I doubt now that I will finish itthis project, because I hate it. That is ok, because I have gotten so much better at knitting in the round, especially starting on #2 double pointed needles. Even though I will never wear these mittens, I am glad that I started this project , because so often I read a pattern and say I could never do that. When in reality if I just started it, I most likely will figure it out. For some reason I have to understand the pattern from start to finish or I will not attempt it, but starting these mittens has helped curb my control freak knitting tendencies.

I did make a hat for D, but there will be no pictures of that either. It was very small, very. I knew going into it that my yarn might not be super chunky, that it was most likely chunky. So I was not terribly disappointed when it did not fit. I need more black yarn before the second attempt, because "gasp" I could never a make a hat for my loving husband out of acrylic yarn.

It actually rained over the weekend, I couldn't believe it. And like I expected Vito has decided that he doesn't want to go in the backyard, not even if I go back there. I guess he would rather hold it than get his feet wet. I couldn't even lore him with sticks. His pile of bark has been untouched for days, I know he will give in soon, his love for wood is to great.