JessaLu Knits (and Spins!)

…I shall give you links.  Knitting shall be interesting again soon, I promise, but I need to decide what I’m going to be working on next.  Maybe I’ll be asking opinions…maybe not.  We shall see…

I’m also recouperating from my first trip to see my knitting group since returning from vacation.  I had a flat tire on the way home - ON THE BRIDGE (RR had to come and save me from my idiocy, I didn’t know where to put the jack under the car)(wait that’s not 100% true, he was on his way to save me halfway through my first sentence when I called to tell him I had a flat, I was the idiot who couldn’t sit in the car and wait, who had to try to change the tire myself and no, I didn’t stop on the bridge) and then, after getting home at midnight  we were awoken by yet another car crash in front of our house.  Fourth crash in less than a year, third Jetta, second (possibly) drunken idiot.  Seriously. sick. of. this.

ANYway, I saw this here and wanted one of my own:

I like to think I’m not as obsessed about RR as that word cloud suggests…don’t tell him, k?  He’ll be impossible to live with.  ;o)

I also downloaded the new browser from the Google geniuses which I totally love beyond measure.  I thank Risa for twisting my arm, my pages load so very fast now, I might be able to get through my GReader list in my lifetime (1000+ unreads when I came back from vacation…you all need to slow the hell down so I can catch up, k?)

Of course, my fast page loads might be because we finally have some fast internets here at chez ‘Lu.  I signed us up for WiSpring right before I left for W.O.O.L. and DAMN is it fast (compared to HughesNet which blows chunks on a good day and no, they get no linky love from me).  Now I just have to get used to my ‘real’ town showing up in those sidebar thingys that all the cool bloggers have these days.  ;o)

What else…oh I found a cool online coupon site: RetailMeNot.com.  They have lots of coupons listed (I saved 25% on my last fabric.com order), they have a cool bookmarklet that even works in Chrome AND they don’t try to install any crap on your system when you use them.

I think that about covers it.  This weekend I’m going to a spin-in at the lovely Cynthia’s and after that we’ll be in Lake George enjoying the hot air balloon festival.  Maybe this time I’ll remember to take the camera out and I’ll have a somewhat decent Eye Candy post for you all next week.  ;o)

…I didn’t like about school.  That is the topic for this week’s ‘Ten on Tuesday’.  Now, I haven’t done this yet because there hasn’t been a topic that interested me but I like this one.  This one I’ll do…

1.  The fact that school commenced before 10 am.  Seriously, I would have been happy to start later and stay later just so I could get a few more hours of sweet, sweet sleep.

2.  The ‘Dean of Students’.  He a was an alcoholic nightmare when I went there and continued to be one when my daughter attended.  One highlight of his career was when RR’s cousin’s kid peed in his desk drawer - you’d think he’d know better than to leave two teenage boys alone in his office… ;op

3.  The Guidance Counselor who told me to quit school when she heard I was preggers in my Junior year.

4.  Algebra.

5.  The English teacher who forced me to read Stephen King to get my diploma.  Refused to give me an alternate.  I still can’t swim to a raft in a lake with no angst, thanks Mrs. S.

6.  The English teacher who failed me because I didn’t have my term paper typed and handed in on time.  Because of you I did not walk with my class to receive my diploma since my school does not believe in handing a student a blank piece of paper.  Pardon me for having a six month old, no typewriter and no childcare so I could use one at school.  I have a feeling that you’re roasting right now and that gives me a bit of satisfaction…

7.  Preppies.  (sorry Carole…)

8.  Parking permits.

9.  Snooty bitches - we had tons of them.  With big hair.  Our high school is partially responsible for the hole in the ozone layer from overuse of Aqua Net from 1984 to 1989.

10.  The fact that my class decided they were going to be the first ‘non-smoking’ class of my school and since the non-smokers outnumbered the smokers, the non-smokers won the vote.  This meant that I would not receive the coveted smoking pass when I reached Sophomore year and had to skulk about until I found I was carrying Dobby and quit smoking.  ;o)

Okay, snarky fit is over, regular blogging will commence tomorrow with a post about W.O.O.L.  ;o)

This week for ECF I decided to wander around the garden with the new lens:

I hope you like them! Click on any of them to get the slideshow magic. ;o) Have a great weekend, everyone!