We bleached it, and this is the result.
Somehow, the bleach reacted with the fading blue and gave us cotton candy pink with some blond, and some brown. Should he leave it as is? Or should I throw more color on there to turn it hot pink.
Please please please, let me know!
I haven’t fallen off the face of the Earth. Honest. This pregnancy is just a lot harder than the last one.
Every day, I plan to knit. I plan to blog. I plan to clean my house.
Yeah.
Miriam is teething. I’m pregnant. I was sick.
I’m just getting through the days.
A haircut and bleach job can be a major change.
But blue beats blond any day.
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This is True is by far, the funniest, most heart wrenching, and frustrating email I get, every single week. It’s free, or you can get the ad free version for $24 a year.
It’s been around since 1994*, and has been funny every single week.
Check it out, you won’t be disappointed!
*Oops. I was off by 10 years.
Miriam is fussy, and wanting attention, so I was letting her bang away on my computer. I set it to Ravelry Radar, which constantly reloads new posts, and she thinks her banging away changes the images on the screen. I get to read the new posts, best of all worlds, rightt?
Well, I didn’t realize that she pulled the power cable out of the computer. The one that plugs into the wall outlet and charges the computer.
The next sound I heard was her screaming, then a pause, and cries like I’ve never heard before. I look down and discover that she had the sopping wet cable in her hand.
Poor thing.
She’s fine. Smiling and chattering away now.
It was her first electrical shock, but with her last name, it certainly won’t be her last.
I’ve been feeling poorly for a while now. Mostly, I’ve credited it to being pregnant and having a cold, but yesterday things went from bad to worse, so I made a doctors appointment. It’s a good thing I did. Turns out I have strep throat. So, now I’m on some heavy duty antibiotics and the doc said I should rest and take it easy. I reminded him that I have a 7 month old. He said to try anyway.
On my way out of the office, I fell off the curb, ’cause I’m elegant like that, and couldn’t get up right away. After a few moments of feeling completely ridiculous, I managed to heft my carcass up off the asphalt, swallowed my pride, and went back into the doctor’s office.
The nurse cleaned up my knee and gave me a kick-ass bandaid and gave me strict orders to go home and rest.
I went to walgreens, filled my ’script, and came home.
Jason, who is working from home today, cleaned up my knee again and gave me a new bandaid as I had bled through the first one in the 45 minutes I waited at walgreens for my 7 little pills.
So, now I’m sitting here with my leg elevated, and an icepack on my knee. My toes are swollen, and my knee hurts like hell. I can’t even bend my knee without help.
My throat hurts, my ear hurts, my knee hurts, I’m sick, and I feel like the most pathetic person on the planet.
Oh, and Jason popped in a movie for me: Fantastic 4 and the Silver Surfer. My day just keeps getting better and better.
1 small splash veggie oil
1 large or 1/2 jumbo yellow onion, chunked
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp ground ginger*
1 tsp red pepper flakes*
2 cups water
1/2 carton chicken stock
2 Tbl soy sauce*
1 Tbl sesame oil*
1/2 cup mushrooms, sliced thin
2 servings cellophane noodles
12 shrimp
1 fillet orange roughy, cut into bite size pieces
1/2 head bok choy, cut into bite size pieces
You can substitute whatever seafood you have handy, I happened to have shrimp and orange roughy in my freezer
In your favorite soup pot, sautee the onion, garlic, ginger, and red pepper flakes in the splash of oil for a few minutes until the onion turns clear. Add two cups of water and stir to get up all the brown bits stuck to the bottom of the pot. Add the chicken stock, soy sauce and sesame oil. Cover and simmer 10-20 minutes.
Add the mushrooms to the pot, cover again.
Cook the noodles according to the package instructions.
Add the seafood and bok choy to the soup.
Place some of the noodles into each bowl, and ladle the soup over the top.
This was excellent!
This gave us 4 large bowls, the last of which Jason will take to work with him for lunch tomorrow.
* These amounts are not exact. Use your own best judgment and season to taste.
Even though he has to leave for work at Oh My Gawd It’s Early o’clock in the morning, my darling husband made a fresh pot of coffee for me.
He’s the best!
Froebe Fibers will bet at YarnCon Chicago! Come out and see us at the Pulaski Park Fieldhouse on October 4th, 2008 from 10am to 4pm.
We’ll have all your favorite Froebe Fibers yarns, and some special yarns just for the occasion, available no where else!
