Getting Down

I am down 28 pounds since the beginning of June.  We are working out regularly.  I hope to continue this change and also continue to work on projects.

Oops

I guess that I haven't been on here much.  I have a Tumblr account now where I am tracking my smoothies and weight loss.

Vegas 2012

I had to delete the original and repost.  Here we are in Vegas in May of 2012:

50 Hats and Then Some

My friend and fellow Raveler UrbanGypZ invited me to her group 50 Hats in 2014.  I have no need for that many hats, but I can make a few and sell a few.  I am ahead of the curve as I have already made 4 hats.  Three of them are Gamecock caps.  The first pattern that I tried was not really made for toddlers, they are infant size so we are working on selling those.  I found another pattern that was sized for a variety of sizes and I hope this one will work.  It hasn't been tried on yet.  I am trying to use up my stash, one of this year's goals.  Here are the hats:

Back in South Carolina

Oh my goodness, I haven't been on here for almost a year.  We have moved from Macon back to South Carolina, only in Columbia.  I hope this is it for awhile.  I suppose that I will have to change my description yet again.  I am in the same department at work, plumbing.  I swore that I didn't want to work in that area when we moved down to Georgia, but it was the only opening available, but now I wouldn't want to go back to flooring where everything requires an awful lot of heavy lifting.  I am acclimating to the rules in this store.  Each one is a bit different. 

I am currently watching NRK TV out of Norway.  Hours and hours of knitting.  Those ladies knit so quickly.  I should really get into it more and I guess with practice, I will also develop speed.  I really would like to finish getting rid of all of the boxes of sellable stuff first.  We did clear out about ten boxes of trash.  All of my things are sellable.  I think that I have the sewing machine sold.  I hope so.
I will just stick with the Necchi which is a fine machine.  I will tune it up, oil and clean it real well.  Then I will get to work sewing up all the fabric and patterns that I have packed in tubs.  I imagine that in the long run, I will stick with knitting more so than sewing.  Knitting is so much more portable and I really don't need too many more clothes.  In fact, I don't want to sew any more clothes until I have lost some of this weight that I put on during the stress of packing and moving. 

I have begun the 17 day diet again.  I just need to keep remind myself to make a healthy change.  It seems that the way that the diet is laid out, is similar to the now popular 2 day diet.  That is one where you eat sensibly 5 days a week and almost don't eat for 2.  The 17 day has you eating no carbs every other day once you get off of the accelerate portion of the program.  Since we moved and have virtually no food in the house, I am able to start over.  I will stick with chicken and fish for dinner, tuna and turkey salads for lunch and eggs for breakfast.  Yogurt for a snack at night or even some veggies.  I didn't weigh myself this morning because I know that I weigh more than I ever have.  I will check it out after my clothes are looser.  I will also begin more exercising.  Right now I do walk Cricket almost every day for about 15 minutes.  I will have to get out my cd's and begin using those also.  It can become a habit, but all of this will take a large amount of time.

So, in that vein, I had a two-egg omelet with salsa and a peach cup for breakfast.  A turkey salad with balsamic vinaigrette and lots of veggies and herbal tea.  I think that I will have tilapia and asparagus for dinner, John can have a chicken cordon bleu and yogurt for snack.  It is raining so no walking tonight.  I would really like to get on plan and stay with it once and for all and prove that it can be done.  Perhaps I should document this journey on my Thetimidcricket blog which I haven't used very much at all. 

I hope this move will be a new start.  So far it hasn't been a change, but it has been a month and today is the beginning of a new month.  So here is to a new beginning.

A Great Day

Oh my goodness!  The skeins and skeins of gorgeous yarn at Stitches South was breathtaking.  I had very limited funds, so I did get enough yarn for a top and some handspun for a cowl from my friend Stacey at UrbanGypZ.  I also got a shawl pin.  I sure wish this iPad had a camera so that I could take photos of everything.  I will need to find the right pattern for the top and I will design my own for the cowl.  I could have spent hundreds more, but I really have enough yarn to make several tops and sweaters and a bakers dozen of socks.

Quick Knit

I actually got a top knitted in about 6 weeks!  I am almost finished, just binding off then blocking.  This is a record for me.  It is knit in the round which I totally love-no seaming.  I will make a second one with a different cable down the front I think. 

Looking Forward to the reception at the end of the month!  I need to get a bit more done around the house.  I still haven't gotten anything sold, but found that there is a huge Flea Market  quite close to home here.  It is the same as the one in SC on hwy 11.  I think that it would be much better than a garage sale.  I will have to do some checking into this, if we are still here.  Otherwise, I may have to pack it all up again and move some of it.  

Getting Down

I've started the 17 day diet (again).  Last year did well, got down a few pounds, then moving kind of through things for a loop and I went back to where I had begun.  I've lost ten pounds so far in about a month's time.  I will continue on until I reach my goal this year.  I haven't started to detrash yet, but I do need to get on that project also.  We need to find doctor's, ect. in our new location.  That is one reason why moving is such a pain.  I will travel back to SC to go to the dentist as he has one more cracked tooth to crown and I should be good to go.  Also, going back twice a year isn't such a bad thing.  I can visit and arrange my appointment so that I can also join the girls on Knit Night. 

Almost finished my mohair sweater, but ran out of yarn.  Waiting to hear from someone that is selling two skeins so that I can complete it.  There is so much fuzz and color that dye lots won't matter.  I did start on a new cowl.  Another goal is to use up a lot of my yarn stash and my fabric stash.

 I may cover the couch with a beige linen type upholstery fabric and then use the pieces of fabric that I had purchased for bags to use on the back cushions.  Even if we get a new couch, this one can be used in John's den.  I guess eventually we will need to buy another bed as a guest bed-probably a double bed so that it would be big for one person and adequate for two and not take up the entire room.  Or, we can get a sleep sofa, or use the airbed.  I guess we could always get a quality queen size airbed, so it wouldn't take up any space.  I'm not sure who would come to visit us anyways.  At least until we actually purchase a home. 

Living in Macon

We are here.  It is OK. The area is like a town full of the usual big box stores-Old Navy, Kohl's, Books a Million, Barnes and Noble, Michael's, Hobby Lobby, Hancock Fabrics (no Joann's), a small mall with Sears, Penny's, Belks (like an old Lazarus/May Co.), Home Depot, and of course Lowe's, Dick's Sporting Goods, Bath and Beyond, ect, Walmart. And then all the matching restaurants-Applebee's, Chili's, IHop, and all of that kind. Now that we have packed and moved, I see that I have a lot of work ahead of me getting rid of even more stuff. I took two more boxes to Goodwill and this week I will start on listing on my Ebay turolister so that it will be ready to go when I am. I suppose it is silly to list this weekend since the next weekend is Christmas. I should have done all of this ages ago. We had 256 pieces that were moved-furniture, boxes, and things not in boxes. I am going to whittle that down considerably. I have found that we don't need fancy speakers, I have fixed the laptops, so the desktop can go, toys, gadgets, fishing tackle, old country knick-knacks, craft stuff that I will never use, along with John's stuff that he will not use either. I am going to make some jewelry rolls to store all of that. Maybe velvet backing with the clear plastic sheeting to see the items along with zippers for each section and small velcro strips to hold necklaces and bracelets in place. The earrings can go into small square pouch sections or maybe mesh flaps where the backs and posts can go through. I'll have to work on that. I need to use up the soaps and make some knitted pouches for those. If I do it right, I can translate it into a pattern for sale. Maybe a jewelry purse similar to the one we bought at the craft show-Deb and I from Beverly Hills. That is an idea. Instead of rolling, it can fold like into thirds and zip closed. Well, maybe this is what I need, is a deversion since work is now not the friendly store like I was at.

Here in Georgia