This is the hat that I made for my mom. My sister and I bought her a bag as well, but she had been asking me to make her a hat, to match a red coat that she has, so here it is. I like it, but the pattern does not look like this. I like it still, I don't understand why it doesn't look like the pattern, but what can you do. It will be ok.

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I'm ready for Christmas break...
Still need to buy some gifts...
I just don't understand my brother...
I finished knitting a hat in 3 days, that's a record for me...
I feel like I'm getting sick...
This week is going to drag on and on...
I haven't read a book in forever...

Knitting...

So, I learned how to knit a while ago. And sometimes I'm really into it, and sometimes I just can't find the time. Well, I'm feeling really into it right now, I mean to the point that I can't wait to get home so I can knit. I went home after work yesterday, and started a hat, and knitted 18 rows, that's pretty outstanding for me. To knit that many rows in one day, and on a day that I had to work too. So, I'm hoping I can keep my enthusiasm going and make a couple of Christmas gifts. Nothing too detailed, but a couple of hats would be good. I'm hoping to have the one that I started yesterday done before the weekend is over. And possibly have gotten a good start on another one. The one I'm making right now is for FOTM. I will start one for my mom next, and then my step-dad. And if I can get real ambitious, I'll make one for my brother. But that will be a last resort. Then after Christmas, I can make myself some things. The only item that I've actually kept for myself is a green hat. I want to make myself a couple of scarves and hats. I'll probably make Michael a hat too, since he's been asking and I've been ignoring his requests.

A Wonderful Weekend...

On Friday, I stayed at FOTM's house, so that I could be his alarm clock for a visit to the barbershop on Saturday morning. He stays up late, and normally, I stay up late with him, well, not this weekend, I feel asleep pretty much as soon as I got there. On Saturday, after his hair cut, we went to my house, I finished packing up my things, we went to his parents house (first visit to see his parents, I already knew them, so I wouldn't call it meeting them), then we hit the road. Drove down to Indy, Checked-In to the Hampton Inn, Ate at St. Elmo's, got dressed, went to the concert, went over his friends house, then went back to the room and went to bed.

We had a great time at the concert. J. Holiday was cool, didn't really know too many of his songs. Keyshia Cole was awesome, even though she wasn't on the stage very long. I would like to see her give her own show. R. Kelly really put on a show. I bet he sang at least one song from each of his albums. His show went on a little long for me. By the time he was finished, I was sleepy. I was a little upset, because I had to check my camera in, so I didn't get to take any pictures.

We got back around 3:30 on Sunday, I went home and took a nice nap. I slept from about 5:30 - 7:30. The weekends are so short. Now I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to get my Christmas shopping done. Somehow, someway, it will get done!

Random Thoughts...

It is winter for real now...

• And I don't like it!

I feel like I'm getting sick...

• I really can't afford to be sick right now...

I don't want to go to the game on Saturday...
I seriously need something to wear next weekend...

• I think I'm just going to go with a black turtle neck sweater dress at Macy's...

I need to clean my place...

• Going to start tonight!

I need to put up my Christmas tree...
I need to buy decorations for it...

• Going for all gold, but we'll see how it turns out, I'm going to accomplish this this weekend...

I need to buy gifts to put under it...

• The kids, my sister, my mom, my stepdad, my bff, First of the Month - I'm thinking those are all of the gifts that I need to buy...
  

Why are people selling knock-off iPods (aka, faux-pods)?

• The other day, my sister told me someone at her job had some iPods for $60, and I'm like, that would be perfect for a Christmas gift for First of the Month. So I gave her my money. And when she got them, they were all kinds of wrong. To the virgin eye, they may look like an iPod, but to someone who has had 2 of them, I guess I know what to look for. She told me that they were in this box, and that it came with a case and a wall charger and some other stuff, so I got a little weary, my iPod, came with a chord to plug in to the computer, nothing more. So I'm like ok, let me look at it. When I opened the box, I noticed that the chord to plug into the computer was black, first hint. Then, where the play button is on an iPod, there was 'Vol' on faux-pod. The headphone jack and hold switch were all on the bottom. So we took a chance, and plugged it into the computer, when it starts up, theres a rainbow colored apple. The menu was crazy. It looked like it was made specifically for children. I couldn't believe it. So needless to say I got my money back.

What to wear...

So, I've been procrastinating, and I still don't know what I'm going to wear to the concert. I still have over two weeks to find something, but for me, that might not be enough time. Especially since I don't really have a good idea of what I want to wear to begin with. I'm starting to think that I'm just going to keep it simple, and try to find a cute sweater to wear with some skinny jeans, and my Kenzie boots. The problem, finding a cute sweater, I want one that kind of goes off the shoulders. I thought about getting my hair done too, but we'll see, I can't remember the last time I've actually had my hair done at a beauty salon.

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