silly late night thought about spam email

I got a spam email which I didn't bother opening because it had the name "baba gana kinebe" as the sender and the subject line said something like, "help me get my money out of africa".
But anyhow, I thought it was funny because when I was deleting it, I thought, "They are totally giving people called 'baba gana kinebe' a bad name!" I mean, how am I ever going to trust someone named baba gana kinebe?

Sadly, there is some truth to it. I believe that nobody is going to have much trust for emails coming from Nigeria ever again.

back in the saddle again!!!

I am finally feeling better. My most recent illness (a head cold) is finally going away. I'm still sick, but yesterday and the day before were the most severe days. So in comparison, today I feel faboo. So tonight I was able to get my dishes all done, clean and sanitize the sink and counter, and pick up all the mess in the front room. I have hope that tomorrow, because I got the basics done already, I will be able to make progress on the deeper cleaning that needs to be done. I hope to also start implementing step #2 of the flylady babysteps. All I feel I have done so far is DAY 1: Shine your sink.

My friend is about ready to have her baby. It's kinda exciting, although I am sad that she is so far away. She is in the military and she is in Kansas right now (Fort Riley).

My husband is due home very soon. I believe that he is bringing me chocolate. So I have a feeling of impending yumminess.

I got my daughter to bed in a very pleasant way. We read books and then I held her and sang rockabye baby. Usually she is not very cooperative when it is bed time because she fights sleep so much. But she was a good girl tonight. Perhaps it helped that I engaged her in our nightly clean-up. She knows that mom isn't sick anymore and is back in the saddle!

I am stuck in limbo with my Christian Artisans craft-along. I am about ready to start something, but I can't make my mind up if I should make a knitted log cabin afghan or a crocheted vertical vintage strip afghan or a crocheted flower swag (for lack of better descriptive words) or a crocheted Caroline Ingalls shawl. Today, I went through my acrylic yarn stash which is basically a bunch of acrylic (various types, mainly RH Super Saver, Caron One Pound, and old vintage stuff that I inherited from my husband's mom). I wound a bunch of it in balls. I figure that I have so much of it that I can safely use some of it while still making some bags of yarn balls for teaching seniors to knit/crochet. I am going to call the convalescent home tomorrow to make sure that it is OK to bring in hooks/scissors/needles/yarn. I'm only going to be teaching one lady to start. Her name is Purita and she has diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis which at the moment is not flaring up. She has already lost one of her legs to diabetes, from the knee down. And her eyesight is not that good, but she can still see fairly good. She is a very sweet lady who has been unable to crochet for quite a while because, she says, that the last home she lived in told her that she couldn't have any hooks. So weird. I wonder if it was a misunderstanding.

problem with family member

I wrote something here earlier about a problem I have with a family member not liking me and actively disrespecting me. But it only made me feel worse to put it in to words. So then I realized that I should delete it because every time I visit my blog, I could possibly see it and feel worse when revisiting the thoughts and feelings. So perhaps it is better left unsaid. *sigh*

ravelry is so much fun!

You know, after I first joined ravelry, I was thinking of quitting because I noticed a couple discussions that really disturbed me. But I realized that when it comes to online communities, you can choose what to focus on. So then I just looked for good discussions and explored all the patterns and projects. Now I am loving it. I don't expect people to stop being people. But there are some really interesting folks who sometimes have interesting things to say. I am also in awe of how much beautiful knitting and crochet is happening out there. I have only been looking at my own work, which half the time is very disappointing to me due to limitations on how much I can spend on yarn (and my own laziness of not learning new techniques and avoiding hard patterns). So it's been really cool. And I hope that the goodness continues to outweigh the badness.

Update on my blasted teeth: I had the crowns put on and I am in much less pain than I was. Only time will tell if the pain goes away completely. I have to rinse with chlorhexidine mouthwash. That's gonna be scary. I bet it tastes like gasoline or something.

thought on yarn stash; black bean soup was great

I made the black bean soup tonight and it was really good. My husband is fairly picky when it comes to food, and he liked it. I thought maybe my black beans were a little old because I can't recall the last time that I bought dried black beans. But it was good. I imagine it would be even better with fresher dried black beans.

Today I went through some of my last balls and skeins of acrylic yarn. I have a wee bit of a dilemma. I just want to get rid of it, but I can't figure out whether I should make a scrap-ghan, or if I should organize it and donate it to a lady in a convalescent home who wants to start crocheting again. If I were to give her some yarn, I know it would bless her. But I am not sure how much yarn she can store in her room. I bet her room is small, and she probably shares it with at least one other tenant. Perhaps I could get together a few balls of different colors just to give her something to play with.

I just had a thought. Perhaps I will start teaching a crochet or knitting class at the convalescent home. In that case, it would be smart to divide up the yarn in to various medium sized balls. Then I would have plenty to share with a few different ladies. I guess that is what I will work on tomorrow. I will break up some of the larger balls and skeins in to smaller balls. Then I will make some grab bags of yarn and needles. I bought a ton of needles on sale at JoAnn's last year. They are all kinds of odd sizes but I don't think that matters when people are learning, just as long as they are not too small.

more-with-less cookbook; recipes

I just heard of an interesting book called "More-With-Less Cookbook" by Doris Janzen Longacre, who wrote some frugal cooking and lifestyle books from a Mennonite perspective. I want to buy a couple of her books. My local libraries have only a copy of her book (in 3 different counties, each library system has only one copy) and they are all checked out. They must be good books to be so popular. There is a used cookbook shop right next door to my favorite Christian bookstore. Perhaps I could call over there and find out how much they charge for a used copy.

I'm seriously enjoying all the cooking lately. I made some yummy lentil soup yesterday and tomorrow I am making black bean soup. I also might try the no knead bread recipe that someone shared with me on ravelry recently.

I'm so tired but for some reason I can not sleep. I am going to go pray until I drift off to sleep.

pain!!!!

Said in Spock voice (when he did the mind meld with that giant squishy thing in the mine):

PAIN!!!!! PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am still in great pain from my recent dental disaster. I must go writhe in agony now. So I get off the internet now...