Inconsistent at best

• That is all I can say about my blogging skillz.
• Actually, that pretty much sums me up in a nutshell. I should add that to my blog description. It kind of goes with the rest of it doesn't it?
• Ok, so, I think I have finally caught the "blog bug"!
• I have found, and become addicted to...a blog. Yes, there is a blog out there that has grabbed and now held my attention for a bit now. I have not yet left her a comment, because I suck at blogging and I don't want her to see my pathetic attempt of a blog when she has the uber skillz that I envy. The blog to which I am in awe is http://www.crazyauntpurl.com/ . She rocks!
• I read this book you see, and that got me there...but I digress. It all started on chilly evening at the Northland Stitch n' Bitch (see link here http://knitting.meetup.com/459/ ). I was attending my 2nd ever meeting and had a great time! Thanks girlz, you really know how to make a gal feel welcome! So, at about a quarter til 10 (just before the store was closing) I decided to shop (we all meet at the Borders bookstore). I just had such a good time I decided to reward myself with a new knitting book. I was browsing through all the great books they had there and I happened to see one called "Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair" and it just looked kind of...freakin' hilarious! So, I made that purchase and promptly went home with my book (it does have patterns in the back of the book, it just delivers them with more finesse).
• So, I plow through this book, and before you know it, the book is done with me. I say it like that because, you see, I am NOT done with the book! I want MORE! I am pretty pissed because it is a great book, it is WAAAAYYYY to close to real life, and it ends on a damn "touchy, feely, I discovered myself" note. EWWW! This gal is way to real to actually live "happily ever after". So I hunt her down on her website and I have been blog-stalking her. She doesn't know it yet, because I am too much of a retard to post a comment. Well, and in my defense, I just found her site like this week, so I am busy reading all of her archives...from 2005!!!! So, I am trying to find the time to read a month a day...damn...this girl can talk let me tell you! I asked a knitter who I used to work with about what she thought about her, and she said "she's too wordy"...um...hello! She writes! I think wordy is a good thing here!
• So, in my cyber-stalking, I have opened myself up to what blogging really is...it's talking! And let me tell you, I can talk! I have always struggled with what to blog, nothing in my life really seemed important enough or special enough to actually publish on the web, hell, I don't even really keep a journal, too much effort. But, now that I see, what others blog about, maybe I can be a blogger. An honest to goodness, do people actually read this, who cares what I have to say, I stubbed my toe blogger! I just have to talk about everything.
• BTW...I reread and now HATE my previous posts, but I am going to leave them because they will show how lame and pathetic my blogging attempts once were and from here on out we will see what a wonderful and stimulating conversationalist I really am!
• So now that we have started with the basics...where my blogging roots have grown from...on with the blogging!

WORK

• Yes, I do it too! I work at a law firm as a legal assistant/paralegal I have been doing this for about 3 years and I actually fell into it accidentally. However, it is interesting work and I just transferred from the Country Club Plaza location (translation: can't afford to walk out of the building) to the Overland Park office (translation: Office park no temptation if I don't leave the parking lot). However, on my 1st full day at the office, I wanted to run to the Walmart on my lunch break. I got directions and it was just up the street, so I hopped in my little car and off I went. I got exactly 1 block up the street (yes this is walking distance in appropriate shoes) and what did I see. JoAnn's! I never made it to Walmart, I was drawn into that JoAnn's and spent almost $100 on yarn. I had to reward myself for...um...for...well, for something great I did that day! I deserved it! Not to mention, most of the yarn I bought was for gifts for family members...except for that pretty bulky aqua colored yarn, it was going to be for a gift, then I decided it would make an excellent sweater for my first knit sweater project, which I fully intend to start before next Fall. How did this get away from work? Oh well, onward!

HOME

• I LOVE my house! I think it is so cute! Of course, it is a mess! I am (as my key chain states) Domestically Challenged. I am the creative type, I create I don't un-create! So, I create the chaos and disorder in my home, but I don't un-create it! Seriously though, I get so completely motivated to clean and organize my house (yes, I even have clean dreams). I will be so pumped up and ready to go, but then I realize that I have another 4 hours at work and by the time I finish with the hour long drive home in traffic I just can't bring myself to do anything. It's all I can do to cook dinner for the clan. Speaking of...

THE FAM DAMNILY

• I adore my family (insert mental image of June Cleaver in her heels and pearls serving dinner to Ward and the boys)! I have a fabulous husband whom I adore (2nd times a charm ya'know). I have 2 daughters. M - 19, high school graduate, cosmetology school graduate, and 8 months pregnant with my grandchild. She is living with her fiance at her dad's house, so I am not stressing about her right now. H- 14, her grades are getting better now, she struggled for a while, but she really seems to be getting it now. Don't worry, I will give everyone their own paragraph some other day. My ex-husband is pretty great too! It wasn't always like that, but things seem to work out and we are truly a dysfunctional family (he even went with my current husband and the kids and me on a camp out last summer). Yeah, my world is just that fubar!

• Well, this has gotten pretty lengthy, so I am going to end it here for now, and honestly, I probably won't take the time to blog on the weekends. I would rather do it during the week, but I may surprise you!