Wii, Wii, Wii All the Way Home!

Is it February yet? Good, I can get this blog in before everyone thinks that I slipped off the side of my computer. Sorry about the long delay, but after coming home from California for Christmas I caught a nasty cold that has continued to linger with a nagging cough. I also came home to the news that my brother's wife (who also is my best friend) had left my brother. This has left me reeling a bit. And the saga continues, but I won't bore you with the details - let's just say that it would make a really good Montel Williams episode! Then it was my birthday (Yes, I'm ever so slowly inching up the scale closer and closer to that 40 mark. I have a couple of good years left before the big 4-0, but I'm not liking the view from here. I feel like I'm on the up side of the rollercoaster. You know - the part where you feel like you are looking up at a 45 degree angle and the coaster is pulling you up a few feet at a time and then you jerk to a stop for a few seconds as you hear the "click" of the car as it passes little obstacles so that you don't go rolling backwards from your big climb! I'm assuming 40 is the part at the very top of the hill where you are just sitting - nothing holding you from going down the hill - and then you slam down the hill as fast as possible hoping that you don't die when you hit the bottom. By the way, I went on the best roller coaster of my life while at the Disney land adjoining park California Land - it was called California Screaming and it was awesome - It even had one big loop where you went upside down!! Ok - maybe aging won't be that bad! I need to thank Todd's Aunt Merle publicly for taking us all to Disney Land - truly it will be a Christmas that we all remember. Thanks Merle!!

Todd got me 3 really great presents for my birthday - flowers sent to the office (always appreciated and I love to make my coworkers jealous), a tanzanite necklace which goes with the other set of earrings that I have (it's really lovely), and a Wii! If you haven't heard of a Wii before it is pronounced "We" and has a Wiimote (remote control) that uses radio waves so that the machine senses how you move it - forward, back, side to side, and up and down. So that if you are golfing - it is the club. OR if you are bowling it is the ball. It is actually a bit of a workout because you use large movements to do whatever you are doing. The only thing you have to remember is to not let go of the Wiimote - which has happened a lot in the past and Nintendo has replaced numerous TV's. So they have a strap to the Wiimote that goes around your wrist sot that you can't throw it. Oh - you also have to watch out for the automan, the cat, or anything else that you might have laying on the floor which is now a part of the game floor. I love my Wii!! I'm not a big gamer - but that Wii is so fun!! Now I can bowl, box, play tennis, race cars, fish, ride cows around a track, play ping pong, etc all in my living room!! A fun part of Wii is that before you start playing you need to make a Mii -You can make a character that you use to play your game that looks like yourself. So I know that people have been wondering what we look like and here is our Mii's:

Meet Angii


And Toddii

There are no pet Mii's so George feels a little slighted - but we told him that he just looks at us like we are on crack when we are playing anyway!! He agreed as he headed back to bed after eating his nosh.

I have managed to do a bit of knitting while I was on hiatus from blogging. I finished another Christmas Stocking. I will wait to see if we can expand our family before making more (cross your fingers for us please). Here they are together. And yes, I still have them hanging up - well they are so cute who could blame us?!

By the way, that is a picture of Flin Flon that the socks are hanging next too!

I also finally finished the sweater and here I am wearing it!

It fits like it was made for me (which is was, I just don't get the sizing right - which some how I managed this time). Practice makes perfect! Here's a closeup of the pattern at the top:

You may notice a sting on the right hand side - I took this before I finished sewing it together.

And it wouldn't be a blog without my knitting model:

For those you keeping track of George - he is doing great. He has gained weight and is playing like a kitten again (well maybe a 10 year old cat). He was attacking the sweater so I had to put my finger in his view so that he didn't ruin the sweater!

Oh I forgot to mention that I planned out the sweater materials down to the knitty gritty - look at how much wool I had left:

That is absolutely everything that I had left!! I was really worried - but I made it!s I'll keep it just in case I need to fix a hole in the sweater or something - but there isn't really enough to even make a finger puppet!!

Darn it now I'm out of projects again. Back to the drawing board!!