Tag: postaday2011

Learning The Hard Way

~ JodiLea

Candlestick Park

One more pre-season game left for the SF 49ers. I wonder what game plan coach Harbaugh has up his sleeve this week?  I’m glad that he did not succumb to peer pressure and make his 1st string play the whole time the Texan’s 1st string played. What is the logic in playing the guys you know will stay on the team? Let them practice during practice. That’s what it’s for.

Coach Harbaugh has some tough decisions to make soon. I do not envy that job! The rookies and new guys look great to me. If the guy is tough and puts forth tremendous effort, without being cocky – he’s a keeper in my book. Coach probably has more criteria to go by, but still it must be hard to make the cuts before the regular season begins.

I’m really looking forward to Thursday’s game (9/1/11) against the Chargers. Good thing the next day is my Friday off. This means my alarm won’t go off at 3:00 AM. I know I will be staying up late since the kick-off time is scheduled for my normal bedtime (7:00pm PT).

Yeah, I know my hours are disgusting. But it’s really nice to have most of the afternoon left to my own devices  🙂

Go Niners!

If Knitting Were Exercise, I Would Be Fit

~ JodiLea ~ 1 Comment

 PostADay2011 Topic #221 “What is your favorite way to get exercise?”  led me to imagine a perfect world where working with yarns and fabrics burned calories….

Craft Mountain

I would be very, VERY fit.

Instead of working out in a gym, I could sit comfortably at home while I “work out”.  Even catch up on my soaps. My BFF, who is also a yarn addict, could come over and we could chat while we “worked out”.  Wouldn’t that be cool?? And I could justify my yarn addiction to hubby who really loves it when I’m fit. 😉

I actually get a rush when I’m in the yarn section at JoAnn’s or Micheal’s. The only shoppers who seem to be as excited as I am, are little kids. While I play it cool, they are doing what I feel like doing – running about, squealing and squeezing the colorful, fluffy balls of yarn. To answer your question, “is that normal?”  Yes. For me it is.

Working with yarn is my therapy – it helps me stay balanced, at least within my own mind. Knitting has not replaced my medication, but I haven’t frightened anyone lately. I don’t yell as much either.  Many family members and friends now have Jodi Lea originals.

Each Jodi Lea is unique. Not only in the design, but the flaws made during the creation. Sometimes you have to really inspect it closely to find flub ups. A few have obvious flaws to anyone who knits/crochets. Then there are those where I repeated mistakes (on purpose) throughout the pattern to make the mistake a part of the design. I’m especially proud of those, for some reason.

Last time I was in JoAnn’s I made the mistake of looking around after stalking the yarn aisles, and ran into the quilting displays. Now I have it in my head I want to start piecing a quilt together to use up my scrap cloth I kept for “I may be able to use that someday”. My timing is awful – I have 3 yarn projects going on now, and 2 more in the queue. A big crop of babies are due to arrive this Fall & Winter and I am already behind schedule.

Grandmothers Flower Garden PatternSo… I decided my quilt will be a “Grandmother’s Flower Garden”. An old-fashioned pattern using pieced together hexagons. It will be my very first patchwork project and I can’t wait to get started!

Now before you roll your eyes, let me tell you about the fabric left-overs I have been saving up. They will make the cutest “Baby Flower Garden” quilt ever  😉

Baby Fabric Scraps

Looking over the pattern, I realized that every piece must be sewn together. By hand. It’s going to take a lot of time and patience. And we all know how much of those two things I have. Ha! I should make a test flower to see if my clumsy fingers can even handle that much.

Who knows, I may even be able to finish it before any great-grandchildren come along.

🙂

Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn Ya…

~ JodiLea ~ 3 Comments

Every morning I post the current Threat Level. When I arrive at work, I assess the situation and post the days level prominently on my office door. This threat level has nothing to do with terrorists.

It’s all about me.

I have really good mornings most of the time. Today was not one of them. I normally use the real color-coded threat level sign. But that seemed too ordinary to express the condition I had elevated to in the 3 hours between getting out of bed and starting to work. Every joint in my body hurt, my fasting blood glucose was 314, meaning two injections instead of one. I felt feverish, sweaty and grumpy. My skin itched and crawled.

I did not want to go to work. I wanted to scream, throw a tantrum, and go back to bed. But being the dedicated employee that I am, I sucked it up and went to the office. Where I found more crap to irritate me, just reading my email.

 Evil Child  <—Today’s Threat Level 

Someone said “A picture is worth 1,000 words”.  I have no clue who this little girl is, but she looks how I felt today. And still feel tonight, so I am sending my grumpy ass to bed now.

Thanks for listening 😉