Remember the other day when I said there was nothing better than a package on your front porch?

I found something better – the day there is package on your front porch, there is another waiting in your mailbox! 

Connie, blog reader, email friend and fellow Quitter sent me a surprise!  Tea tree oil toothpicks and mints!  I haven’t tried the toothpicks yet, but will let you know how they are.  She also included a card with a picture of her knitted socks – here they are!  Thank you so much Connie – those socks look terrific, by the way.

Work is continuing on Halcyon – it looking fab, if I do say so myself.  I surprised myself last night with some adept fiber gymnastics.  I noticed an uncabled cable five rows back and rather than rip the whole five rows, I selectively tinked back.  "Holy crap, I’m good", I thought to myself.  In the midst of this delicate operation, it crossed my mind to take some pictures – but would have wrecked havoc with my concentration.  I couldn’t even watch Desparate Housewives while this was going on!  Speaking of television — anyone watching Show Dog Moms & Dads on Bravo?  this is shaping up to be a good program.

I am waiting for my yarn to arrive to start my Spearfish socks.  The race over there is well underway – I hope that no one has gone to their bookies to put their money on me.  I’m a mudder and the track is high and dry.

Remember the other day when I said there was nothing better than a package on your front porch?

I found something better – the day there is package on your front porch, there is another waiting in your mailbox! 

Connie, blog reader, email friend and fellow Quitter sent me a surprise!  Tea tree oil toothpicks and mints!  I haven’t tried the toothpicks yet, but will let you know how they are.  She also included a card with a picture of her knitted socks – here they are!  Thank you so much Connie – those socks look terrific, by the way.

Work is continuing on Halcyon – it looking fab, if I do say so myself.  I surprised myself last night with some adept fiber gymnastics.  I noticed an uncabled cable five rows back and rather than rip the whole five rows, I selectively tinked back.  "Holy crap, I’m good", I thought to myself.  In the midst of this delicate operation, it crossed my mind to take some pictures – but would have wrecked havoc with my concentration.  I couldn’t even watch Desparate Housewives while this was going on!  Speaking of television — anyone watching Show Dog Moms & Dads on Bravo?  this is shaping up to be a good program.

I am waiting for my yarn to arrive to start my Spearfish socks.  The race over there is well underway – I hope that no one has gone to their bookies to put their money on me.  I’m a mudder and the track is high and dry.

I overslept this morning and wasted all those hours I could have been blogging on REM sleep.  Therefore the blog is getting shortchanged this morning ……

You’re Virginia!
Part of the old school, you like both historical sites and crazy amusement parks. You like saying the word Commonwealth but couldn’t really explain the concept or how it applies to your life. You like five-sided shapes, five-cent pieces, and possibly anything else having to do with the number five. Every now and then, you discard chaff from yourself that you just don’t feel you need. And since you’ve been wondering… yes, there is a Santa Claus.
Take the State Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

Friday was the two week mark in my quitting smoking efforts.  The past four days or so have been among the most difficult so far.  I really don’t know why — nothing is all that different about these past days than any others.  The weather has been spring like, so yard work has commenced – perhaps that is part of it.  Cigarette breaks were an integral part of yard work.  I am still taking breaks – even knitting breaks! – but it’s not the same. Anyway, it is what it is and these last few have been hard.  Not hard enough to break my resolve, but hard nonetheless.

What better pick-me-up than a package on the porch?  Vicki is the best!  Thanks so much Vicki – it has put a smile on my face and given me plenty of plugs for the ole pie hole!