I went to work with my Boar last night.  My dearest darling owns a Pepsi Cola distributorship in Brooklyn, NY.  Last evening he needed to go into one of his large super market accounts to build a display.  You know, those giant towers of soda you see at the ends of the grocery store aisles?  Normally, he does this sort of thing during the daylight hours – well, the wee hours of the morning – but this store was having an inventory day today and didn’t want the various vendors in and out.  So I decided to go in with him.  We got home at 12:30, asleep by 1:00 and I got up at 6 with the dogs.

god, working for a living sucks.  I’m exhausted!

oh …. and my boss was sexually harassing me all night.  no job is worth my dignity!

So I’m on my laptop this evening and I notice that Daughter #1 has posted not one, but two away messages.  Is everyone familiar with this phenomena?  For the uninitiated, away messages are little notes letting the folks on your buddy list know that you are unavailable.  When I am on the computer and don’t want to receive instant messages, I will post an away message.  These crazy kids of mine post away messages all the time – even when they’re not on the computer.  Sometimes it will say, out or at the barn or eating dinner!  You get the idea.  I find this completely perplexing.  If you aren’t at home, why have the message posted?  Why is this necessary?  What is the world coming to?  Is it the youth of America, or am I an old fart?

To get back to my story ….. Daughter #1 has posted two away messages – she is watching ice skating on television and is nowhere near the computer.  I turn to Daughter #2 and this is our conversation:

*both of these girls are on the high honor roll, so I know there is some rational thought lurking in there …. somewhere ….

Do you remember the Hallowig?  That was a fun & silly project.  I wore it to a Halloween party and someone there, it was Medusa, fell  in love with it.  She said she would wear it as a winter hat and at the end of the night I gave it to her. 

Well, I have joined another Knit Along – this one is the Fry Up.  More silliness!  Nothing like a little giggle on the needles.  Sometimes these things can surprise you – either you end up loving it, or someone else does.  In any event I am all joined up and have to look in my fridge stash for yarn.  You better be careful about compliments, or I may end up giving it to you!  Click on the button above to see who else will be sporting spam come springtime!

These are the pictures from yesterday’s knitting group. That is Ricki wearing some kind of va-va-voom creation and also Peggy’s new argyle. These two are so talented — do you think they will still invite me if I keep making fry-ups and Hallowigs?  Maybe they would like a fry-up too?  We could move our knitting group to the local diner and work on our fry-ups ….

anyone out there game for a bit of sausage? (ah, the google hits I’ll get ….)