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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Yes, I went to a NKOTB concert with my sister Wednesday night. It rocked! I’m not ashamed to admit it. I was horriblely obsessed with the band in high school and it was so fun to relive those days. I had such a blast, it seems like a dream now. But I got hoarse and my throat is still a bit sore. The place was so packed and loud!
It was also nice to have a girls night out. I haven’t had one of those in a long time and to be able to leave the husband and the baby at home and just go out and have a good time and be silly and girly felt so good. I wish I had a girlfriend or two close by that I could have nights like that more often. Even if it means going home at the end of the night, it would still be nice.
DH gets far more opportunities to get away for a weekend or a day than I ever do. And it was nice to get away for a night and just forget about it all and let loose.
Sure, I go knitting once a week for about an hour or two, but those girls that I knit with aren’t my best buds.I only see them at knit night and we don’t really know each other all that well. I don’t consider them in my circle of friends because we just aren’t that close. I want someone I can be silly with, that I can really be myself around and won’t be judged or looked down on. Someone I can vent to, and that can relate to my situation (working mom of a toddler, juggling a career and family). I really miss that kind of connection. My husband is great, but it’s no the same as having a girlfriend you can gossip with and be your silly self with.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
I feel the need to start writing more. But most of what I want to write isn’t necessarily stuff I want to share with anyone. I just want to write them for myself…personal thoughts, writing exercises, my lame stories, plots and made-up characters. I want to write fiction, but I know I’m no where near good enough for anyone to read my writing.
So I’m trying to decide what to do. Do I write online, so that I can write from work and from home and on the go from my phone? Do I go the old-fashioned style and use paper and pen? I’ve tried that numerous times and it doesn’t seem to get me very far. I have countless notebooks with maybe a few pages written in it and it’s random crap that doesn’t mean anything. Do I just use my personal computer and write only from home (restricting me from writing when a thought comes to mind that I want to jot down and I don’t have my home computer there to capture the thought)?
At one point in time I found this great app for the Mac called MacJournal. I used it quite a bit, but when they upgraded it was no longer free. I also found a pretty neat freeware app for Windows to use at work, but neither was compatible with the other so nothing I wrote in one would transfer to the other. And I shouldn’t really be installing stuff on my work computer anyway. I was thinking an anonymous blog of sort where I can just write without anyone knowing who I am, but I have tried that before as well and I never wrote anything. Too much of a hassle to keep up with yet another totally separate blog. I already have 2 that I hardly maintain as it is.
Decisions, decisions. I am leaning more towards the separate blog though because then I could write to it from anywhere as long as I have some sort of internet access and now that I have an iPhone, a connection is much easier. Now to figure out which blog platform I want to use and where to host it. ha! It’s obviously going to be a free host, but I want to be able to customize the appearance to something very simple and clean with not a whole lot of clutter.
Nope, not telling you where it is…that’s the whole point of being anonymous blogger…to give the reader enough info to make them feel they know you, but not really reveal the whole truth.
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
I’m really needing a yarn fix. I haven’t ordered any yarn in several months. I think since we ordered the yarn for Nez’s afghan back in July. Yikes! I so want to order yarn and The Loopy Ewe has Cascade 220 for $6.60!! I’ve been wanting grey for a long time and they have the perfect colorway! A semi dark heathered grey that is just gorgeous!
I’m trying to be good and not spend my money on yarn, because Amelia has a birthday coming up in a month plus we are wanting to switch her to a toddler bed, which means redoing her room a bit to be more little girl rather than a nursery. Plus we have a long road trip in 2 weeks and then the holidays will be upon us.
But oh how I want to buy some yarn. Agh! What to do!
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
It really is sad when you go to the bookstore and want to buy a book, but then honestly tell yourself you don’t have time to read because that would take away from your precious knitting time and you need every available free second to finish that afghan you promised your sister (it’s her wedding present).
Darn it! I used to love reading. Before I discovered a love of knitting, my obsession was books. I could spend hours in the bookstore just browsing and reading the summaries.
Now, my limited free time is wasted if I do something other than knit. Ugh! I can’t even enjoy a good book anymore. What is happening to me?!
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
I’m officially a card-carrying addict of Starbucks coffee. We had our weekly knit night at Starbucks and I took the plunge. I got a Starbucks card and put $20 on it. I figured why not, since I’m there every week and some times I just don’t have the cash. I did this time, so now I have a little stash of coffee money I can use when I go knit. woohoo!!
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
We bought a small pool for Amelia this weekend. It’s big enough for the three of us to sit in so that’s nice. Amelia had a blast playing and splashing. She even laid down in the pool with her head just above the water. She did really well. She’s our little water girl. We had such an adventurous day on Saturday that she slept til 9am Sunday morning!! It was a nice morning of sleeping in for us. We went swimming again on Sunday and she went to bed 30 minutes earlier than usual. We definitely wore her out this weekend. But I know she had a great time.
In other news, sis and I got our tickets this morning to the New Kids on the Block concert. We’ll be in Atlanta Oct 29 for the big event. Woohoo!! I’m so excited!
We went to Birmingham this weekend as well and got my new iPod Touch. yeah! It’s awesome. I love it. I just wish I could get online more. I only have online access at home so far. We don’t have wireless at work and I haven’t yet tried taking it anywhere else in town to see what it will connect to. But so far I really like it. I had trouble with my user account though. iTunes wasn’t recognizing my iPhoto Library so I couldn’t sync pictures. I ended up having to create a new user account and move all my stuff over to the new account. That took forever to get it all moved over and working again. But I got it all fixed. I created 3 smart albums in iPhoto. One of them uses keyword Amelia, since I tag all of her photos with that keyword. Then I also added a date range of the last 3 months to it. So I can always have the latest 3 months worth of photos of Amelia on my iPod. The other 2 smart albums were similar except using keywords knitting and handspun. Even with all those photos and several new podcasts, I still had a bunch of disc space left. I’m not used to having 8GB of space. My Nano only has 4GB.
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mamaLove is the personal site of Rayne Bair. Happily married since 2001 and proud mama of one adorable little girl. This site details a journey through motherhood and trying to find myself apart from being mommy. 
