Just got up like 5 minutes ago.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do today really. Probably make some phone calls. I need to switch insurance and I’ll have to call that guy from sun back. I don’t know why he hasn’t contacted me yet. It’s probably not very good sign as to how well he’s organized. But a job’s a job.
Mmmm. Maybe I’ll have some pancakes for lunch.
So I’m making a sweater for Vince or Edda depending on when I’m finished with it. I got the pattern from Knitty. What you see here is the front of one side of a cardigan and an armhole and the beginning of the back.
This is how I usually knit with the yarn coming in from my right hand. The standard English/American way of knitting.
I hear the German way of kniting is much faster. I’m feeding the yarn with my left hand. So I’m trying to do it this way too.
I tried moving Vince to a couch and to prop him up in hopes of having him wake up, but my brilliant idea did not work.
Remember I said that Vince no longer was napping? Here he is passed out on the floor of the study. He fell asleep at gosh-darn-it 4 pm. He’ll be up until midnight. ARGH!!!!
We are not going outside today. It’s something like 2 degrees outside. It’s amazing to us that Ruby goes outside without any clothes. Brrr!!!
And I’m finally done with geocities! Woo hoo! All the pictures and past posts are here on blogspot. I’m going to wait a few days until I’m a little more settled and then I’m going to reclaim my $5 a month for hosting my lame website on Yahoo.
I am getting my 401K back, starting Feb. 1, 2005. This time, I am investing all of it to Bonds. Your Mom and I have not got into “Bonds” at all. Last year, it was the first time I did that. It appreciates $25.00 out of $3,500.00. Not too good. But, I guess it is a lesson that I am willing to pay some tuitions for it. As having more grey and less hairs, I like to look into bonds. Anyway, will keep you posted about the returns. 🙂
Last night we had a party at Asuka and Carrie’s house to say goodbye to Johannes. He’s going back home to Dresden after 2 years in the US working for AMD. The people in the photo are Doris, Johannes behind me, Patrick, Asuka, Carrie, Vince, Jeremy and Edda. Carrie made chicken enchiladas, black bean soup and homemade cookies and ice cream with chocolate sauce. We talked about Carrie and Asuka’s Chrismas trip to Portugal. Apparently, the Portuguese were not helpful. Carrie quit her job at a place making high-end purses because there was no running water where she worked and her boss decided to spend the $40,000 earmarked for putting in a bathroom instead on cosmetic dentistry. Can you believe you can spend that much on your teeth?
I spent all night at P’ng and Judy’s place. We’re trying to put together a slideshow for Tina’s Funeral this Saturday. Everyone’s been mailing Judy all these photos and I think it’s been pretty hard on Judy – Especially since P’ng has been away at a conference for while.
I’m not looking forward to Saturday. There are going to be too many sad people there. While I try to let people grieve in there own ways, sometimes I just think it’s stupid to cry so much. For me, it’s the same thing as being diagnosed with cancer. What’s to get sad over? The only option you’ve got is to deal with it. Same with death. Sure it’s not pretty. Sure you don’t want it to happen to folks before their time. But it isn’t something you can control.
Anyway, I can’t help thinking also, that this is just the beginning of it all. The longer I live, the more funerals I’m going to go to. It’s just the way it is.
sorry if I’m a cold fish. Maybe it will be different for me when it’s someone super close to me. If it were my wife, for example, I can see myself being devastated to the point of being non-functional, but maybe that’s a special case. or maybe it isn’t