Back in the saddle again.

Well I am back from my week long vacation to Southeastern Wisconsin. It was nice to see all of my friends that still live down there.

I realized a few days after I got down there that I didn't pack enough clothes for my stay. Good thing one of my friends and I went shopping in Janesville I got enough shirts for my stay along with a new pair of jeans. So I got to see a bunch of my friends from the Boston Store there. I really miss working there.

Also, while I was in the "South" my boyfriend and I went to Madison to walk around the capital. I have only been there once before. We went all of there place. We got to go on the observation deck and got to see the city from a great view. No buildings are allowed to be taller then the capital building in the city of Madison (anyways that's what I've been told). While at the capital we witnessed a mass. "wedding" of sorts, it was a homosexual rights thing. It was pretty cool to see that going on and no one that I know of was protesting it.

I got to go sailing with my boyfriend's father. He told me that he is going to make be not be as soft-spoken as I am. My boyfriend's family is full of very loud people.

We went to Aztlan. It was very neat. Too bad none of it is original. All of the mounds have been plowed over for farming and was rebuilt . I was very happy to get out of the house and walk around.

I even got to go to the Wisconsin Dells with my boyfriend's family earlier this week. It was very nice of them to let me join them. His family bought us tickets to ride on the Ducks and go to Robot World. We spent so much time in Robot World, it was great fun. The Ducks were great in that you got to see the Upper and Lower Dells.

Now I am back in Chippewa Falls hanging out with my kitten. She really has missed me. I don't think that anyone here has payed much attention to her the week that I was gone.

books, yarn, work, travel?

This week has showed me that I need to find projects to keep my brain going, just because I am out of school doesn't mean that my brain is on vacation. I've finally finished a book that I've been struggling to read for the past four years, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. It was a very good well written essay of the United States. It sheds light on how America is not exactly what everyone makes it out to be. In a nut-shell American's are not the "Golden-children" of the world. If there is anyone out there that is interested in politics or history, I suggest reading this book.

Now for fun I am reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. It is so far a really easy read. I have just been reading it for two days and I'm already almost halfway through it. I like that Brown was able to keep the same action packness of this book and put it into the Da Vinci Code.

Now to the yarn side of this week. I haven't done much knitting. I have completed four of my little squares for my blanket that I am making. With that much done I realized that I need to knit many more of them to make a decent size. I think it is going to end up being a mix of different colors, that way I can use up all of the yarn that I have.

Soon I need to start trying to make the pair of mittens that I have been asked to make. I am going to be using the crocheted pattern that I had found earlier in the summer. Hopefully it turns out alright.

Today is my second day on the floor at Younkers. Hopefully I remember how I am to do different things. I hope that who ever I am working with is there until 5:30 tonight that way I can ask them questions that I might have. I just wish that I knew where I was going to be working. I'm a little nervous about that.

On Monday I am going on a week and a half vacation down to see Noah. I am very excited to see him. I hope that we actually go and do something at least one day that I am there. I know that he has plans to start cleaning his house of all the trash that has collected over the years. And he is going to be busy with work. I figure when he is doing his stuff I can go down to Whitewater and see a few friends and stop at Boston Store in Janesville to see a few ex co workers.

a change in the air?

I'm trying a new look of the blog. Expect changes every so often until I find something that I like.

I've realized that I NEED to find a big kid job or go to school. This next week Younkers is just having me work one day and it isn't even a full day of work. I am going to go crazy spending all this time at my parents house. I am going to get another job to keep me busy then in the Spring go to CVTC for accounting. If I am able to save up enough money. Then hopefully move back down to the Watertown area that way I can live by Noah, or even with him and finish up school at MACT. I can't live at my parents for the rest of my life. Even though it would be nice. Its not like they are pushing me to get out of the house and find a job or anything.

This Fall will be spent on putting together my resume and getting it sent out to different employers. I think I'll check out the Madison and Milwaukee areas along with the Chippewa Valley. I am sure that my five years working at Young Auditorium will be worth something in the "real world".

I am excited to go down and visit Noah and his family for a few days. I really wish that I could stay down there longer then five days. I don't want to wear out my welcome with them. Also I have obligations up in Chippewa.

blankets, mittens, new projects?

I've started a new project. I really need to stop doing this. I keep starting new projects and not finishing them.

I am making a baby blanket, not using the typical baby colors. It is going to be a checkered pattern of forest green squares and a dark creme. If I end up liking it I might just make it much larger then a baby blanket and make it for myself or as a Christmas present.

The squares are made with the same pattern that I use for making my dish cloths. Knitted from the corner adding a stitch with each row until I get to 40 stitches across then working my way down to the corner again. I will be making nine of these squares to have the first blanket (the nine squares) done.

I really have no need to make a baby blanket. No one in my family is going to have a child anytime soon. Maybe I'll sell it when I am done with it.

Once I am done with the first blanket then I have a pair of mittens that I need to get cracking on. I was asked to make a pair a few months ago and never got around to it. I found a pattern for crocheted ones that I want to try out.

I will make sure to update all of you on my progress with these two projects along with what else I think would be good to add to my list of current yarn ideas to make. Hopefully I don't go overboard on new projects.

A Diet Begins

What my diet should look like and soon will.

Today I am starting a diet of sorts. Pretty much just getting rid of all the junk that I used to eat. Kinda like a detox diet. It is going to be high in fiber and protein, low in sugar and highly processed foods. Dinner tonight was the start of it. We had Pork roast, with and mashed potatoes and a salad. I know that this isn't the best of what I could eat but it is a start.

I guess my mother is going to be putting the household on a diet of foods without labels. She has made her last batch of cookies to have at home. That doesn't mean that she isn't going to be making cookies anymore. They just can't be in the house.

I am going to be trying to get my mother to switch over to using ground turkey over ground beef and have whole grain breads and cereals over what we have now. Hopefully I can get her to do that.

Soon I hope to start working out and actually doing some physical work. I just need to get some money to get a gym membership for a few months then I'll be set with that.

Pretty soon it will be "Hello new and improved slim Bridget!"

Summer wrap up

Well I am about to move again, this time to my parents in Chippewa Falls, WI. I have again nothing much to prove for living on my own, this summer, except for more debt and the knowledge to make jam and jelly.

This summer I did travel to Red Wing. I got to see a nice small town that has one of the best schools for string instrument repair in the nation. Only to then learn that it will cost more in the first two days of school then I was willing to pay as of now.

I learned how to make jam and can food. Noah, his little sister and I made raspberry jam. I guess it is more of a syrup when it is at room temp. It wasn't that hard to do. Noah wants to make pickles soon and I am going to help him with it.

My cat had been in kitty jail for a week (she is now living at my parents, and I'll be seeing her soon). While she was living at Noah's his roommate accidentally didn't close the backdoor and Kara decided that she wanted to make a break for it. She was then picked up and taken to the Humane Society. It turned out that her bail was going to be over $100.

Last night was my five year reunion at my high school. I

wasn't going to go to it, because nothing has really changed in my life. I have grown up a lot, but I have no job or money to prove for any of my growing. Maybe I'll go to my ten year class reunion. I am sure that by then enough has changed and I will be willing to make the trip to see the people that I graduated with again.

ouch

I think working at Boston Store is transforming me from a twenty something into a sixty some. Over the course of a few days my legs, back and arms have aged 40 years. I will be so happy when I can stop working retail and start working a 'big-kid' job. When I lay down to rest my back my knee starts to hurt big time so I sit up making my back hurt. My arms are a totally different story, they are affected by changes in pressure and temperature. So pretty much I just needs to not live in Wisconsin anymore and move to a state that doesn't have the drastic changes in temperature in a year, going from -20 to 90 some. Gross.