Me: Speak to Necia cuz she knows where to get that stuff for good prices.

Tano:  No.  I have to get the Super Speshul Snowflake Will Make Me He-Man Protein Powder.

Me: So??  She can get that same powder some place else.  Send her a chat.

Tano:  Fine.

::::::insert [...]]]> Tano:  I need something from GNC.

Me: Speak to Necia cuz she knows where to get that stuff for good prices.

Tano:  No.  I have to get the Super Speshul Snowflake Will Make Me He-Man Protein Powder.

Me: So??  She can get that same powder some place else.  Send her a chat.

Tano:  Fine.

::::::insert pause as he chats with Necia ::::::

Tano:  I’m sticking with GNC cuz I like GNC.

Me:  Well, I like my local yarn store too but I can’t afford to shop there anymore!!!!

Tano:  One day soon you will again.

::::::insert pause where Necia separately breaks the news to me in another chat that she won’t be able to find him the same thing elsewhere::::::

…….I still haven’t replied back to Tano because Woman cannot tell man his Protein wins over my Yarn!!!  PPPP

I bought the last issue and saw the latest recipe has two of my fave ingredients: orange and ginger. [...]]]> Apparently, our friend Bezzie has been the chief cookie recipe author for Knit Circus for several years now. I dunno where my brain was that I didn’t know this until some time ago.

I bought the last issue and saw the latest recipe has two of my fave ingredients: orange and ginger.

So I armed myself with all the ingredients ready to make my cookies only to realize that I didn’t have molasses. I emailed Bezzie asking for a substitute. She helped me immediately with a suggestion but then I thought about it: this recipe had to be done the right way the first time! No subs!

It took me a bit to remember to buy the molasses. By the time I did, these brats of mine had eaten all the oranges! I buried a tangerine under the apples in the fruit basket but they still found it before I was able to make the cookies these evening.

My revenge, I added a healthy dose of oatmeal instead.

Revenge has never tasted so sweet.

Before:

After:

Here’s the story.

First of all, WE DID IT!

Those are the keys to our new home!!!  Tano got a house [...]]]> Where do I start to catch you all up on what’s been going on in the past two months?  Christmas, New Year’s and now even Valentine’s Day has flown by us.  It’s been QUITE a whirlwind.

First of all, WE DID IT!

Those are the keys to our new home!!!  Tano got a house for his bday, Jan. 7th.  I arranged it so that the closing fell on that same day.  It was great!  I’ll never be able to top that gift EVER again.  Unless I hit the lotto.

What other major event?  We had to give back our poor Luna.    It’s heart breaking but it was because our home insurance policy wouldn’t let us have a pitbull.  And with as much trouble as we went through to get the house, we couldn’t risk losing it or the great policy we got, so unfortunately we brought Luna back this past Saturday.  I don’t like talking about it because even though she drove me crazy most times, it was extremely painful bringing her back to be locked up after she was running around happily in the snow in our new huuuuge backyard….and….ugh. 

But, we did decide to get a new dog.  We went yesterday, yes we didn’t waste any time, why do you ask?  We FINALLY found a Lab!  We’d been wanting a lab mix from when we first started looking for a dog last year but none of the shelters we went to had any.  We took a (long) trip out to North Shore Animal League in Long Island yesterday and that’s where we found Chloe!!  )  She’s about 10 weeks old.  A BIG 10-weeks-old let me tell ya!  But the sweetest thing.  She’s very shy and was hiding under the table most of yesterday evening.  We had to pull her out to feed her and to show her to her doggy bed.  She loved the bed as you can see.  )

I hope that this is the end of it with the dog issues.  We hope to have Chloe for as long as she’ll have us and we hope that she’s happy with us.  

Knitting!  There’s been plenty of knitting.  I released a couple of patterns over the past couple of months that hopefully a couple of you caught on Rav.  I’ll post official releases here on the blog later this week.

If you’re still here, Dear Reader(s), thanks for your loyalty and hang around.  The fun is about to start – again!

PS:  THERE’S SOAP NOW TOO!!  LOL  And, there will be soap for sale all the time again.  The shop will be reopened!  I plan to set up an etsy shop so it’s easy for everyone to order.

Have a great week, peeps!