Todays Giggle

Iggy Boo Boo has a new home

My sons Iguana is now approx. 6 feet long and has been in need of a bigger cage. We scored this cage from Craigslist for free! The guy had built it for an Iguana he used to have. Very big cage. I think Iggys' happy with it.

My Crochet Today

Well it's been a pretty rough past couple of days, but i'm trying to get back to normal with my crochet. I managed to finish this towel, and am working on another rag rug that I hope to finish this week.
Here's a picture of the towel I finished and put in my Etsy shop.

Sad news, I had to put my dog to sleep yesterday

My dog Baby had breast cancer and had to be put down. She was approx 18 yrs old.

Growing up without a cell phone

I got this in an email today:

If you are 30 or older, you might think this is hilarious!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning...Uphill...Barefoot... BOTH ways yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!  

   

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.  You've got it so easy!  I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!   And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet.  If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!    

There was no email!!  We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen!   Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there!  Stamps were 10 cents!

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us.  As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes!  If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!  There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car..We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless.  

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting!  If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends".  Think of the horror...not being in touch with someone 24/7!!!  And then there's TEXTING.  Yeah, right.  Please!  You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was!  It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent...you just didn't know!!!  You had to pick it up and take your chances!

We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics!  We had the Atari 2600!  With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'.  Your screen guy was a little square!  You actually had to use your imagination!!!  And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen...Forever!  And you could never win.  The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died!  Just like LIFE!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing!  You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!!  NO REMOTES!!!

There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning.  Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks!

And we didn't have microwaves.  If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove!      

And our parents told us to stay outside and play...all day long.  Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort.  And if you came back inside...you were doing chores!  

   

And car seats - please!   Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on.  If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!  See!  That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten!  You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!

Completed the big hexagon rag rug i've been working on

Wow, I was wondering when I was ever going to finish this. No wonder, it came out to be 60 inches when I measured it from the widest points! I couldn't tell you how many t shirts this took to make, but I think I have almost every color covered.
It did come out very nice though.

Oval Rag Rug- My own design

I just finished this custom order for this rag rug. I made up the design and the pattern myself which really tested my patience, but very pleased with the final result. It's made from t shirts and measures 26 x 34

I Won

I entered a monthly blog give away at Nikki Makes Scents Nikki Makes Scents for 5 candle votives. They arrived today and they smell so nice and fit in my candle holders perfectly!
She also has a shop on Etsy with many candle, bath & body products.I highly recommend her!
Nikki Makes Scents Etsy Shop

A work in progress

I've been busy crocheting another very colorful hexagon rag rug. It's made with recycled t shirts . I have about five more rows to go, and will finish it off with a solid black trim.

New Treasury

If the word b*tch offends you, don't look
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c3b6c4419958eef7ecc0a3b/for-my-bitches?index=0

She laid eggs!

Took a picture of a turtle laying eggs

Back to the park

I went to the park again and took a couple of pictures.Not a very productive crocheting day. Have to get away from the yarn once in a while!

At the park

I went to the park yesterday and took a few pictures of the ducks. Wait until you see the one with the cool "hairdo"