Done!

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It's all finished up! With luck it'll be in the mail today!

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Keeping the "We" in "Yes, We Can!"

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Just like shopping for food, clothes shopping needs a menu and a budget!

Almost Done!

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One sleeve to go! I digressed from the pattern and did the sleeves in the round. As always, if I make this again, I'll do it in the round. I always say that and I always forget when I start a new sweater/shirt!After this is finished, I have the Houdini socks to finish. Just one leg left to go on those.

Still exercising daily with Wii Fit. However, some of the statistics on it baffle me. It gives you a Wii Fit age based on some statistics they gather. My age has gone as high as 71 and as low as 29. I don't like that one is supposed to do the weigh in every day. It's very discouraging to loose weight and then gain it and more back. I know from past experiences with trying to loose weight that one shouldn't weigh in daily....

Many of the exercises deal with balance as well as movement. That's hard for me, but improving. Some deal with rhythm, like the dance moves in the aerobics. I have no rhythm at all. Can't hear it unless it's a pounding drum and then still can't follow it. So my scores are minimal in these areas. I'm still sweating, have elevated heart rate, and still getting new sore muscles, so I know it's working, but....again kinda discouraging. In just the six days I've had it, I feel much better. My joints are looser, I can quickly walk up the steps now instead of dragging myself by the hand rail!

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Keeping the "We" in "Yes, We Can!"

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Knitting accessories made in Finland from recycled materials. Shipping isn't too bad....

Some Changes in Lifestyle

The front is almost done! I have about three inches to finish. Then the sleeves. If I get some good knitting time this weekend, chances are it'll be ready to mail on his birthday, February 13. So, it'll be late for his party, but....we'll see.As I said in an earlier post, my blogging time has been cut down do to getting my butt off the computer/knitting chair and exercising with the Wii Fit. It's challenging and fun, and I have to fight for TV time in order to use it. There are three of us that are exercising regularly, and when the music starts up, it has some secret wave thing that draws people to it in a zombie like state saying, "I must exercise. I must exercise." Scary, huh?

I'm going to start paring down my list of blogs to read, too. Right now, there are 102 entries to read. Just don't have the time.

Over on the right there "From Other Blogs". Check it out for neat things I find while reading the blogs I do continue to read. Entries for Keeping the "We" in "Yes, We Can!" will be found there, too.

T Shirt's Slow Advance

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Again, not too much knitting done. I've got about six inches done on the front.The hair cut, well, let's say I really wish I hadn't gone. The instructor said, to get it all even, about two inches would come off. Closer to four. I was not prepared for my hair being this short. Now, by all accounts, it's still long. And it'll grow back. Platitudes aside, I'm whining. It'll take the better part of a year to get all that hair back...

On the upside, I've exercised for an hour a day for two days. Of course, my kids came and promptly bested all my top scores. And some of the stuff I just can't do. But, there are things I can do, they work up a sweat and I'm sore the next day, so I'd have to say I'm accomplishing something! It may be suicide, but at least I'm accomplishing!

Two things that are "suffering" by me having to make time for the Wii Fit is my knitting and my blogging.... It's a good thing. I think.....

T Shirt Progress!

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The back of the t shirt is finished! Here it is in all of it's unblocked glory!Now I have to decide if I want the basket weave pattern to cover the whole front, or just a couple stripes like the back.

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Keeping the "We" in "Yes, We Can!"

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Nothin' New

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Knitting is the same. I'm still working on the T-Shirt for my grandson. Reached a milestone in it yesterday...the back is finished, well, the bottom back. I've decreased for the arms and still have another five inches to do on that. Hopefully Netflix Watch Instantly and I will get that done today.

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Keeping the "We" in "Yes, We Can!"

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KmKat has decided to promote a Zero Waste Month this February. Zero Waste means not creating anything that needs to be taken out tot he trash. Here are some ideas to cut waste.

Get catalogs you don't want? Get rid of them!

Just a T Shirt

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I got the Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece in the mail yesterday. It's for a shirt for my almost eight-year-old grandson in Hawaii. I'm using the Nothing But a T-Shirt pattern by Alison Hansel. The plain st st started to drive me crazy already, so I added in some design: K6, P6 for 6 rows. Then P6, K6 for 6 rows. I haven't decided if it'll just be a band or an overall pattern. This will take priority over all other knitting as I have less than two weeks to finish it. I don't think that will be a problem if life doesn't decide to do something to drag me away from my knitting.

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Keeping the "We" in "Yes, We Can!"

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Recycle clothing: Help reduce the nearly 9 million tons of clothing tossed into our landfills yearly. Each pound of clothing that you recycle spares 1.7 pounds of CO2 from entering the atmosphere (since creating new materials uses more energy than recycling). Goodwill. Salvation Army.

Sad but true.

Spring will come....someday.

Truely Shameful. Big spending is not PC.