Posted in FUN on 10. Jan, 2012
Dear Melody,
We have been together 40 years, we’ve been through horrible haircuts, high bangs and perms and lots of hairspray and teasing. You’ve taken such good care of me, and in turn I take care of you, doing what you want, when you want. Rarely do I give you a bad day. But now.. the GRAY family has moved in and really starting to put a damper on things up in here. We’ve kept than at bay for so so long. I know that our beloved hairdresser is back east with all that humidity and we are now in the very DRY mountainous state of Colorado, but come one girl. We are starting over here, you can’t let me go like this! Pony Tails? Split Ends? Roots? Gray? WHO ARE YOU? WHAT HAVE YOU BECOME!?
So, listen .. you know people who can help. Don’t let us go on any more, GET THIS TAKEN CARE OF and this Gray shit OUT.
Much Love,
Your Locks
It’s all about moving forward and appreciating the life you have, right? So that’s what we tell ourselves anyway to make days go by faster and easier and all that bullshit.
Because it’s a new year, we make those resolutions to you know, lose weight, save money, give more, take less.. blahblahblah. Well no resolutions for me this year, well maybe one – to find a job. I haven’t worked for anyone else besides my kids in SO long, I hope I remember how. I do love to be out and social and meeting people..so I hope to find something here in this small town that lets me do all that and that and get paid for it. So..send good job vibes my way.
In the meantime .. I have been knitting! So here’s a few pics of what I’ve done in past 6 months or so..
First and this is by far my most favorite of projects.. I knit this for one of my nearest and dearest and her husband for their wedding gift. The Umaro Blanket by Jared Flood. It turned out So amazing.. pictures do not do it justice. The happy couple were SO touched and by dumb luck..it matched their house perfectly! Love those two to pieces! The wedding was amazing, I was lucky enough to stand up for her as her maid of honor and I had the best 5 days in Atlanta.
Then the girls and I did our annual swap. We nixed mittens this year because they are bad luck. Something bad has happened within our group every year since we did it.. so we stopped those damn things! I’d like to give you details, but .. that’s for my life story one day.
It’s all a super secret swap, and I got Heather this year.. and I was SO excited, since she knit me some amazing mittens last year!
So I made Gyre for her! 
All the girls cowls turned out lovely and Kristin knitted this one for me…
I skyped with the girls as they had their party in MA and me in CO.. we all opened our stuff and thank god for webcams because it’s the next best thing to being in the room wtih them! THEN they sent me a HUGE box with all the cookies they made for the cookie exchange and a few extra goodies for me and the kids. How lucky can I get? Seriously!?
Then lastly.. I whipped these up for our family white elephant/yankeeswap whatever the hell you wanna call it. These were a lot of fun to knit, but I needed them to be perfect so I had to redo the left one a few times..but by the 4th or 5th frog, I got it!
and the recipient my 21 year old cousin got them & loved them!!!
I am missing my knitting group something fierce..but thankfully I have a couple of new knitters that I’ve been showing the way of the needles to and they caught on right away!
It’s good to be back to the old blog.. hope to be writing a lot more and knitting more too!
This day last year, was the last time I posted to this blog. Why? I have no idea.. lost my interest & concentrating on other things I suppose.
Well, 2011 was by far the hardest year of my life so far. Sadly a few months into the year my marriage ended. I struggled through the tears, questions, feeling like a failure, trying to remain strong and be a mom at the same time, trying to accept it and understand what was in store for my future. Thoughts and emotions run all over the place when you go through something like this. I mean, we all know someone who’s been divorced and you’re there for them the best you know how. But, until you actually are going through it, it’s impossible to understand the roller coaster of emotions.
I have packed up my life and moved back to my hometown in Colorado. I feel at peace here and comfortable. However, I do wake up every morning, missing my home, my family of 4, being a wife and homemaker, my dear friends that were my rocks during this whole ordeal. It’s hard to adjust to a new life, but there is only one way to go and that’s forward.
2011 wasn’t all bad. I learned to depend on others. I learned that it’s ok to not be strong all the time. My friends threw me an AMAZING 40th birthday party, my best friend flew in to surprise me. I went to the beach, a lot! I got to see that same friend marry the love of her life and stand up next to her at her amazing wedding. I made new amazing friends who I feel like I’ve known my whole life. I became friends again with the man who I had drifted apart from. I drove across the country and didn’t get lost once! Not too shabby of a list considering all things.
I have made only one resolution this year. Which is to just work on me. With this resolution, everything else should fall into place. If I’m better, everything else will be better too. Right?
Among resolutions.. there are goals. Which is to do more running races, learn to crochet, get my kids living the Colorado lifestyle, and tell my parents each dayhow much I appreciate them.
Well my friends, I wish you a wonderful 2012 full of laughter, a few tears to keep it all even and much happiness.
Cheers!
Happy New Year!! So long 2010 and hello 2011!! What a year it was, full of major accomplishments not only on my part, but those of my family & friends.
Goals were set and met and exceeded. Not only was I motivated by so many people to keep my head above water when I (thought) I was flailing, I’m told that I was actual motivation to others. Which I still find funny and am most humbled by this. At the beginning of 2010 I had set my goal to at least run one 10k in 2010, but that goal was trampled a few times over by running more than one 10k but also a 7mi and a full on half marathon. I even threw in a trail run for shits & giggles. So, now that I’ve accomplished those, it’s time to up the ante. It seems as though if we put our goals in writing, or in blog form, we are more prone to stick to them and get ‘em done. So here we go.
In 2011 I’m turning 40. Since it’s still 6months and 5 days away I still have quite a bit of time to let this effect me in any sort of negative way. As of today, I feel like it’s just number. I feel like I’m ready to take on the world and be challenged. We’ll see how I feel about that in July.
With that said .. Mr. Knitpho & I are wanting to run the Chicago Marathon in October. That’s my BIG goal that staring me in the face. But to do that at the caliber I want to do it in, I have a long ways to go. First things first, I need to lose weight. This is holding me back quite a bit. I love eat. I love a good beer. This needs to be corralled. With weight loss, I believe everything else will fall into place for my goals. I will run a faster 5k, 10k ..hell I’ll fun a faster mile. I can do this. I will do this. Of course there are other personal goals, such as patience, time managment and paying it forward. Those I will work on every day as I have every other day. I hope to read more, and sleep more. Yes. Sleep more. I choose quiet Melody time over sleep, which in turn effects my eating, exercising and mood. Everything ties together.
We all know there will be knitting and laughter and crazy antics with my wonderful children. Along with M1 turning 13 this year, I’m afraid to go down that teenager road. EEK!
So, Happy New Year blogland and I hope to read all of your blogs and whats going on in your life. Thanks for hanging with me after all these ramblings!
The holidays have come and gone and I hope Santa brought you all you wanted!
M1, who’s 12 seems to be in the stage that everything is just boring enough to be interested, but deep down he’s excited and forgets that he’s a tween and starts enjoying himself. The boy is growing up and as great as he is, I am not looking forward to what the months ahead have in store for us. Maybe it’s just me, but I really have to get my parenting game face on and be prepared for whatever he decides to through my way.
M2 who’s just 6 is too good at her game already. She knows how to play and play it well. What can I say, she’s learned from the master. At first I thought this would be a great idea, show her the ropes early on and that way she could handle whatever comes her way, but she gets really mad when she can’t handle it – then I realize I’ve created a bit of a monster.
The magic of Christmas is still alive here at Chez Knitpho. The M’s love putting up the tree, the advent calender, the sweets & treats and of course the presents! Our family & friends who are so amazing and generous to the M’s we were beside ourselves with gratitude. Santa delivered and everyone seemed like they were on the nice list year. But I couldn’t help to notice after it was all said and done that everything was small. No BIG boxes. No big plastic.. anything. M1 asked for clothes (a sure sign of growing up,no?), and did he ever get clothes! The pile was high and seeing as though he’s in adult sizes now, the pile seemed larger than ever. He did get Legos, but just a handful (which is all he needs!). Ofcourse there were electronics this year, hence the smaller packages, puzzles and books. What pulled at my heartstrings was that there was nothing to put together, there was no giant plastic toy with a 1000 of those little wire things that hold all the little pieces in.. you know the ones. Yes, M2 is still young enough to get those things, but she just doesn’t want those things.
So, another Christmas has come & gone and as I look at my (not so) little ones, I’ll hold onto the memories of all those wonderful Christmas’ past and remember this one when I realized that my babies are actually growing up.
Posted in Run! on 06. Dec, 2010
The Hot Chocolate 5k up in Northampton, MA was my last race of the 2010. When Heather found this race, all we could do was smell the yarn fumes of Webs and how perfect could it be? A ‘quick’ 5k and then we’ll go buy yarn. Perfection. We signed up & even were able to raise money for their charity of Safe Passage. This cause is to help women & children who have encountered abusive relationships in their life. It wasn’t required to raise money, but I thought $5 from 20 friends? I have 20 friends, I have more than 20friends that would do this! So I put it out there and holy shit, I was so greatly surprised by the amazingly generous donations from everyone. So, thank you to my friends from all over this country – you never seize to amaze me. I’m grateful that I have you all in my life.
Well, Dec 5 was finally upon us and we realized that the yarn fumes of Webs had once again clouded our rational thinking. It’s December in Massachusetts people= COLD ASS TEMPS! And it was chilly! 5000 runners, we checked in, got our goodie bags because we both raised over $100 each then went and stood in line forever at the port-a-potties, and then pretty much got in line to run. It took us 5minutes to get across the starting line and boom.. right off the bat- HILL! It was a fun pretty easy race, considering I hadn’t been running very much at all the last couple of week, the hills get me EVERY TIME (must work on that) but Heather,the kind soul that she is, slowed her speedy pace down and we ran together all the way to the finish line. Grabbed our mugs and went to reap our rewards of hot cocoa! It was rich and chocolaty and the mug is a great keepsake, instead of the usual t-shirt that we all know & love.
@wickedphysics @adamm9 & yours truly looking look a total dolt.
(*i am never wearing that headband again with braids… nerd alert!)
We ran into our #NERTS friends and chatted with them, which is so great. When I first started running, it was just me. Yes, my husband & kids were there to cheer me on and I’d go to his races, but it was just always just us. Now, it’s nice to have Heather to run with or to stand around and wait in the bathroom line with. It’s nice to have peeps there that you have the same passion as you to get out there and get it done. I thank Twitter for that, your an amazing beast of a social network.
All said and done a fantastic day with a fantastic lady! Like usual
and then it was dark
Posted in Run! on 01. Dec, 2010
It’s the last month of the year already! In fact, it’s the last year of my 30′s and then January will come and the countdown to the worlds biggest holiday will begin!!!!
It’s time to start to reflect on the year gone by and appreciate what you accomplished and try like hell to squeeze in and meet that goals that you didn’t meet. We still have 31 days to check some items off our resolution list, if you can even remember what those were. I think I did pretty good this year..but it’s still early in the morning and the coffee hasn’t quite kicked in yet. By the time I get up and the blood starts moving around, I’ll start kicking myself for all the things I have yet to do!
2011 is just right around the corner. I already have my sights set on a few big goals since it’s the year of 40. But for right now, I’ll relish in what I’ve done. Try to make December 2010 as kick ass as I possibly can. I have a goal to run/ride 100miles by the end of the month and drop a few pounds, which is hard to do with all the yummy food of the holidays, but I’ll give it my best. I’ll tell you what.. it is most def going to be a challenge as my motivation for fitness has been lost and squashed. I’m digging deep and seeing how to pull myself out of the slump that I’m in – I have a lot of support from friends local, far and twitter never seizes to motivate .. but it’s not their job to do what I need to get done.
Just 1 hour a day.
It’s seems so easy & simple.
Doesn’t it?
They are the bane of my existence.
But I love them.
In short.. Im a mom, a knitter, a runner, a friend, a picture taker. Deep down I'm a badass metalhead rockstar who has excellent hair, turning 40 and loves a dirty martini with extra olives.
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