So I got my hunter to level 70 and yes that’s what I’ve been doing all this time, enjoying level 70. Battlegrounds, more instances, heroic instances and even a couple of Kara runs

I also started a BElf Mage which I am enjoying very much, though I am possibly enjoying the fact that she does engineering more than the fact I can turn people into sheep

I have been getting an inckling to read more, I am in the process of reading a book, but I have lost my glasses so I can’t read for very long. I also want to take up my stitching and knitting again. Milo makes stitching very hard. He can be asleep for hours on end, sleep through so much, but the instant I get my threads out, it’s like a sixth sense with him, he just *knows* and of course want to *play*. So the stitching goes away. I don’t really want to lock myself away in the spare room though because a) it’s colder in there, b) I can’t watch TV in there, c) I find it rather antisocial and d) there is no where really comfy to sit in there.
So essentially I want to be curled up on the sofa in front of the fire with the TV on and Chris next to me to chat to. I couldn’t kick the cats out of the living room though, that’s be cruel, and they’d only scratch at the door anyway

I will need to think of something though. How do you other stitchers and knitters cope with your kitties?

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I’m due for some time off once the project I’m working on finished next Friday. I do not know how long I will be off for, though hopefully not too long. Fingers crossed there is a project in the…pipeline :-S
I am looking forward to having a short break, a week would be ideal, wouldn’t want it to go on any longer than that. It’s always nice to have a short break between projects. I do worry however that I will be unproductive during my time off, which would be a bit of a waste.

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Meeko and Milo are getting along a bit better.

And one to make you go Awwwww

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Milo. That is currently the name we are using. I quite like it, and I think it suits him. We shall see how long it lasts

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I’ve just discovered that she is actually a he…again. This happened with Meeko when we first got him, told she was a girl, turned out to be a boy, but he’s to utterly adorable he’s not going back!!
So the question is, do I change his name?
Kala (kah-la) does it sound like it could be a boy kitty name too?
If not then we have thought about Pixel. what do you think of that?

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To the Rieley/Cassidy household. Let me introduce Kala!

Some of you may know that Meeko was named after the racoon from Pocahontas, (so sticking with the Disney theme) Kala is named after the ape who rescued and brought up Tarzan from the movie of the same name.

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Best picture I’ve seen all day

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If you fart on a biscuit and then eat it, will it taste different?

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I enjoy playing World Of Warcraft, very much infact. See previous post.

It’s gotten to the stage where I come home and play it before dinner, during dinner and after dinner until I go to bed. This happens everyday. I enjoy playing it, but I can’t help feel that i’m losing my life to this game. I never do anything else.

Recently I managed to pull myself away to finish the final Harry Potter book, but it was straight back to WoW once that was done.
I have a small pile of books I’d like to read. I have goodness knows how many cross stitch projects kicking about, some started, some not. I have a list as long as my arm of knitting things I want to learn to do.

It all gets sidelined for this game. I enjoy it but it’s becoming unrewarding for me. However if I was to do some stitching, i could work on it all night but I wouldn’t get a project finished, so no feeling of satisfaction. Whereas on WoW, I could complete quests, and the feeling of completion is powerful.

I’ve fallen into the habit. It’s not a habit I want to break, but I would like to control it more. I’d like to be able to say “No, I’m going to do something different tonight”, and I don’t mean “Oh well I’ll go to Ashenvale instead of Hillsbrad”, I mean something not WoW related.

I know that won’t happen though. I will end up going somewhere new just to make it different. I’m addicted. Maybe I should just let it run it’s course, but then again too much of one thing can sicken you of it, and I really don’t want to feel that way about WoW.

So maybe I will do something different tonight.

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BE Hunter lvl 60 - I love her, she’s my baby.
BE Priest lvl 12 - Was the surprise creation.
Troll Shaman lvl 10 - Was a good idea at the time.
Tauren Druid lvl 22 - Was a pain in the ass till I got cat form.
Undead Warlock lvl 5 - Is my secret.
Orc Rogue lvl 10 - Not as fun as I thought it would be.

Gnome Mage lvl 8 - So cute.
NE Hunter lvl 18 - My first.
Draenai Shaman lvl 14 - Great to look at, not so great to play.

Is everyone as bad as me? Please tell me so. If not…well they do say that variety is the spice of life.

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I’m in work…I’ve got a migraine…Chris is at home, likey still in bed.

He and his brother Colin were at a gig last night, (Korn…not my thing) and they have another tonight. I’m also going to tonights one, which is Alter Bridge. I’m quite looking forward to it, if my migraine goes away.

Oh how I wish to go home and sleep. Chris gave me an early brithday present. I picked it and it’s wonderful. You can see it here. Ok so it’s not your traditional nice birthday present but it’s something I will certainly get use out of…unfortunately.
It is great though. I look so stupid with it on but it does such a good job. I keep it in the freezer to make it extra cold.

So yeah the migraines have come back, but then I did stop taking my feverfew drops for a while. I’m taking the drops again so hopefully things will settle down. Silly me for thinking I might be able to survive without taking anything at all.

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Hope you like the new banner at the top, let me know if it doesn’t display properly. Chris made it for me with his photoshop skillz. He also made it with various colours for me to give the blog a bit of a new look without much hassle in the future.

So there you go, Meeko is a permanent fixture on this blog. Oh and just a little rumour, but there may, just may be a new kitty coming to the household soon

Not much has been going on. Christmas was lovely, New Year was quiet.

I’m just sick and tired of blowing bubbles.

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Chris’ parents kindly bought Meeko some rather dashing accessories to wear this Christmas and as you can see, he totally loves them….we think

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Hope you have a good one!

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And it’s just started snowing outside.
Merry Christmas everyone!

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I had downloaded one of these random “Power Ballad” albums, I don’t think it’s one of the recent ones, who knows, but anyway, Europe - The Final Countdown was on it.
How is this a ballad??

We’re leaving together,
But still it’s farewell
And maybe we’ll come back,
To earth, who can tell?
I guess there is no one to blame
We’re leaving ground
Will things ever be the same again?

It’s the final countdown…

We’re heading for Venus and still we stand tall
Cause maybe they’ve seen us and welcome us all
With so many light years to go and things to be found
I’m sure that we’ll all miss her so.

I understand that this may have the power aspect in the song, but the ballad, I do not see. To me a “Ballad” is a love song…a power ballad would be a love song with a bit more energy and, well, power to it.

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So I see this woman on her bike, at night time in pretty crap weather and I thought, well good on you going out and getting exercise even though it’s awful weather. I struggle to make it to the gym on nice days never mind nasty…then I see she’s smoking a cigarette while she is cycling.
Um….ok…kind of defeating the purpose of getting healthy, and it’s probably also pretty dangerous to cycle with 1 hand on the bike the other moving a cigarette between her lips, without wearing a helmet….still each to their own.

I have frozen my gym membership because money is a bit tight at the moment. Work at AQ dried up for a few weeks and I was job hunting elsewhere. I have found nothing suitable, and it just so turns out that there is a new project coming in on Monday which will keep me working till February 8th (the day after my birthday). So Hoorah! I can put the job hunting on hold until then at least.

I’ve been playing a fair bit of World Of Warcraft, got my Hunter up to level 43 which I’m pretty darn proud of! Though I am starting to feel that I should be doing something else. My crafts aren’t holding a great deal of interest for me right now either. I want to start writing something but I don’t know what to write. I’m not talking about writing a book or poetry or anything gay like that. I just…meh…I dunno. I guess if I knew then I’d be off doing it.

Chris and Meeko are brilliant. I’m getting so excited in the run up to Christmas. Meeko is getting his second set of vaccination jags next week. He was amazing when we took him to get neutered so I’ve no worries about this trip. The girls in the vets loved him.
I’ve noticed his routine of waking me up at 6am, I manage to settle him down in bed between Chris and I, and he naps for maybe on hour, and then has me up again at 7 to feed him. I get up and get showered then anyway so it’s not usually a problem. However because I’ve been having time off work, I’ve found out what his routine is for when we are not here.
On my days off, I will get up at 7am as usual to feed Meeko and then go back to bed while Chris goes off to work. Meeko stands for this for maybe about an hour, then he’s standing on me meowing and doesn’t stop until I get up.
It turns out that he’s not wanting me away to play with him, he’s merely wanting the bed to himself. You see when Chris and I come home from work at lunchtime, he’s always just coming out of the bedroom looking rather sleepy.
So his routine when we are not there is:
6am. Wake up mummy to get attention and then snuggle down with her.
7am. Wake up mummy again to demand breakfast!!
7.40am. Mum and dad leave, I see them off at the door and then run to the window to watch them wave to me from outside.
THEN I go to mum and dad’s warm bed and sleep for the whole morning.

So on my days off when I wasn’t getting out of bed, he was clearly annoyed that he wasn’t getting the bed to himself! He cries until he gets me out of bed and then ignores me, doesn’t come for attention or to be played with, he gets me out of bed so he can sleep in the bed all by himself and stays there till lunchtime.
The bloomin cheek of the lad!

Anyway quite enough rambling for one evening.
Night xxx

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I have vanished into the World Of Warcraft…just in case you had been wondering where I am

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I went to my first hulaerobics class last night at the gym.

I often find that I want to go to the gym but when I get there I get awfully bored, like I’ve not really got a target to hit or anyone to push me that wee bit further, so I figured going to a structured class would help.

Hulaerobics was so much fun. I’m in a fair bit of pain today (but it’s good pain) so I know it was a good workout. Not as dandy with a hula hoop as I used to be though, but I’ll definately be going back next week

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Some of you may know that I didn’t finish University. I left during my third year resit exams since I had screwed up the first exam there was no point in my taking the test. So I left with nothing, no qualifications, zip, zilch.

Over a year on Chris mentions that I *should* have been given some sort of something for having done first and second year successfully. I’ve always beaten myself up badly about the fact that I spent 5 years at uni to do a 3 year course and still come out with nothing. Out of vague curiosity I emailed the uni and enquired about it and it turns out that I should have been sent something.

I am now the proud owner of a Diploma in Higher Education for General Science. I have a diploma. I have a diploma. Why no one thought to tell me this earlier I have no idea.

I finished getting all the achievements for Harry Potter on the 360, so now I’m playing Overlord. It’s very fun having minions to control

I aquired some rather colourful snowflake yarn that I’m adding onto the scarf I was making with the white and pink snowflake yarn, so it’s going to be a little more colouful than was originally planned. I knitting up a small mouse and stuffed it with some left over yarn and some cat crunchie biscuits and Meeko loves it.

The Thomas Kincade cross stitch that I had started has been put away yet again. I am just not happy with it, there is something not right with it. Instead I have opted for the Country Companions Grandfather Clock design which was given to me by Chris’ mum. Took me long enough to sort the threads

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I was there bright and early waititng for the opening, 7.3-am to be exact. There were people who had been there since Friday morning, so before you go slagging me for my early appearance, it was nothing compared to some.
On arrival I was cheered and clapped by the crowd already standing the queue. People cheering and shaking my hand as I joined the queue…quite an odd but very warm reception. I was shortly joined by Gary who waited with me and you can see the photos he took here
We had a nice countdown to the opening and then more cheering and clapping Here are some pictures that I took.

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Hey guys (and gals!)

Some of you might remember last year I did a charity abseil at Glasgow Uni down that rather tall bell tower. If you don’t remember then here’s a photo to prove!

I’m doing it again this year (In October) and I need you’re support! I’m starting my fundraising early so that I can raise as much as possible. So if you can please sponsor me! You can do this quick and easy online at this website My JustGiving Fundraising page

You’re all more than welcome to come and watch too!

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A handknitted scarf?
Someone to finish off a cross stitch UFO for you?

I’m looking to make some extra cash on top of my 8-5 job. I’d prefer to keep it crafty
Let me know of any ideas you all might have and also how much you think would be reasonable to charge such such a service.

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Big life question eh?

I’m not the kind of person who likes change. I like things to stay the way they are because it’s safe and comfortable. I like the grass well and truely grown beneath my feet, but for some unfathomable reason it’s now beginning to itch.
My problem: I have no idea what I want to do with my life. I’ve made a total failure of university, and I am in a job I cannot progress in and I am far too much of a chicken to physically move to somewhere that would give me opportunities.
I’m stuck and I hate it.

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Got the back issues of the Simply Knitting magazines that I ordered a couple of weeks ago so I’ve got lots of projects on my ‘to do’ list now
Still reading Harry Potter, on book 4, just over halfway through.
Must post mary jane slipper picture and get knitting on that pink and white scarf again.
Meeko has been a bit bonkers these past few days so it’s not really allowed me to have time to do much knitting and he seems to hate it when I read magazines because he’s forever attacking them when I’m trying to read them and still trying after I put them down.
He’s really getting into the whole climbing thing too, loves to be up high.
Today I did something that I was really proud of myself for, but I’m not telling you what it is

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Sat on a speckled log eating some most delicious grub. yum yum.

I learned that little song at the weekend. Quite a catchy tune too

I finished one of my Mary Jane Slippers. It turned out alright. Ok it was a bit odd looking to be honest, but for a first attempt at increases and things I was very pleased. I find it hard to be put down by the fact that it didn’t turn out perfect. The fact that it turn out at all was good enough for me I don’t think I’ll bother making the other one as the first one wasn’t really good for wearing. hehe.
Remind me to post a picture for you later

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I made a list of all the projects that are either WIPs or not yet started so I can see exactly how much is going on. I love organising things, it’s a great sense of control.

I’ve finished the top part of the Mary Jane slippers, and I’ve done the strap. I’m working on the sole now. I’m having to adjust the measurements because the pattern is for size 9 feet and I have smaller feet than that. So we shall see how it turns out when I’ve finished the sole and I get to put it all together, if it works out good then I’ll have to pray that it wasn’t a fluke because I’ll have to make one for the other foot

On the cross stitch side I’ve got a small cover kit of the go, lots of lilacs and purples. While I was sorting out all my stash I came across the Jungle Height Chart that I started *years* ago, some may remember the progress pictures from back then. Anyway I can’t find the floss anywhere. I had them on the DMC floss holders in the plastic wallets. I kept them seperate from my collection of yarn but I guess I’ve put them all together since I wasn’t working on that project.

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So I started to make a pair of Mary Jane slippers yesterday. I didn’t have the correct size of needle or yarn of the righ guage either but regardless of whether they fit me or not, there are lots of new things to learn and shaping to try out which is why I am doing them.
It’s very fun to do something other than scarves, though I daresay I’ll enjoy making them in the winter.

The needles I bought from ebay a few days ago arrived today. Got my first ever circular and DPNs Some of them are quite random and only 1 rather than a pair, but there were loads and for £4 it was a great bargain. Some of them look very old and don’t have the size on them, but I can put little stickers on them once I check them out later.

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