http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/ Knitting and other diversions en-us 2009-01-02T22:50:24-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2009_01.html#000350 http://happygoodluck.com/blog I'm pretty sure this is where I'm headed. Hopefully I'll make some improvements later, but I'm finding WordPress a little bit easier to use than Movable Type. I CAN NOT get comments to work under the MT upgrade, and I like the idea of starting fresh. Woo Hoo. Let's see if this sticks.... LoriO 2009-01-02T22:50:24-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2009_01.html#000349 Just testing... LoriO 2009-01-01T18:49:41-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2009_01.html#000348 Can't get comments to work. I'm done for now, must go eat black-eyed peas and try to change my luck.... Not so daily drivel LoriO 2009-01-01T14:27:33-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2009_01.html#000347 I want to give this blog one more try, over here, at the old HGL site. Leave me a comment, will ya? I just upgraded to the latest MT version, which hit several snags, and has left my server a complete mess... but it appears to be working. So, without futher ado, HAPPY NEW YEAR!... Not so daily drivel LoriO 2009-01-01T13:46:06-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2008_12.html#000346 I've decided to give it another try. I'm over here though: http://happygoodluck.wordpress.com/ Not much to start with, I know. We'll see how it goes.... LoriO 2008-12-30T22:30:49-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2008_08.html#000345 Hey, I didn't close the blog, just the comments! I'll open them up again and see how it goes. I'm still thinking about going to wordpress, but haven't spent enough time with it to figure it all out. (Thanks Terri for the email!) Does anyone else celebrate their birthday week? I think it's a fine idea. I started by taking Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off work. A very risky thing to do because I have so freakin' much work to do. I knew there was a chance of backfire. I was there until 7pm on Tuesday, just trying to get one thing done before I took off. So Wednesday, my actual birthday, I got a facial. I haven't had a facial in about 7 years, so it was quite excellent and all spur of the moment. I only worked for a few hours that day. Then Thursady, I went into the office for a couple of hours before I went to visit my parents and take them out to lunch. We had a nice time and I think I talked to them more than I ever have. This was the first time I went down to see them, and purposefully did not also visit my sister, who's a bit crazy and lives in a trailer in their backyard. I it made for a more stress-free visit. Today, Friday, Sean and I got married. Check out the name of this blog, how could I not get married today: 08/08/08, the happiest good luck day of forever. So... LoriO 2008-08-08T17:54:21-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2008_08.html#000344 I've closed comments on this site. I can't stand the spammers and I can't keep up with them. I don't think I'm going to post again until I figure out what I want to do. I'm thinking about switching to WordPress. If anyone has thoughts on this, send me an emal!... LoriO 2008-08-02T11:53:53-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2008_07.html#000343 The comment spammers are killing me. I don't understand comment spam. How does it help them? Why do they do it? I've tried to use some type of authentication, but I can't spend enough time on it to figure out how to use it. I think I'm going to up my junk threshold and see if that makes a difference.... LoriO 2008-07-31T21:17:04-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2008_07.html#000342 As I was washing dishes the other day, Sean came in from the garage and said "do you know where your dog is?" I totally get it. It's a nice sunny spot and she's seen the cat lying there a million times. I didn't have the heart to make her get down, it was so cute.... LoriO 2008-07-27T20:52:12-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2008_05.html#000341 Well, it's been very busy around here lately. I'm in a knitting slump again. It's weird, but whenever I get really busy at work, I turn into SuperSloth at home. It's not like I'm busybusybusy, going places and doing things. It's more like I'm mentally busy, and I just have to do nothing when I get home in the evenings. But I did have a little fun last week. On Friday, I had a visit from none other than Wendy from Lanas de Lebilula. She was on her way back home, and only had a few hours to spend, so we hit Rumplestiltskin's, had some lunch and hung out a bit. Rena and Picabou LOVED her. I liked her quite a bit too. And also, without her, I would have a parking ticket right now. Auntie Wendy gave Rena a stuffed Kangaroo, and so far he has most of his stuffing. She must like him a lot to keep him around so long: Thanks for stopping by Wendy! Let our home be your official Sacramento pit stop!... LoriO 2008-05-18T18:37:03-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2008_04.html#000340 I have to say that the Dream in Color yarn used in the Babay sweater is some of the nicest yarn I've ever knit with. It's Beeyooootiful! I started knitting again last night. Woo Hoo!... LoriO 2008-04-23T15:48:09-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2008_04.html#000339 Let's start off with a pretty picture: (Click for big) This photo was taken on the American River levee, one day before all the trees, grasses, and flowers were turned into dirt. Levee upgrades are in process. Whoo boy, that was quite a break, eh? There is absolutely nothing to blog about, and I'm starting to question the wisdom of paying for this domain. March zoomed by, yet took forever. I have no idea what happened in March. April came in and whacked both me and Sean with the Flu. The hideous flu, that hangs on forever and makes you exhausted. Six days of fever, 12 days of not being hungry, 14 days and counting of the hacking cough. I'm at about 95% recovered, and had to come in to work for three very busy days of meetings at day 7, 8 and 9, which extended my illness and gave it to everyone else. Good times! Everybody loves me around here! I have not knit a stitch in forever. But, I did buy a sweater kit, the Sweet Baby Boy Sweater kit from Coldwater Collaborative. My niece is due with her second boy in May so I need to get hoppin' on this sweater! I also have nothing but good things to say about Coldwater. I ordered the sweater on Friday, and received it Monday. That's pretty darn good! So soon, I will start knitting again. Soon. As soon as I have the energy.... LoriO 2008-04-22T09:26:57-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2008_02.html#000338 Finally! I got my eBay account restored today. After chat yelling (in all caps) at like, the tenth customer service chat person, they gave me an email address, and told me what to put in the subject line to have it "elevated" (Attn: Management Team, in case you're wondering.) and my account was restored the next day. Now I can't remember what I wanted to buy. It was the principle of the thing.... LoriO 2008-02-23T15:42:49-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2008_02.html#000337 Ohmygosh! I've been locked out of my MT installation for a few days (not that you could really notice, since I rarely update, but still) and have finally had the time to a) correspond with my webhost via the support ticket system, and 2) poke around on the movable type site for clues, and c) remember how to use my ftp client. Whew! But now I appear to be up. Let me know if anything weird happens. I had a moment where I thought I might just pack it all in with MT and switch to WordPress. Anyone know how hard it would be to convert? Anyway... I had another needle mishap the other night. My fault entirely. I was using my Denise needles to knit on Arian now that I've finished and joined the sleeves, and was using one of their extenders to connect to cords together. The cords aren't really bendy enough when it comes to the sleeve part of the equation, and in forcing my stitches around I snapped off the end of my cord. Dropping 3 inches worth of stitches. You gotta love sticky wool though. Even though the stitches were hanging in space, they all stayed together enough for me to get them back on an emergency needle. Looking around for a non-Denise size 8 with a cord longer than 24 inches proved fruitless and so I decided to order me up one of those KnitPicks Harmony needles with a 32 inch cord. And a sock pattern. And yarn. Oh the... LoriO 2008-02-05T11:07:14-08:00 http://WWW.HAPPYGOODLUCK.COM/archives/2008_01.html#000336 Here you have a portrait of stuff from my knitting basket. Almost two finished sleeves for Arian, Some earphones, my Creativ Zen player that I use for listening to audiobooks. But let's take a detailed look, shall we? There used to be a needle here... Um...this used to be one continuous cable... Two ends...chewed. Decorative teef marks... I never liked these headphones anyway... But Mom, I was booooooored... Oh Rena McBeana.. I can only blame myself for leaving my knitting basket out and on the floor. And thank you for sparing the yarn and only decorating the mp3 player.... LoriO 2008-01-24T19:50:19-08:00