Double Double Toil and Trouble, extra emphasis on the “trouble”

Had I known, I would have just stayed in bed and slept all day.  But instead, like an idiot, I got up and started my day.

After waking up my hubby checked the Chinese horoscopes.  The year of the rat (that’s me) said that I would have a lot of trouble today.  And boy, it wasn’t lying!

As I was trying to download a PDF file my computer kept freezing, then the PDF wouldn’t work.  Now normally I wouldn’t mind, but I really wanted this PDF.  Needless to say, this was the first round of trouble.  Doesn’t seem so bad, I know, but it is also that very special time of the month we women just LOVE, so my emotions were boiling over.

When my husband told me his horoscope said he would be getting some pocket money, that reminded me I have left an envelope with a 100,000 won (= about $100) on the computer desk.  It was the monthly payment from one of my students.   I wanted to be cute and say “Here’s your pocket money!”

I got out of bed and searched the empty desk… it wasn’t there.  *little bit of panic*

I looked through the stacks of books, the papers on the computer chair.  *A lot of panic*

Then I realized on Saturday, my hubby had added black ink to our printer and there had been a lot of ink stained tissue on the desk and that on Sunday morning, I had woken up early because my mother-in-law was in our room cleaning and throwing things away.  Dirty tissue and messy desk + Neat Freak mother-in-law = Money in the trash!   *Hysterical panic,  searching everything again, weeping uncontrollably*

Now, to some of you $100 isn’t that much, but to an overly emotional woman (thanks womanhood!) who is trying to save money, $100 is a lot.  Hence the uncontrollable weeping.

My hubby just smiled a little at me and said it was nothing.  But he called his mom anyway who said that she remembered throwing the envelope away.

Feeling bad about that, she came home from wherever she was spending the last day of the chuseok holiday and she and my hubby went outside to dig through the trash.

AND

They didn’t find it.

Still feeling bad, she gave me $100 to make up for the money she had thrown out, which was pretty nice of her.  And, which of course, made me feel extra bad because I knew deep down it was my fault.  I should have put it in my wallet right away.

Instead after receiving my student’s payment, my hubby had come home with books and pizza.  Now I love books.  And I love pizza.  These two things instantly pushed the envelope of money right out of my mind.  I have a one track mind when it comes to food.  Adding books on to that, and everything of importance drained right out of my head.

Speaking of pizza.  Yum pizza.  P-I-Z-Z-A…….

Umm right, so speaking of any kind of food, (I LOVE FOOD) I think I need to exercise and diet a little.  The reason I think I should exercise or diet or probably both is when I was washing my tummy in the shower it jiggled  a little like  pudding.  YUM PUDDING….

I have problems ><

On to the Halloween countdown!

I finished one poisoned apple today and I made a little jar of poison that I will sit next to all the apples once they are finished.  I am stitching them by hand, because I don’t have a sewing machine to use so it took me all day – well in between my bouts of crying – to finish just one.  At this rate, I may have the other two finished by Friday.  I say Friday because tomorrow I begin tutoring again.  Goodbye holiday!  Oh how I shall miss you!

Now time for some Angry Video Game Nerd!

Maybe I will get a pizza tomorrow.  With extra cheese.

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48 days until Halloween.

So I said in an earlier post- I think – that I wanted to try to do a new Halloween craft everyday – well at least work on one everyday – up until Halloween.

Things I have already made:

– a crochet cauldron to hold candy (though there aren’t trick or treaters in Korea, so I will just have to offer the candy to my students when they come)

– a spiderweb table topper that sits on my tutoring table.  I put my cauldron on top.  next to the cauldron sits the witch hat my husband bought for me last Halloween.

– a crochet witchetty grub that is sitting on top of the candy inside the cauldron.

– a Coraline doll I crocheted and is now sitting on my bookcase.

– Some paper cut outs of a black cat, a witch, and a ghost that I put on my mirrors.

– Pirate Pal. A crochet pirate.  I got the pattern from Lion Brand if you’re interested.  They also have a cute pumpkin pal.

Yesterday I made a small ghost bookmark out of felt.

Today I began to make some poison apples that I got from the book Witch Craft.

I only have one of the three cut out of felt.  I will begin sewing it together soon.  But since it is going on 7pm here I probably won’t start putting it together until tomorrow, since the hubby and I are watching Hellboy II at the moment.

The apples will probably take me a couple of days to complete.  Then I am on to the next project; a felt jack o’ lantern.

 

Not related to Halloween.  But related to fall.  I am knitting a shrug.  Yes, it is finally starting to get cool here.  FINALLY.  Anyway, still being a new knitter,  I became insanely frustrated with the pattern and tore my stitches out again and again.  I probably redid it about 5 or six times until I got the whole knit purl knit purl thing.  I had no idea (and the pattern never said) that if you start with a knit purl pattern on one side, when you turn it you then begin doing a purl knit purl knit.  Maybe my brain wasn’t functioning at 100 percent but it took me so long to figure it out.  It didn’t help that the pattern just said continue with the knit purl knit until you get to 5cm.  ><

WHY COULDN’T IT JUST SAY:

” Row 2: purl knit purl you dummy!”

Instead of claiming the pattern easy, they should have been more specific like saying “Yeah it’s easy.  It’s easy for advanced knitters, not for a beginner loser like you who is just going to mess up anyway and scream and cry and madly search google for the answer and not find it!”

Umm so anyway,  I finally figured it out on my own and I have actually gotten pretty quick with the needles.  But yeah, the shrug will probably still end up being a big pile of poop green.  As of now, though, I must say it is going well.  Just I am using big needles on not so thick yarn… But I have a big sweater that is like that and I love it, so maybe it will be wearable.  Let me rephrase.  Maybe it will be something I can wear outside, in public.

 

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