Bad Bugs

Now see, I totally intended to keep up with this now that I know ya'll are reading, but that whole 'life' thing, not to mention this lovely bug that I've caught, keeps getting in the way.

Sunday - went to work, came home to sparkly clean kitchen, which totally put me in the mood to cook, but I threw some ham and potatoes in the oven and called it a night. Frugal tip of the day - when ham goes on sale at Christmas and Easter stock up. We buy one big one and then chop it all up into meal-sized pieces and freeze it. Granted, there's only 3 of us, so we were able to get 5 or 6 meals out of the Easter ham.

I started on a mitten for Children In Common...it's a group that provides lots of things (including knitted items) to orphanges in Russia and Eastern Europe. (www.childrenincommon.org) I think if I was the adopting kind, which, since Bugman is 9, I don't really see myself doing, but if I was, I think I'd look into a Russian foreign adoption. I guess the next best thing is to send mittens, hats and socks knit with love in every stitch. I got this thing about Russia, I don't know where it came from. I had this really crazy Cold War inspired dream when I was 14 that I woke up to knowing I'd have a blond haired son. Then a couple years ago, in the middle of reading the 'Left Behind' series I got me a hankerin for some Russian history...so I found a couple of books at the library book sale for $1 each. Unfortunately by the time I was done with the series I was no longer in the mood for Russian history. I still got 'em though. We'll see if some mad crush on one of our amazing Russian-born Red Wings won't re-awaken that hankerin.

But anyway, see if I was a good little blogger I'd have a picture here of a half done mitten. My first mitten no less! But alas I don't and here's why . . .

Monday - went to work, started feeling kinda nauseus with about 10 minutes left of my shift and it hasn't really stopped til just now. That was one ugly bug. Yesterday I couldn't even keep down a single slice of apple, but today...so far anyway...I've had a piece of toast and a bowl of rice. (knock on wood) Hubby's got it too, but he still somehow managed to drag himself to work today. Bugman? Oh he's fine. Probably getting sick of making himself microwaved pizza bites for dinner though.