the first day

seriously....

what happened with Grey' Anatomy last night at the Emmy's.  oh well, still my fav show and can't wait for the new season to start in a few weeks.

i sat down to watch last night all ready to see my fav stars from that show make their way up and down from the stage all night.

but...what "swept" the Emmy's last night?

The Girl in the Cafe'!!!

not quite a year ago one of my friends, who has all the fancy cable channels, such as HBO, mentioned this movie to me.  so, every time i went to the video store i would look for it...with no luck.  then i kinda forgot about it.

this morning in the pouring and i mean pouring rain, i thought it was a great day to head to the video store on my way home from other errands.  took me stops at 2 different shops but i found it and just now finished watching.

you should head out and get it tonight. go ahead, right now.  same writer as Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral.

really leaves you with something to think about and you'll be glad you spent the time!

this is really not suppose to be a saturday to saturday blog but this week it sort of looks that way...

cleaned and worked in my jammies all morning today!!!

made a quick, 24 hour trip to Michigan to visit with my little Grandson. nothing feeds the soul like slowing down and play at the park, sharing the whipped cream on top of your mocha at the coffee shop, watching videos of tractors and diggers, talking about "Thomas" (the train that is), reading Dr. Seuss over and over, and rocking at bedtime.

there's some knitting news:  twisted socks on the needles.  they're my to-go project, colorful and fun to work on.  a new cardigan is only 2 weeks on the needles and close to being done. knit in my NYC, cotton, snuggly, yummy yarn.  a new pair of fingerless mitts are done and ready for that first cold-snap. (oh no! they'll wait happily on the shelf).  and a felted bag is about 3/4 of the way to complete.  yep, i've got something of everything going on around here.

remember those ads around the 1st week in august. Old Navy's Best Week Ever!!!!  i know, i wouldn't have remembered them either.  well they had TV ads and ads in their stores.  well on a saturday i was there shopping, minding my own business and employees were walking around the store passing out game cards.  you could win stuff like Baskin Robbins Ice Cream, candy, music, IPOD Nanos, even a new car.

i won an IPOD Nano!!!  got it in the mail about a week ago. i'm really having a lot of fun with it.  i like listening to music on it, but mostly i'm enjoying downloading Podcasts of a few of the Knitting Podcasts that i have listened to on my computer before, now they are portable.  how fun is that. i'll have to give you a review in the future.

i'm soooo enjoying my daily blooms that my morning glory's continue to give me. those simple flowers just make me smile.  :)

enjoy your weekend, whatever you choose to do.

pea soup, rainy all night last night and most of today. sometimes kinda love that.

loved the mail this week...new fall catalogs from: Boden, Free People, Garnet Hill, Anthropologie, J. Jill. such dreamy stuff in there.  a few things i want to get the knitting needles out for and make myself but this is going to call for some shopping.

and the week before that...two new fall knitting magazines!!!!

got my hands on some Vesper Twist sock yarn!!!  colorway Sunflower to match my new Crocs.  i've decided a knitter should always have a pair of socks on-the-needles.  they're so great to throw in your bag for last minute knitting-to-go.  and the end product is like none other.

heading Downtown to the Air and Water Show tomorrow afternoon.  i do love that yearly treat. i'm usually a peace and quiet gal but something about those planes....

last nights dinner was burgers on the grill, homemade guacamole, and a yummy white sangria i made from Martha Stewart's Everyday Food issue #34. we ate outside and finish just as it started to rain.

well, you know, eleven days till i'm back at work.  yep! August 31st.  need to pull out that list and see if there's anything that i still need to make time to do.

made 2 yarn purchases in NYC.  at the charming shop in Soho www.purlsoho.com i bought a salmon colored Blue Sky Cotton. it is so soft!  and at the very Zen-like and tricky to get to Habu Textiles www.habutextiles.com both my daughter and i bought 2 very large hanks of what is called A-80. (they do things very differently around there). it's undyed, natural and a very soft wool.  don't know what it will become.  something beautiful.

must go wind that sock yarn so it can head out with me tomorrow as my small to-go project, along with a good book of course!

i don't live in the country by any means.  i'm in a suburb about 20 miles from Downtown Chicago. the Metra train station is less than a 5 minute walk from my house.

but....within an hour of being home from NYC yesterday, you know having not seen any grass, all that traffic, noise, hussle, trash.  oh, the trash!  and the hot dog and pretzel selling for 5 days. i sure felt like my front yard was in the country especially when i walked over to a big tuft of grass, smack in the middle of the front yard and realized as i lifted it up that it was a hole in the yard....

....as i peered down the little hole there were, peacefully sleeping, at least 4 baby bunnies.

but what was that Mom thinking? she could have made a lovely home in an area of my newly developed garden, or near a tree?  or at least under the Adirondack furniture which was just a few feet away and is now moved overtop of their little "nest".

i just wanted to scoop them all up, put them into my great big, new, designer knock-off bag that i bought from a street vendor and carry them around with me!

they're sweet as can be.

five more days and my daughter and i are heading to the land of very busy streets for a fun filled four night five day girls vacation together.

NYC!!!

boring Rowan Florence is done and dusted!  yep, i stuck it out, all those millions of 1x1 and 2x2 ribs.  she was worth it. 

got a letter in the mailbox today about a back-to-school meeting and a staff tour date of the new building.  (i've yet to be in that building without a hardhat on and on my last "drive by" things still looked a little hard hatish to me!)  i wonder what different colors those hats come in?  i may have to order a few to go with some of my new fall outfits!

got the cutest 4 coffee mugs at IKEA this week. they are so Anthropologie-like with an IKEA $ tag...and a teal blue back to school thermos to take coffee in the mornings.  do you think it will be cute enough for me not stop at Starbucks even tho i drive right by?

got another 8 bucks of free gas today after i went to the grocery store.  go figure!

it's finally NOT 100 degrees. i opened the windows. love that!  i can hear the birds, the neighbors, that is when the cicadas are not too loud!

hubby's gone on a bike (as in bicycle) trip this weekend.  not to be confused with the big "bike to-do" in South Dakota at this same time.

so it's just me...whatever i want to eat...my favorite cable channels...knitting...some new magazines...maybe some DVD's...a book to finish...oh yeah and the dog!