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And an article that shows that the USDA doesn’t care about consumers and the quality of beef. I don’t eat meat but if you choose to eat meat and want to pay more for safe meat, you should be able to buy meat so that you assured that what you’re eating is safe. This article shows how the USDA really doesn’t care about consumer safety!

Thursday, Bryan and I went to see Death Cab For Cutie at the Vic Theatre. Friday, I went to Galesburg, Il for a big Stampin’ Up group meeting. I drove down on Friday morning, the other women in my group went down on Thursday night. Friday afternoon and evening, we stamped as much as we could with many of the stamps that one woman owns. We stayed with a woman named Lona, she has has over 200 stamp sets, so we were all in stamping heaven! :) It was like letting kids loose in a candy store! :) I stamped frames, backgrounds, small images to use on scrapbook pages and cards, and I made a very nice sympathy card. Saturday was the meeting. Janice Weightman spoke at the meeting. There are photos on Janice’s photo page. It was a very fun weekend. Late Saturday afternoon, I drove back to the burbs. I got home and figured I would just crash, but I was so pumped that after dinner I HAD to do some stamping! :) I was working on what I’ll be demonstrating at the party on Friday.

Sunday was the most productive day of the weekend, surprising considering what else I was doing this weekend. Sunday morning, I worked on a few more projects that I’ll take as examples at the party on Friday. Then we went to see Eternal Sunshine at the first matinee of the day. After the movie, we came home and I started making paper for the wedding. I was going to make invitations but while I was hand-dipping the paper, I realized that the paper was not turning out the way I wanted my invitations to turn out. So that paper will be the programs for the ceremony. Then Sunday evening, I practiced calligraphy. I even managed to go to bed earlier than normal! :)

Yesterday it was back to work and the regular week. This week is actually very busy. Last night, I went to my calligraphy class. Our homework for this week is to address an envelope. I always feel funny telling people what my homework is for my calligraphy class because it sounds so simple. Last week was to practice my capital letters. Last night, we learned how to do the numbers in Copperplate Calligraphy and how do envelopes. This is what I’ve been waiting for since we started the class! :) I guess in a few weeks we’ll be doing placecards too.

I’ll have to schedule myself for when I’ll work on addressing invitations and when I’ll be making paper for the invitations. I just have to keep myself from stamping as much and concentrate more on the wedding things that need to get done!

Tonight, I have a Stamp Fair meeting at Alisa’s for our group. We have about 2-1/2 weeks left before our Stamp Fair on May 8!

Tomorrow, I’m going in for a fitting for my dress and picking up the bridesmaids dresses. I can’t wait to see the dresses. It was hard to see how they would turn out when I ordered them because the fabric swatches were about 2″.

Thursday night, I’ll be cutting paper and putting things together for the stamping party on Friday night.

Woo woo! New PJ Harvey will be out soon!

I heard an interview with Laura Bush this morning on NPR. I found it very interesting that they were talking about the land around the Bush ranch. Laura was talking about how they are working to return the land to its native habitat and make it friendly for native wildlife. She was saying how there are animals at the ranch that were not there before. I find it very interesting that they are working so hard to make their ranch a great place for wildlife, but the rest of the country her husband is selling the habitats to his oil and energy friends. He cares about the land around his ranch, his sanctuary, but doesn’t care at all about other people’s sanctuaries – parks, rivers, lakes and oceans.

Here’s the description on the NPR site: “Far from the distractions of Washington and world affairs, Laura Bush finds refuge outdoors, at the Bush family’s Prairie Chapel Ranch in Texas. There, she’s intent on bringing back native plants and grasses and restoring some of the spot’s lost beauty. We take a nature tour with the First Lady.” Hear the story here.

The Little Lambs blanket is DONE!! I finished it while watching Nightline’s review of the President’s disastrous press conference.

Woo woo! I have three rows left of the Little Lambs blanket! One of those rows is binding off. I’ll be finished tomorrow night!! I’ll put a photo up as soon as I finish it. It looks really great! :)

I’ve done a lot of knitting in the last two nights! :) Last night, we watched The Man Who Knew, a PBS Frontline documentary about an FBI agent, John O’Neill, who had been tracking al Queda since 1995. He left the FBI about a month before September 11 and went to work in security at the World Trade Center, where he was killed in the attacks on September 11. It was fascinating. I think the Bush administration needs to watch it! They might learn something.

Tonight we watched God Said ‘Ha!’ with Julia Sweeney. It was really good.

So I knit while watching these two films and I now have 6 more rows to go on the Little Lambs blanket and then I’ll be completely finished!! :) YEAH! Then I have the luxury of sewing in about 8 ends but that’s not a big deal. Now I can start to concentrate more on the Giraffe Blanket, which I haven’t done any work on since early February.

My private lesson went really well last night. The woman and her mother did great. It’s just a great feeling to know that I’m slowly passing my passion of knitting onto new people. I think they will both fall in love with knitting and they seemed to really enjoy it.

Tonight, I’m meeting with Michael’s in Glenview, Illinois. I know something good will come out of it. Hopefully, I can get classes started there soon.

Last night while my students were knitting, I was able to knit two rows of the Little Lambs blanket. Yeah! I’m slowly getting closer to finishing!