A sock

Not a big deal, it is for my mom and matches the pair of socks I made for Sierra last winter.  I had promised her a pair for her birthday in March, but well…you know how that goes.  This is a basic sock pattern, 2×2 rib and short row heel.  It is easy and worked up pretty fast.  This is knitpicks sock garden yarn, which apparantly they don’t sell anymore.

I am going to cast on for the second sock of the pair so I don’t get second sock syndrome.

The high again today was 112…when I looked at the temp at around 4pm it said it was 112 feels like 115.  Apparantly down in Woodland Hills, somewhere in Southern California it was 119.

What bothers me most about the heat is we get stuck inside.  If you do go outside you start to get dizzy and sick feeling.  It isn’t good.  The kids immediatly get crabby and cry and fight.  Inside, the air conditioner just barely cranks out the air.  They are so bored being stuck in the house all day.

At night, you can’t open the windows to let the cool air in because apparantly at 2am it is 85 degrees with 50% humidity.  Who wants to let that in?

Well, and to top it off I am now getting Sierra’s bug.  I feel it heavy in my lungs, either that or the air quality is just really bad and my asthma which I thought I outgrew is back.  I don’t know.

Now while I realize I am complaining, I need to throw it out that we are lucky to have running air conditioning.  Life could be a lot more miserable and is in many places.  I will just be a bit happier when it is cool enough to go outside and work in the yard and watch the kids swim in the pool and at night be able to open the windows in the house and let a nice cool breeze wash through.

I was going to get out the spinning wheel this weekend, but it was too hot.  I have a lot of baby gifts to crank out, but feel unmotivated.  See where this is going?  I don’t even feel like doing housework, just feel drained.
Tony and I have pretty much gone vegetarian.   It all came about because my doctor said I can’t have red meat, flour, sugar, potatoes, and white rice.  I found a lot of vegetarian meals that I have been able to cook that incorporate more foods that I can have and less or none of what I can’t have.  We are eating more vegetables then we ever have and a variety of different foods.

Tony only likes about half of what we eat.  The funny thing is when he says he doesn’t really care for something, I ask him if it was better than fastfood and he always says it is.  Any homecooked meal, even if it isn’t his favorite is better than fast food and that makes cooking a happy thing for me.

Tonight I made eggplant mozerella.  However, since I can’t have flour, I dipped the eggplant in dry buckwheat pancake mix, which isn’t a white flour and is better.  He said it had a weird flavor, but Sierra and Madeleine ate all of it and I liked it.  He has lost about 15 pounds…typical man.  Me, I have lost 5.  It has only been a few weeks, though.
Though my goal should be to lose weight, right now it isn’t.  My sole focus is to eat healthier and learn to cook better, more nutritious meals with the foods I can eat.  If the weightloss comes, then awesome.  Well, I think I rambled on enough…until next time.