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I planned to go to bed early tonight, but realized that I needed to download something to listen to on my iPod tonight.  I found Zoot Radio which has all kinds of fun old time radio shows to download.  I’m currently listening to The Couple Next Door.  They’re about 15 min. shows and quite entertaining.  Last night hubby and I shared my headphones and listened to one of them and he actually enjoyed it, too.  Well, when I got my iPod, I found that it had been playing (can it possibly still be going from when I fell asleep last night?  It doesn’t seem possible)…there was no power left and it was playing through my entire playlist.  Weird.  Sooooooooo…..got to get some charge on it before I head off to bed.  I’ve looked on Ravelry and (oh hey!  They said we should get some snow tonight!  Not to last, but maybe something to at least look at…we hardly ever get any).  Anyway, I’m just waiting to get enough charge on the old iPod so I can go to bed.

We have an appointment for the little imp in the morning.  It is the one I really kind of dread every year…evaluation for services for the year to come.  I like to think we don’t need them but we do.  He has a lot of things that I forget about that we need that medical coupon for.  My insurance doesn’t cover everything and some of the monthly things would make life pretty difficult if we didn’t have the coupon.  What’s hard is…there is no way he doesn’t qualify for services, he has Down Syndrome and it’s not going to go away, we’ve jumped through all of their hoops…but every year we still have to qualify.  My kids are all care providers for him, too, and this determines the hours they will have to divvy up.  The hard part for us is that we live life looking at all he can do and even trying not to focus on the disability, but when you have these meetings, you have to look at it all backwards.  It’s not the time to share all of his accomplishments.  ow.

Last night, I came home freezing cold.  I asked the little imp to help me warm up.  He did a half hug, laughing the whole time, then when he realized the job was too much for him (translation: he wanted to watch his movie) and he told me ” fire, mom”.  Smart kid.

I’ve been half-heartedly knitting but still haven’t taken any new pictures.  I do have to share a tiny picture of my mom’s work though.

She spends the whole year knitting slippers for the local mitten tree.  She gives them to anyone who wants them…she even sends them to soldiers in the hospital.  In spite of that, she has 297 pairs to give to the mitten tree!  She never will count the ones she gave away.  Good job, eh? 

I also am thrilled with my new Christmas skaters I found.  Ever since we went to NY in Dec. 2001 and ice skated in Central Park, I have loved ice skaters . 

I didn’t look quite this graceful, though.  I was going to hold on to the wall and get myself around one time so I could say I did it, but my friend came along and grabbed me and around we went.  So romantic, me hanging on my friend and hubby shakily (but much more steady than I was) skating by.  There was just something about that rink outdoors in the park with all the skyscrapers surrounding the perimeter.  We did manage to skate around together about 3 times after I got my legs, though.  Ahhh, so romantic!  I love vintage, too…so these just begged me to bring them home. 

And now, I am unplugging my iPod and heading off to bed! 

Tags: iPod, knitting

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