At the beginning of 2005 I came up with the saying, "Going to thrive in 2005" a good week before Flylady--- lol. The coolest thing is, although I gained almost 100lbs in 2005, I had a good year. There were ups and downs, but overall, last year rocked.

I made goals and met them, I grew as a person (hahaha) and without even realizing it, I managed to squeeze in regular exercise before the end of the year. I'm thrilled.

So what's on the list for 2006?

I'm going to start FLYing again. Life was better when I was FLYing (www.flylady.net) I'm going to be nicer to me and see where that takes me.

Happy new year!

For a really interesting post, go to Yea, I Knit Dani has an interesting take on New Year's.

Ok, I have yet to pick up my knitting needles, I don't know why. Sniffle. I need to get started I want to whip up a pair of the fingerless mitts in black LB KoolWool for a friend.

I am super excited--- we're filming the final scene for Roadkill on New Year's Eve and Megan's going to be in it!! Yay! Most people (my home health nurse included) might raise an eyebrow or two at me using my own 5 year old in a horror movie--- as a victim. But since she was on set this summer and quote, "The blood syrup makes me want to eat pancakes," I am pretty sure she has a good grasp on reality vs fantasy. The scene we are doing involves 2 vampires who are somewhat "involved" talking about meeting up with their friend (the bad guy from roadkill) and complaining about why he hasn't shown up yet. The camera pans and you realize they aren't in their own place they are shacked up in someone else's home, and the someone else has become their victims. To pull on your heart strings a bit the camera focuses in on a little kid (megan) who's been ravaged by the vamps. Yay honey for coming up with that idea.

Movie making for him is like knitting for me but really, wow. It is such a fun thing to do. Everyone had such a good attitude and it was awesome. One night when most of the crew was off at another hotel filming one scene, I stayed back with the makeup guy and another actor and we sat in the motel parking lot and watched the most AMAZING thunderstorm ever. Another night everyone was just sitting there talking about their favorite horror movies, batman, and other nerdy fan boy stuff and I was just in heaven. It was a blast. We're hoping to get the film edited and finished in time to submit it to the AVIFF (antelope valley international film festival)

I have one huge ginormous goal for this year: NO BOOK BUYING! I am going to pay off my overdue fines at the library and attempt to only use the library this year. Every time I see a book I want to buy I am going to write it down and get it from the library. I will exhuast all of my other options before purchasing a book. Why? For October and November I spent a grand total of $371 on books, that's Amazon, Waldenbooks, and Barnes and Noble. This doesn't count books purchased with cash, in grocery stores, or at department stores like Target, Costco, or Walmart. $400.

I am ashamed.

Angela

The year is coming to a close. Most year's I'm all about saying screw New Year's but this year I am all happy about the turning of the year. 2005 I started out all "Flylady-ed" up and with it. Last year we drove to Oregon on Boxing Day (Dec 26) and came home on the 31st. I came home in love with Oregon and the perceived slowness of life as compared to California. I decided that for sure I wanted to get a 4 year degree in English and be teaching and living in Oregon by 2010. I wanted my own farmhouse with sheep and chickens too. lol. I've been a townie for too long I think.

I set out to make a list of 50 things I wanted to do before the end of 2005 and ended up with like 13. Here they are:

50 things I want to do before the end of 2005:

1. Learn how to spin
2. Finish my afghan from the group
3. Begin the Master Knitter’s Program
4. Lose weight***
5. Learn to Love exercise
6. Make exercise a habit
7. Watch some really good movies
8. Write a whole book 150,000+ words
9. Participate in the National Novel writing month thing
   http://www.nanowrimo.org/
10. Maintain functioning and cashbearing websites
11. Work hard enough to no longer qualify for financial aid 2006/2007 school year
12. Purchase Stock
13. Open an IRA

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***Technically I have lost weight; however I gained so much weight that the 17lbs I've lost post op so far don't really count. But really, I think on the whole, with what I did end up setting out to do, I made some good progress.

I learned how to spin and bought (well I'm still paying for it) an ashford Kiwi spinning wheel that I love but don't use often enough. I have done a couple of my squares for the Master Knitter's Level 1 program, but haven't worked on them since May :(. My afghan is more of a baby blanket and I crapped out on another afghan group project, which is bad but one thing I suffered from last year was a major lack of time.

2005 was busy busy busy for me. Spring semester saw me in 2 English classes, Web Design II, Algebra 102, and Human Sexuality. I went straight from spring semester into Summer with Experimental Video and Statistics, and from there 2 weeks for Barry's movie and I started Fall with 2 days left on filming the movie. Fall semester saw me in French 101, Photoshop, Creative NonFiction, Sociology 101, and Intro To Public Speaking. (don't pay attn to the fact that in spring I ended up dropping math and failing HS or that in Fall I dropped PS and French...) I was overburdened and overbooked.

On the knitting front; I knitted a pasha from knitty, several pairs of fingerless mitts, countless afghan squares, a baby gnome, a miniature sweater, several Touch Me pumpkins, 3 or 4 scarves, increased Rogue by about 6 inches, and a couple of things here and there that I don't remember. Nothing major.

What's on my list for 2006? The super-awesome Fun Fur Bear Rug from Knit1, which everyone has been so nice to donate their eyelash yarn to. :) I can't wait to see how it comes out. My sister will be thrilled.

Finish Rogue, a baby blanket for one of my favorite English teachers, the Oat Couture Curlicue Coverlet, and the Rainbow Shawl from A Gathering of Lace (which I have wanted to make since like 2002 when I bought the book). Oh yeah, and knit up the sock yarn the pervert bought me for my birthday. :) Nothing like handknit socks. For me. mwahaha. I also want to play around with the Jess Hutchinson book my lovely SP6 got me. :) and design a thrummed sheep.

Non knitting?

I don't want to overburden myself. 2006 is going to be a laid back year where I take care of me. I will post again later...

Angela

I am pooped. 2 days in a row I go out shopping and here's me what, 3 days out of the hospital, 4 days today? Xmas shopping is awful when you're belly moves hither and yon...

Thanks to all of the people who have checked in on me. :) Your comments made my days go better.

Cyn, I haven't tried to pick anything up yet even though Barry (the pervert) bought me some really lovely red sock yarn for my birthday. I have yet to cast on for a simple pair of socks. BTW your new bag is gorgeous. ;)

Here's a pic of me in the ICU. I look like a mountain and I am completely wasted on morphine. I kept insisting my nurse take pictures of me...

yes, that IS an ipod in my hand... tanked on morphine and listening to..... something (I seriously can't remember, but I must have had it on for about 5 or 6 hours cuz I killed a full charge)

happy holidays,
Angela

I am trying to relax. My wonderful brother in law dropped me off last night and my friend Will is here keeping me company and taking very good care of me. I appreciate it so much.

there were problems with my surgery and I ended up having it open and not laporoscopically which will definitly add time to recovery. I'm in a fair ammount of pain but I am trying to ignore it and think of the other wonderful things...

like...

clothing

or

being able to make a glampyre boobholder minisweater without needing the wool from a dozen sheep...

I made it safely to my bed and breakfast! It's awesome --- check out their website... http://www.turrethouse.com/

I'm off to do my pre-op nastiness....

angela

So I am off today to the hospital.

And how cool is THIS? ?Isn't technology wonderful? Now you can send people who are laid up and sick email straight to their hospital beds. Please send me an email!! :) Note: My surgery is tomorrow, so email today might not get to me and you'll need my name. Angela Foltz. Which most of the people reading this already know...

angela

** IMG HEAVY POST **

Funny thing is, in person the tree looks crowded, but here it looks
sparse...

a closeup of the top half (click for a bigger view) and check out
Lambchop hiding out behind the Yellow Peanut M&M dressed as Darth Vader...

This is an even bigger close up. The mermaids are from my trip to Hawaii in Sept. 03, I brought the red one home and conned my mom who was there working for another 3 months to get me the rest for my birthday. The crocheted teddy bear is the olders (I think) a woman who worked with my grandma for NASA made several of them and gave them out to her co-workers for Christmas aometime in the 80s... and if you couldn't tell... I love snowflakes!!

and now... for something completely different!

Monday I leave for Longbeach and my gastric bypass. I have created a new blog for just my weight loss stuff (so as to keep this my knitting blog and vice versa) anyways, there's a button on the right hand side of my blog, the title of my new blog is "iShrink". Go check it out--- yes the black thing in the background is me...

ttfn

I will try to post before I leave...

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