For some reason, my last blog entry hit bloglines again.  I already got that whole ING thing taken care of, so back to your regularly scheduled blog reading.However, I'll send a little update while I'm here...been working a lot.  Re

I am looking to open an account at INGDirect.   Drop me an email at heysockbug at yahoo if you have a $25 referral link for me to use.  I'd much rather pass the $10 onto one of you guys than some random person.  First person t

about my new house... Instead of putting my spices in a cabinet like always, I bought cute little cans from the Container Store and made labels for them.  Love them!   

Pattern is here .  Yarn is from Walmart. 

I have been in my new house for a little over two months.  You'd think I'd be able to eek out a few minutes for this blog, huh?  Well, better late than never.Here's a picture I took shortly after our move in here:In the process

The last month and a half have been so traumatizing, I am not sure I want to relive them.  Do you know that when you close a home sale here in Houston, all the parties are supposed to meet around the same table and everyone signs the papers at t

First up, let me apologize if you are having trouble reading this.  Blog-city made me change versions at the end of the year and this version is much less user friendly than the last.  I still can't figure out how to change the color of

So, you would think if we got an offer on our home we'd be jumping up and down, right?  Well not quite yet.  We purchased this house 1.5 years ago for $449,000.  This was exactly the same amount of money that the sellers had paid f

Hey!  Welcome to 2008!  Things have started off with a bang here.  Back around my birthday, my Bestest Buddy came to visit me.  She brought me all kinds of goodies and lots of cheer, which was sorely needed.Possibly the best thing

First off, raise your hand if you have ever torn apart a whole closet looking for three measly skeins of yarn that you knew you had somewhere...Okay, on to this sock.  I was planning on making a few of these to give to my co-workers, but I decid

Looky here... If I remember you guys rightly, you're going to want to know how I did this, right? 

I got off work early today.  Ordinarily, this would not make me sad, but I had absolutely nothing to do.  My meager holiday shopping is done.  My greeting cards are mailed.  Howdy is working late and Daughter the Younger is at Aun

Okay, I feel obligated to tell you all upfront. We are not out of money yet. Now, on to a story.A while ago, Howdy was invited to a wine tasting. [Howdy works for a liquor store] Free wine was good, but this event also promise

Gosh, things are bleak here at Chez Sockbug.  I am still working at my accounting job.  I balance the books for people with much less intelligence than me, with more money than they can count. (Which is, of course, why I have a job, to coun

And now for something completely different.I just finished reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver.  I can't really tell you what drove me to request this book from the library.  As I grew up, my p

You know...Those of you who've been following along for awhile...my Blog-City neighbors, those of you who've stopped by to grab a pattern to use for a Sock-a-whatever pal and stayed, those who've just stumbled here...you know the past yea

Warning!  Strong and political opinions here.  No knitting content.  You have been warned.  I am sure I'm not the only one who's heard about Idaho senator Larry Craig and his loud protests that he's not gay.  Well

I am happy to report that as of noon today, I have been released from the curse of the Harry Potter books and I am free to pursue other reading!  I think I'll go and catch up on my other wastes of time now...Hello Huge Bloglines Feed!

I'm trapped in a Harry Potter book and I can't get out!  Send reinforcements!

Howdy finished the last Harry Potter book yesterday, on his day off.  I wondered why he hadn't gone to the grocery store like he said he was going to, but then I spied the book sitting triumphantly on his dresser, the bookmark clearly toward

So, Howdy went for his interview on Thursday at a chain retailer that will be familiar to those of you in Houston.  Interview was bizarre, held in the very public breakroom of said store, by two guys with very little interview experience. 

I have actually started several entries during this hiatus, but promptly trashed them because they sounded too self-indulgent.  Monique was kind enough to ask how things were going...well, nothing's really changed.  I am still working a

Yesterday, we went Geocaching in Galveston again.  The weather was perfect, 80º and mostly cloudy.  A little too windy, but that was bearable.  When we first got there, hit a couple of caches and went to the NOAA Sea Tur

The circus is done and packed up, so Howdy applied for a job here in Houston with a well-known adult beverage store.  There was the usual jumble of questions, followed by a short math quiz, which included two "bonus" questions.  I

I can remember being in "Careers" class in middle school...back before the last ice age...I can remember we took these assessment tests that were supposed to tell you what job you were suited for.  They worked like those "Choose Y