Me, the girl who proclaims not to drink actually had a drink yesterday. Two actually (it was happy hour). I went out with a group of people from work and when I got there they kind of plopped the drink menu in my hand and looked at me expectantly. “This one is fruity, Jamie, you’ll like this one.” My co-workers know very well that I don’t drink or drink very often and only like fruity drinks and I wound up ordering a Calypso Cooler and it was pretty awesome. I know that I like rum (Malibu Rum) and this had Rum and Peach Schnapps in it, so I thought hey, it’s got to be good…and it was. I get super quiet when I drink and one of the girls leaned over and said “What, you talk a lot at work, and then when you get a drink in you, you shut up?!” We all had a good laugh over that one. It’s true, I am a motormouth, always have been.

Today I have to work on my fractions and I’ve finally just gotten pretty good at them (okay, do you know how hard it is to solve an equation that contains multiple fractions that are over fractions?! with variables?), I’ve got a test on that on Monday, I’ve also got to start doing my research for my comparison/contrast essay (I’m doing it on corporal punishment on children [i.e. spanking]) and this topic will be used for my persuasive essay. Personally, I feel that kids today get too much handed to them and parents are too afraid to deal with their children and just get walked all over. I feel that some children do not get the correction that they need and never learn that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction (one of the laws of physics). I am not for beating a child – I just feel that sometimes parents need to grow a backbone. I don’t know how to encorporate this into my essay though, because I don’t want to come off as “Yes! You should hit your child, always!” and I don’t want to come off as wishy washy and not make my point.

Alright, so it’s nearly eleven o’clock and I’m wasting the day just sitting here typing on my blog and I’m hoping that I get through with all of my math homework and some basic research for my paper today so that later on I can try and finish this yarn I’m using so I can move on to the next color. A few of you may remember that I had made a beautiful carrot and mocha colored Afghan last year, but I had left it over at the apartment and I realized that I didn’t have my own Afghan, so I’m working on a new one. This one has what I call the Grandma stitch (you don’t yo, you just put your hook through the next loop and yo and pull through two, I learned this from my grandmother). It makes a very, very heavy blanket – so in order to lighten it, I am also incorporating a triple stictch – so overall this blanket will be medium weight.

Edit: Here’s a great tip for everyone so they don’t get embarassed like I did. Make sure you double check your sources to verify if they are correct. Don’t let a bad source make a bad you appear uneducated and misinformed.