A BlinkingCat Life

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Wtf. If you are some kind of porn blog don't follow me! It's creepy.

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Look it's you Mommy

I was watching the last episode of season 1 Dr Who while my daughter was taking her nap. At the point where Rose returns and has the Tardis’ power and is destroying the Derek’s with her mind. She watches it for a minute then looks at me. Look mommy your on tv and so pretty.

Yep my two year old thinks I look like Rose with infinite power. - even though I am a brunette and look nothing like her.

I love my kid.

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I have decided to create a group of blankets based on old granny square patterns. This is my first one. I am going to call it Granny Mae. Give me some 'grannie' names for the other patterns I am going to come up with please! The finished blankets are going to be sold in my online stores on Amazon Handmade and Etsy.

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Potty training hell #1

So I have been trying to potty train my two year old daughter for a while. We are making progress at home but in public she just holds it because she is scared of the big potty. I try to cajole her to use it. I try to bribe her to even try the big potty at home with no luck. So standing in line to pay at the store she gets that OMG I need to pee look and starts dancing. I know she won't go in the potty. She knows she won't. It's a five minute drive home. I tell her it's ok if you have an accident but we are almost home. The lady in line says very loudly. "That is awful! You go take her potty! You can't tell a baby to wait!" Seriously I wanted to throat punch her. Instead I put on my grown up hat and just gave her the stink eye. Since I have shopped there a couple times a week for almost 8 years the cashiers know me. My cashier looked at the lady and told her to mind her own business or to take it somewhere else. That I am a good mother. Sometimes people suck and some times they rock.

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Trains and Tutus Why do people still hold on to old fashioned views? No wait the real question is why do they feel it is ok to force them on other people? 
On a trip to Toys r us today my daughter was plying with the train set they put out for that purpose. She was wearing her new tutu outfit and having a great time. Till some random lady came over with the only purpose of telling me I shouldn’t let my daughter play with boy toys. It will confuse her. 
I just laughed at her. Really I laughed in her face and told her to just go away. She was shocked. I mean what the hell lady. If my daughter wants to play with trains it is not like I am putting her in a men’s pant suit and saying go be manly!
If my daughter wants to be a train conductor she can!

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A never ending project.

Have you ever started a project just to have it linger on forever and never get finished?

I know that it is normal for most crochet / knitters to have several projects in progress or just left undone. I can’t do it to save my life. It bothers me to death. The longer a project goes on the guiltiest I feel. I literally get weighed down by it even if I try to hide it inside two bags and a box in the back of my closet.

I mean I was excited about the thing at one point and spent money on the yarn. I put in the effort to get how ever far along I did before I put it aside. Why would I not be willing to finish it? I even quit working on other projects because in my head I know I should be working on the other one instead.

I have been trying to work on a unicorn hoodie for my mermaid since June. I flew threw the sweater body, made the mane and ears and now I have been struggling with the hood for months. I have started and frogged it three times now. The main problem is an error in the pattern. Some how you are expected to make 8 decrease stitches but only loose 2 stitches from the row count. Seriously! And that is only one of the problems.

So today I spent the two hours of my daughters nap rewriting the thing. I think I might have it figured out now. I know she will love it when I am finished but seriously why did it take me so many tries to figure out that there were problems with the pattern? Because I am a mommy who crochets in snatched moments and being the silly person I am trust the patterns printed in large crochet pattern books.

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Potty Training Hostage Situation

I love my mermaid I really do. But I think she is holding me hostage in the bathroom when she is supposed to be going potty. Once an hour we take a trip to the potty chair. We sit and nothing happens. I say ok it was a good try but she says she feels it. It never happens. I know she knows what to do she has done it before. She just wants to sit in the little room side by side holding me hostage.

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Weight loss tip

Have you ever been making yourself a little late night bowl of ice cream and accidentally get sauce on your shirt? Being the responsible person you are you take it off to rinse before the stain sets. On one hand good for you for handling the shirt right away. On the other hand now your without a shirt holding what suddenly seems like a huge bowl of ice cream next to a tummy that really doesn't need it. Weight loss tip. Snack naked. You won't really want it any more.

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Potty Training.

I have been trying to potty train my toddler for a while and I am not having much luck. Her pediatrician says to let her choose when she is ready and don't force her. She knows how to go potty because she has done it. She just doesn't want to go in the bathroom to do it. I really need help figuring this out. I mean I have potty trained countless cats and two dogs to do their business where they are supposed to. Why I can't I talk an intelligent two year old into it? I have tried bribing with m&m candies, a bubble bath everyday she poops on the potty, I have even let her watch a show on my iPad to get her to sit and try. My mom in law bought her some Minnie Mouse panties because she loves Minnie. She told her they are big girl panties and if she goes potty all the time she can wear them instead of diapers. My little girl thought about it and then she shoved all of them back in he bag, handed it to her Nonny and said no thanks and walked away. At least she is polite about it.

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I am back in the saddle.

So I am back in the saddle again. I know all two of you were just so worried about my disappearance. But it has been a busy year for my family. Hubby had a heart attack ( he is good now), I was sick for a while and had surgery but i am on the mend. I was going with the old saying that if you can't share something nice you should just keep your mouth shut. I also opened an Amazon Handmade store (blinking cat boutique) and have been pleasantly busy with filling orders and trying new things for the shop. Not everything gets deemed worthy of being salable so it either gets donated or confiscated by the Mermaid. Add in the fact that we adopted another German Shepard and a cat the house is just crazy. Luckily we bought land in the Georgia mountains to build a bigger home. I am sure that will get plenty of posts all on its own. I have never built a house, only bought one. I plan on living in it for the next twenty years so it has to have everything right? I mean I can't just say well hell I want to upgrade the kitchen in a few years because the layout drives me crazy right? Well I could but that would be so expensive. The fun part is my in laws bought the acreage next to ours and are building their house first. I can feel you cringe thinking that my inlaws will be living right next door. But I am excited. I love them and they are the only ones I have ever let watch the mermaid for me. Plus there will be five acres between us so it's not like they are going to be looking in the windows to see if I am cleaning the base boards or not!

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Thanks to Caleb from Hungry Hippo Tree Service for ordering these to mascots for their trucks !

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Summer Crochet Bag Pattern - Petals to Picots

Summer Crochet Bag Pattern - A casual and lightweight summer crochet bag pattern ... perfect for a day around the town or a trip to the beach! Enjoy :)

Free crochet pattern! :)

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Professor Stephen Hawking believes Zayn might still be in One Direction - in a different universe

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My idol

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Special Order!

I am super excited. I just got an order for four custom book thongs! At first they only wanted one with a cross charm. I went out and got a variety of crosses and a few Angels. they liked several so they ordered extra.

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Did you know that you actually can never forget a face? Every single face you’ve ever seen during your life gets stored into your memories, and gets used up later. For example, in dreams your brain can’t just make up a face. Every single face you’ve seen in your dream, you’ve seen somewhere once in your life.

And those strange nightmares you’ve had of those terrible demon like creatures ?

You’ve seen them around too, you just cant remember. You don’t want to remember.

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this post started off as a John Green novel and ended as a Stephen King.

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Pretty sure they did this in Dr Who!

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I have been working on my wrapping skills. This is the result of a couple hours work. I think the fronts look pretty good. the backs are still a little messy. can't decide if I want to turn them into necklaces, bookmarks, or car mirror charms. Tell me what you think they should be.

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Having fun in NOLA