Is This Thing On?

Hello? Did I scare everyone away by asking for donations? I'm feeling a little concerned that for most of the day the only comment I got on yesterday's post was from me.

I'm going to blog a little about autism every day this month. It won't always be the main theme of my posts but there will always be a little something. Today I want to show a picture of one of the stamp sets that is being sold by Technique Tuesday. The puzzle piece is the international symbol for autism.

A portion of the proceeds of this set is being given to Autism Speaks. I don't know exactly how much per set. They are also having a contest for cards or scrapbook pages using these images.

I know at Paperlicious, she is also holding a contest for cards related to autism awareness. That contest uses a stamp set that you can find from Gina K's Designs. She will donate $8 from each set sold to Autism Speaks.

Links to these stamp sets are now on my sidebar.

In other news...

We had a wonderful conference weekend. We watched the talks from the comfort of our (almost bubble-free) couch. The kids were pretty good. The neighbors were not. We have neighbors on one side of us that have a pool table in their garage. On nice days when he doesn't work he has his buddies over, they turn on REALLY loud music and smoke (so I can't open my windows without having the whole house smell like smoke). Today the loud music only lasted for an hour. The other day it was more like 4 hours. I had just finished looking up the city's noise ordinance online and was ready to call the cops before he turned it down.

Watching 8 hours of conference talks really gave me a lot of knitting time. I FINALLY finished the back of Carl's Drunken Argyle sweater vest. I bound off the back right after the last session ended. I can't bear to start the front yet. "Extra spicy" knitting is not something I can do on a daily basis. I'm almost done with the 2nd baby surprise sweater but I ran out of yarn with 18 more rows to go. I had ordered another skein and hoped it would arrive on Saturday. No such luck. I'll be glad to get it tomorrow or Tuesday.

I lost my mind Saturday. Well, I thought I might have. I went to Sun Mart. It's the grocery store closest to my house. It is also the closest grocery store for all the retirement communities in the neighborhood. Let's just say I'm almost ALWAYS the youngest person in there. They also have the most expensive prices around (except for maybe Wendy's local store, Leon's---but Sun Mart isn't 'posh' or have excellent service). Anyway, I check the ads (because I'm Carl's wife and it makes him really happy) and I saw that they had a super deal on cereal this week (buy a certain amount of Kelloggs cereal and get free milk). I had coupons, the store had a sale, and I got free milk. Win, win, win situation. I went there to load up on cereal. I went through the checkout and wanted to get some cash back. I asked for $20. She gave me my receipt. She gave me the coupons for free milk (3 GALLONS! WOOT WOOT!). I went out the door. I drove away and reached into my pocket so I could move the $20 cash into my purse. I couldn't find it. Did I drop it? Did I put it in the grocery bags with the receipt? I pulled over (still in the parking lot-thank goodness) and checked the car, the trunk, the path I took in and out of the store, etc... I went in and had to resign myself to leaving my name and number and hoping the lady cashier didn't make any other mistakes that day because I needed her drawer to be $20 over. I had bad dreams about it all night. I didn't even want to tell Carl about it (I did---I tell him everything even when I don't want to---it's a compulsion). They called me Sunday morning. The cashier was exactly $20 over so that money is MINE! I'm going to go pick it up this morning along with 2 out of 3 gallons of free milk. Love it.

Is This Thing On?

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