Getting Older

There are many things that start to happen that make you realize you're getting older. You know, weddings, babies, buying houses, discussing finances and investments. Tonight it just sort of hit home when I was in bed reading, and I realized that my bedtime reading is "The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner" by David Bach, the chapter is on mortgages, and I am FASCINATED. I'm not really sure if this makes me old, or lame, or just twisted. But whatever it is, I'm totally ok with it.

Ladies Litre Nite @ Prost

Tonight was ladies litre night at prost, and it far exceeded my expectations. i would elaborate, but I drank 2 litres of beer and realy need to goto bed. While at the bar, i finished this scarf. I'm pretty proud of myself for a few reasons, #1, I knit and drank litres at the same time. being a big fan of multi-tasking, this is an acomplishment. #2 I finished a knitting project at the bar. ok, so i still haven't technically finsihed, I need to weave in the ends, but it was finished enough to wear home.



and because knitting is funny on rosie, here's a good shot. i don't think she approves.....

HUGE slipper # 2

Here are my giant slippers! The second one is just as big as the first. I think they will shrink to fit, I have faith in the felting!





turns out they might work as a doggie ski mask as well, maybe I'll put in some eye holes.....

It's HUGE!

I finished slipper # 1.......it's the same pattern of the slippers andie made....she gave me the pattern. I sure hope it shrinks A LOT when it's felted. I'm going to assume that is the case and make # 2 before I go and felt 'em. If it turns out that they're just huge, maybe they can hang out with Pulpshopgirl's giant mitten.

orange couch

there it is, in all its orange glory. It's a little bit blotchy in some parts, my fault for not agitating enough on the later batches. I got a little bored with it.......But all in all it's quite lovely. it's funny really, it's exactly the same orange as my orange sheets.

TWO legwarmers!

and a Rosie face.

I get SO much done while watching Buffy! In 2 days I have finished 2 projects that have been unfinished for too long.

Project Day!

I took Rosie for a walk this lovely afternoon, we went to the Wooly Monkey knit shop that is only 10 blocks from home. Today was the last day of their big sale, but unfortunately they may be closing! She's selling the shop. Anyone want to give me a bunch of money to buy a yarn store?








Now i am spending the rest of the afternoon dyeing my couch cushion covers! ORANGE! I can only do two at a time, and they have to dye for an hour, so its taking awhile. but I sure am excited about it! They'll look nice with my bright pink couch blanket. I've been wearing gloves, but i've been agitating the fabric with my hands and the dye leaks in. i'm getting a bit of Oompa-loompa hand. I'm using Dylon, "Burnt Orange." The color on the packet is lighter, but they're looking pretty bright! I am following the directions PRETTY well, but I didn't have enough salt. I hope that that isn't going to make it less permanent or something. I'm still adding a little, but about 1/4th of what they recommend. Oh well, we'll see!


Late last night while watching some Buffy the Vampire Slayer I finally finished my plastic bag bag! It's pretty ugly, but so derelicte! I think I'll try stripes on the next one.

knitting in the BATH?

That's right, I tried it. Pulpshopgirl inspired me to work on my plastic bag bag, because she finished hers. I've been working on mine for ages, (see pic of craft night about one month ago)


and I still haven't finished. I really wanted to take a bath, because I worked for 11 hours today and it sounded real nice. But I also wanted to knit, I figured heck, it's plastic. It worked ok, but since my fingers were wet it was kind of sticky and slow going. Maybe knitting and baths are two great things that aren't so great together. Now it's time for a movie and knitting in bed! also a delicious nutritious dinner of popcorn.
I think it is also time for a picture of Khya, just because I can. I even left the red eye intact, i think it adds to the overall effect. The video of her singing along to the BeeGees while thus adorned is even better. but the still photo will suffice.

Oh Yeah Baybee!

New episode of The OC tonight! I am so happy that Ryan and Marissa finally broke up, though I can't believe it happened OVER THE PHONE! Jeez, thats pretty lame even for them. I'm still really happy that Ryan finally got a haircut too. It doesn't take much to make me happy, does it?

Smoking ice cream!

I had so much fun with my Pop! He gets here and starts fixin' things. He fixed my gate, so it no longer scrapes, actually latches, and now has a conveniently grab-able knob! Yay! we also bark-a-mulched my yard. It's lookin' pretty sweet.



We did go to REI, and I bought the aforementioned coveted Chaco's. I used my 20% off coupon, my REI dividend, and got out of sales tax with my OR drivers license. So, i got an AWESOME deal on my AWESOME pink Chaco's.



Then we ate lunch in the Space Needle! We got a free desert for filling out a questionnaire thingy. I don't remember what it was called, but it was SMOKIN"!

hat and revived scarf!

Yay! I re-made the half eaten scarf. I used bigger needles too, which I think will be better because I didn't have quite as much yarn as a I would have liked. This way it will stretch out more and be longer. So the Rosie attack wasn't such a devestating accident.

Today was my eighth straight day of work. But now I have 2 days off! In a ROW! very exciting. My dad is visiting so we might go out on the town. Who knows, maybe hit up the giant REI. I've got my little dividend and 20% off coupon, those aforementioned pink chacos are calling my name......

It's hard to type with band-aids on most of your fingers. I was brutally attacked by a slide mounter. They're those nasty ouchies where there's a big old chunk of skin still hanging on. and every once in awhile they decide to start bleeding again. and then there are some mystery injuries too....maybe from my previous battle with the slide mounter. I'm all bruised and battered! and I haven't even started wrestling yet!
Here's a pic of Rosie being cute. I've forgiven her for eating my knitting....I mean, look how cute she is! and she is the LOML, after all.

My Dog ate my Knitting

This what I came home to today.




I think my dog is jealous of my knitting. I think she eats the things I love when she is mad at me. Like when she eats my shoes. I guess now its my knitting.

Love of your Life?

I was talking with my dear friend AL, and she asked me who the Love of my Life is/was...... I ran through the mental list of past relationships and such, and I just don't feell ike any of them stand out as one big special "Love of My Life". then I started thinking about it, and the concept is confusing and makes me kind of sad. What does that mean? Can you have many LOYL's? or none? If you're in a relationship with someone, are they automatically the LOYL? and if they're not, and someone else is/was, what does that mean? If someone from your past is the LOYL, do you need to get over them and find a new one? Is LOYL someone you lost or someone you're with for a long long time? Is there even really a DEFINITION? Anyway, for now I decided my Love is Rosie. and I obviously haven't met anyone worthy of being the LOML.

fruit bath?

I am really excited that tonight there is FINALLY a new episode of The OC. It has just been too long.

I'm sad Daniel didn't win Project Runway, and I still think Santino should design for Deb.

Chaco has some new sandals out this spring! They're real cute.... I want the pink ones of course.

Last but not least, a found image:


What is going on here? Is this possibly a "food as fetish" assignment?

finished hat!

I was rather productive today. i finished a hat for my sis, (but undid the scarf i had started for her)



Anatomist is over, furiously stitching



and I finally got my bookshelf out of my car, into my apartment, and got some books on it!

National Craft Month, bitches!

Pulpshopgirl mentioned that it is National Craft Month! So says The National Craft Association! Pretty exciting. So I think we should justify all our crafting and money spent on said crafting by saying we are celebrating. Also we can say it is part of our celebration of National Women's History Month, the theme of which is "Builders of Communities and Dreams". We're killing two celebration birds with our blogging stones. We have built an online crafting community. Ah, ain't that sweet?

So, today I realized I have a coffee addiction. It's not up to par with Andie's,but yesterday and today I noticed just how significant it is. See, I was raised a good Mormon girl, so in my later years when I started ingesting caffeine I have always been very sensitive to it. Now I seem to be dependent. I didn't have any coffee yesterday, and I was so tired and down all day. I even fell asleep on my lunch break at work. But today I had a cup of coffee in the morning with breakfast, and I was going strong! I even started to clean part of the uncleanable area I work in. I now have a very small clean and tidy oasis in my photo room.

Last, but not least, someone told me once that silver is an antibiotic, and if you ingest too much of it you turn a bluish gray. He also told me it was called Walking Corpse Disease. I decided to look this up. I found that Walking Corpse Disease is something else entirely, though I couldn't find much info about it, it was mentioned as a psychiatric disorder where patients feel they have lost limbs or lost their souls......Anyway, back to the silver! What I did find about silver is that if you ingest too much of it you do turn gray. But it doesn't have as cool a name as Walking Corpse Disease. It's called Argryia. Check this out:




EW! So don't be drinking photo fixer and be careful with colloidal silver.

i posted....

i tried to post, but it got all screwed up and it was a boring post anyway, somehow it ended up somewhere else and was all very confusing. i'm too tired to re-do it or care.
did anyone else see Jen Garner slip at the Oscars? Why do i think that was so funny? Seriously though, how mortifying would that be? She pulled it off ok i guess....at least she didn't totally biff it.

Great trip and Good news

Well I made it back to Seattle after a fabulous trip to Portland and Eugene. Last night was absolute madness! a crazed knitting party at Andie and Rick's. The crafty blog ring was mostly present in the flesh! With appearances by Pulpshopgirl, Sierra, and Kungfuramone! (See links for more pics and alternate accounts of the evening!)

the knitting circle



heather, trip and andie being cute



here's rick modeling Pulpshopgirl's infamous giant mitten!



I got home and got a call with great news from EvilCat......her and kamari got me on their girls wrestling team, the Westward Ho's! I'm to be Kamari's tag team partner. I'm really really excited about this. I really hope it happens! 'Cause I can throw down a DDT, and have been dieing to flex my pythons in the squared circle.....

and finally, here's rosie looking cute in a baby hat!

racoon food

My dad is raising baby pheasants in the garage.


they're not dead, they're sleeping.


when they're grown he'll set them free.

Perfect Timing

Today was a day of perfect timing. One of those rare days when everything seems to go right. Pulpshopgirl and I got out of Portland without a hitch, after a tasty breakfast and a stop at the coffee shop. We made incredible time down the I-5 stretch. I made it to all the places I wanted to go and saw all the people I wanted to see. At least, for today. I even parked at a 24 minute meter that was out of order, so I stayed parked there for hours. It was great.

Knitting Craftermath

I made a leg warmer. I will eventually make a second. It is mighty thick and warm, and not the most attractive really. I think maybe stockinette stitch in between the ribbing would have been prettier than seed stitch. Pulpshopgirl suggested stockinette, but did I listen? No, I wanted to try seed stitch.
We have been crafting al day, much knitting has happened. and some watching of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Good times, good times!

fueled by espresso

Today was one of the busiest days I've ever seen at the coffee kiosk! at one point we had 23 customers in 20 minutes. And there are only 2 of us.....it was madness! No Odwalla boy today, but my favorite customer crush came in and chatted with me for a good while.
Well, my car is almost packed. I have a ridiculous amount of stuff for just one person and one dog for 4 nights......but I gotta have my knitting and my computer! Essentials. and of course an assortment of cameras and film.
K, i gott jet.....but I'll leave you with this:



KNITTED ZOMBIES!
my life will be complete when i can make knitted zombies. I LOVE zombies. (thanks, andie!)