Apparently I’m Channeling Cookie and Other Random Shit.

Or so Carrie tells me so.

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Hey, look!  An Effin-O.

• Pattern: Simple Yet Effective Shawl
• Start: 15 Sept 09 just after WI vacay
• Finish: 27 Oct 09 on way to see doc in Dallas
• Yarn: 3 skeins Mini Mochi bought at the Sow’s Ear in WI
• Needles: US 5 Addi Lace, also bought at the Sow’s Ear
• Por: me

Easy, mindless pattern.  Yarn was knotted in several places and very loose spun in others.  Not a sock yarn for sure.  Also stained my fingers.  Soaked in vinegar and euclan.

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Just to prove I’m not all about the roid rage.  This is for my baby.

That is all.

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I’m going to relax with Icarus since I have the damn iv outta my arm now.  Yeah.  You heard me.  Icarus.

Happy Wednesday Bitches!

Random Holiday Monday Schtuff

♥ Fun quote I read this morning:

Be the fruit loop in a world full of cheerios

♥ Only 2 more days!  WOOOT!

♥ I haz big brown thing on my massage table but y’all don’t get to see it until after it’s photo shoot in WI.

♥ Maybe I should get it it’s own name tag:  Knit by the Kind and Wonderful Cookie.  AKA The Stoopid Shawl.

♥ I saw this yesterday and thought of Angie:

♥ I was going to do this week’s UM’s but I didn’t want to go there this early in the week.

♥ I sent Texas back on the road yesterday.  I haz sad.

♥ I also still have a list of things that needed to be done.

♥ I may have corrupted him a tiny bit this trip home.   Mr. Self Sufficient himself – was forced into experiencing the joys of hiring someone to do “crap that needs to be done, but there’s never enough time when you’re only home one week a month”

♥ And then, I found this for Cookie:

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hehehhe

♥ I’m going to sit back with Grey’s and start at season 1 so I can catch up.  Skinny Porkchop has them all and I’ve got nothin’ better to do.  Well, I could watch Saving Grace or Dexter, but Texas hasn’t seen them yet and we’re kind of watching them together.

♥ I hope Angie has HBO because the season finale of TrueBlood is on NEXT Sunday.  /sigh

♥ I’ve washed and blocked almost all of my shawls.  I know I’m taking the Stoopid Shawl and the Knit with Nora Forest Canopy (so it can meet the person who made it happen).  I think I’m going to take my favorite one ( I think that’s the right link) and possibly my SUKYCC flower basket. But I’m not sure.   It’s a debate because I love my blue shawl of comfort so much and I don’t want to leave home without it.  But I am trying to fly with only carry on luggage.  I guess I could pack less clothing.  O.o

♥ Just because I can:

♥ Happy Monday y’all!

UM, it’s Sunday & I have no knitting to show, again

Chicken livers, $1.25; vintage knife, $14.99; Bait and tackle, $10; lunch at the Purple Pig, $20; day of fun at the love shack with SSCLD, priceless.

The pistol I bought didn’t hurt either.  It’s cleaned, the magazines are loaded and we’re heading to the land to fire it today.  WOOT!

Who needs candy and flowers and icky squishy romance when you have bait, guns and ammo. I mean really!

Pretty much, no knitting occurred this week… and after that burst of knitting mojo, I’m kind of surprised.  I did however wash and block last week’s FO and plan to sew the buttons on … sometime.

Angie and I have agreed to change our date for the Icarus –  seeing as life is happening to both of us. I completely take the blame as I asked a few weeks ago.

Moving + knitting lace = disaster.  You could go send her some love and hugs too… and possibly booze.

And now for something completely different:

1. Be mine :: valentine yes
   
2. Ecstatic :: me overjoyed
   
3. Orderly :: obsessive and compulsive function
   
4. Sebastian :: Bach (the heavy metal dude, not the J.S. Bach) Bach
   
5. Sore :: floppy paw back
   
6. Don’t need ::no education no satisfaction
   
7. Rockstar ::I’m still a  rockstar, I got my rock moves I’m still a rockstar, I got my rock moves
   
8. Tinfoil :: hat aliens
   
9. Addiction :: Intervention addicted to love
   
10. Where? :: in the world is Carmen SanDiego where does my heart beat now
    

Apparently, I snore a little

An average of 640 times an hour.

O.o

Combine that with the talking and it’s no wonder I don’t sleep well.  Actually, doing the math, I’m kind of surprised I sleep at all.  They think it may have something to do with my adenoids.  (Which were left in place when they took my tonsils)

“What about the knitting?” you ask.

Well.  Ummmm.  Hehe.  Yeah.

I’ll pick it up today?

After the fishing and bike riding?

Too bad it stopped raining and I can’t fish from my lane/driveway anymore. Yeah.  Fish.  In the driveway.  From the pond.  The water was that deep.

Plus there is the whole agreement that Angie and I made to get to Chart 2 of Icarus by Valentine’s Day.

Yes Angie, I put it out there.  Now we have to stick to it.  Maybe.  If we don’t get distracted.  That may seem some way off, but other people playing along finished theirs long ago.  (In case you missed it Angie, right there in Joan’s post, the secret to the repeats.)

Happy Hump Day y’all!

All this living is making me lose time

Or maybe it’s the holidays… or maybe I’m just misplacing brain cells again.

Anyway.

I took this picture for my Saturday Sky post and woke up this morning realizing it was Sunday.

After two days of 80 degree weather, I’m ready for the cold front that moved in this morning.  Kind of.  The arm, not so ready.

Maybe it was the knitting.

Despite appearances, the thing has grown.  I finished off going through chart one for the first time and am over half way through the first repeat.    I took notes when everyone was doing the KAL as to how many repeats I need to do.  And then I went back through their blogs and took notes again when I couldn’t find my first set.

I’ll be cruising archives again today.

/sigh

Along with cruising on my bike.  Yes, I got a new seat (looks kind of like a hornet’s head) and I rode on Friday.  No new butt chaffing.  YEAH!  I can’t ride every day because of the daily shot I have to do. (the sites rotate and it gets irritated if I work out the area the next day. I found this out because of the floppy)

Have a great Sunday y’all!

UM, someone said it was Wednesday.

Nothing to see here. Again.

Unless you want to hear about the cold front that moved in or the rain or how bored I am without my tractor.  Or how, despite all the things I have on the needles and am busy ignoring, I am considering casting on for  Hemlock Ring thing with Nora.  (if anyone even mentions Icarus, I may have to smack you)

See what not having a tractor does to you?

Now I just have to find the perfect yarn to do it.  I briefly considered some Silky Wool, but I would have to treat that thing too carefully for a blanket.

The indecision has even found me leaving the LYS twice in the past week with nothing.

Yes, nothing.

The theme of the month.

Happy Wednesday UM’s!

1. Love affair :: Warren Beatty and Annette Bening
2. Bubble :: wrap
3. Pimple :: pop
4. Knocks :: hard
5. Persistent :: Illusion
6. Infected ::wound
7. Yay! :: finished object
8. Repaint :: refresh
9. Daily :: Show with Jon Stewart
10. Quickly! :: I said MOVE IT!

Three Thankful Things… like I could stop there

Thanks to Nora, I have a post today. So, here are my three twelve (or is it 13, since I’m thankful for Nora too) thankful things:

01. A slow moving rainstorm over night that made music on a tin roof. It was lovely and lulled me to sleep several times.

02. Ten and a half acres to get lost on… and two walking buddies. (one who obviously never sits still) These daily walks are wonderful and soothing.

03. An answer. Even if it’s not exactly what was wanted or expected, the known is better than the unknown.

04. A great lake to fish on… or just walk around… or to just sit by and think

05. A Fuzzle keeper that somehow, despite all the insanity in her life, found time to help calm me with the insanity in mine.

06. The ability to knit and purl again. The motions are soothing and meditative.

07. A wonderfully crazy person who can churn out knits like a rabid flying monkey and then gives them away.

08. Five, yes I said 5, jumbo space bags filled with yarn and fiber. As soon as I can get to it, it will be like my own personal yarn store.

09. A kind and generous person who provided the yarn and inspiration for the Knit w/ Nora Icarus. I’ve found solace in the easy memorize-able pattern and I can’t help but think of the other shawls out there waiting to meet.

10. The scenery and landscape of East Texas.

11. Ok, and the scenery and landscape of Texas the man. 😀 Oooh yeah baby!

12. A weird, squishy loving freak who now will be required to be in any future event if it should ever occur… AND she’ll be forced to wear blue eyeshadow and a leopard print sequined gown – with neon blue wedge heels.

And just for the record:

Manic Monday – Not really

Good Monday morning duckies!

Hope everyone had a relaxing weekend. My plans for yesterday got a little backwards, but I did do everything I said I was going to do.

Even knitting on Icarus. 😀 Nora, you can pick yourself up off the floor now.

On to this week’s Manic Monday:

• How many hours of TV do you watch per week? Do you feel that’s too much, not enough or just right? B.T. or A.T? Because A.T., it’s only about 4 to 8 hours a week. Living does that to you.
• Which of the 5 senses do you feel is your strongest sense? Hearing. It’s genetic. I can hear a whisper at the other end of the house. Surprising given how as a teenager I tried to destroy it. 😀
• What’s the wackiest belief you held as a child? Yeah. Ummm. I don’t think I need to fly that freak flag.

Have a good one y’all!

UM – It’s Sunday

Labor Day Weekend – MoKan Raceway

I’ve missed a couple of weeks, but here is this week’s Unconscious Mutterings

1. In love :: squishy
2. Be my guest :: Disney
3. Number one :: look out for
4. Swallowed whole :: my hook
5. 50 percent :: off – SALE!
6. Made in :: Taiwan
7. Supplement :: nutritional
8. Right for :: me
9. Endless :: love
10. Ceramic :: mug

I’m ready for another lazy Sunday. It started with a nice, big breakfast of French toast and bacon and will end with some fishing this afternoon. Tonight, there might even be a bonfire in the pasture if we can get a firebreak mowed.

There might even be some knitting this morning.

/gasp

Yes. Knitting. Since I started the Knitting w/ Nora Icarus again.

/gasp again!

I was planning to use it for drive knitting on the last trip to CA, but Texas got chatty and as I said to Angie, talking to him was far more important than trying to follow a lace chart. As an uninitiated knitting S.O., he thought it was just him. Luckily, Angie and I were texting about it and she provided evidence to the contrary.

Happy Sunday y’all! May is be just as lazy for you.

Mondays are for KALs

Subtitle: My brain melted this weekend and I have nothing.

Look! Knitting!

A sock.  Imagine that.  What with Summer of Socks having started on Saturday. I didn’t get that far, but I may have been a little distracted.

I know, not knitting and not that impressive unless you have something to compare it to.  Trust me, I got a bunch done.

/ insert picture of cut fabric here

Oh, even more impressive, huh?  Because I love you all enough not to bore you with an actual picture of all but one fabric cut into strips and squares.

I may have also been a little unfaithful to my first SoS sock.  Because the little yarn cake screamed “KNIT ME” every time I walked past it.

That part may have been a delusion.

I said it was hot.

Because I’m so good at multitasking, these socks fit SoS, MM08 AND my summer goals.

What about Knit w/Nora?  Nora who?  Huh?  I don’t recall having knitterly relations with that woman.  Fine.  Icarus may have packed it’s bags, changed it’s name and is hanging out with Mary.

Grace and Brenda are back the 14th of July (yeah!) and I can’t wait.  Combine those two with Mary and Nancy, and I have some good knitting time this summer.