Freak of Knit-ture

To everything there is a season....

2006-03-30T22:38:05-05:00

As you may have noticed, I've not been blogging much here. That's 'cuz I'm a-movin' this dog and...well, dog...show! Its a work in progress, but the new site is here. www.funkyjewtopia.com baby! Long story, but I've been coveting that title for a while, and the url is a prezzie from my brother.

See you all there! Mwah!

Poor Sydney

2006-03-08T22:36:58-05:00

I could cry. Sydney is fewer about 5 teeth and I'm fewer about $500. My poor, gummy man only has 3 teeth left.

I took him in this morning, they weren't sure they were going to do dental work because Sydney has been having trouble getting up from a lying position since Friday night. Fortunately that turned out to be a severely pulled muscle and nothing more. But when they got him on the table and knocked out, they found out that his poor, smiley mouth was in worse shape than expected. Almost all of his teeth were abscessed (I really wish I could remember how to spell that). On the bright side, they did clean and polish the remaining 3 teeth.

Now he's home, quiet, and giving me sad eyed looks. He's also drooling a bit when he sleeps. I had to feed him oatmeal by him licking it off my fingers, he really won't eat anything else. (The vet was the one who suggested I give him oatmeal.) Conan is really worried about him, he keeps going to him and sniffing his mouth and trying to snuggle with him a bit. I can't tell him enough how sorry I am. Poor Gummy Gummerson.

STOP THE INANITY!!!

2006-03-08T00:13:13-05:00

Ok. I know inanity is not really a word, but I couldn't think of anything else to describe what I saw on the news tonight. And I swear this is a real news story. They say that CORN TORTILLAS CAUSE BIRTH DEFECTS! I'm not shitting you.

Next thing, they'll link Jello to restless leg syndrome. Geez.

I promised pictures...so here they are

2006-03-05T22:45:00-05:00

May I present....my new boyfriend, Thing #4, Ethan Mayer!

Here's more. Ain't he just soooooo good looking? I can't get enough of him. And he smells good too.

Here's thing #3, featured in her own shoot last year, she has definitely come into her own.

Now here she is for real.

I was only able to get a few of thing #2. Wow, that rhymed.

That's not a tantrum. He was fake sleeping. See the giggly smile?

Here's another.

Sadly, I didn't get any of Thing #1. But I did get #s 2 and 3 playing nicely together in the back yard.

Admittedly, those were before I caught #3 drinking sand out of her sippy cup. I got some nice shots of the back yard too.

Sunny all days, and about 70 degrees. Life sucks, huh?

Right before I left, #3 decided she didn't want to try to kill her baby brother, but she'd like to hold him. I leave you for the evening with these pictures.

Yes, I'm back

2006-03-01T23:40:00-05:00

I'm home. I got in at midnight, home by 1 a.m., in bed around 2. I'm bushed people. Yet I did work today. I must be crazy.

The trip was great. Now that I'm home I'm cold, because it was, like, 70 degrees every day there. And on Tuesday, when it rained a bit, it was still warmer than it is here. Alicia, my best friend, looks great, especially only 1 month after having a baby. She's amazing. 4 kids. Not easy. The new baby is so handsome, he's my new boyfriend. And yes, there's pictures, I've just been too tired to download them. And Alicia took a lot too, so I'll post what she sends me when I get them. The kids (from now on refered to as things # 1 through 4) are brilliant, all of them. Thing #2 (her eldest son) was getting over a cold, but he's just the most amazing 3 year old I've ever met. How many of you know a 3 year old who can actually hit a thrown baseball, and we're talking that he can connect, hit it straight, and FAR. He can also throw a football - spiral and everything, and catch one too. And tell you all about dinosaurs, and count, and he can do almost the whole alphabet in sign language. Plus he's just cute. Thing #1 is too smart for her own good. I did start teaching her how to knit. We got her a book/kit at Barnes and Noble on Monday night, and I showed her a few things. By Tuesday morning before school she was casting on, on her own. Thing #3 is jealous of her new baby brother, and tries on a fairly regular basis to "take him out." But she's still a charmer. And is using sign language to tell you what she wants, and she's not even 2 yet. (They hired a lady, who I met and really like, to come in 3 days a week in the mornings to help Alicia get everyone off to school and stuff, and this lady is teaching #3 sign language.) I mean, hell, its only possible to do so much when breast feeding and that kid eats like every 1/2 hour!

I did get quite a bit of knitting done this trip. I'm almost finished with a pair of Bearfoot Mountain Colors socks, I just have to put in the afterthought heels. And I started another pair of toe-up 2 socks on 2 circulars with afterthought heels in Lorna's Laces Jungle Stripe on the plane home. I have decided to name these socks, The Socks that Barney Shat. You'll understand when I post pictures.

I came to the realization that I have seen more movies while travelling than I have at home. So I've decided to start Sarah's Unplanned Travelling Movie Review. I'll use a set of 5 double-points to rate. Never mind what size! Recently seen: Cinderella Man (on the bus-twice to New York) and Walk the Line (to and from Las Vegas). Originally I hadn't planned on seeing either of these movies. I don't like Russel Crowe or Joaquin Phoenix. But I give them both 5 DPs. I haven't stopped singing Johnny Cash songs yet! Needless to say, Walk the Line made me realize EXACTLY what I want for my birthday - the entire Johnny Cash (and Johnny Cash/June Carter) collection on CD, and an I-Pod. I'll go into further filmular detail tomorrow, when I'm not cross-eyed with jetlag.

Must sleep again. Now.

Well, I'm off!

2006-02-25T11:36:24-05:00

Well everyone, I'm off to Las Vegas for a few days for a little B & B. Thats best friend and babies. She had baby #4 last month so I'm going out to make sure she gets a nap. This time I'm bringing fresh batteries in my camera and I WILL be coming home with pictures, dammit!

I'll be back late Tuesday night. I'd go longer, but I miss my boys too much. I wish I could take them with me.

Anyhoo, gotta run. Still have to pack my suitcase with yarn!

This I have decided

2006-02-22T22:25:19-05:00

1) Most importantly, that by the end of this year I will have enough hand-knit socks that I will never have to wear store bought socks again. Now, this doesn't mean that I need to knit them all, so any sock-knitting fairies out there....get to work.

2) I am going to make enough money this year to be able to afford a house-keeper to come in at least once a month to clean that which I don't want to.

3) I'm going to lose some weight. Just some. I'm not fooling myself.

4) I WILL get myself onto a yarn diet. At some point.

5) My sewing machine will come back out of hiding and actually get used.

These are the important decisions I have made. Life-changing aren't they?

In doggie-dog news. Sydney and I went to the canine cardiologist today (Conan stayed at Camp Auntie-Peggy). Our Sydney guy's ticker is status quo, which is better than the other options, and he is ok for anesthesia if needed. He's such a good boy with this cardiologist, just lies there and lets her take an EKG, while I pet his nose and talk to him. This means that by this time next week he will have at least one less tooth in his mouth, maybe more. I kind of wish they made doggie dentures, because the thought of his poor toothless smiley mouth just makes me want to cry. But it should also help his cough, so I guess its for the best. Oh yeah, and he lost some more weight! Our Sydney-potamus now weighs 24lbs and losing! Yay Sydney!

A Quick Shout-Out to My Peeps

2006-02-20T23:03:40-05:00

Ladies Whose Knitting Style Sucks (and we know who we are, don't we - hopefully I didn't leave anybody out), it was so great meeting all of you tonight, even if I did show up late. Really, I was under a dog. Lolly, next time you have to stay longer dammit!

Can't wait until the next one!

P.S. See this post on Eunny's blog if you want to know what I'm talking about.

Oh Holy Snot!

2006-02-16T23:05:00-05:00

I'm so tired its not even describeable. And I don't think that's a word. I've spent most of the beginning of the year out of town at trade shows. Most recently I was at Toy Fair, in New York this past Monday. Yes, up to NY and back to Baltimore in the same day. Why? Because of this.

That's my front yard. Sunday. Wanna see the back yard? I love my back yard. It's like a little piece of heaven. And here it is covered in snow.

Good thing I had finished these. I made them from some handspun I bought from Lynnell at Yarn Rescue. Just a quick toe up and afterthought heel from worsted weight. I actually wrote down what I did, so I'll post a pattern. Yeah, I promise. I'll get to the damn ducky mittens too.

So anyway, because of the damn snow, I didn't get up to NY on Sunday. Missed the clown parade, my favorite part of Toy Fair. Poo. But I did finish another pair of socks out of Vesper Sock Yarn in Aquamelon. And I re-started a pair of Jaywalkers in Socks that Rock, Queen Rock. I'm not sure I like them though.

Now, there's been a lot going on in the news. I'm choosing not to comment on our esteemed Vice Accident shooting someone, or the completely odd opening ceremonies at the Olympics. Its just too much. But on the home front, Conan is now pneumonia free. And Sydney has developed an abcess on one of his teeth. And he only has like 6 left! The worst of it is that it is in one of his eye-teeth, where the root goes into his sinus cavity, which is why he is so sneezy, and the infection can affect his heart. So I have to go back to the doggy cardiologist with him as soon as I can. There's $400. Then they'll probably have to pull his poor doggy tooth, hoping we can avoid anesthesia, because of how it could affect his little oversized ticker. God knows how much that'll be. I'm thinking of taking up a collection.

This is what he thinks of it all.

Sweet Sydney-potomus.

It doesn't make headlines when I say it....

2006-02-09T21:27:49-05:00

Bush told to ‘shut up’

It caught my eye this morning. And it made me giggle just a bit.