Month: January 2009

It’s just one of those evenings… I’ve had 3 hours sleep and I definitely caught a second (third?) wind and I’m buzzing along, kicking butt and taking names!!

Why is it that sometimes, when you’ve had little to no sleep, you can be your most productive? Dunno, but I’ll take it while I can!

I started reading “Dewey” and am convinced that all cats have similar crazy behaviors. They all like to sleep in boxes, they all love to sit right in the middle of whatever project you have going and they all like to run around chasing things nobody else really sees.

So, why can you now put a theme on your profile page, on you home page but there are no themes for blogs? Why is that still crazy.. and why hasn’t someone made a suite of themes?? Or have they and I just don’t know where to go to get them. I must admit, I’m not as well versed in MySpace as I am in Multiply, but until recently, the interface with MySpace was just too YUCK for me. I’ve liked the changes they’ve made. Some of them remind me of the Yahoo 360 days.

Ok, enough senseless blathering for today. I’ll try to have something more interesting to talk about the next time I stop by here!! Promise!! Heheheh… I mean, I’m sure I could dig up some dirt from somewhere in my saved stash of stuff…. lol

Ok, I admit it. I spent the better part of my weekend sitting on my arse and watching TV.

(insert sharp intake of breath here)

I know, I know… for those of you who know me, TV and I are not on the best of terms most of the time. Unless I’m sitting down to knit something, and then it’s usually something to listen to instead of actually watch. (Hit the pause button, I must admit that I do like to watch “Dexter”.)

When I was about 17, I started watching “Dr. Who” on public television. I made sure I got home from any dates or from running the streets, just so I could catch an episode. Throughout my adult life, I’ve still tried to catch Dr. Who as much as possible, but only recently did it become more accessible to me. (I mean, there was that huge amount of time where there just WASN’T any new Who. It was rerun hell there for awhile) Anyway, when they started making new Who, I was excited to see what it would be like, but catching it weekly never seemed to be possible.

Let’s all sing the praises of television seasons that get put onto DVD!!

I was given the first two seasons of the new Dr. Who to watch, but my source dried up for season three, so I was beginning to think I would have to buy it, but lo and behold, Netflix had season three on INSTANT play and so Hubby and I curled up on the couch and prepared ourselves for 14 episodes of Whovian bliss. Wow! We had a blast. We both had liked the first two new seasons but season 3 outdid both of them. Now I have to find season 4, or find out how long I have to wait for it……

All good things come to those who wait… or those who have internet and a credit card!!

I have a pile of work on my desk that has grown since before the holidays and you know what, I don’t really care. It’s not making me anxious, and I’m not worrying about it. I’ll get to it soon enough. For now, it’s a lovely place for my cat to curl up and help me compose and read blogs.

I’m trying really hard to get through the book I have listed here. Not that it’s BAD, per se, it’s just that it kinda drags in the middle and what I’d really like to start reading is “Dewey” which is a true story about how a small town library got a little kitten that changed the town.

Ok, holiday horror story. I think I’m pretty safe talking about this *here*.

I’ve been working on a gift for someone for a while. I would have had it done much sooner, if I hadn’t concurrently been working on a Dr. Who scarf (see example in above photo) for “he who must not be named”, that’s right, I was working on a scarf for Voldemort…. not… anyway, the Dr. Who scarf was supposed to be from season 12 (I think, or maybe 13? doesn’t really matter) but the result is that I got up to about 8 feet and then the person I was knitting it for vanished into thin air. That’s right >pop< … just like that. Imagine that… lol… and I had been so diligently working on that sucker since December of last year and it had taken priority, since it was supposed to be a birthday gift. No such luck.. the disappearance meant that I was now free to work on something else. The smaller project I thought would be done in time for the holidays.

Pahahahahaha!!! Who am I kidding here?? I was/am using tiny little knitting needles for a fine gauge scarf for someone. That freaking takes forever to get even a foot. And it’s not like I sit and knit for hours on end. Hello!! Are you new here?? Why do you think I only had 8 feet of the Who scarf done???? And I was *TRYING* to get that one done. Anywho, let’s just say I’m a bit shy of being done, but with concerted effort, I would have been finished in late December to early January. Actually, that would have been pretty good timing.

Not to be the case my friends. The person I was making this for required a command performance at her house for the holidays. Apparently their gift was already chosen and  ready to roll and she wanted to be sure that she checked her gift giving off her list of to-do’s. The day she had chosen was my baking day, so I had spent the entire day with flour up to my elbows, trying to figure out what I was going to do for a gift for her. I knew that she loved my baked goods, since her family doesn’t “do” that kind of thing, so I was safe with that, but I also knew what she had gotten for the hubby and if she went there for him… well then my cookies weren’t going to compare.

Damnit, but I hate when I am right… and I OFTEN am.

I had decided that along with the goodies, I’d give her the same thing we’d given some other co-workers, which was actually kinda small. I was NOT happy. I was NOT ready. I’m still going to give her the gift I’m making, but now the timing is all off and she’ll think it’s in response to hers instead of realizing it was started ages ago. Grrr… oh well, what can one person do?  Maybe I should have just finished up the Dr. Who scarf and given it to her.. hahahahaha!!

Actually, I think I *AM* going to finish it. Either I’m going to keep it (hell, I paid almost 100 bucks for the freaking wool yarn) give it to the hubby, risk sending it thru the witness protection program for it’s intended target, OR, most likely, put it up for sale on EBAY!! If for no other reason than to recoup the cost of the yarn. Hey, these are tough economic times guys… a girls gotta do what  girls gotta do!!