Where in the World is…

Well, if you’ve been wondering where I’ve been or if I’ve been swept away by my super secret knitting society… well I’ll let you know, it’s not knitting that’s completely grabbed my attention and taken me from  you (I know- blasphemy!) it’s Learn and Play.

So, I’m going to link you up to my Learn and Play blog and if you’re bored you can give it a looksy and if you hate me for abandoning you, I’m sorry.

They forced me. At gun point. They forced me to play on the internet at work and get paid for it and I tried to fight it, I swears. (Plus I’m helping other people learn about the internet and that’s like my life’s goal.) Because I can’t leave you without a picture and I don’t have many of my own at this moment, I want to show you a hat I think I want to make for myself this winter:

Chain Chomp Hat! Check the pattern here. How awesome is that? I could totally rock that hat.

Also, this Piranha Plant is super bitchin:

Again, I’m sorry. It’s not that I love you any less… and if I could just sit down and finish my lace. Oh yeah right, who am I kidding? Lace is KILLING ME. Remember the lace face? I almost cried lace tears the other night.

Baby Time

When THE BABY is here, everything stops- including time.

Maybe we should sell him to the government- I’m sure they could use such a powerful weapon.

Total ‘Enh’ihiliation

You ever get the feeling that you fail at life a little? A lot? I keep thinking, I should post to my blog… but I have no good news to post. I just have sort of “enh” news to post, which usually doesn’t bother me but it’s just one more thing. Damn, I am a total downer, let’s just skip to some pictures.

This is my Seascape Stole, or what I’m supposed to be finishing up for the Ravelympics. Only I got tripped coming out the gate. Everything was fine, I put in that lifeline that you see, then the actual pattern started and I tried to do something complex with stitch markers and next thing you know ::riiiiiiiip::. At least I had that first lifeline. But still, I couldn’t even look at this thing without making a dirty face at it, so I lost a lot of time.

Then I realized, I’m only a knitting superstar in my head! I don’t actually have deadlines so what the hell am I fretting over? To celebrate this self realization, I told John he should buy that TV that he wanted.

And he did!

You know, at one point… I’m going to say it was last year, we were responsible people who believed in things like “saving your money” and being “adults”. But this year we are totally like pfffffft, forget that noise and we’re being good consumers.

Speaking of which, those buttons in the first photo were from Craftin Outlaws:

Which I went to with Dana, my friend who was visiting from New Mexico. She was a bridesmaid in another friend’s wedding this past weekend. (We went to Craftin Outlaws after, where Dana got compliments on her dress- which she totally made herself!)

This is us ladies at Emma’s wedding (she’s the one in the white dress *ba dum tsh*). Congratulations Emma and Jimmy! w00t!

Yep, that’s about all… I was going to post and tell you guys to vote for me in that contest buuuuut, I didn’t make it into the semifinals. Hell, I didn’t even get an honorable mention and there were about a million of those. So I guess the moral of that story is: I fail. Also, the other moral is: stop trying.

Ha! Roidmato laughs at your misfortune.

Things on my mind…

I have had some real serious crap on my mind lately. However in the midst of all of that I keep having the same debate pop up in my head, so I’m going to open it up to you people out there:

Most Successful Hype Man?

Flava Flav? or…

Lil Jon?

It’s such a hard decision. I mean, I’m pretty sure Lil Jon makes a boat load of bills every time he utters the word “Yeah”. However, Flav is well, Flav… He had two (maybe even three?) seasons of a bunch of hussies wanting to be his, woman? wife? escort for life? I was always kind of confused what they were competing for- at one point I thought it was chicken. Apparently that was just a bonus.

Still, while this is a battle for the ages, I think we can all agree on:

Least Successful (Lamest) Hype Man EVER:

Fred Schneider from the B-52′s. Although some people would argue that he has a fancy German word (sprechgesang) for what he does and that he’s not in fact a hype man- I’m calling him out. HA!

Even when my mind gets tangled and troubled though, I’ve got to remind myself that at least I’m not in the Boo Box. What’s that? The boo box Smee.

(pictures link back to their sources.)

When it rains it- well you know the rest.

::harumph::

There aren’t any words for poor little Friedrick’s profound sadness or deep feelings of rampant… angst. Wherever he goes something always seems to rain on his parade!

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Rainycloud from Mochimochiland. I honestly didn’t think I would get this guy done in time for the contest… however, I(‘m pretty sure I) did. I even felted him! (Although he looks a little, well, I’ll use the word lumpy but you can guess what I’m thinking the cloud kind of looks like o_O) This was also my first time using safety eyes, so I learned something from this experience too. I’m loving this little guy.

Another wonderful figure taken from my head and made a reality by:

Fun fact: knit while watching Sweeney Todd (so it’s nice and angstified) and Firefly (which is a whole different angry story).