50 Cent goes to Iraq

Have you guys seen the ads for this game? We don’t see too many ads these days but it feels like the internet is actually targeting this household for the new 50 Cent game. Are we their target audience? Definitely. However all of the ads are ridiculous and amazing. I mean, from what I’ve gathered this game has got to be like National Lampoon’s Family Vacation. Only instead of Wally World they go to Iraq. And instead of Chevy Chase it’s 50 Cent. I might be wrong but I certainly hope I’m right.

So I finally finished the first cubee I started. That’s right, it’s the cradle of cubee life. The cubee Mesopotamia for me if you will (which I don’t blame you if you won’t.) I give you Ramona Flowers:

She’s got some spark in her. Hopefully not too much or she’ll be gone in less than two seconds but you know, a little spark.

I haven’t been up to too much I guess, at least knitting wise. I did paint some pottery though because there was a special on Lincoln’s bday, the painting fee was only a penny! Way better than on Washington’s bday where they upped it to a quarter. I mean, which President are you going to like more with those prices? I decided to paint a bowl for my ungrateful asshole cats.

It says “Saxy Cat.” Because that’s what I call her and I do call the other one Shmoobot. It came out pretty crappy in my opinion. The green for the Saxy Cat part came out way lighter than I thought it would and the blue background paint came out super streaky which I don’t really like. Plus you can see what a train wreck I ended up making Sax’s face. Live and learn I guess. I’m exciting to go back and paint a mug. I’m thinking either something knitting themed or a Mickey mouse themed mug for my mom.

I got my hair cut last week and because I need to share every detail of everything I do with you, here’s a picture:

Which I kind of like this picture because it makes me think that’s what I’d look like if I were a cyborg and had a crazy cyborg eye. You know, a cyborg who can turn the world on with her smile. Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile.

Sorry 2D, you’re too square for me

Okay, so let’s pretend Valentine’s day just happened. I mean, in the grand scheme of time it’s not that much of a stretch. Anyways, this Valentine’s day and just lately has been all about sticking it to the second dimension. While it was adequate before it is now pretty much useless since this is the future we’re living in. Also, I can’t stop myself from cutting stuff out of paper and giving it some… dimension.

Wouldn’t you like to go to work and find a TARDIS waiting for you? BAM!

Pretty swanky right?

Me and John went out on Valentine’s day and saw Coraline in 3D, which was pretty neat. While it wasn’t ‘creepy’ it did creep me out in some parts, if that makes any sense. There were a lot of scenes that I thought were great in 3D but I felt like I would have been really bored if I were just watching it normally. Maybe they did something different for the different screenings? I don’t know. Here’s the trailer if you have no idea what Coraline is.

Of course I had to make a paper doll for John for Valentine’s day so I made him his very own pipboy:

I also got him a shirt. Although he got me something a bajillion times better because he’s always doing sweet and frustrating things like that. One of these days I will get him a better present and then I’m sure everything will reverse like in Dogma, you know, black will become white, happy will become sad, cats and dogs will start living together. However Chris Rock will still be a wise acre because you just can’t keep him down.

Hey, remember knitting? Yeah, neither do I. But since we’re on the topic, I’ve been slowly manufacturing a Clapotis. I won’t even link it because I’m sure you’ve all either seen it or made it and if you have to see another one your eyes will start bleeding. Well look away:

This was before I dropped any stitches and I wish you could feel this fabric! I’m loving this yarn and while the pattern is keeping my attention the sheer enormity of it and that fact that it’s going to take the whole year to make is a little daunting. At my LYS they always talk about customers in terms of how ‘prolific’ they are. Oh you know Susan, she’s such a prolific knitter, she knit a whole wardrobe for her little granddaughter. Sometimes I wonder how they would describe me, would they say, oh you know Lindsey, she’s so antiprolific that she started knitting something and somehow ended up unraveling her shirt.

Actually I know what they would say about me: she needs to quit her bitchin. I started a new Mystery sock, which you all have seen around here before. However into the second repeat I started noticing that Shi Bui pools. Noticeably. I did not know this about Shi Bui. I took it in and said what’s going on here ladies and one of them told me that oh yeah, Shi Bui does that, she knit a pair of socks with cables in the same colorway I was using and it did the random pooling and she just loved it.

Are you noticing how I’m talking in past tense here? Because I frogged those suckers. FROGGED. You hear me? Even though they tried to tell me I was crazy, the owner agreed with me: yes that is some skanky pooling. Also yes it is my time and money. And while we’re at it, it’s not like they spun and dyed the yarn themselves so why take it as a personal offense? She told me I could bring the yarn back and get whatever I wanted. How awesome of a store is that?

Before I go, my friend decided that she was ready to break out of the land of garter stitch scarves and start playing for keepsies. I told her she should knit a hat. Well that’s exactly what she did. In a day. Because she pretended like she needed some hand holding but she really just needed a cheerleader.

See how happy she is? Next thing I knew she was at the LYS buying some llama yarn to make Felicity. This girl’s a pro y’all, give her some props.

You guys rock!

I was feeling all down and out and really putting the “blah” into my blog but you guys rock hardcore and disregarded it, left me some awesome comments and just generally rocked my face off. Completely. I’m now devoid of a face but that’s cool- I don’t need one anyways. Honestly, who needs a face?

Er, okay, now that things have gotten creepier than I originally intended, let’s move on to something pretty amazing: I finally finished a project from a while ago. The ladies in my knitting group are probably like, yeah, we know and we’re tired of seeing that stupid thing anyways. Because I would bring it and look at it with such great intentions then it was like the second I touched it all motivation and goodwill drained right out of me. All that was left in me were expletives. I started this project with ‘enhn’tentions and now I can finally… uh… crap, I don’t know what to do with this thing.

It’s the Round Baby Blanket. Only mine looks like a crazy ass sun. After I washed and steam blocked the pointy parts so they’d stop rolling up. It was windy in this picture but it sure is nice outside. Golly.

Another thing I’ve worked on recently is this:

Now I’m thinking with portals.

My boss sent me a link through twitter to these cool cubee things that I’m totally digging. I asked John to print one out for me from his work and started on it last night… but due to printing malfuctions, half of Ramona Flowers head was missing. Whoops! This is going to be something that I get totally creepily into for like a week and then forget ever happened. But now that it’s on the internet it will forever be etched into history as my craft of the moment. Yeah!

I don’t know why but any and all Scott Pilgrim news is exciting to me. While I’m not the biggest fan of Michael Cera, I think that once he buffs up, he’ll make an awesome Scott. Although you can disregard the things I get excited about because I’m also excited for the new Crank. So now you have something by which to judge all my previous statements. Also, let’s all LOL at the fact that Crank 2 is rated R because of “frenetic strong bloody violence throughout, crude and graphic sexual content, nudity, and pervasive language.” Are you excited yet or what?! Also, do you think Crank 3 will be in 3D? I’m about to burst just thinking about it.

big time bad news

Do you know what has stopped me from completely melting into a puddle of lamesauce? You guys. The other day when I was talking out loud to John to try to motivate myself to do stuff by listing out what I need to do I said “I need to take pictures to put on my blog or else they’ll think I’m a slacker.” They? The internet! Don’t you realize what serious business this is? If someone on the internet thinks I’m a slacker well then that’s big time bad news.

A while back I traded yarn with my Granma. She sent me this really nice purple alpaca/wool blend. Well I sat and looked at that yarn and asked it what it wanted to be and it sat and stared back at me. So when I broke my yarn buying resolution two days into the new year it was actually to buy some yarn to go with the purple yarn.

Speaking of resolutions, all of mine are effectively broken. Well, I’m still hoping to lose some weight or at least get in something that can be considered “in shape” (meaning not the blob monster I feel like recently or that Wii Fit confirms I am). This winter blah crap is not helping. All of the other resolutions though are caput. Although I’m still trying to not buy yarn unless it’s necessary because I’m saving up for… something we’ll talk about in the future here. Plus when I walk in my closet it cries. The yarn actually cries at me. “Lindsey,” it says sniffling, “you loved us enough to buy us, why won’t you make us into something beautiful?” Closet guilt trip, yeesh.

So I made a hat!

It is a seriously goofy hat too. It comes to a sort of Pope hat point. It’s also pretty big considering I cut out some rows and knit it on some small needles. If I were to knit this hat again, which I might because I’m curious- I would switch out the colors. Make the purple the main color and the white the contrast. I think that might make me like it more.

While I’m glad to have finished something, I’m kind of ‘enh’ towards the outcome. Story of my life right now! I need to get out and get active, that’ll hopefully make me less of a Grumpy Gus. I hate sitting around focusing on how fat I am, how nothing I knit looks right or pleases me and how I haaate what I’m reading. Well I think things have at least turned around there because I’m finally done with stupid Wuthering Heights. Sorry if you love that book but it just killed my happiness. Okay, I’m done hatin’ and being lame, at least I hope so!

I still have a ball of the purple and of the white left, I don’t know- should I knit another hat only reverse or should I think about making some mittens? Hrm.

Also have you guys listened to Feed the Animals by Girl Talk? Do it!