Rain, rain, don't go away...

It's such a rainy, chilly, gray day and I just want to curl up and watch scary movies and knit... But I have stupid chores to do. I really, really don't want to go out and get the dry-cleaning. I'll go when the rain stops.

Of course, now the sound of the raindrops stop. Dammit!

I'll just get it tomorrow. I just looked next to me, and some cat apparently threw up ALL over the coffee table during the night. Great. Just great.

Rhinebeck!

Rhinebeck Sheep & Wool Festival was this weekend, and it was great fun.



I stayed with Beth(aroopie) and had a lot of fun with her and the other ladies. All together, we got a TON of yarn and fiber!



More pictures here!

HE'S BACK!!

I got a call less than an hour ago from a wonderful woman who saw the "lost" signs that my bf put up, and said she had him in her house. Apparently he crawled in her window on Friday or Saturday, and she didn't even notice at first because there was construction going on in her house. She was only 4 houses down from us, so I went right over and there he was, in a cage, yowling and squeaking, all freaked out. Poor baby. He's a little antsy but thrilled to be home. I'm SO RELIEVED!

Sleep Deprived and Sad

The last day or two has been extremely stressful. Trying to get work done and pulled an all-nighter last night. I just took a nap and I'm so out of it, I feel almost drugged. I'm not even going to get into all the damn complications of the work.

Tasty Paws has been missing. John said the last time he saw him was Friday afternoon before he came to meet me in Long Island. We came home last night and haven't seen him. It is NOT normal for him to be gone this long. He comes in to eat and usually likes to sleep on our bed with us. He's such a sweet boy. And John is so attached to him, he's like his baby. I don't know what to do, and the more time that passes, the more I worry. Best case scenario, someone took him in, and hopefully when we put signs up tomorrow, someone will call us to say they have him.



I am SUCH a mess and I can't remember the last time I felt this drained.

"Les Misbarack"

I love this video so, so much. I don't know if they're actors or real Obama campaign workers -- I THINK they're real campaign workers, but I'm not sure. Nonetheless, it is freaking brilliant.



Viva la revolucion!

Commercials are stupid.

This ad is so creepy. Therefore I must share it with the rest of you:



Also, John showed me this great commercial from when he was a kid, about poison control...



I've been singing it all day! Okay, now I have to go knit swatches...

Stupid banks.

My bank got bought out. Details here. This sucks. I really liked Washington Mutual. Then again, any bank is better than the one I had before, Apple Bank. They were AWFUL. I mean, totally incompetent.

This economic disaster thing sucks the big one.

I had my 2nd crochet class last night! Unfortunately there are only 2, but I learned a bit -- I'm still a total newbie, but I'm psyched about learning more. And I'm looking into taking a class that can make me a Certified knitting instructor, which I'm very excited about. I'm waiting to hear about if the class is full yet -- Hopefully not, in which case I'll be taking it in about 3 weeks.

Water, water, everywhere...

I saw a rather distressing documentary today with my mother. It was called "Flow: For Love of Water". Watch the trailer:



I'm going to a crochet class tomorrow! I'm very excited. Finally I'm going to learn to crochet!

The neverending baby blanket

I started this entrelac baby blanket back in June, for Andy (Doug's baby), and I'm still knitting it. It's only about a third done. Granted, I've taken a few breaks from it -- some of those breaks were a week or 2 long -- But it's taking freaking forever!

Now Brenda told me that she's going to Florida the first weekend of October, to see Doug and family, and I'm wondering: Can I get the blanket done in time? If I make a push and work on it every day, could I really get it done?

15 tiers of entrelac to go. If I work my butt off, I think I could knit half a tier per day. That's 30 days. No. I can't do it. Seriously. I mean, if I was going to work on the thing 8 hours a day, I could probably swing it, but I am NOT willing to do that! My hands will ache and just... poo. Oh well. I guess it will have to be a Christmas gift.

I'm hoping to hear back soon about freelance knitting. Veryyyy anxious. I really want to be able to do this. Everyone send "CALL ME!" vibes!!

We're Back!

...Well, we've been back for a week. But we've been recovering from jet-lag, unpacking, etc... So I just got around to posting pictures. I did it on Photobucket which isn't nearly as good as Flickr, but my Flickr account is nearly full, so I couldn't use it. Anyway... check out my pictures! I wish I could have taken more, but the memory card on my camera got filled up so fast!



It was really beautiful in Kauai. The weather was amazing - Warm but rarely uncomfortably so, occasionally rainy but almost never for more than 10 minutes. We were careful to put sunscreen on every day, since both John and I do not tan - We ONLY burn. So I started to get in the habit of swimming at sunset, which was really cool. It was awesome to sit in the water and watch the sun set over the mountains (or "Puff" the dragon)!