I am in love!

I'm not sure if this is real love or an extreme infatuation... But I'm going to act on it. Yes, I'm going to order yarn from the internet and I am going to knit a loverly shawl with it... Yes, I will. I love the yarn so much. It's Twisted from Blue Moon Fiber Arts in the Beached colorway. I fell in love with the the little preview, not the actual skein picture.

And then there's the shawl, Shawl that Jazz. The Yarn Harlot knit it in Pucks Mischief (ravelry link). I'm smitten. It's like a triangle shawl, but no point. I'll have to buy the pattern, but I think it's worth it!

*swoon*

In other news:

My baby is 1! And she's walking! OMG! I'll have to do a proper post for that, though. But here's an obligatory picture (or 2) to keep you occupied.




(Lego phone: Can you hear me now?)

So, I joined a swap

It's a hotpad/potholder swap. I have to crochet 5 hotpads in the same pattern (different colors are okay), ship them in and I'll get 5 different ones in the mail.


I'm a little nervous about this swap because it's my first one. It makes me nervous because I don't want to be the one that screws everything up. I'm not going to screw up, but that's beside the point.


Because I'm lazy, here's the post I made over on their blog:


I started out thinking I would test a couple different patterns, but I really like the first one I tried. They are (thankfully) a bit over 6 inches across. This has turned into quite the stash buster. So far I've used Plymouth Fantasy Naturale that was leftover from a pinwheel blanket and a baby shrug. I'm hoping I have enough without having to buy more.



The pattern is here. (ravelry) The construction is very interesting on these! Without the video, I would have been totally lost. I can see many more of these in my future.

umm.. wanna chat?

I'm playing around with Omegle, a random, one on one chat room with a stranger. It's not as fun as I thought it would be, but oh well.


Stranger: everyone is rediculous on this thing

You: no doubt

Stranger: i guess thats to be expected though

Stranger: have you had any good conversations so far

You: no, just started... the first one started good, but then got immature.

Stranger: ive had 3 that lasted 10 seconds

You: I hear that's common

Stranger: even if you do find a good conversation it still seems like it would be a little lacking

Your conversational partner has disconnected.

Then I talked for awhile with some 15 year old about bands. We didn't really connect except for liking the older Fall Out Boy stuff. I'm following him (her?) on twitter for shits and giggles. That's probably the best convo I've had yet.

Here's some more:

Stranger: I'm a horny gay guy.

You: 42

Your conversational partner has disconnected.

You: 42

Stranger: 9001

You: 685

Stranger: 504

You: 311

Stranger: I see what you did there

Stranger: i mean 604

You: oh yeah?

Stranger: damn

Stranger: it happened again

Your conversational partner has disconnected.

You: 42

Stranger: 21

Stranger: ....Penis

You: not another one

Stranger: ...Wanna have a penis fight?

You have disconnected.

I guess nobody has read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The only one that got it was the very first one:

You: 42
Stranger: is the answer
Stranger: to the universe?
Stranger: amidoingitright?
You: and everything
Stranger: ;darn
Stranger: it doesnt answer y i ******** too much though
Stranger: :(
You: are you sure?
Stranger: maybe
Stranger: u have me confused with some1 else im sorry


I'm not sure this is something I'll keep doing. One good match out of 10 isn't good odds. Although the penis fight one had me loling.

In my spare time...

Sabrina, originally uploaded by kay_skay_790.

I made this for a Wild West birthday party. It's a little more Little House on the Prairie than Wild West, but that's okay. I'll have to get a better picture, but this works for now! And it'll double as a Halloween costume (before she has any say in it, pretty soon she'll want to be a princess)... I made the 1 year old size, but it's pretty big. I might have to redo the elastic in the wrists before October, but that should only take a few minutes.

I might also want to buy a bonnet pattern. I kind of fudged one so it doesn't fit, but it looks like a bonnet hanging down her back (just like Laura Ingalls Wilder wore hers)

Keep Portland Twisted

I just saw on the Twisted blog that they have a cute tote bag for sale that says "Keep Portland twisted"

Of course I'm going to buy it. It's cute, reusable and you get a 5% discount when you bring it back and use it.

As a side note, I've been thinking about my blogging habits recently. I've been posting 5 time more to this blog than my private one (on myspace). It use to be the other way around. Am I not sharing my feelings with my friend anymore or am I just being lazy. There's tons of topics in my head every week but they never make it onto either blog.

I'm leaning towards lazy. With Sabrina, I really don't have much internet time anymore and what I do have is spent mindlessly staring at facebook or ravelry.

Just today I had a story to tell, but now I don't think It's important. It starts with my SIL having "water on the knee" and ends with me buying a pair of U of O rain boots... Totally random. Wanna hear it?

Last week Erin was only working on Friday (Great Wolf Lodge until Tuesday, one day rest and Thursday daycare was closed). She show's up to work with the hugely swollen knee and ended up being taken to the doctor by one of the attorneys. She didn't come back to work because they gave her this awful medicine that totally stoned her. I went over there Saturday to watch Evan so J.P. could take Alivia to ballet (apparently it's hard to watch a 2 year old when you're passed out on the couch). This Monday and Tuesday she came to work, but couldn't take her meds or she wouldn't be able to do anything and she had a huge tax return due.

Tuesday night they picked Sabrina up from daycare for me and her knee wasn't getting better. The swelling was down, but it was spreading. She was going to watch Sabrina for me this afternoon, but we decided that she probably shouldn't watch 3 kids if she couldn't walk.

Daycare was closed today. So, instead of Richard dropping Sabrina off with Erin when he went to work, he picked me up from work early and I dropped him off.

Sorry, this is all discombobulated because I'm tired and should be sleeping...

On with the story. I had a gift card for Macy's and decided to go and spend it since I had some extra time. I didn't find anything... I was checking out the shoes when I found them... University of Oregon rain boots! I took a picture and sent it to my cousin in Texas because they're HUGE UofO fans. I just thought it was a funny picture, but she texted me back saying she wanted them. I feel like I was on some kind of journey for some unknown reason. But everythign happpens for a reason, right? Maybe the guy upstairs wanted my cousin to have those boots. I don't know. I'm going to send them tomorrow, if I can find a better box. I hope it doesn't cost too much to send, the boots were only $11.70 (the tag said $40, but also said $24).