i am proud to announce that i will be living only 5 hours away from forks, wa in the near future, setting of the twilight series books. as if the goonies tour isn’t enough, i get to do the twilight tour! now i just need to find someone as raving in love with the books as i am and it will be great fun!
addictive game alert: notpron
me: do you smell cinnamon rolls?
him: it’s probably the bacon.
me: *pause* *stare* since when does bacon smell like cinnamon rolls?
him: well, these are honey glazed
me: oh.
some interesting things i overheard recently:
“you could fly this plane from atlanta to panama city beach on 42 pounds of potatoes”-random passenger behind me
“we have a redneck walmart in my town”-random person behind me at a training session for work
“piglet?…why…are you swimming…in the popcorn?” -pooh
dooce had a great link on her site recently. i had to repost cause it’s hilarious. baby care cartoons (enjoy!)
another attempt at art:
this was taken through a window. it’s like a ghost building outside
this is just plain funny. found this swept up in some leaves.
my “happy it’s almost spring” present from istopher: 
so this last week i saw people that look like the following but i couldn’t get pics 
it’s amazing how often i see people that look like they are from a piece of brian froud art.
i want to read this: 
last weekend was amazing. i went indian crazy and made some amazing things. i found a great book at the library called the spice box and the recipes, unlike ones i’ve tried online, appear to be authentic and better yet, easy. here’s some of my goodies:
making naan
pea and potato curry (with our naan) 
making paneer
matter paneer w/chipatis! 
making ghee
blueberry tofu bars 
more pictures can be found at my flickr page.
i finished my wrist warmers! 
the taupe sweater i was working on is being torn out. the size i made was way larger than i need. i’m tellin ya man, big needles are deceiving!
i’ve also decided to rip out my lys sweater and make something more simple from the yarn like the march basic. it would get more wear and with the little time i have to craft now it’s all about utility!
i can’t believe i’m going to say this, but we’re going to panama city beach for spring break. (?!?!) i know, right? well we’re actually going to visit mom as this will be our best chance to see her before we move to the other side of the world..err..country. so, i’m making her a yoga bag. out of fabric that completely personifies her.
yes…she is a bright orange kinda gal.
i have to say that when i look back on my life so far i’ve done a lot of things that i was at first sour that i’d never be able to do. i’ve been to europe (and then some), i’ve seen niagara falls, i’ve been to hawaii for christmas (malakaliki maka!), and coming soon, panama city beach for spring break. of course, if i were you i wouldn’t waste my time scanning mtv shows trying to catch me in a bikini. i might wear business suits now, but i’m still a little goth tart at heart. forshiz.
sarah & matt <3…couldn’t find a maggie dog, but monkey will do right?
i am totally making sarah’s dress in real life now! it’s uber cute.
and yes, matt does normally look like that. jeans. that’s it.
bored as heck, i was roaming around the internet and found this site
so i spent a good portion of my life making me and istopher! here we are outside our gingerbread house…with our dog schmee!
i might get addicted to this site, so watch out.
by the by…i never realized how much my darling looked like edward cullen
i was reading about things women should avoid during pregnancy and found some very interesting advice. my favorite are as follows:
You Should Avoid Stress Stress at work is defined as, “high psychological demands from work activities, and low decision-making powers on the job”
You Should Avoid Tick Bites Tick bites open you to the risk of lyme disease, which can be deadly to your developing baby
You Should Avoid Herpes Herpes when transfered to the baby during delivery, can lead to severe complications. The easiest way to avoid this possibility is to avoid contracting herpes
ok, so come on. are there people that actively seek out these things? like, “oh damn, now i can’t get that std i have been working towards because of this damn baby!”
BEFORE YOU READ ANY FURTHER! i found an almost too good to be true deal on ebay for bamboo needles. i got a lot of them and they are fabulous. here is the seller’s store if you wanted to check them out. the shipping took a little longer than i’d have liked (i had a pattern i was chomping at the bit to start), but the price is unbeatable. it would have cost me over $100 for these in a store and not to mention some of the sizes are hard to find anyhow. let’s continue, shall we?
so i’ve started some awesome knitting projects and they are as follows:
from twinkle’s big city knits: 
if you are thinking about one of the projects from this book, here’s some caveats…1, you need big needles that are expensive. i lucked out and found my size 19 (!) needle on clearance for 4.50…regularly over 15 bucks. 2, the yarn is SUPER bulky. yes. SUPER. that’s size 6. there’s not much selection and it will make a small ding in your wallet. (this project is about 12 bucks of yarn ON 40% OFF SALE!) 3, don’t be fooled by the sizing. this is super bulky large knit. there is a tremendous amount of stretch in the projects. i have a 36′ chest and the size i am making is 32′ and it’s still a bit big.
from a random blog 
i am super excited to finish these. SARAH: you might want to try this pattern. here is your motivation: you love this type of glove, you already have the right needles, the yarn (supposing you don’t have it) is your basic inexpensive worsted weight, it’s a quick pattern, it’s uber cute, we can match if you have a pair…email me if you need any more motivation…
and lastly, from berroco: 
this is an ambitious undertaking so it will probably be put away and taken out over the course of the next few weeks, but it’s uber cute and i have some great yarn for it! berroco actually has a ton of great (free!) patterns for those of you looking for something to do.
my goal is that after i finish the twinkle sweater and orange glovies, i will move on to these leg warmers. i’ve not done a project with so many color changes, but these look adorable.
we saw AVP II last night. during the majority of the movie i was thinking “wow, i can’t wait to get home to watch the first one” cause this one was awful. but let me explain. i will say that it was filmed very well. no cheesy graphics or any such bologna. they broke a lot of social mores in film (ie killing children/unborn babies…a lot of them), but it was nice to see a non b graded movie push the audience.
having said that. ok, a couple things that really bothered me, but i think i can explain them out. first off, the film starts out at the end of the last with a predator watching a recap of what happened on that ship. then the pred gets all mad and goes off to find the aliens who have boom, crash landed in middle america. PROBLEM: who the crap was this pred? he couldn’t have been someone in power because 1, he would have alerted others that he was leaving as a good leader should and 2, he looked like the bruce lee version (skiinnnnyyyy) of preds. i mean, i had no idea that anorexia had spread across the universe!
alright, so revenge pred gets to earth and starts hunting the aliens meanwhile they are all impregnating the city folk. la di da. bad plot. blah blah. so, here’s where i get a little pissy. preds kills innocents! woah! not cool. one of the reasons i love pred so much is because he is a freaking warrior not some alien jerk that has no respect for rules of war. i was upset about that until i was finishing off my morning yogurt. here’s the difference: this pred isn’t on earth as a test of his predatorhood. he’s there to get rid of the aliens and oh yeah, he’s pissy about his friends getting killed. surely the rules of predation no longer apply. sucks to see a pred take the low road, but oh well.
ok, so the plot was over all dumb, but it got me thinking about something else. so, when the alien impregnated the predator, the result was a predalien right? hmm…then does that mean that when aliens impregnate humans they are part human too? what parts of us to they absorb? that would make a great dinner conversation.
some good books:
