Time Waster of the Day

Here's a great collection of animated .gif's you can steal and use on your blog!

Amazing Knitting!

Just in time for Halloween!  Check out this incredible knitted skeleton!  It's from an art exhibit called "Transcending the Material".

Another Great Show

Lately we've been watching a lot of eps of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".  Love this show, it's so wrong in just about every way. 

The Leaf Peeper

Mikey told me this was his 'secret hideout', in the garden behind the sunflowers.  Every guy needs a secret hideout!

Books on the Ipod

I really love my Ipod.  Especially since I started downloading books on it.  I listen to books much more than I do music.  Right now, I am listening to an old favorite "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith.  I am pretty sure this is the first book I checked out of the "adult" section at the Bothell Library (as soon as Mrs. Corner decided I was old enough to read 'adult' books).  I loved it so much, even though I didn't understand some of the events in the book (I'm thinking of the scene where Francie and Neely played with the box of rubbers from Aunt Sissy's purse.  I had NO IDEA what those were). 

The book is still a great read, I'm really enjoying it.  Maybe I will download some Nancy Drew next...

A Typical Weekend...

Cara has requested more blog posts from us Spokanites, even though obvs we have nothing to say.  But bc I love her, here's a post.

MY TYPICAL SUNDAY:

1. try to sleep in
2. fail because Lucy comes in a climbs on my bed, leaving dirty paw prints all over my sheets.
3. Get up.
4. Make my standard breakfast: coffee and whole wheat bagel w melted extra-sharp cheddar cheese (I did mix it up today and used whole wheat bread.  Don't say I'm not exciting).
5. Read the paper.  This takes about 15 minutes nowadays bc the Spokesman-Review is 95% ads.
6. Do the New York Times Crossword puzzle on the computer.  LOVE.  It's the only puzzle I will deign to work.
7. Think about what I'm going to do today.  This takes about 30 seconds.
8. Either A. get up and throw some laundry in or B. start knitting and watching whatever Katie has on the TV.
9. Try to get Katie to let me watch "Hoarders". No dice.
10. Let Lucy out, then immediately let her back in.  Repeat x infinity.
11. Work on my website until I get sick of it.
12. Do a smidge of cleaning.  Am exhausted so sit back down with more coffee and a book or magazine.
13. Think about taking Lucy for a walk.  Remember that she yanks my broken arm out of the socket whenever I walk her, so ix-nay on that idea.
14. Check Ravelry about a dozen times daily for something interesting to read and/or knit.
15. Time for dinner.  Thank god I have the girls to cook, because by my age I am thoroughly sick of cooking meals.  Not of eating them, mind you.
16. Try to convince the girls that they would enjoy a program on PBS.  Ix-nay.  Plug in my Ipod while they watch Survivor (or whatevs is on Sunday night TV)
17. It's 9:30ish, think about whether I can stay up till 10 to watch Mad Men.  No, 5 am comes mighty early.
18. Bed! Ahhh.

And that is pretty much how most Sundays go around here.

Love This Blog!

It's called "The Word Made Flesh" and it shows tattoos inspired by literature.  What would you get if you were going to inscribe a quote on yourself?  I'm torn between Scarlett O'Hara's "tomorrow is another day" and "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird".