And Another Week

goes by without a post. I'm really falling behind on this updating thing!

Actually went out last night, for another Girl's Night. Well, we were supposed to be a party of six, but some of the group backed out. So, it was just LM (from work), The Girl and I. Drove to Universal City Walk and wandered around for a while, and then went to the new Comedy Club. LM's daughter works there (although she didn't work last night) and got us comped. Had a really good time. The comedians were funny (we even got picked on by the headliner, Jeff Garcia) and the company was fun. The only downside was the service we got, or rather, didn't get, from our waiter. Saw him around a lot, but he was at the table behind ours and pretty much ignored us most of the night. In fact, it took about 45 minutes for The Girl to get her drink!

Hee hee - Jeff kept calling our waiter "Twilight" and making vampire comments at him for half of the show ...

Anyway, had a really good time, but am making up for it this morning. Late night and early wake up makes for a sleepy me!

Forgot To Mention

Happy loaned me season one of "Angel", so I was watching it the other night. I was also working on my Quant. HUGE mistake. I ended up with a big mess, who the heck knows how, and tried to frog back a little way. Bigger mistake. I've been terrified to try any more attempts at fixing the thing and am hoping Sis can help me out this afternoon at Dad's. I was so upset, the only think that kept me from throwing the whole project into the trash is the fact that it's my Wide Awake yarn ....

Happy "Fathead's" Day

Don't remember exactly what the card said, but years ago Sis gave Dad a card that mentioned "Fathead's Day" (I'm picturing Vikings on the card, for some reason). Anyway, ever since then, it is what we've called Father's Day. The plan for the day is to meet out at Dad's (Sis and Rafe, The Girl and I) and order pizza for dinner. I had kinda thought about making something to bring, instead, but what I want is enchiladas, and I know that J won't eat them. So - pizza it is. And I'm really ok with that, because the place Dad orders from has really, really good pizza. I am, however, bringing a cake because I've been craving it for too long now. And yes, I had some cake at work on Friday but it didn't satisfy the craving. Add to that the fact that I had already mentioned it to Sis and ... well, I'm bringing a cake. It is all baked and frosted and sitting on the table, waiting to go. Just hope I don't forget it ... maybe I'll put my keys on the container. Yes, that ought to work.

Didn't have any plans for yesterday, which ended up being a good thing. The Girl and I met for breakfast (The Boy has to work all weekend, bummer) and, while we were talking she asked if I wanted to join her and her friend M for "dinner and a movie". I decided what the heck and said yes. I had such a Great Time! We met at Red Robin around 3:00 for an early meal (mmmm, French onion soup) and talked and giggled a lot. Wandered around the mall for a couple of hours and then went to the theatre.

Driving over, The Girl asked M if she had seen the movie "Up", which it turns out she had. M said that we were the only ones she knew who had also seen it, and her friends just didn't get it when she would, randomly during a conversation, say ... and we all yelled "Squirrel"! It was really rather hilarious at the time ... anyway, I wasn't sure about the movie we planned on seeing ... "The Proposal" with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. I really like her, though, so figured it would be ok. Well -- let me just say that I laughed like a fool during the entire movie. It was just hilarious. I highly recommend that everyone see this movie.

The only bad part of the day was towards the very end. M's aunt joined us for the movie. While we were waiting, both The Girl and M left for a couple of minutes, which is when I realized that the Aunt and I had no idea what each other looked like ... so I watched for single ladies that were entering the theatre (we had the first 4 seats in the front row, which made it easy to keep an eye out). Didn't see anyone that looked like she'd be the Aunt. So, M comes back, looks around and spots her aunt sitting in the back row. Well, I had seen this lady when she came in, but didn't figure M's aunt would be about 25 or so. Joke was on me ... she's about my age. I'd swear she looks 25. So after the movie, when M told me her aunt's age ... kinda made me feel old because I definitely can't pass for 25. ::sigh::

We did, however, decide that this should be a monthly event and are planning for Harry Potter in July. Although I'll probably see it before we do the Girl's Night because M won't be available until later in the month. OH - and the trailer for New Moon? Totally awesome on the big screen. The fursplosion* is fabulous.

And now I'm listening to the Top 20 Countdown on CMT and eating a bagel .... just an exciting morning.

*the transformation from Man to Wolf

WWKIP Day

Yesterday was World Wide Knit In Public Day. Actually, the WWKIP event was this weekend, and will continue next weekend. Although I did get some knitting done this evening, I failed to do any knitting in public. I'm pleased with how my Quant is turning out, though, and I think the yarn I'm using was a perfect choice. Or - the pattern was the perfect choice for the yarn ... I'm using the Wide Awake colorway hand-dyed by Squibstitcher from Ravelry. Yes, this is the yarn that I was making a little pillow with; it was frogged because I decided I didn't want that small of a pillow. I'm glad I did.

Spent the day with Duh, Happy and The Boy yesterday. Boy and I went to breakfast, stopped by an Army Surplus store and then went to Duh & Happy's so he would fix their computers. Yes, plural. He worked on 2 desktops and 2 laptops. He was going to set up my printer for me but since we didn't get home until about 10:00 pm, the printer was postponed until today.

After breakfast today, The Kids and I came back to my place and The Boy set up my printer ... and replaced all the color ink cartridges for me. I printed out the latest chapter of the story I'm beta'ing and then we left to go to REI and Bass Pro Shops. Not the most exciting of shopping trips, but I went along to keep The Girl company. After they dropped me back at my place, I printed out the stuff my brother sent to me. Most of it, anyway. It's a 68 page document. My black ink ran out after page 50. I have no spare black ink cartridges. So, I guess I get to go to Staples after work tomorrow for black ink. Oh, and I should take the empty color cartridges with me; they give a refund for the empties.

Anyway, spent some time online tonight (of course), beta'd the chapter and sent it back, and did some knitting. Now my eyes are tired and I think I'll be heading to bed.

Tea Party

The ladies that I chat with at Ravelry decided that we need to have a group tea party. Since our members are located "globally", it was decided to devote a full day to the tea party experience. We all chose our time and place, and took pictures to post for all to enjoy. We originally chose the date of October 6 (based on the picture of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland - he has 10/6 on his hat) but didn't want to wait that long. We took advantage of our European friends and declared today as our first official Tea Party Day (10 June) and will have another on Oct 6. Here's my picture ...

Lemon Cookies

So, I'm still not saying whether or not I ordered the yummy new yarn colorway, but ... IF I did order it ... it'll look something like this:

Froggy Sunday

Had a great time today. Went out to visit Sis for some knitting and visiting and a trip to the yarn store. She needed to get some DPNs to continue a project she's working on (a really, really adorable Loch Ness Monster!). She also got yarn for a couple of other projects she has planned. I was a good girl and didn't buy anything. Of course, after getting home and logging on to Ravelry, I discovered that one of the ladies that hand-dyes yarn is coming up with a new colorway. I may or may not have asked her to reserve a hank for me ...

Having problems with the project I'm currently working. Had to frog it yesterday; messed up again and was hoping Sis could help me fix it (well, ok - I was hoping she could fix it!) but ended up frogging most of it again. I have now been able to get past the sections that were giving me so many problems. However, I have to do the two sections over and over until the piece measures 15" (and it is currently at about 2-1/2" so that leaves plenty of opportunity for more knitting FAIL.

Sis was also kind enough to wind two skeins of yarn for me ... the Killer Heels and Charlie Swan colorways. They were gorgeous as skeins, and are even more so as "cakes". Now to come up with projects worthy of the yarn, that I might actually be able to do justice to ...

Sheesh

I haven't posted anything all week ... surprised I haven't heard complaints from my "multitude of reader"! Not really much to say tonight, either ... Let's see. I don't remember what I did on Sunday so it must not have been anything to exciting. Probably laundry, or something equally thrilling. Oh, I went to a new restaurant with The Kids for dinner ... an Argentinian place. We shared a pizza and an order of empanadas.

Monday was work, just the usual paying of the bills. Been having a lot of trouble with itchy skin so I ended up going to lunch early to buy some Benadryl. Seems to be helping. I did remember that it was the first Monday of the month, so I took advantage of the "buy one meal, get one free" offer at the Mexican restaurant nearby. Got 2 orders of chicken and sour cream enchiladas, which lasted for four meals. Tuesday was taco night, which is always good. It was just The Girl and I. Didn't get much sleep, which was a bummer. Started out not sleeping well and finally dozed off only to be awakened by some people having a very loud argument out in the parking lot. I was debating whether or not to call the police (figured the neighbors upstairs would call - I knew at least one of 'em was up because I heard him open the window). Just as I was deciding that maybe I should call, the argument ended. That was around 2:00. Then - at about 3:00 - there was a huge, rolling thunder which woke me. After that I didn't really get back to sleep until almost 5:00. I get up at 6:00 .... needless to say, Wednesday wasn't one of my more "awake" days. Didn't sleep well Wednesday, either.

Let's see. What else ... I've done some reading, and some tv watching (or listening to the tv, anyway). Chatted online with friends (didn't go to bed until after 11:30 on Thurs, totally lost track of time!)

Was going to go to the movies this afternoon (it has been highly recommended that I see Star Trek, so I figured heck, why not). Went to the bank, and as I was getting ready to leave it started raining. I really didn't want to drive home in the rain after the movie so I just went to the grocery store, got some chicken and mac salad and ice cream (Ben & Jerry's Mission to Marzipan ... quite yummy) and, when I came out of the store there was no rain. Since I didn't have time to take the food home and then get to the theatre on time, so I just came home and watched Dirty Dancing on tv.

I've also done some knitting this week; had to take most of it out and start over because I mis-read the pattern. It's been going very well today - up until about 10 minutes ago when I somehow totally messed it up. Hoping Sis can help me fix it tomorrow as I don't want to have to frog it again.

And - that about sums up the week.