It came!
I love her incredibly creepy red eyes! I want this on a t-shirt. Okay, now I’ll go back to my term paper, then studying until the 7th. But immediatly following that (possibly on the bus ride home) I will be reading me some Elizabeth Bennett getting medieval on some zombies!
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Yep, we’re back in renovation mode. Today’s festivities included building a new wall and moving a door:
This is looking into the bird room. Yes, we have a room just for our birds. Don’t ask, we really are that crazy.
In the bird room with Mr. Beentsy being the incredible hulk. He’s so cool.
It was a little dusty at times:
There were some very scary examples of wallpaper from days gone by:
I don’t think I could sleep with these girls on my wall. Particularly this one:
Is that a paint brush in her hand? Or a wand? I’d be waiting for her to turn me into a toad or paint a moustache on me while I was sleeping. There were about five layers of paint and at least one other layer of wallpaper. Our best archeological skills could not uncover the other wallpaper though. Paint colours represented: lavender, a sort of pale lime/apple colour, and a weird 50′s sort of bathroom teal/aqua.
We also have yet to find out what wall is actually a supporting wall in our house. Nothing seems to be holding up the ceiling and roof. As we renovate each room we keep adding some supporting elements, in hopes that the whole house won’t fall down upon us. 
A lovely birthday surprise arrived in the mail yesterday from Kath.
Isn’t it great? I’ve already got a knitting project in it. 
Thank you so much Kath! It was a great surprise and I really love it. You’re so thoughtful.
All in all, it’s been pretty good turning 40. I think I might even recommend it! LOL.
I’m 40. There. I’ve said it and I’m just going to have to suck it up buttercup. Actually, it’s been a pretty good day. This morning I finished my essay and sent it off to be graded. The mailman brought me this:
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And then I went to Toys R Us and got this:
Because secretly I’m five and I love my Nintendo DS and I’m sick of Mario Kart
Had some lunch at Taco del Mar with the spousal unit. Yummers. Then on the way home we stopped and picked up this:
Mmmmmm, Treatzza Pizza in the peanut and chocolate fudge flavour. Hubby got a Skor one. Whatever, peanut and chocolate fudge is where it’s at.
And I have this all ready to be spun up on my wheel:
Mmmmmm, 4 ozs of BFL (Blue Faced Leicester) in Mahogany from Spunky Eclectic’s fibre club.
Now, it’s 4:30, homework is done, dinner is dealt with (by way of a very late lunch), dessert is in the freezer, sock yarn on the couch, new game for the DS, and some lovely fibre ready for the wheel. Truly, everyday should be a birthday. OH! I just got an email from amazon.ca that my book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has shipped! Sweet! It is truly the most perfect of perfect days.
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Sorry ’bout that. I got a little excited. Look what I got:
Chocolate! A handmade oh so soft cotton soap sack (MrsQuimby is still looking for a better name that item) full of wonderful smelling soap! A big ol’ skein/cake of Socks that Rock medium weight in Titania! Now that is the kind of birthday cake I can get behind! Boo Rah. All this was in honour of the fact that I’m staring down the gun barrel of 40 in about 10 days. Eep. I don’t feel forty though so I don’t think I should be forced to be forty. Right? No? Shoot. Oh well, Mrs. Quimby surely did make me feel special and all kinds of squishy with such a thoughtful gift. Thank you so much girl! You rock!
Not much else going on. Still chugging along on my last two papers of the semester. Oh! Wait, I almost forgot. This Friday and Saturday is the Fibreswest Festival in Abbotsford, BC. I plan to be there on Saturday. Is anyone else out there coming along? Mrs. Quimby? Yarnpiggy? Anyone, anyone? Bueller? We need to meet up and maybe pet some alpacas together. That would be cool.
*Sorry for putting that in your head. Please enjoy the rest of your evening.
For first aid that is.
100% on the wee written test and I seemed to excel at telling people in a loud and bossy manner “You! Call 911, report that we have an unconscious casualty who is not breathing. Give them our location and then report back to me!” Oh yes, bossy, bossy, bossy. It was fabulous. This weekend I plan to just wander around the city, looking for places where I can put my bossy first aid skills to use. Snort!
In other news, I did some spinning. 100% Corriedale from Spunky Eclectic’s fibre club. This is the February 2009 club offering called New Day. Once I had predrafted it I thought it looked a lot more like Shirley Temples or maybe Tequila Sunrises, for those tea totalers out there.
Then I spun it up and Navajo plied it. Here is the first 4 ozs ( I have 8 ozs in total):
It’s 85 metres/93 yards. Not sure what I’ll make out of it or how I’ll spin that second 4 ozs. I still have to give this a good soak and then I’m sure it’s going to fluff up even more. Okay, I’m off. It’s guilty pleasure tv night and that can only mean one thing – Survivor and knitting. I love Thursdays. So civilized.
You may remember me from such fiascos as dog decorates yard with 750 yards of Kauni:
Or dog decorates the yard with 500 yards of pretty Ebay sock yarn:
I hope you’ll enjoy my newest endeavor – Stella kills a skein of Malabrigo:
She’s a one trick pony is my Stella. I got it back to sort of a skein shape and on to the swift and tried to save it but it was a lost cause. I stopped when I got to 32 breaks in the yarn. I just had a little cry and put it out of its misery.
In equally frustrating news, I finished a pair of Christmas socks (I know it’s March! They’re just going to be birthday socks now.) and look at that, a dropped stitch, right by the gusset.
I am not frogging and reknitting. Iwill be picking that little devil up with some leftover yarn and then weaving in the ends. Done and done. Happy Saturday folks. Hope yours is doing better than here!
Huh, almost Thursday again. I’m sensing a pattern here.
I’ve started working on my last two papers of the semester and they are going pretty good so far. I haven’t started studying for the final yet. I’ll leave that for another week or so. For some insane reason I did join a knit along though (Ravelry link). What am I thinking? I don’t have time to start & finish a lace project over the next five weeks. Oh well, worst case scenario, I have another UFO taking up space beside me on the couch. At least it will have lots of company!
I’m about on third of the way through Great Expectations. I’m really enjoying it. I read it every morning and afternoon on the bus. Some parts of it make me giggle out loud. I guess your taste in books is like your taste in food and changes over time. I remember just not enjoying Dickens at all 20 years ago. Mind you, I’m also willing to eat Brussels’ sprouts now and that wouldn’t have happened 20 years ago either. Who am I kidding? I only started eating those in the last year!
And now, seeing as I actually made it home before it got dark I have a few picis for you. A sock in progress on a teeny tiny Hiya Hiya 9″ circular:
How cute is that? I thought it might be difficult to knit but so far it’s been pretty good. I do hold my hands just a tiny bit different but not too much. Strangely, I actually find it more comfortable then knitting with the 12″ Addi that used to be my smallest circular needle. Added bonus, this little needle is super transit friendly.
Added bonus shots! Here’s my Round Trip cardigan actually in the process of being worn. Whoo hoo.
Then, I got a little Rico Suave. I seriously need to get out more.
I was about to start doing Sears poses but the spousal unit was getting bored and wanted to be finished his job as a fashion photographer.
Love this sweater. Super comfy, the Kureyon softened up nicely, lots of bang for the proverbial buck. There’s enough Noro Yuzen in the basement to make up a Klaralund, which will hopefully be my next Noro project.
Oh! I almost forgot. We’ve been starting our kitchen renovations. Last week Mr. B replaced the kitchen window. The new one opens! Luxury! Today when I got home he had started the dismantling of the cupboards:
See the new window? So clear and not fogged up! It was freezing the other night, didn’t matter. We had the baby opened and closed and opened and closed at least 50 times. Just for the fun of it. Summer will be so much more tolerable this year!
Anyway, distracted, the cool thing? Mr. B found this in the space above the cupboards:
A Vancouver Sun from August 11, 1976. It’s brilliant. I’m going to sit down and read through it tonight. So, I guess the last time our kitchen got some loving it was summer 1976. Huh, I was 7 years old. I guess she’s probably due for a facelift!
Alright, time for me to get some reading done. Tonight’s feature – the public perception of the Canadian justice system and is it valid. Based on recent events, (gang shootings, taser enquiries, etc.), I’m guessing that the public perception is probably not the greatest right now.
