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Snow Day! Anyone wanna see some pics of our snow, and the puppies' idea of a DARN good time? I'm not going to caption them... but do leave comments telling them how cute they are, they love that!


Also, I made an loldog of Storm!


moar funny pictures

Everyone go here and vote for him! (Actually, that link takes you to the lolcats website, but he's on both. You just can't vote on the loldogs site yet.)

...And who needs a finger cover?

Yup, it's me again. I guess Angie was going to blog but didn't get to take her pictures until it was after dark, and she "needs" natural light, so... ;) Just teasing you hon. Glad you're feeling better.

Update on Brutus. I don't think he's going to be in our family long. I think there's something wrong with him. He spent most of the day at the top of the water, practically just inhaling air, not going down for anything. Then I finally noticed that he had some white stuff on his fins, so I thought there might be something wrong with his water... speaking of, dangit, I forgot to add the stuff that makes your tap water safe for bettas, I need to do that... ok, that's done. I think he might be blind now though. I mean, he was fine this morning, but there was something weird going on with his water, it was just... strange. So I changed his water and stuff, and then put him back in, and he seemed to be ok. But, when he breathes, bubbles come out of his gills. So I think we'll be taking him back to the store tomorrow. Provided it stops snowing sometime. :( Poor Brutus, he'll probably be sad, but I'm not keeping a fish that's sick, ya know?

So, today I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix again. While watching it, I got all of this done.

That's about a quarter of a fingerless glove for Dave, and all of the cuff on the rainbow socks. I'm really liking the way the cascade 22 works up on the size six dpns. And actually, I really like the way broadripple's working out now, although... it might end up being a TEENY bit bigger than the other one. My gauge has obviously changed since sock number one was knit. I like it though. Then, I was going to rip out the endpapers and pick up the stitches at the ribbing, and change to size threes. But... that didn't happen. I couldn't get the ribbing back on the needles, so...

They're a redo. And then, out of sheer boredom with everything I'm knitting, and jealousy over the speed with which Angie's popping out baby socks, I cast on for a pair myself.

Look how LITTLE! I loves it. :) They're precious... And... I guess I don't get to sleep in the bed tonight. This is what my side of the bed looks like.

Yup. Not my bed. Theirs. :)

Oh, yeah. I've decided that I'm going to share a quote with you all a day. I doubt that you care but... It's interesting to ME, so that's all that matters. So there. :D So, here's today's quote of the day.

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'" - Charles M. Schulz, from "Peanuts."

Wow. Pee almost came out my nose

Hey guys! I have good news, bad news, and more good news. The first good news is that I finished the heel on my broadripple sock and picked up the stitches, ready to start the gusset decreases.

The bad news is that I am an incredibly delusional person. I finally conceded that this yarn was knitting up much tighter, the stripes weren't quite lining up, and the heel isn't the same size. So I recounted each colored section... and discovered that sock number one had 9 rows per stripe, and number 2 has 10 rows per stripe. Meaning....


There is no more sock. But the sock has been restarted and I've decided to reverse the order of the stripes, so it will start with yellow instead of light blue. I think the intended recipient will rather enjoy that. :) The other good news is that Brutus DOESN'T hate me. He, in fact, doesn't care about me one way or another. See, he was only upset when the light was on. But I've figured it out. He's puffing up at his REFLECTION. He thinks he's surrounded by other male bettas, and he's trying to defend himself. The only reason he puffs up when I'm near is because he was forced to look beyond his immediate surroundings, and then he sees himself in the glass. I figured it out because he didn't puff out until he got close to the glass, and I saw him doing it in the OTHER direction from me, when he was really close to the glass. So, hopefully he'll get used to himself.

Angie says that really says something about Jack, that he wasn't scared of his own reflection. Oh, by the way, she's not dead. She's actually slowly but surely getting better, I think. So hopefully she'll be back very soon. With pictures. And baby socks. And baby mittens. :)

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I'm pleased to inform you all that while I am still mourning the loss of my beloved Jack, I couldn't handle seeing his tank sitting there all forlorn and... empty, anymore, so we had to go out and get a new fishie today. I'd like you all to welcome the newest member of ma famille....

Brutus. Aka, Brutus Buckeye. I ALMOST posted a poll on what you all thought his name should be, but I was trying to explain the actual color that he is to Angie, and I said "He's really Buckeye Scarlet" and... it just hit me. He's BUCKEYE Scarlet. Now I feel stupid for buying the green and blue rocks... next time, he gets gray all the way. I might even try to find a buckeye related thing for his tank...

I think I'm going to get rid of the plant. He keeps running into it, and I have to say, it really seems to freak him out. And, I had to put SOMETHING in there for him to hide behind, so I TEMPORARILY gave him Jack's treasure. I think Jack would've been ok with that. Except, Brutus is a little... er... temperamental. No, that's not it. He's... well...

Mean. That's how he ALWAYS looks at me. I'm afraid he may not like me as much as Jack.

Look! Knitting has been done. When I'm not casting on and frogging Dave's fingerless gloves (not going so well...) or inhaling romance novels, I've been doing this.

I'm starting to worry that I'm using the wrong needles. Which will REALLY be sad. But I KNOW the other sock just... grew and grew. So I'm hoping I'm wrong. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Your crotch is not a good place to store buttons

Thank you guys for your well wishes. It really means a lot.

I know you're all dieing to know about the cookie thing. It IS a Samoa, and Heather again wins, because she said something about a coconut allergy. I am really allergic to coconuts, but they're my favorites. I LOVE them. So I endure and hope my throat doesn't close. :)

I started the Broadripple sock. See?

In the midst of this bad bad bad week, I've started a LOT of projects. I'm not going to add them all to the wip list, as they are just "busy work," and won't likely get completed. Sorry for the short, basically wordless post. I'll try to be better later!

Bad News

Hi guys, just wanted to let you all know that my Betta Fish, Jack, died today. I went in to check on him and talk to him, and see if he'd give me a kiss (cause that's what he did, he'd swim right up to the glass and kiss me) and he was just gone. I looked and looked for him and he was nowhere to be found. Since his tank has a cover on it, I knew he couldn't have just jumped out. Especially because he'd just be right there on the counter or the floor, but he wasn't. He was just gone. So I started taking everything out of his tank, looking for him. See, I have an under gravel filter system, and there's this little tube that comes out from it, where you put an air hose and a little rock in it, which gives bubbles. The last time I cleaned his tank, the rock broke, and I was going to go get a new one, so I left the little tube in. He somehow swam down the tube and got under the gravel, and he died. Here's the picture of him when I first got him.

I know we'll all miss him.

That had to hurt, especially if it was upside down

Wow what a busy busy weekend. Today, Dave and I went grocery shopping. We also visited my family yesterday. After a trip to the yarn store. :) I got me a new size three circular needle, so I can do my endpaper mitts, which are getting restarted this week. I also got this. (No, my desk is not purple-colored, just had to do that so you could see a closer match to the color.)

The picture does NOT do the yarn justice. Well, the black still looks black, no matter what. The purple, which is the yarn for my spring swap I'm doing (It's a fingerless glove swap), is so... heathered and gorgeous. I love it. The black is for Dave's fingerless gloves. I'm making him the "Beer gloves" (link is in ravelry) from "Son of Stitch & Bitch." Actually, I'm making him a pair of fingerless gloves with approximately the same number of stitches and the same fingers and cables but I'm seriously altering the pattern. I do not like the way the purl stitches look. I don't know though, he likes it. Ugh, I don't know right now. I'm about to cast on for my second "Broadripple" sock. Here's a pic of the first one. Man I have GOT to stop doing that... I cut the picture to past it where I want it, then I copy a link and lose the picture.... ok, HERE'S a pic of the first one.

That's the teddy bear my mommy bought me for Valentine's Day.

Lastly, the first person to A) Name this cookie and B) Tell why I shouldn't be eating it wins more bragging right. Angie, you don't count, as you already know the answer and will just ruin everyone else's fun. You don't get to play. So don't. :) I love you Angie..... *sweet innocent look* Anyway. Here's the cookie.