Introducing Henrietta Sweeting

I went, I saw, I loved!

I could go on and on and on about what they didn't get right in the movie, at least in my opinion, but overall LOVED it! Now, I gotta reread the book, cuz I'm crazy like that. If I had the time and money I'd go see it again, then probably read the book again, repeat as necessary, but I'll content myself with waiting for the DVD.

3 days!!!

Three days to Twilight and I'm trying to sorta keep myself busy knitting. The only problem with keeping busy knitting is that unless I have something else to engage my head, I'm sitting there knitting and dwelling on the fact that there are 3 whole days and a few hours until I get to sink into a semi-comfy theater seat and immerse myself in Twilight. 3 whole days!!!

Speaking of movies, here's a funny story. As a brief intro, we sometimes refer to Robby as Bob. One day last week, Sammy is demanding that Robby do something for him, but Robby is distracted with reading a book and doesn't respond in a timely fashion (according to Sammy). After a little while Sammy tires of trying to get Robby to cooperate and says, "I'm not happy, Bob! Not happy!" If you need help with that reference you need to watch/rewatch The Incredibles and pay close attention to the scene where Bob gets fired.


Oh, and here's a pic of my most recent FO, which I'm very proud of! This particular one is not mine to keep, but I fully intend to make myself one soon! Just not sure if I want to go with the black or purple Simply Soft Eco. Ok, my first choice was the dark red (autumn red, I think), but there wasn't any left. FIRST I've got to get some more Christmas presents taken care of though, right?!?

The stitch markers

Ok, I finally got the pictures off my phone. They turned out all blurry though, but they give you a good idea of how they turned out at least.

So excited!

I mailed my package out to my Starbucks & Yarn swap spoilee on Friday and happily her being not too far away, it got there today! I've eagerly been checking Ravelry on and off all day waiting for the word. There were moments that I very nearly broke down and started chewing on my nails. Ok, it wasn't quite so dramatic as all that. We were out most of today, spending time with Papa who was down on a business trip and had some time before he headed back to spend with us. The boys ofcourse enjoyed his visit and Kaylee was sorta ok with him most of the time, which is cool considering she's never spent much time with him at all in her almost a year of her life.

But anyway, back to the Starbucks and the yarn... I made stitch markers for her. Never done it before, but I dove into it. First buying some adorable little race car charms (and got some flags tossed in for good measure) from a gal up in Daytona on Etsy. Realized that I had some flexible wire for making bracelets and necklaces laying around that I never used for whatever it was I was going to use it for, got my needle-nosed pliers out and went to work. They turned out pretty cool all things considered. I'll put up a pic as soon as I get them downloaded off my phone, but here's the pic of the bag I made for her.



But my waiting paid off. I got a fabulous PM on Ravelry from my spoilee and she loved it all. I was so excited, still so excited! I'm glad my stalking paid off and its just so awesome to get to surprise someone like that. And coincidentally, my spoilee also shares my birthday and my sentiments about wanting our birthday back from Elvis! How funny is that? I thought it was just me!

Twilight

Finished the last book last night. Wow! Its awesome, though I do have to say there are a number of things that bugged me about the last 3 books, but thankfully they didn't bug me enough to stop me from reading them all. I can hardly wait for the 1st movie!

Its official

I'm hooked. It took me all of approximately 14 hrs to finish Twilight and I can hardly wait to get my hands on the next one! The movie is a MUST see (for me, anyway). I have to see if I can find that Flair on Facebook again (and get it this time!) that says, "Voldemort killed Cedric Digory so that he could become Edward Cullen". When I first saw it I was amused, but not really having any appreciation for the story I let that Flair get away.

Besides my newfound obsession, I'm trying to get some Christmas knitting done while I'm recovering from this nasty sore throat/aching all over illness that has gone around the house this past week.

I really (and by that I actually mean REALLY, REALLY, REALLY) need to figure out exactly what I want to get done for Christmas so that I can cut out the extraneous impulse knitting projects I keep finding to do, especially because I have found the inspiration for a new story and I'm hoping that I can develop it into a book (and not just one that I print out or email copies to friends/family). We'll see how that goes what with the knitting, the homeschooling, and that other stuff (cleaning, cooking, laundry for example).