KnittyBug

We have had a pretty busy week around the house. It has been sunny and warm and perfect weather for weeding the flower beds. I would rather get ahead of the game now then once it starts to get humid. Which during the late spring and summer months it gets unbearable around here with the humidity. Well unbearable to me…I don’t like the hot months.

Anyways after retiring to the indoors I have slowly been putting the Silk Shrug together.

Yesterday was so warm so we thought we would venture out to get some gardening supplies. We picked up some seed packets and indoor greenhouses.

We planted them last night so in a few weeks they should be ready to plant outside. Peanut was very excided to have her indoor garden.

Jake however doesn’t look too thrilled.

He’s just unhappy because he knows tonight is pizza night and he can’t have any. Poor guy is on a strictly dog food only diet. He really started to pork up from those pizza crusts and the vet said no more. But I am happy to say that everyone that comes to visit says he looks thinner. He doesn’t know it yet but when that summer heat comes he’ll be thanking me when he can get into his pool again.

This is some chocolate goodness I am going to be using for the Mademoiselle Jacket from Classic Knits.


Last night I swatched and realized from my being very overtired that I used the wrong needles. Opps..I was wondering why my gauge was so off. Of course this is after I finish the Silk Shrug. I did it after hours of working two sleeves at once for the shrug. Yes I am onto the sleeves and thank you for the suggestions on the pattern. I ended up just adding a row on each front piece. Which ended up making them two rows shorter then the back…but I think it will work out. If not…it’s only three rows to rip to fix…so no biggy.
Next it will be on to picking up stitches….oh fun. Happy Friday. ;)

This weekend I put off working on the Silk Shrug and decided I really wanted to use that black cotton for a shrug but just a different pattern. I decided on the Simple Shrug from Speed Knitting.

I started Saturday night while we watched a couple movies and finished seaming last night…again while watching a movie. It was a very simple pattern and just like the book says it’s something you can throw it in your bag to throw on when you get in the ac.

Why not? Today's the day to wear green.....why not show it too.

So here are my greens.

I know I said that I was knitting a black cotton Silk Shrug but it just wasn’t right. The stitches were way to loose even if I was getting gauge and using smaller needles. It just didn’t look right so I changed my mind. I choose to be green.

....frogging something that was knit while using two strands at once is no fun.

I really never know what to say in the title. Nothing ever comes to mind so I just throw something up there….and it’s normally pretty boring. I seem to be lacking in phrases to make the title interesting. I’ll catch on. ;)

Last night was baked ziti night. A little fact about me is I can’t cook. The hubby does pretty much all the cooking. I mean stuff from a box or those frozen skillet meals is my idea of cooking. (I know that's bad) But when it come to actually making something from scratch and from a cookbook…um yeah it’s not happening. So last night I was in charge of stirring everything from time to time. But the meal itself was up to the man. I think it’s pretty sad that I can’t cook. I have tried numerous times and the results aren’t always tasty. There was the night I made tuna casserole from the B&H Cookbook. I myself took two bites and just couldn’t eat it. The hubby on the other hand is sweet and said it wasn’t bad and tried to just finish as much as he could as fast as he could. People it was really bad. Now I can make cookies from scratch but they don’t always look right. I found that when I make cookies it’s the finishing I have a problem with. Like decorated sugar cookies. Ok so I spent however much amount of time doing the cutouts, waiting for them to bake, cool, and now I have to decorate the damn things. So my sugar cookies tend to be slathered with icing. Chocolate chip cookies I tend to take out too soon or leave in to long. So you have your choice super chewy or dark and crispy. Lets just say I sometimes don’t finish things well. This has shown up in my knitting from time to time too.

Introducing Pasadena.

I got this from CJ Knits On.

It’s been alleged that if you’ve seen over 85 movies you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own blog, paste it in and put x’s by the ones that you have seen. Add them up, figure out whether you’ve got a life or not, and post it.

(X) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(X) Grease
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean
( ) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
(X) Boondock Saints
(X) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
(X) Neverending Story
(X) Blazing Saddles
(X) Airplane
(X) The Princess Bride
(X) AnchorMan
(X) Napoleon Dynamite
(X) Labyrinth
(X) Saw
(X) Saw II
(X) White Noise
(X) White Oleander
(X) Anger Management
( ) 50 First Dates
( ) The Princess Diaries
( ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
(X) Scream
(X) Scream 2
(X) Scream 3
(X) Scary Movie
(X) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
(X) American Pie
( ) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
(X) Harry Potter 1
(X) Harry Potter 2
(X) Harry Potter 3
(X) Harry Potter 4
(X) Resident Evil 1
(X) Resident Evil 2
(X) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
(X) The Village
( ) Lilo & Stitch
(X) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
(X) Signs
(X) The Grinch
(X) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
( ) White Chicks
(X) Butterfly Effect
(X)13 Going on 30
(X) I, Robot
(X) Robots
(X) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
(X) Universal Soldier
(X) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(X) Along Came Polly
(X) Deep Impact
(X) KingPin
(X) Never Been Kissed
(X) Meet The Parents
(X) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
(X) Joe Dirt
(X) King Kong
( ) A Cinderella Story
(X) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(X) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
(X) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
(X) Halloween
(X)The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
(X) Surviving Christmas
(X) Flubber
(X) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(X)Practical Magic
( ) Chicago
(X) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
(X) Hellboy
(X) Secret Window
( ) I Am Sam
(X) The Whole Nine Yards
(X) The Whole Ten Yards
(X) The Day After Tomorrow
(X) Child’s Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(X) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
(X) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
(X) Sixteen Candles
(X) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
( ) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(X) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
(X) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Sleven
(X) Ocean’s Eleven
(X) Ocean’s Twelve
(X) Bourne Identity
(X) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
(X) Bedazzled
(X) Predator I
(X) Predator II
(X) The Fog
(X) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
(X) Curious George
(X) Independence Day
(X) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
(X) Christine
(X) E.T.
(X) Children of the Corn
( ) My Bosses Daughter
(X) Maid in Manhattan
(X) War of the Worlds
(X) Rush Hour
( ) Rush Hour 2
( ) Best Bet
( ) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(X) She’s All That
( ) Calendar Girls
(X) Sideways
(X) Mars Attacks
(X) Event Horizon
(X) Ever After
(X) Wizard of Oz
(X) Forrest Gump
(X) Big Trouble in Little China
(X)The Terminator
(X) The Terminator 2
(X) The Terminator 3
(X) X-Men
(X) X-2
(X) X3
(X) Spider-Man
( ) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
(X) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
( ) Catch Me If You Can
( ) The Little Mermaid
( ) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
(X) The Skulls
(X) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(X) Shrek
(X) Shrek 2
( ) Swimfan
(X) Miracle on 34th street
(X) Old School
(X) The Notebook
(X) K-Pax
(X) Krippendorf’s Tribe
( ) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
(X) Boogeyman
(X) The 40-year-old Virgin
(X) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
(X) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(X) Lord of the Rings: Return Of the King
(X) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(X) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(X) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
( ) Base-ketball
( ) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Rejects
(X) Elf
(X) Highlander
(X) Mothman Prophecies
(X) American History X
( ) Three
(X) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
(X) Night Watch
(X) Monsters Inc.
(X) Titanic
( ) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(X) Shaun Of the Dead
( ) Willard
( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
( ) Hulk
(X) Dawn Of the Dead
(X) Hook
(X) Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(X) 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
(X) Waterworld
(X) Kill Bill Vol. 1
(X) Kill Bill Vol. 2
(X) Mortal Kombat
(X) Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
(X) the Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave
(X) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) Army of Darkness
(X) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(X) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(X) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(X) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(X) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(X) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks: Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks: The Battle For Endor
(X) The Matrix
(X) The Matrix: Reloaded
(X) The Matrix: Revolutions
( ) Animatrix
(X) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
(X) Team America: World Police
( ) Red Dragon
(X) Silence of the Lambs
(X) Hannibal


Ok so I have seen 157 from the list. I know there are so many more out there that aren't on the list that I have seen too. That's a lot of movies...meaning...I have no life...but I do like movies. ;)

I am still here…..but my internet and phone has not been. We had some really bad wind a couple of weeks ago and the telephone line went out. The line has been going for about a year now. Static on and off and of course when we call to get it fixed they always ask...”well if there is such bad static how can you be calling us from that phone?” The guy finally came out…yet again the static was gone…so who really knows if his 2 hour trip down the street to check said box and fix said cable was true. Oh well at least its works for now.
I never really thought I was addicted to the internet... which is what I discovered these past 2 weeks. I just kept trying to connect all day and sometimes for a minute it worked. Not much fun though. But I am back on so I am happy again. (that crazy wind is back)
My next dilemma that I developed this week was decided on classes. I think I am just going to pass again on the quarter. I haven’t had a chance to look at what’s available (no internet) and I just don’t think I really feel like dealing with the stress. I have been feeling pretty tired lately and the thought of starting up with class this quarter makes me want to go jump into my bed for a nap. I’m just not motivated at all. I also was going to…um possible start working again but that kind of went out the window too.

Knitting has been about the only thing I haven’t been lazy about lately. ;)