Snakes on a Plane!

Have you heard about this movie?

On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, let loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

Samuel L. Jackson and a plane full of snakes, whee! I hope they don't change the name before it hits the theaters. Come see Snakes on a Plane!

Beep, beep!

We spotted the roadrunner (or maybe a different one, who knows?) in our front yard again. It was sitting on the fence between our house and the neighbor's place, just hanging out. It left while I was getting my camera, so I still haven't gotten its picture.

We watched Bewitched at the dollar theater this afternoon. Pretty funny, especially when we only paid a dollar apiece to see it. Apparently, my husband had never seen the original series. It was a bit before our time, but I watched a lot of those old black-and-white reruns on Nick at Night when I was a kid. Darn it! Now I have the theme song stuck in my head!

Needles&Pinza

If you hit the next blog button enough times, you eventually will hit someone's knitting blog. Now that Google is setting up the objectionable content flagging for blogspot blogs, the next blog button may actually lead to interesting content again.

Rotting my brain

My husband is working late tonight, so I've been reading various Livejournal communities and catching up on Strong Bad email. Very little redeeming value. :) Ooh! The Simpsons is on! Whee!

Hey, I just mopped that!

Yesterday, I cleaned the bathroom and gave the kitchen floor a long-overdue mopping, while my husband hauled all of our recyclables to the bins in the K-mart parking lot down the street. He came back with a nice glass pitcher that someone had tossed in the glass bin. A quick run through the dishwasher and we have a new decorative pitcher. It's nice to have good scrounging luck.

We made some curry for supper and watched our Unbreakable DVD on the computer. I'd seen the movie before, so this time I was noticing more details, like the use of color. I watched the extras on the second disc, and was slightly surprised by how many of the names I recognized in the discussion of comic books and superheroes. When I was a kid, the only comic books I read were the various Archie comics, but in grad school the public library had a small graphic novel section and I got caught up on my superhero stories. It appeals to me in much the same way as the fairy tale retellings I enjoy reading. Sometimes you have to exaggerate reality in order to tell a real story. Mythic archetypes, blah, blah, blah...

This morning there was a small puddle of some sort of dark brown or black fluid on the floor under the back of the refridgerator. I know it wasn't there yesterday, because I had just mopped it. *grumble* We pulled the refridgerator away from the wall and cleaned up the floor, but we're not quite sure what it is or where it is coming from. It's a mystery. We'll see if it happens again, and take it from there. I guess it is just a coincidence that something is leaking just after I mopped, but it feels like we have a spiteful appliance on our hands.

Lots of family time

Went to the family reunion yesterday. It was pretty good, but 'm feeling slightly sore today, probably from all the time I spent jumping on the trampoline and giving a nine-year-old girl a piggy-back ride up a hill.

Right now, we're all just waiting for people to get here for my sister's baby shower this afternoon. The house has been picked up, food is in the fridge, and presents are piled on the dining room table, so this is down-time for all of us. I think there was some talk about going for a dip in the pool earlier, so I might see if anyone is going for that after I post this message.

I'm using my mother's laptop to type this entry and am getting a little annoyed with the keyboard. There seems to be a bit of a lag which, when combined with the slight difference in keyboard size, is causing a number of typos and backtracking to fix them. I wonder if she has something running in the background...

My parents' dog is wandering around the office here. She is a mellow black lab that showed up under a car in their driveway when she was a puppy. Now that she has outgrown her initial puppy energy, she is one of the calmest dogs I know. Of course, now my parents have a little calico kitten that has adopted them (found in the same place as the dog had been. We suspect somebody dumps unwanted animals one to a house in this neighborhood.) and likes to provoke the dog, so she is a little more active than she would be if left to her own devices. Right now she is taking a nap by my father's desk. The house is very quiet.

Okay, the typing lag is getting to frustrating for me to continue. I'll write more some other time.

Baby things!

Before I pack them for the shower this weekend, I must post a picture of the baby stuff I made. The pants are from EZ's Knitter's Almanac, the pumpkin hat and sweater below it are of my own design (note the really wide neckline to accommodate a large baby head; I had to rework it a few times before I was satisfied), the orange cabled socks are from a recent issue of Interweave Knits. Moving on to the purple self-striping yarn, the entrelac hat, baby mitts, and tiny socks are all my own creation, while the regular socks are just a simple variation of the IK pattern. I like the effect of self-striping yarn with the entrelac.

Yeah, I'm a knitter

I have a plane flight tomorrow and still need to pack. I've been devoting more thought to my yarn than my clothes and toiletries. My thoughts generally go something like this: I'll want to bring those socks to finish them when I have my brother-in-law's foot handy, but the little needles might not be appropriate for the plane. I'd better come up with a project on fat plastic needles for the flight, maybe washcloths. Hmm, I don't think I have any kitchen cotton in my stash. I need to buy yarn tonight! I force myself to snap out of it at this point.

I just know that I'll be digging through my yarn closet tonight trying to find something small and non-threatening that I can take past airport security. Too bad I'm such a fan of sock needles. Maybe my wooden double-points would be okay, but I would really hate to lose them to the airline. I could hide them with my toiletries! Or I could pretend they are hair accessories! Visions of smuggling fiber and accessories flash through my mind. *cue Mission Impossible theme*

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — done!

I started reading it just after posting last nights entry, went to bed after about 250 pages, and finished it today. It's the literary equivalent of eating a whole bag of potato chips, I think.

I have Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Yay!

We put ourselves on the waiting list at our local used book store and got our lovely half-price copy today. This is a virgin book, never read, barely opened. Apparently the person who sold it was given a spare copy. It's amazing how much money you can save by waiting, what, a whole week and a half? Admittedly, we could have saved even more money by checking it out of the library, but there are about 200 holds on that book. I may not be a rabid Potter fangirl, but I would like to read it sometime in the foreseeable future. I think my husband is planning on rereading book 5 before going on to this one, so I get first crack at it. I'm wondering if I should save it for my plane flight to my family reunion this weekend, or if I should just go for it now?