Kitten Theater

30 10 2009

I’M SMEAGOL AND I’M A PRETTY KITTY!!!!!!!

This is Naomi, she’s my sister!!!!!

OMG SHINY THING!!

Back!  Mommy says my head is too small and that’s why I’m…… WHATS THAT!?!?

I am going to write a post today because I am special!  Naomi says that I am VERY special.  I am going to show her I lover her by jumping on her and biting her face BRB!

She loves me, she showed me by hissing and smacking me in the nose!!  We are the best of friends!

Mommy likes yarn!  I like it too!  I like to eat it and chase it, once I wrapped the whole house in yarn for Mommy while she was gone.  She was so happy she cried!  I am the best kitty!

Daddy likes his XBOX!!  I like it too!  I wanted to show Daddy that I like the big white box too so I chewed on the cord!!  Daddy picked me up and said “do you want to be electrocuted?!!?”  I don’t know what that means!!!  But it sounds like fun so I chewed on Daddy’s phone charger too, and then on Mommy’s.  They were so happy that they bought more for me to chew on!!

I am a good cat!

Daddy got to busy to do the dishes so he got little tiny flies to help him.  Then there were too many flies and Mommy got angry and used her bad kitty voice.  So I helped by hunting them!  I am a hunter!!

I just stole a piece of plastic out of the recycling container!  I like to eat plastic!!  But Mommy took it from me.  Now I am a sad kitten.  Naomi will cheer me up!!  I will go fight with her tail!!

I hear Daddy at the door!!!!!  I have to go and let him know I love him running in front of him and tripping him!!!!!!!!


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Categories : Personal, Rant, Weird

Mountains of Mittens

13 10 2009

Well, now that I have a 5 minute walk from where I park my car to my desk (about half of that is inside) I’ve decided I need a new set of mittens.  My current set of mittens are from 2002 and are starting to fall apart.  I like to have the convertable mittens so that I can have my bare fingers free to fish around for my keys or sign a receipt or put on my lipstick in the car because I never have time before I leave the house. So I’ve been looking around Ravelry for different patterns, and I’ve found that there are many variations on the “free fingers” mitten

Fingerless mittens.  I like these when I work in an office that is cold, they let me type freely but they aren’t great for when you need to scrape off your car in a harsh Midwest winter.

These are pretty classic, there are no individual finger holes, just a mitt flap and the rest of a regular mitten.  Simple, quick, easy.

Slightly more complicated with the half fingers inside the mitts, this is what my current pair is like, I like this because I feel like it keeps the mitt from moving around, I’m sure that’s in my head.  This means making fingers (which I’ve never done)

This one comes with the option of making a full glove inside the mitt.  This sounds extra toasty, but I like to have free fingers (it’s easier for me to find things blindly when I can actually feel them)  but if having bare fingers isn’t important to you this sounds like a great idea.

This pattern does away with the mitt flap and just gives you one hole to stick your index finger through.  It’s called a photographer’s mitten.  I have several friends who are photographers who may require these mittens :)

This takes the idea of the photographer’s mitten up a notch, these are shooting mittens.  Leaving the index finger out at all times to freeze all by his lonesome.

These are a slightly warmer variation on the shooting mittens but I feel as if you would loose some of the sensitivity one might want for shooting by covering the trigger finger, but since I don’t plan on shooting at anything this is a better option for me.

And then there are these.  The are called bicycling mittens.  Now, maybe it’s because I don’t know how to ride a bike (I know, le GASP!) but I’m not sure how they would help in bike riding, but any of you are welcome to explain it to me.  They look like mittens Mr. Spock would wear so he could tell people to live long and prosper even on ice planets.

This seems like a wondersous half way point!  Two fingers and the top of the thumb exposed, the other fingers gloved, and a mitt to cover the whole shebang.  Brilliant!  Although I am concerned about the top of my thumb always being out there in the cold. I do believe these are the mittens for me!  I will have to figure out how to make fingers but I’m sure I’ll have plenty of help from my knitting buddies


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Categories : Knitting

Workin’ Girl

9 10 2009

Well, I’ve just finished my first week at my new job!!  I feel truly blessed to have found a job in only two months.  I’ve got plenty of friends who have been without work for much longer.

So far I’m really enjoying my new job, I like the guys I work with, I like the perks this particular company offers me, I like the work.  Although I haven’t been doing too much since I’m still learning the ropes.  I’m doing Help Desk work again, but this time for a for profit corporation and not a non-profit religious association.  It’s a very different dynamic but it’s more what I always thought working in an IT department would be like.

So you are aware, I am still knitting that shopping bag.  It’s taking way longer than I thought it would and now that I’m working I have less time to work on it.  I did make a dice bag though, and I have to take a picture of it and post it because it’s pretty cool looking.  I recently acquired 2 more sets of dice so I could no longer just carry them around in the box they came in.

I’ve also gotten to play a bit of Scribblenauts which is worlds of fun!  I haven’t really gotten to experiment as much as I’d like yet but once I’ve had a bit more play time I’ll do a real review :)


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Categories : Knitting, Personal, Video Game