101!

Apparently this will be my 101st post. Tomorrow I’m off to Park City for the night with newspaper people, so you get this a whole two hours before Friday.

1. The last meal I had at a restaurant was pizza and salad at The Pizza Factory. Not enough sauce and too much dressing. Wow, I just realized I could literally say that about something I encounter every day of my life.

2. Dealing with advertising/marketing people is something I intensely dislike.

3. The full moon is crazy bright tonight.

4. “Not enough sauce and too much dressing” is one of my favorite local expressions.

5. Sometimes it’s best to admit that you forgot the person’s name.

6. The Dark Knight is the best movie I’ve seen so far this year!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to a fretful sleep, tomorrow my plans include learning newspapery things and Sunday, I want to knit all day long!

Really late vacation update.

A long time ago, (ask Jenn if you want specifics, we went at about the same time) I went to the Great Uintah Basin National Park or something like that for a camping trip, and took a few photos.

A view of Wheeler Peak from the road up to my campground.

Harry Truman! He was looking fine on this trip.

Taken through the car window. This was a lovely time of year to go (once again, you’ll have to talk to Jenn, because I don’t know what I’m talking about) because the quakies were at their brightest green and the pines were beautiful and dark in comparison. It’s one of my favorite things about Utah.

There he is again! At the actual campground, this time.

Obviously I’m not much of a picture taker. I rag on my poor mother for never taking pictures with people in them, when I’m just as bad. So much for evolution.

Early Ffi again.

1. You know your (dad is) old when you water the lawn without sprinklers. Just standing there. Spot-watering.

2. My heart is divided between excitement that the new semester is starting and fear, for the same reason.

3. Something to tear apart is what I need RIGHT NOW!

4. I have felt the sorrow of whoever wrote this fill-in, I have known the depths of dissatisfaction.

5. Gah, won’t these people please send in their articles on time!

6. Buy me some junk food as soon as you can!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to mourning the outcome of So You Think You Can Dance, tomorrow my plans include building a newspaper and Sunday, I want to make sure my dog Scout doesn’t get lonely.

Rawr!

My first sewn stuffie! It’s from a book that I can’t remember a single thing about. It had a bunch of really non-specific monster patterns. And was from the library.

I quite like this one, despite his face being too high up on his body.

Actual timely craft content! (sort of)

What will it be, what will it be? The first correct guess (from someone who doesn’t already know) will get a prize! Really!

I’m actually very close to finished with this - the picture was taken quite a while ago. But I’m so so excited to finish it and show all of you!

Twisted Stuffie

Oh man. I made this quite a while ago. Probably a month or so. But I’m just not that thrilled about it - I didn’t really try to make it cute. And the stuffing is really visible in places. This was the result of a “must-make-toys!” frenzy. And I put it’s head on sideways, which makes me think that it’s always doing the John-Dorian-daydream.

The pattern is Ysolde’s, and should be easily found on Ravelry. But I’m too lazy and over it to link.

Ffi

Gaah, knitting frustration! I have the yarn, I have the needles, I have the patterns - the stars should be aligning but they refuse to! Can I hire a knitting dojo or something? Is dojo even a word?

Edit: Dojo is a room in which judo is practiced or something. I mean a guru or a spiritual adviser of some sort.

1. If I could travel back in time, I’d go to the premiere party of The Big Chill, and I would seduce William Hurt. I actually have a list written down of the first ten things I have to do when I gain access to a time machine. And William Hurt is more important to me than stopping the great potato famine before it starts.

2. Give me something thoughtful and useful or give me nothing at all. Or money. But thoughtless, impersonal gifts that are useless really make me sad.

3. I am listening to “Can’t Buy Me Love” from the album Bach on Abbey Road. Seriously one of the best cd’s I own.

4. Somewhere, someone is thinking ‘why on earth was Mark eliminated before Twitch? Mark is so much better!’

5. I’ll always be dissatisfied.

6. My idea of a good time includes knitting, gossip, music (especially karaoke), intelligent conversation, well-dressed people, roller coasters, and/or thrift store shopping.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to moping around, tomorrow my plans include moping around and maybe a tray of muffins and Sunday, I want to convince my dad that our dog has a tumor on his penis without actually having to say the word “penis” in front of him.

Pre-deadline Friday Fill-in

As I write this, it is Thursday night at 8:29 pm. So you think you can Dance is on and Joshua was just chosen over Twitch (what?!). But I’m not going to publish this until I’ve posted some knitting content.

1. I believe whatever doesn’t kill you immediately will just kill you eventually.

2. If you’re good at something, never do it for free. Also, never follow your own advice.

3. Why so little voting for Twitch, America?

4. Something is out there, it’s not going to wait for you, though.

5. If my life were a sitcom, it would be titled Deadlines and Threadlines. Or something else.

6. Sitting on my back porch I see two beautiful corgis, a freaking huge lawn, a pasture across the fence, and a hammock.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to eating until midnight, tomorrow my plans include knitting a few dishcloths, and Sunday, I want to go out on the town!

Well, crafty content.

I’ve been taking a bunch of poor quality photos.

I’ve also been beading … very little. I want to make beautiful things like these, but I might need to take a class or something. There aren’t good books on beading or jewelry making in my local library.

Smocking! Pockets! Belted at the waist! I want it in red gingham or a 90’s floral. And I might shape the pockets like hearts.

I want the dress second from the left in that exact color. And yes, these patterns were $0.25. And they’re all my size, or close to it. I flipped out when I saw them! And if I liked maxi dresses (which I don’t), I would want the white on on the right.

I’ve been crafting up a storm, but taking pictures of the things I make just make me sad. I was spoiled with that DSLR, and now nothing else even comes close.

Phew, now I don’t feel so bad about posting another meme!

Saturday Fill-in

From here. I promise more knitting/crafting/something-other-than-memes-and-videos content soon.

1. If I could be a fly on the wall I would probably win a Pulitzer or something. And I’d be a writer for Rolling Stone.

2. Jealousy is really entertaining to watch, and really terrible to feel.

3. When I see a shooting star my wish would be that I wasn’t hallucinating. Because I have never once in my entire life seen a shooting star.

4. I’d rather be surrounded by chaos than bored any day!

5. Certain songs when I hear them make me wanna dance, drive faster, or play Solitare.

6. If time were in a bottle I’d probably win a Pulitzer or something.