I really haven’t made progress in my knitting over the past few weeks, mainly cause this guy likes to sit right on my lap and bonk my knitting out of the way with his rather large nose. Then we proceed to snuggle. He always wins.
Category Archives: Dogs
February Funk
I have to admit, I’ve never understood why people get bummed out in February. I’ve always had a couple of good reasons to like it: Valentine’s Day, and my Birthday.
But now that I’m living in a much more northern locale, I can completely understand how it can be a bummer of a month. Its dark outside when I’m leaving work, its dark outside when I’m waking up for work. And even when it is sunny and bright outside, it’s frosty as hell and sometimes pretty miserable to bear. Add in the constant worry about “the economy,” and the fact that we are living in a really expensive city on one salary right now…. well, bummer.
I don’t want to be bummed out, so I’m trying to focus on the good stuff I’ve been enjoying lately:
Deadwood on DVD
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The insanely adorable acts committed on a daily basis by Henry:
Maxxin and Relaxxin by the Heater
Hanging Out on the Stairs with Joey
And knitting slowly and leisurely on the first sleeve of Thermal:
Thermal Body Finished
I’ve cast on for a sleeve, but haven’t made any showable progress. Hopefully I’ll be able to score some knit-time today and bang out some sleeve!
And on a side note, how can it not be a good day when you wake up to this face?
Baby It’s Cold Outside
Our heat is out again, though it should be fixed by this evening. We have a little space heater to take the edge off the chill, but Henry’s been hogging it:
I think I’ll cozy up in a wool blanket and do some knitting. Hope you’re all staying warm out there!
Going Home
Joey and I went back to Texas last week to visit our families since we didn’t get to see them over the holidays. It was a really nice trip and we enjoyed seeing both our families.
We visited with the cows:
We got to watch Daisy prove that she’s a farm dog now:
And we rode the horses:
City Slickers
You might recognize Doc, the darker, taller horse. My parents have had him for about a year now. They recently got another horse named Scooby. Scooby has lung disease and wheezes a lot, but he is a really sweet and gentle horse and I’m glad that he has a nice family to take care of him. I discovered that when he’s trotting and you squeeze your legs to try to keep from falling off, he runs faster like horses are supposed to do when you squeeze their sides!
Doc had an itchy face and found the perfect place to scratch it:
I was a little too busy to get any knitting done. I tried a little, but its hard to carry on a conversation when you’re keeping track of armhole and neckline decreases, all while maintaining a waffle stitch pattern. I hope to finish off the body this week and start on the sleeves…
I think I can count on Henry's help.
Distractions
Although it was only two small projects, I’m proud to say that I’ve finished my Christmas Knitting!
"Pfffft!"
Henry even helped!
I had to put my Shredded Wheat Scarf on hold while I knitted the Christmas gifts, but as soon as I was done, I felt a strong desire to start something new. Something that’s been floating around in my brain since it first started getting cold around here…
Uh oh.
The Unbearable Cuteness of Being Henry
Sigh…
It’s a hard life being this cute. To tell you the truth, sometimes it really gets me down…
It is exhausting trying to maintain this high level of cuteness at all times….
Sometimes I just wanna be me…
And then I remember just how fabulous I am!
3 Things
First things first: I am so happy that I get to snuggle with this cute face again:
Henry thoroughly enjoys the golden beanbag.
Secondly, Joey and I celebrated our 7-year anniversary last week. We had a great evening out and had to snap a pic with the date in the background as we passed by this building on our way home:
This photo took 14 tries.
Lastly, I am knitting an R2D2 hat for my friend Josh. Right now it is just a striped hat, but it will become R2 by the magic of duplicate stitching. I had originally started making it using stranded knitting but it just wasn’t working out. My strands weren’t long enough to accommodate the amount of stretch when wearing. So this is really R2-2.0:
Bee-boo-bop-beep!
Books, Dogs, and Knitting. Three of my favorite things.
I went to see the Yarn Harlot’s book reading last night at Barnes and Noble with Erin.
Sorry, it’s kind of hard to take a one-handed iPhone photo!
We knitted, we listened and we laughed. It was a great time and now I have another book to read! Reading is part of the reason that I’m still not finished with these dang socks. (That… and the fact that they’re guy socks which are inherently bigger than the normal sock.)
Yes, I’ve been sucked back into reading a lot and really enjoying myself. Some of my recent reads:
Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, all by Stephenie Meyer: I highly recommend these books- I’ve gotten my sister and my mom to read them, and my sister in law just bought the first one the other day. My favorite of all the books is the first, though I didn’t really like the way the series ended. I read all four of these hefty books in the period of about one week- I couldn’t put them down.
Two of the Women’s Murder Club Series by James Patterson: 1st to Die, and 2nd Chance. Both of these are about a group of four women who help each other solve horrible murders and help each other with life’s problems. They also happen to be good page-turners to keep you busy on the train.
Marley and Me by John Grogan: Joey was browsing a bookstore and picked this one up for me. It was definately cute, but it made me miss Daisy and Henry.
Speaking of dogs…. HENRY’S COMING TO LIVE WITH US AGAIN in a little over a week! If you don’t know the story- when we moved to Brooklyn we had to leave the dogs back with my parents in Texas because our landlord wasn’t sure he wanted us to have pets. Well now that we’ve shown him that we’re good tenants he’s allowed us to bring a dog. We’re just bringing up Henry at first cause he’s a little easier to handle: he doesn’t cry or howl when you leave the house and he doesn’t try to bite strangers. Plus I know Daisy is living the life and being spoiled rotten by my parents. Seriously- she and my Dad have bonded and she waits patiently next to him every morning while he eats breakfast and he always saves the last bite for her. Not to insinuate that Henry’s not being spoiled- he definitely is getting the free run of the house and farm. He’s even gone down the road a few times to meet the neighbors (another reason why he’s the one we’re bringing up first.) I can’t wait!
Love Is All You Knit 