One Word

1. Yourself: Waiting
2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse/fiance(e): Innocent
3. Your hair: soft
4. Your mother: insane
5. Your father: DADDY!
6. Your favorite item: scrapbook
7. Your dream last night: none
8. Your favorite drink: alcoholic
9. Your dream car: Shelby
10. The room you are in: new
11. Your ex: bastard
12. Your fear: Snakes
13. What you want to be in 10 years? graduated
14. Who you hung out with last night? family
15. What You're not? post-pardum
16. Muffins: cheesecake
17. One of your wish list items: ball-winder
18. Time: dragging
19. The last thing you did: type
20. What you are wearing: clothing
21. Your favorite weather: breezy
22. Your favorite book: Hamilton
23. The last thing you ate: Pizza
24. Your life: complicated
25. Your mood: blah
26. Your best friend: Heidi
27. What are you thinking about right now? knitting
28. Your car: Saturn
29. What are you doing at the moment? Gee...
30. Your summer: Hell
31. Your relationship status: married
32. What is on your TV? CSI
33. What is the weather like? wet
34. When is the last time you laughed? supper
35. Who did you steal this from? shadKitty

None But the Lonely Heart

Stolen from 6.5 Stitches.

1. Flip to page 18, paragraph 4 in the book closest to you right now, what does it say?

Congressional power over government spending is no less sweeping. Congress is to provide for "the common defense and general welfare" of the country (Article 1, Section 8). Furthermore, "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law" (Article 1, Section 9). This provision is one of the legislature's most potent weaponsin overseeing the executive branch.

Congress and Its Members, 10th Edition

Yummy.

2. If you stretch out your left arm - as far as possible, what are you touching?
A pillow on the end of the couch.

3. What's the last program you watched on tv?
Blue's Clues... again.

4. Without looking, guess what time it is.
9:34 pm -- not too shabby: 9:39pm

5. Except the computer, what can you hear right now?
The washing machine.

6. When was the last time you were outside and what did you do?
Sometime around 11am, I went to the store. I should've gone to class at 1pm, but it was thundering in the rain and I already have an ear infection to deal with. I don't need to add being wet in the air conditioning.

7. What are you wearing?
Maternity jeans, my grey judo shirt, handknit socks.

8. Did you dream last night? If you did, what about?
Thankfully, no, I did not dream. I slept the narcotic sleep of Lortab 5s and for the first time in many weeks I slept for more than 45 minutes at a time.

9. When was the last time you laughed?
Belly laughing? I can't remember... it was probably this past Saturday.

10. What's on the walls, in the room you're in right now?
Paint that we have determined to be colored "puke pink", DH's black belt certificate, DH's cerimonial black belt, pictures of the kids, crayon marks, ink pen marks

11. Have you seen anything strange lately?
Does Heidi count?

12. What do you think about this meme?
It's nicely effective at keeping me away from vector addition by components. However, it failed to keep Congress at bay.

13. What's the last film you saw?
We rented "Date Movie" from one of those RedBox machines.

14. If you became a multimillionaire, what would you do with the money?
Pay off the house and all other debts, finish college and then figure out what to do with the rest.

15. Tell us something about yourself that most people don't know.
I'm actually scared of absolutely everything. I'm scared of what people think of me, I'm scared that I've made the wrong choice, I'm scared of _________. Pick something. I'm scared of it.

16. If you could change ONE THING in this world, without regarding politics or bad guilt - what would it be?
My income level.

19. What do you want your children’s names to be, girl/boy?
I've already named all my children. Kathryn, Brennan and Evan. Yes, I am aware of the "n" thing. The first two were coincidence, the third was purposeful because Kathryn, Brennan and Pedro just doesn't work.

17. Do you like dancing?
I only dance when there's liquor or I'm safely inside the home of someone I trust.

18. George Bush?
Puppet.

20. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Depends on where "abroad" is in this question.

21. What do you want God to tell you, when you come to heaven?
"See? It worked out." but since I'll never get that far, we'll never know. =P

22. Who should do this meme?
Someone other than me.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Yes, I've watched the Harry Potter films. No, I haven't read the books yet. I'm waiting for the kids to be a little older so that I can buy hardcover copies and read the stories to them a chapter at a time for bedtime. But first, the babies need to have more than a two minute attention span.

Anyway, a little random silliness while I work on polishing up the last of the tabi tutorial; it should be up sometime tonight or tomorrow.

The sorting hat says that I belong in Ravenclaw!

Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose intelligence is surest."

Get Sorted Now!

Meanwhile, the socks traveled to church just a few rows before completion:

United Methodist Church of the Covenant
Don't we have a pretty church? I recommend stopping by the annual Pumpkin Patch if you're ever down this way in October Socktober.
(P.S. red + compression != friends. click for a bigger version if it's too wonky for you.)

10 Things I Hate About You

Edit: In case you're wondering... there are now 213 Things Skippy Can't Do... back to our regular broadcast:

You being store-bought socks.

First the story (you know I have one):

When I first wanted to learn to knit socks, my first stop was my local yarn store. Inside, I asked the shopkeepper where I could find sock yarn. She pointed me to a wooden boat on the floor that resembled one of those Swiss wooden shoes and left me to dig. My eyes nearly fell out of my head! What crazy person had priced this stuff? Eighteen dollars for what would be a pair of socks I had to make myself?? Needless to say, I left without any sock yarn that day. But the story does not end there. Several months later on I found the "more reasonable" but still "pricey" Lion Brand Magic Stripes (NAYY) at a local chain store.

This time I bought the yarn and gave sock knitting a real try (previously I had done a few in worsted weight to learn the mechanics of dpns and sock construction). About a week later I had my first (complete) pair of true handknit superwash socks. I put them on my feet, and I swear that within an hour the scales fell from my eyes and I was officially a believer! I've re-washed and re-worn that pair of socks every single day since they were grafted closed. Now I have enough sock yarn for at least ten pairs in my stash, and I plan on getting some of that absolutely yummy sock yarn at my LYS once my yarn diet is done. I now understand the eighteen dollar price tag and I'm actually wondering why it's so low!

On to the list:

1) You don't breathe. When I take you off, I feel like I've been wearing grocery bags on my feet.

2) You have holes in your short-row heels. You're a machine knit sock! How can you have holes in your short-row heels?

3) Rather than nice smooth toe grafts, you have thick seams that lay across the top of my toes, then slide down the sides of my shoe to get wedged between my toe and my shoe and irritate me while I walk.

4) You come in packs of ten at prices that make my relatives question my sanity in paying eighteen dollars for socks I have to make myself when you can be bought at Target for $1.99.

5) I can't give you an after-thought heel or toe and continue to enjoy you for many more wearings. Once you wear out, you're out.

6) I can't combine pieces of you in different styles and colors to make a pair of socks that just scream ME.

7) I can't remember the last time I saw you offered in a wool/silk blend that comes in fifteen different yummy colorways.

8) You don't come in a totally custom fit.

9) Your yarn can't be used to make a matching pair of opera length gloves.

10) You don't make me look smarter or more clever than I really am when I take you out of a bag on the bus. Usually, you just make me look like a crazy bag lady.

And finally, my latest pair of socks ventured into Math class to learn the Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines today (no, that's not the pattern there under my pencil, it's the syllabus with the list of homework problems on it):