a good pic
here's jones getting a treat from kurt.
i'm leaning more toward the german shepherd because of the amount of brown in his fur, but i'd prefer he not get too much bigger considering he knocked me over when i got home last night!
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March 31, 2006
March 30, 2006
random stuff
i haven't started on the second tulip & gingham sock yet. i'm kinda nervous since the first one isn't going to fit anyone but a small child... so, obviously, i have to knit the next one as thought it were the first and hope that i have enough yarn for a total of three.
but! i haven't knit anything since Jones came home last saturday. he's quite the handful... distracted and crazy outside, mellow and cool inside. kurt took him to the vet on tuesday to get his rabies shots and license applications. i wasn't aware of the cost of heartgard and frontline.. sheesh! what a racket! he lost a tooth yesterday, too.
he slept the night in the bedroom with me; though i had to carry him into bed to get him there.
March 28, 2006
friends and pals
you don't care, but i'm gunna cancel my friendster account. i never use it, and it's really for single people and those who maintain a large group of acquaintances.
March 27, 2006
those da*m socks
i knit too tight. the sock doesn't fit over my heel, and i don't think any amount of blocking will help.
it sure looks pretty, though.
weirdly organic
i don't remember a whole lot about last night's dream, except for it seemed like i was on a trip with coworkers, with which i dont normally work, and i remember going to an organic restaurant that had stuff set out like a buffet, except it was done really poorly.. like, just a cookietray of some sort of vegan not-cheese snack on whole grain crackers, and a bowl of half-gone potato salad. but the patrons were all snotty about being there, "this is the most marvelous place for my diet." "i don't have to go to the gym after lunch here!" weirdly californian.
also, we were flying out from wherever we were, and the snotty restaurant made us late, so we had to beg them to hold the plane. plus i had to go to the bathroom; so of course that caused a ruckous since bathroom scenes seem to make it into most of my dreams.
March 26, 2006
ok i promise
this won't turn into a jonesy-blog, but i don't know how much time he's gunna afford me to knit.. luckily it's almost summer.
so i took him out at least every 45 minutes yesterday; during which time he didn't pee. once. so, kurt got home after work and he finally peed. he's picked a favorite spot outside the front door, which is handy. after a while, i had to go to bed.
kurt woke me up at 2:45 to tell me we'd had a little accident in front of the tv, and where are the puppy pads? well, this one was only paper trained, and puppy pads aren't quite the same. so we thought it would be nice to have him come to bed.. as he was getting comfy, he peed. :/ so kurt yelled and i took him out and he made his last tinkle of the night. he wouldn't come back into the bed, so i laid on the couch with him (we were extremely worried that he'd poop in the house, since it's a little puppy-like, and he hadn't pooped since 6pm). aside from him laying on me all night, it wasn't too bad. i'm dog-tired though.
this a.m., he surprised me by scratching on the door, being taken out, and almost immediately finding a place to end the digestive process. he sure is lucky he's so dang cute.
March 25, 2006
omg
here's jonesy:
he is SO CUTE.
p.s., i think he's part australian shepherd and lab. also, he met like eight neighborhood dogs AND the ferrets today. he's exhausted!
March 24, 2006
fruit
i'm making a pumpkin hat for a coworker's kid. should turn out pretty darn cute.
with these requests, i haven't worked on the tulip & gingham socks in about 2 weeks... but i'll get back to them soon. the heel-turn was weird, but i figured it out.
March 23, 2006
d.o.b.
there was one year in which i had six or seven w2's to account to the irs. i think this was the year in which i had a job at a cleaning company; vaccuuming and dusting one of those big buildings on e. wilson. i was 16 or 17, driving george's mom's old dodge diplomat (the sheer size of that thing saved my life, but that's another bloggy). so, it was either during the interview, or directly on the application, that i stated i would be taking april 19th off, if our relationship happened to include that particular date. i don't remember if anyone acknowledged the statement, or if they thought i was kidding, but april rolled around and i asked to have april 19th off and they said no. so i quit.
that's not something that an almost-29-year-old should do having been at the same job for almost 5 years.. but, as luck would have it, easter is the sunday before my birthday, and we get a generous amount of company holidays, so i will be far from work for SIX days, the last of which will be my date of birth.
March 22, 2006
:/
i need to ask mom if dad was a very impatient person.. cuz i didn't get it from her.
we haven't heard a whole lot about the puppy. i emailed the lady on sunday to let her know to expect the application (snail mail!!1) and that we were awfully excited; she replied with her thanks and briefly described the process, without a time frame.. so i've been gnawing at my fingernails wondering when we'll be bringing a dog home. it's furrowing my brow.
March 21, 2006
leftover irish
we made pizzas last night. a couple winters ago, my friend mary brought a snackie down during a football game, it was a simple pizza on a flour tortilla with cheese and green olives. it was so awesome in its simplicity that we stopped having any other kind of pizza almost completely. so, last night, we made soysage and sour kraut pizzas. it was actually pretty good. i recommend you all try it.
March 19, 2006
puppy
so, we went to mounds, cuz i needed to get puppy pads for the ferret cage. they're only 50% litter-box trained, so it makes it a lot easier to clean up. there were two puppies in the care of a foster mom from the country animal haven and kurt absolutely fell in love with the smaller one... so i'm mailing our pre-adoption application tomorrow. he said he's never been this excited about a dog before; so i hope we get to get her, he'd be awfully disappointed otherwise. he's pretty small, and the foster mom think he's got some shepard in her. he's 6 months so he probably won't get much bigger. i'm anxiously excited. he even said we'd take her to training classes! i wish i had a pic to show you, but they only have adoptable cats listed on their website.
*edited later because we found it she's a he. :)
March 18, 2006
sockies
they're coming along nicely... the heel turn threw me for a loop, as it's not done in quite the same fashion that i'm used to.. these will certainly look a lot better after being blocked.
today, crafty saturday is at my house.. i'm working on two little double-seed-stitch bags for a woman at work. i made her a cellphone cozy back when i was learning how to knit, and she's worn it out over the last three years, so it's time for an update; plus i'm a much better knitter now. :)
March 16, 2006
vanity
since i didn't buy that video ipod, i removed my orange iskin so it would seem as though i had a new toy. i assume you're aware of the shiny metal back of the contraption.. well, i just used it as a mirror to make sure there was no spinach in my teeth.
March 15, 2006
post-vacation
i was pretty zen at work yesterday. all the stuff i've been waiting impatiently for is starting to roll into my court; so i'll be happily, busily coding away soon. we'll see how long the zen lasts.
* i have closed comments on this post due to an overwhelming number of comment spams left for this entry.
March 13, 2006
we're back!
the drive home was filled with hunger and sleep. we hadn't eaten since 4ish on sunday... everything closes in dubuque at 10 on sunday night, so by the time we could have eaten again, there was nothing to chose from..
i promptly lost my winnings from the previous night. something i don't feel too upset about since that's how the cookie crumbles (i h8 cookies).
so we're back. kurt's in bed already.. that's how tiring a weekend away is. :)
March 12, 2006
gamblin'
well, video poker came through for me again. i won $200 on a $20 game.. so i'm up. kurt wasn't so lucky.. he stayed at the blackjack table too long and lost ~$81.. he might recover it again tonight.
we went to galena this afternoon, it's a neat little town. and we ran into my aunt kathy and uncle dan! what a tiny world.
March 11, 2006
in iowa!
i'm blogging from a tavern in dubuque. it's an irish bar with free internet. weird.
more fair isle
so i started on the tulip and gingham socks yesterday. i'll be damned if i can read a chart. i think what threw me, is the alien illusion scarf chart in the first stitch n bitch book is charted, but you read it from the bottom left.. so i immediately started reading the fair isle chart from the left. i wish it were more obivous how to start things.
with the fair isle hat, starting the chart didn't matter much since it was in the round, and the rows made sense so i didn't really need to see the chart; such is not the case with these fancy socks. i wonder if i'll actually wear them? :)
March 10, 2006
recycling nazi
i've often referred to myself as such. i can't suppress jaw-dropping shock and awe when i hear that someone doesn't recycle their aluminum cans, or know which #'s of plastic madison recycling accepts. so, when i see people carrying 24 packs of 10oz bottles of water into the building, presumably to keep at their desks for hydration, i cringe at the state of our landfills. please don't get me started on the styrofoam cups for a bevvie offered with every lunch special.
apparently 65% of plastic bottles go to landfills. i'd like to know if that's pure aussie power, or worldwide. either way, it's astonishing, the waste we humans produce. so, i do my part by drinking 32oz of pure nalgene water every day.
why don't you do yours?
March 7, 2006
tacos
kurt and i have perfected the art of the fish taco. yea, yea, you might be saying, "gross", but if you've never tried one, then you don't know what you're talking about.
we've determined, from a smattering of different fishes, that the best fish-taco fish is ahi tuna. we dry-rub simply organic's fish taco seasoning (just a half a packet per meal), and pan-fry the fish until it flakes. then we toast up the soft corn tortillas over the flame and top 'em with cheese, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, and salsa.
however, last night we decided to try tex tubb's taco palace after having braved the grand opening two weeks ago. it was still pretty good, they got better with the homemade salsas, and the service was expeditious, almost too fast, as we weren't able to enjoy the chips and salsa for as long as we'd have liked.
the grilled portobella mushroom taco was awesome; it came sprinkled with chunks of feta. the mahi was a little dry, presumably because we arrived about an hour and half before closing, and they weren't very busy. the achiote tilapia was good, too. they serve up the fish tacos california-style.. that is, with cabbage, some sort of white sauce, and pickled onions; which i could do without. but, for tacos cheap, we'll be back, for sure.
March 6, 2006
new music
so i got all those cds that i ordered from amazon in lieu of the video ipod a couple weeks ago. so, i've been kinda geeking out on the thievery corporation, which is a random selection of reggae, d'n'b, jazz, spanish, and dub all mixed together. i now own five of their albums. i also bought another rockers hi-fi, and four dub albums; one of which has some live stuff at the end which i don't really care for. if you're interested in listening to samples, i've linked to the amazon products below:
Disassemble Dub
DJ Kicks: The Black Album
Quango: Dub Selector, Vol. 2: A Global Adventure
Dub Selector
The Richest Man in Babylon
The Mirror Conspiracy
The Outernational Sound
The Cosmic Game
Exploring The Dangers Of
March 4, 2006
fo's!
i forgot to show you the finished fair isle hat from knit whits. it's been done for a while now. i must have had tight tension, cuz it hardly fits my head..
here's a close up:
also, too, i'm working on a pair of bittens out of the coveted vesper sock yarn, which goes out of stock almost immediately after becoming available. it's hand-kool-aid-dyed 100% merino wool. it's soooo soft and prettyomg.
March 2, 2006
vaykay
last year, officespeak turned to a new low. people were suddenly too busy to say "vacation" so they shortened it to "vaykay". i also saw, on some meeting agenda, that someone was OOO. what? is that some weird onomatopoeia? it stands for Out Of Office, which apparently couldn't have been indicated by just typing "out".
anyhow, kurt's cheating death another year next friday (he'll be 38, omgshhh) and we're going to take a little vacation out of town saturday through monday. we're staying at some million-year old hotel in downtown dubuque called the julien inn. hopefully we'll get a riverside room; kurt likes to watch the tugboats and barges go up and down the river all night. i'm doubly-excited to check out their downtown shoppes. plus, too, we get our annual bonus on the 10th, so i will have a little extra dough to myself. we also should have opportunity to get up to prairie du chein to see gramma and john.
March 1, 2006
please, no flowers
i'm featured on a local website that summarizes dane county (mostly the madison area) as a madison blogger. it's a short read, if you're interested. it's kinda neat. :)
:?
there's someone @ work who appears to have been forced to drive their husband's rig* to work.. and hanging from the rear trailer hitch is an accoutrement i've never before seen. it's a pair of chrome-plated testicles.
co-workers' and my amazement went from shock to laughter. it's like seeing the wrong kind of bumper sticker at a partied office.
i'll probably have to censor this post later in life to get rid of seedy referral sites.
*anything that could crush my mazda on the road.