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so, that new cd thing that i bought? jones decided to use it as a chew toy. grr.
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April 28, 2006
April 27, 2006
music storage
i have one of those 92 capacity cd thing and it's chock full; with about 30 cds still hanging out in their cases on a shelf taking up room. so i bought a 264 capacity cd thing and need to figure out how i'm going to arrange my music.. the "pages" are removable, so that sort of helps with alphabetizing, but i think i'll just stick to filing them by genre and leave it at that.
April 26, 2006
hilarity will ensue
if you don't know who zefrank is, you should get out from under that rock. he's got a new (well, over a month old) daily "news show" where he recaps the news of the day in his own funny, mocking way which will make you laugh til you cry if you're not already dead inside.
April 25, 2006
lamez0rz
i haven't had a whole lot to rap about lately.. i've gotten 2.5 (out of 12) squares done for the retro throw; the tulip & gingham socks are done, but it's too warm (save for today) to wear wool socks. i have a lot of yarn left over from those, so i started on some striped socks.
i've gotten jones to stop wrapping my yarn around furniture. he's pretty much acclimated to our routine. we're lucky that kurt and i have the opportunity to be home almost all the time... and i think i've lost weight from walking him at least two times (up to six!) a day; so everyone wins!
April 24, 2006
aww
so, he's gained 4 lbs in 4 weeks. at this rate, he'll reach my estimated full-grown size of 40 lbs in 2 more months. everyone is just smitten with him; and jealous of his non-six-month-old behavior. kurt attempted walking without a leash this weekend, and it worked out just fine. a lot of 'hood dogs don't use a leash, but they're like 8 and up.
i wish i were home with him right now.
April 21, 2006
blog of the week?
apparently bekeeblog is becoming an institution in wisconsin. this here blog has been chosen as a runner in mke's (a milwaukee-based free zine) blog of the week contest. go vote for your favorite.
what up?
jones chewed up a book last night between kurt leaving for work and me getting home. it wasn't a spendy book.. but it was one of my favorite author's (right up until this one book after nightmares & dreamscapes that got too sci-fi for me). so, i'm not real upset about the book itself, i can get another one for $0.01, it's the principle.
kurt and i definitely have different styles of "parenting".
April 20, 2006
more orange
here's co-worker's kid sporting a pumpkin hat.. his orange nose is from his affinity toward carrots.
April 18, 2006
randomness
i'm almost done with sock no. 3 (of 3, two of which will fit). i was worried about not having enough yarn left for the third one since i messed up on the first one, but now i wonder what i'll do with the leftovers; probably some striped socks.
two and a half years ago, kurt and i went to ikea and stayed the night in chicago near lincoln park. we went because i needed a rocking chair in which to knit while kurt slept on the couch.. so i came home with this, and never used it.
luckily, someone loves it and will gladly hang out on it if there's no room on the couch.
last night we made easter eggs. i know it's a day late, but it's not like we celebrate anyhow. we lack in drinkware for two reasons, one is cuz i have my Nalgene for water consumption, and a big pint glass for everything else. two is cuz i can't find glasses like the ones they have at the Olive Garden. so we used these tiny wine glasses.
April 17, 2006
sorry!
it's been a while since i rapped at ya. i've been off work since i left the building on thursday and i don't have to go back until thursday morning. we're taking jones to kurt's mom's to surprise her. she has an enormous doberman and i hope he doesn't mind having jones around for a little while.
April 13, 2006
man shot on willy st.
i got the scoop.. i know a guy who lives next door to the gas station. he claims there was some road rage and the man pulled off into the gas station, the man was irritated and not very calm and one of the cops freaked out and shot the cop standing next to him (as he was pulling his gun out) and then the angry driver three times after that (four shots total). the cop who was "bit" was actually just showing signs of spray and not injured at all.
the guy i know had his digicam confiscated because he took a bunch of pictures of the goings-on. but he emailed them to channel3000 and madison.com before they got to it.
so, the truth lay somewhere between what this guy says and what the cap times published yesterday.
April 11, 2006
needles
i got my denise kit over two years ago and haven't look to my straight needles but once (i used the honkin' 19s for a scarf) since. i love the ability to change needle sizes quickly, to use them for working in the round (if you can't do rounds on two long circs, you don't know what you're missing.. i recommend cat bordhi's socks soar on two circular needles). well, i was working on the strawberry fruit cap, sliding the yarn around the smallest, workable circ (it's 17" , the pattern called for 16", so it was tight) and the #5 tip snapped right at the point in which the cable keeps its place. thankfully the kit is under a lifetime warranty and all i had to do was email them and ask if i should send the broken tip back (as recommended in their faq) or if an email request would suffice? someone got back to me right away to apologize, and offered to send a new tip immediately. how great!
i also ordered yarn for a retro throw from knitpicks. fortunately for them, i think the only reason i was drawn to this item are it's colors.
April 10, 2006
wow
there's a site for everything. jones is now a proud member of dogster, the dog version of friendster. cute.
there're 195 dogs in madwisco registered, but i don't think we've met any of them.
April 7, 2006
a meeting
they've met before, but i didn't have the camera handy. here's jones trying to figure out, still, what these weird ferret-things are.
cute
now this makes me want to learn how to crochet.
more randomness
jones is doing great; and so are we. kurt was getting a little give-uppy after the sunday night incident, but i think i was able to convince him that all three of us will improve. so far, so good. though, he's still not lifting his leg to pee, which means trees are out of the question.. but he seems intrigued by the idea.
work's not going so well.. i try to be generally vague when mentioning work, cuz people there read this. but this thing is really bugging me. this huge project that was supposed to keep me busy through the middle of the year, and subsequently why they "cleared my plate" of almost all other things, has been moved to september; leaving me with little to do over a longer period of time; so i'm feeling pretty useless.
still waiting for the replacement needles. i don't think the shipment went out yet. jesse wants another fruit hat for a friend's newborn.. this time, strawberry. i have to go find some red cotton yarn. they don't recommend acrylic for little ones. oh, also, when i got my spinning wheel (which is still collecting dust; leave me alone), the woman included a niddy-noddy.. a not-so-stellar one, but one nonetheless. jones decided, last night during the 2 hours that the two of us were at work, to chew up one end, rendering it useless.
hm, i see a pattern here.
April 5, 2006
*lols*
i just ordered a 20pack from i park like an idiot because in the last two weeks, i've had at least five opportunities to use these offensive, yet non-permanent stickers.
shh, don't tell.
April 3, 2006
not a good night
i left the house for an hour and a half last night, while kurt was out playing poker.. and jones proceeded to drag my tulip and gingham sock all over the house.. not before he chewed up the bamboo needles, leaving me at a knitting standstill; cuz how could i predict that i'd need two sets of each of my dpns? so, an order to knitpicks went in last night for more needles.
for the last week, he's been spending the night in the bed. some people seem to think that's a little weird, but i like it because i know that he's not getting into trouble.. well, last night we decided to leave the bedroom door open in case he wanted to take over the couch. *ahem* VERY bad idea. he came into the bed around 3, and woke us up. kurt asked if he wanted to go out, and i said "he just came in, we might be in for a surprise in the livingroom." a surprise indeed. not only had he emptied the contents of the garbage into the dining room, he had defacated in front of the tv. a lot.
see, previously (during our breakfast outing), he pulled some buns out of the garbage and eaten a little bit, so i think it had him "blocked", as they say; and he didn't poop on our evening stroll. so i forgave him right away.. kurt, on the other hand, is having a difficult time with it. i'd say we're fortunate that he's been so quick to train thus far.
again, he's lucky he's so cute (no, there's no fish-eye lens action on this shot.. his ears are that big).
