The Quill

I saw this on XKCD just now (i’m a few days behind) and I about fell out of my chair laughing.

I do this ALL the time.

I have a new addiction. Expensive yarn. *sigh*

Go check out Oceanwind Knits.

Gah. The beauty. *melts*

I’m on the last leg of Les Miz, and Javert just committed suicide. Even though I knew very well that it was coming, it just completely broke my heart. After seeing him, and hating him for so long now (what, 2 weeks? 3 almost?), seeing him experience kindness and seeing him recognize that “the right thing” isn’t always what the “law” commands, and seeing him realize that magistrates can be wrong, and that sometimes the criminal can be divine, and that straight lines can parallel one another and still be different lines…. It was beautiful.

And then to see him recognize all of this, and jump off of a bridge because of it…

It made me very, very sad. *sigh* What a tragedy.

I finished the crocheted throw that I made for my friend Jen’s birthday present, and gave it to her! She loved it!!! You can find the album here: Jen’s Birthday Present, or when the blog finally updates itself, you can find it at the top of the page, under photos, and then under “Jen’s Birthday Present”.

She taught me how to cast on (or cast off? I can’t remember now), and how to knit stitch, and how to purl (stockinette), so now I can do a bit of knitting too! I’m working on crocheting my niece Rylei a baby blanket, and knitting a dish rag (as my first knitting project), so I’ll post pics of them when I finish as well. :)

Ears hurt (badly): check
Stomach is doing the heeby-jeeby: check
Head is pou-n-ding: check
Eyes burn: check
Hurts to breathe in sharply: Double-check
Achy, emotional, tired, can’t sleep, want to just die for a few days until this is over? CHECK.

And I just got over that nasty-ass sore throat from Missouri cooties. WTF is this, sick-town USA?

And the polar bear broke his toe last night, walking from the bedroom to the bathroom (stubbed it - pretty sure it’s broken). Wonderful. He gave me whatever bug it is that I’ve got, and he’s not anywhere near over it. He’s sleeping now. Hopefully he gets better soon. I can’t take care of a sick polar bear with a broken toe, until I’m better.

I wish I was sleeping, but I can’t. Even with day-quill, and advil, and hot baths, my head feels like the bass speaker in a gang-banger’s beat-up Honda. … Which is appropriate, considering that “Down with the sickness” is now stuck in my head.

OO-WAH-AH-AH-AH!

God, I hate being sick.

I was surfing the I can has cheezeburger site a few seconds ago, and actually came across one that I like enough to share. It’s not funny. But I love it.

Cheap Sam’s Club pizza + cold, gray weather + warm bed + snuggly puppy + snuggly polar bear = THE GOOD LIFE.

ahhhhhhhhhh…. I love Saturdays like this one.

So my friend Jen and I took a beginner’s fondant class last week (for which she baked my cake, because my oven is on the fritz). It was tons of fun, and now I’m dying to take the next level class, which is a topsy-turvy cake class at the end of July.

This is a topsy-turvy cake:

I cannot begin to tell y’all how many cakes I’ll be making this year, once the oven is fixed.

YES!

Had a little earthquake just now. I swear I’ve felt it coming all day long. I kept tensing up, thinking “earthquake coming!” but it didn’t happen till just now. I don’t feel like that little one was it, but I guess we’ll see, eh?

Harvested 1 poblano pepper today (it was turning red/brown), and 1 strawberry (Tennessee Beauty) today. At a total of 0.07 lbs, that makes for 0.32 lbs harvested thus far. *updates the Tally Ho widget*

PS - I have hornworms in the garden. *annoyed*