writing things down while making a pizza

It’s difficult to say what really happened or when exactly it happened. It was nighttime. I think it was winter. I was walking down a residential street in a part of the city I did not know, or maybe I was on the porch of an old 70′s style house. There was a lot of snow on the ground and it was fresh but tracks had been worn in the sidewalk so it was easy to pass. The house next to me was on fire and I could see the flames growing in the upstairs window. I called 911 but there was no answer, I called again and when someone did answer I had forgotten how to make words when I found them, I had forgotten how to read and could not tell the operator where the house was. A girl came from the burning house and screamed at me to get off the phone. That she did not want help to come.

Hi Jennifer Beer!

Pink is my favourite flavour

cupcakes! delicious!

Easter can be for athiests too, at least if you are looking for an excuse to bake cupcakes!

Blue Cupcake

A bird laid some eggs on this one.

Outer Space promises to make everything better.

yum

10:59pm Erin

it would be unwise of me to buy a case of astronaut ice cream off of ebay, wouldn’t it?

11:01pm Sarah

Do you know where it’s been?

11:02pm Erin

does it matter? It’s freeze dried and vacuum sealed and all mint chocolatey chip goodness.

11:04pm Sarah

You are totally going to do it, aren’t you?

11:08pm Erin

it’s $40 that could probably be better spent elsewhere. Still it’s 20 packages, so really, kind of a deal actually.

Baby Bonanza

Here are some pretty cute babies that I know IRL.

Ephraim

and

Harriet

More importantly, this little guy was born in our GARAGE. He has siblings!

Tiny Baby

 

Probably about as important as the kitten picture, here is a picture of a jazzed up birthday cake for my friend Crissy Calhoun who was born a bunch of years and two days after Madonna.

cakecakecake

FO: Dean Street Mitts!

uuuh, I have nothing to say for myself other than that I got sucked into the insane world of Twilight fanfiction. Edward is the manager of a Staples and Bella is his employee, he smiles at her covering his teeth while opening a case of Bic pens. Glory.

I need to take my life back before things get too out of control. So I present to you (finally) a Finished Object. Ravelled on my Ravelry. Here

Dean Street Mitts

Pattern: Dean Street Mitts by Nina Machlin Dayton

Yarn: Malabrigo, Purple Mystery

Made for: Malabrigo Swap Round 7

Dean Street Mitts

Kool-Aid = Heart

In a previous post I wrote something about how my past self exists pretty much just to annoy my future self.  This post was a good example so I had to delete the oringal one. Seriously, it was just a bunch of crap about the joys of gardening as though I know something about them. I don’t. Once I grew some peas in a pot and that’s about the extent of it. I like these pictures of my parents’ garden though.

Snow Peas!

Romaine Lettuce

Asparagus - Year One

Just so you know I’m not kidding about the embarrassing stuff here is an actual quotation from the original post. “I am counting down the days until there are bagfuls of ripe tomatoes!”  I believe I also asked “How adorable?” under the picture of the asparagus. REALLY?

Feta-Nectarine Salad

Here are pictures of some food that I probably ate a year ago. Completely unremarkably, I have no idea where this bowl is now.

Nectarine-Feta Salad

I cast on for the Primavera socks by natalja on Ravelry which was a great pattern that I repeatedly screwed up. Therefore, the most interesting thing about them now is that I posed them beside a picture of some delicious vintage Sharkleberry Fin Kool-Aid. Do even you know that there is a vintage Kool-Aid trade? And, that you can still eat it? Also, I never finished these socks. FROG POND!

Primavera in Kureyon Sock

Alistair Cat

Here’s a picture of my cat on a Canada Post box. Insert your own lame joke about how he can’t wait to be shipped off to my craft swap partner in America.

It’s really summer?

I made dinner and then spent way too much time moving crap around in Photoshop.

Chop Chop

Ready to Go

yum

And for another U.F.O. may I present Bella’s mittens? The Twilight movie may be a lot of things but at least once of them is excellent choice in knitwear.

Twilight Crazytown

I’m knitting them out of some Debbie Bliss chunky tweed. I’ve made a previous pair for another secret gift that are more traditional dark grey. I love how they practically reach my elbows.

More Yarns

Really, no surprise here – I went back to the 20% off sale to pick up a little something more:

Rowan Felted Tweed

I’m thinking the yarn will be used for the lovely Wintergreen mittens by Kate Gilbert.  I’m kind of obsessed with mittens these days. In ye olde Ravely queue:  Totoro Mittens!, Breathe Deep by Kristen Kapur, Knotty Gloves by Julia Mueller, and Merion Mitts by Mintyfresh. Of course, double bonus points to any of them that can be knit in malabrigo. What would I do without Ravelry!

I have a secret finished object! I’m done finished the secret knitted item for my Ravelry Malabrigo swap partner and I ordered some yarn to go in the package last night. A hank of Hand Maiden Sea Silk for me may have fallen into the shopping basket, just saying.

Laptop Lunch!

Laptop Lunch for July 3, 2009

I used to pack one of these every day for lunch but a few months ago changed jobs and now I live close enough to work to go home for lunch. While I do enjoy not having to spend the extra half hour making my lunch everyday, with the added bonus of watching an episode of House Hunters, I do miss the awesomeness of my laptop lunch box. Today I met some old friends for lunch in the park so we brought our lunches. It started to rain so we had to move the picnic inside to the Legislative Assembly cafeteria! These are exciting days.