Don't you hate it when LJ logs you out and you don't realize it and you go like a day and a half only reading the unlocked posts on your flist? Stupid LJ.
Last night we took the munchkin to see The Marriage of Figaro at Hermann Park. It was a lovely night and we had a nice picnic on the hill before the show with a couple of her friends from school and their mom. The girls weren't overly excited by the actual opera, though, not that I expected them to be. But they made it through the end of the second act, which was more than I expected. I was relieved to leave, though, because it's actually kind of annoying listening to your name sung over and over operatically. Afterwards we brought the girls back here for a sleepover and, oh my god, ya'll, the shrieking and the giggling. I knew there was a reason I stopped at one kid. But the munchkin had fun, so it's all good, I guess. Only I am TIRED today and I have a knitting date this afternoon.
Wonderful happy birthday wishes to
kelbelle and chrisleeoctaves!
Last night we took the munchkin to see The Marriage of Figaro at Hermann Park. It was a lovely night and we had a nice picnic on the hill before the show with a couple of her friends from school and their mom. The girls weren't overly excited by the actual opera, though, not that I expected them to be. But they made it through the end of the second act, which was more than I expected. I was relieved to leave, though, because it's actually kind of annoying listening to your name sung over and over operatically. Afterwards we brought the girls back here for a sleepover and, oh my god, ya'll, the shrieking and the giggling. I knew there was a reason I stopped at one kid. But the munchkin had fun, so it's all good, I guess. Only I am TIRED today and I have a knitting date this afternoon.
Wonderful happy birthday wishes to
kelbelle and chrisleeoctaves!- Current Mood:
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I'm still knitting the same baby blanket I took to Sundance because I've been a very bad knitter lately. I tend to slow down when there's good television on and then pick up momentum in the summer when everything's in reruns. But the baby it's for was just born last week, so I need to get a move on.
So towards the end of the TV season when things are getting exciting, I don't often reach for my knitting, but then as soon as summer kicks in and it's all stuff I've either seen or don't really care about, I'm all abot the knitting. I just placed a big Patternworks order for several new projects worth of yarn and I have a feeling my Buffy and Angel DVDs are going to get quite a workout this summer once the doldrums set in.
And someday you'll read it over and over again as a murderer! Or a murder victim, I guess, but that's not nearly so fun.
I'm so not kidding about having dropped six stitches during the Veronica Mars finale. And yet I somehow knit right through the end of Grey's Anatomy with no trouble. There might be some hidden meaning there...
What did you order from Patternworks, hmmm? What are you starting next? :wriggles with vicarious knitting delight: I'm at that stage of finishing up about five projects (felting, putting on trim, sewing on buttons, etc.), so I'm chasing my (substantial) tail in a circle dithering about what to do next. I think I might put in an order for yarn for Certain Secret July Projects and then try to get the teeny baby bolero from One Skein Knitting done before the new yarn gets here...:wanders off musing about yarn:
And I am very much looking forward to that day!
What did you order from Patternworks, hmmm? What are you starting next?
I'm doing the Stitch 'n' Bitch kitty hat for the munchkin (which I'm hoping to get done before Comic-con in case she wants to wear it there), and a pair of striped socks for myself, and some cottton chenille flower-shaped washcloths I've been dying to try out. All thanks to my wonderful birthday benefactor! *smooch*
I *cannot wait* to hear what you think of the chenille--it is a tempting fiber. I'm thinking of making a Jolly Roger washcloth for DaneyBoy, so let me know if you like the Patternworks chenille.
The kitty hat should be a huge hit--didn't you say the munchkin is currently into some hero cats? Or...something? And it's Jason Dohring's fault? Or...something? Googling what I thought you called the cats tells me that this wasn't actually what you were calling the cats. I may have been having an aneurysm at the time.
Also, I am deeply amused with the fact that the Wikipedia entry on Neopets warns me that the entry may contain "weasel words." I know what they mean, and that they are trying to be serious, but it makes me giggle.