let the good times roll

sigh- it seems like it's been such a long week, but it's almost over. lots of excitement this week, including thunderstorms and emergency plane landing in la. luckily, none of these events ended tragically. in fact, the thunderstorms and rain were really cool. i love fall and winter and even though los angeles has a pretty pathetic season, i can't wait for it to start. what else have i been doing this week? watching tv. that's all i've been doing really. about a million shows started up again this week and i was on a quest to watch all of my favorites, along with a few new shows. i just finished last night's season premiere of lost, which was awesome. no spoilers so don't fear, but i love it and am so glad it won the emmy (even though deadwood and six feet under are pretty awesome, too). i also managed to watch csi tonight and i was happy to see the whole team together again. but gil still had that annoying beard i think. so far none of the new shows is turning out to be really interesting to me. i did miss my name is earl though, and plan on catching it next week. bones was just ok (the main character is kind of annoying) and everybody hates chris was pretty funny. i really don't know if i will be able to keep up with all of the tv watching. it's exhausting.

one good thing about being a couch potato is that i get to knit a lot. this week i've been concentrating on the saxon braid scarf from knitting on the edge and since it's pretty dull looking still, i'll just post a pic of the cable.


i can't seem to catch the color correctly. it's a very deep red and the color is not as blown out as it is here in the picture. again - the knitpicks sierra is dreamy to work with. the color selection right now is a bit limited but hopefully they're remedy that soon. in other knitting news, thanks to some people, i decided that i needed to make a jayne hat. if you've ever watched firefly, you know what hat i am talking about. the serenity movie comes out in 8 days (!) and i thought that i needed a hat to commemorate the event. i know i won't wear it to the actual movie since i will probably be going alone and don't like to call attention to myself anyway. but you can find a pattern here and another craftster thread about the whole thing. i think everyone should make one so they can look this cool:




i'll be using brown sheep bulky for the hat. i'm not really sure if these are the right colors for it (it's hard to tell in the dvd), and i also ordered one color online that should come shortly. in most of the patterns out there, they say that the earflap should be red. however, i think the hat is mostly gold and orange and i ordered a dark rust color for the earflaps. the yellow is a bit bright but i kind of like it. i might do some yarn shopping this weekend just in case (my bad).

i'm pooped now so off to bed i go but i hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!