bang my knee

happy lunar new year, everyone! sorry i've been out while but i took a few days off and went back up to the bay area for the holiday. my mom was very happy to see me and feed me, as usual. the weather was quite lovely up north. i am always amazed by how wonderful the clouds are up there. they're just so fluffy and three dimensional and i just want to touch them. we don't get clouds at all in la (unless you'd like to call the brown haze one big "cloud"). i wish i had taken some pictures but my camera ran out of batteries and the parentals didn't have any aa's lying around and i was too lazy to go buy some. this week has been super busy at work, too, and i haven't had a chance to breathe. not to mention that our landlord called on tuesday to tell us that they were scheduling a fumigation next week, that we had to pack up all of our food in plastic bags, and that we would have to vacate for three days. yeah - let's just say that i am pretty annoyed. this is is the state or my kitchen at the moment:



it's just stressing me out. and our building managment were kind of being asses about it. one woman in my building threatened to move out and/or stay in the apt with police when the fumigation was going to happen. i think they finally settled it but ahhhh, where is all this food going to go? anyone want to come over and help me eat some frozen pizzas? not to mention that i am not even around this weekend because i am housesitting for a friend. she's actually got a really cute house out in sunland with a gigantic yard and a "spool" (i guess that's what people called a spa/pool combo). i also get to take care of her lovely pets: two dogs and a cat.


that's mckenna, a super sweet doggie


this is oliver, the biggest non-fat cat i've never seen. oliver also left me a nice #2 in the bedroom this morning. thanks, oliver.

there's also liddy, the super hyper dog but i couldn't get her to sit still for a picture this morning. it's nice to take care of them but that, and the fumigation is just a one way ticket to stress city. but what's better for stress than starting a new knitting project? after seeing eunny's awesome shedir hat here, i knew i just had to have one. i'd also seen a sample made recently at a yarn store and thought it was super cute but i wasn't into the feel of the rowan calmer the pattern calls for. i mean, calmer's nice and all, and probably great for someone with no hair, but i wanted something with the spring and warmth of wool. eunny made hers out of just one ball of rowan felted tweed and i had one ball in the stash so it was off i went!


i think this color is called melody

i am doing what eunny did and am twisting the knit stitches to give it a bit more definition. felted tweed is so yummy to work with and i can't wait to finish this hat. seems like i must be in a hat mood because i fell in love with allison's we be pirates hat (feb 3 post) the moment i saw it. pirates are awesome and this hat is a perfect thing for a pirate lover. a quick stop to unwind after work yesterday and i came home with this:


blue sky alpacas for my very own pirate hat!

alight that's all i have time for now. have a great weekend, everyone!