Idyllic Chick

I should not like this. I should not like this at all. But the Yoda is just cracking me the hell up!

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And it's not even over yet.

As C&I were leaving for an early showing of The Prestige, we noticed a short, stumpy, brown sploched snake near the sidewalk. We took pictures of him with our camera phones, but none of them came out worth a darn. So going by our memories alone, we think it was a cottonmouth. Joy. A coral snake under the trailer, and a cottonmouth in the yard. I've read that they are both pretty docile snakes, but still. Doesn't make me feel easy about taking the dogs outside.

As for The Prestige, good film. I'd recommend it. Wonderful actors, including Andy Serkis (Gollum!). Keep your eyes out for David Bowie. I completely missed him until Chris elbowed me in the ribs.

After a lunch of popcorn at the theatre, we trucked on over to Body Tech's new shop in Alachua. Ever since I got my lip pierced, I've been on a bit of a tattoo kick. I had been checking out BMEzine about lip piercing stuff, and I've kept going back to look at tattoos. I've been mulling over various tattoo ideas I've had over the past few years, but none of them were hitting me as something I'd like to do right now. I don't exactly know how the idea came to me, but yesterday I decided I want a golden snitch tattoo, and that I want it now. We'll be leaving for the tattoo shop again in about five minutes so that I can talk to the guy about drawing something up for me. Exciting! But I still get nervous. You'd think I'd be used to this by now.

"I lost the refrigerator down my pants."

Tonight is Polka night at the Emery-Hairston household! Please consider joining us! I suggest starting with Polkas on 45, grabbing a couple of glasses of champagne, and moving on from there. Have fun!

Last night after Stitch and Bitch, I started playing with the roving that I mail ordered a month or two ago. 'But Sharon,' I can hear you saying. 'You don't spin, nor do you intent to learn to spin in the near future. Whatever will you do with all that roving?' I turned it into these! Dreadlocks! Felted wool dreadlocks!

When I had real dreadlocks, I made a few purple ones out of that acrylic hair that you can buy in a bag for 99 cents at your local ethnic beauty supply store. They were formed pretty much the same way real dreads are (Backcomb the hell out of them, basically.). Then they are set by twisting them and applying the heat of a hairdryer to melt the fibers a bit. I just tied them into the root of my existing dreads, and they were passable as 'real' purple dreads.

But my real dreads (And the plastic purple ones) were bulky. Kind of a pain to maintain. Little hairs sticking out everywhere. I cut them off when I got my job at CES because I wanted to have more of an 'office manager' appearance. But these dreads are so much prettier! Dainty. Consistent. Colorful! Fun! I can't wait to get them into my hair. My boss' daughter is going to braid them into my real hair sometime before Necronomicon. I took lots of photos while I was making them, and will do the same for the installation. Maybe someday I'll post a tutorial on the subject.

What a sweet weekend I'm having! And it's only half over!

Becca and I got together on Friday after work to do some knitting and some planning. We are organizing a yarn crawl for our Stitch and Bitch group in a couple of weeks. I'll be on the hunt for some laceweight or fingering weight yarn to use for our group's upcoming shawl knitalong. I'm going to make a lacy poncho instead of a shawl. It'll be my first lace pattern (Patterns, really, because there are three different lace patterns in the project. I figure it'll be a good sampler for me.) except for the few rows of simple feather and fan stitch I'm using for a secret project right now.

Yesterday brought lots of lazing around the house, then dinner at Las Margaritas in celebration of Lorena's birthday. Afterwards a couple of us came back to our place for some good ole champagne drinking by the Ring of Fire! I think we'll be making this fire thing a pretty regular occurrence. This morning Chris rekindled the flames (Oh, that could sound dirty if I wanted it to.) and we drank our coffee by the morning heat. It was ever so wonderful! I love this country life.

I spent quite a chunk of time yesterday attempting to upload a goodly sized knitting WIP entry, but Blogger is not happy with my photos. Some will show up, some won't, some will if you click on the little red box with the x. Hrmph. I'll try again later this evening.

Wheeeeee!

Buy my shit! Or just see how much effort I sometimes put into costuming. I figure since I was able to sell the Aeon Flux costume with little to no effort, I'd try the same for a couple of my other Halloween garments.
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Did I say on Saturday that I was going to take a nap?! Hrmph! I opened the door to the spare (Read: junk) room instead, and started organizing and cleaning it. I went in with the rule of 'If I touch it, I have to either get rid of it, or put it in its place. Right. Now.' So I threw away a couple of bags of trash, donated a lot of stuff, and put even more of the crap away in other places in the house. I still need to go through 8 large bins of fabric and costuming stuff and photos and oh my! But at least I can now see the floor in that room, and I can find my knitting supplies when I need them.

The house is so quiet. The boys are all at the football game. Chris' mom and step-dad were here for a while, but they are gone now too. The power was out for a half an hour or so early this afternoon, so Chris' computer is off. I never realize how much white noise the two of our machines expel until they are off for a while. The pups and I are all looking veerrrrry sleeeepy, so a nap might be in order soon. The house is perfectly tidied since we knew we were getting company. This is sooo nice. I mean, this is just really, really nice. Maybe I'll knit or read until I fall kerplunck into the bed with the dogs. Man, I do loves me some weekends.

With the incredible lack of knitting content lately, you might be suspicious that I've been up to something else. And I have been. Having recently been appointed the Quartermaster of the Dugh toy’ wI’ Library of the Klingon Legion of Assault Warriors, I was responsible for ensuring that the Library be well equipped for its trip to the Klingon Feast in Daytona Beach this past weekend. Pictured are the results of my labors. Every bit of that sucker is appliqued on. I want to assure you that the knives on the banner are perfectly straight. The wave in the fabric makes it appear to be otherwise. Trust me. Straight as an arrow.