Hank Williams… you’re fucked up on drinks, pills
and a broken heart. You’ll die young and wild,
but influence more people than you could ever
imagine. If it wasn’t for you, rock n roll
would be nothing more than benign and insipid.

Which fucked-up genius composer are you?
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reason number 865 why we shouldn’t have children: I’ll publically call them Bocephus.

via mr. tonic

More Emotional

The graph on the represents your place in Intuition 2-Space.
As you can see, you scored well above average on emotional intuition and above average on scientific intuition.Your emotional intuition is stronger than your scientific intuition.

Your Emotional Intuition
score is a measure of how well you understand people, especially their
unspoken needs and sympathies. A high score score usually indicates
social grace and persuasiveness. A low score usually means you’re good
at Quake.

Your Scientific Intuition
score tells you how in tune you are with the world around you; how well
you understand your physical and intellectual environment. People with
high scores here are apt to succeed in business and, of course, the
sciences.

Link: The 2-Variable Intuition Test written by jason_bateman on OkCupid Free Online Dating

really interesting quiz found at ColaSusan’s site.

Another Stitch Diva pattern. I bought it because it was the first non-Fiesta pattern I’d ever seen for their Rayon Boucle and I had some leftover from the chevron scarf.

Joining 204 stitches of Fiesta’s ornery Rayon Boucle to knit in the round is not easy business. This yarn is very small and bumpy and with that many stitches it was very very hard to make sure there weren’t any twisted stitches, especially on much larger size 13 circulars. In the end I used some scrap acrylic yarn held together with the boucle and laid it out on a towel on the dining room table, checking to make sure there were absolutely no twists. That really is the most challenging part of the pattern. Otherwise its a very simple garter stitch with two sl2 k1 p2sso’s every other row. The double decrease is pretty simple and gives an interesting shape.

I followed the pattern directions for the beaded fringe and it did look interesting but..it also would tangle into a godawful mess whenever I wasn’t wearing it or holding it on a hanger. Sorry my life is too complex to worry about beads and grabby rayon boucle tassles knotting up, I ended up taking it off.

I like it even without the fringe. It’s very soft and floaty and fairy princessy.

I used just under two 4 oz skeins and it took about five days.

After two and a half years of occasional playtime on Pogo I had accumulated in excess of 600k tokens. Not a lot by some standards but a lot to me.

The tokens can be used to enter drawings for cash and physical prizes and I’d been saving them up for one with a prize I really wanted. Until I noticed this new “Pogo Mini” thing yesterday. Then I blew all but 17k playing with my little digital doll.

Yep. I am a digital doll dork.

for interested parties: Firefox and Pogo are not friends. In fact, Pogo is the only reason I will willingly open IE.

At least we’d know for sure our president is crazy if he won. (via The Superficial)

I still like my pink boobah that lives in the sea of tranquility on the moon theory better. (via my sister)

The COH movie that’s gonna win a tivo with a dvd recorder and a 20 gig ipod. (yes that’s my voice for Hellstalker)

I’ve been meaning to get a video of the real hedgehog bonking around with her head in a toilet paper tube (we call it tubing) and post it for petblogging monday but I’m tired and lazy today. One of those bad days in my head yesterday. Long story, maybe I’ll write about it. The good news is Mr. Man’s weekend starts today so maybe we can go do something fun.

In the meantime my new friend Erin sent me this rockin little pet. Go pet her and see what she does. Add a “huff” sound to when she jumps and a wet wiggly nose and you’ve got a pretty good animated example of what real hedgehogs are like.

Oh, and I found zippy in the driveway the other day but it was fine! I stopped Cody from backing out of the garage so the zipster could run back to the sideyard. I’ve been making him check the driveway every day before going to work lol. The good news is Zippy was on the back porch this morning munching on the fruit I’d put out the other day. It was a bit dried out so I put some cut pears down and Zippy was happily holding the fruit still with its front claws and munching away on them. Despite the crazy construction going on behind and NOW in the next-door neighbor’s yard. No idea what’s going on there but they had a backhoe running. Yeeks. Well, at least I don’t have to stick needles in Melon while the house is vibrating anymore. She’s doing great! Bugging me to feed her the nastyass tinned kipper snack as I type.

edit ten minutes later - Well, the UPS guy rang the bell when he left Winter’s greenie subscription and guess what else I found on the front porch? Another baby turtle! Looks like we have a front yard and a back yard Zippy! I should give him some sliced pear as well now.

You’d think I’d run out of these but I keep running across more. This one was snagged from Lushy, who scored an unbelievable 80 on my test without even knowing me in person or reading this site for all that long. Go Lushy!

1. When you look at yourself in the mirror, what’s the first thing you look at?
My eyes then my hair then my nose

2. How much cash do you have on you right now?
A couple of dollars and some change. I am check card woman.

3. What’s a word that rhymes with “TEST”?
Vest

4. Favourite plant?
Irises

5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone?
I’m too lazy to go look.

6. What is your main ring tone on your phone?
Erasure’s “A Little Respect”

7. What shirt are you wearing?
A third markdown clearance blue sleeveless stretch yoga shirt from Avenue

8. Do you “label” yourself?
not on purpose

9. Name brand of your shoes currently wearing?
NONE! Hahahahahaha

10. Do you prefer a bright or dark room?
I prefer a room with a medium amount of indirect lighting, although I’ve been changing over to brighter, more direct lighting since beginning knitting.

11. What did you have for breakfast?
fresh pineapple

12. (does not exist so I’ll make one up) If you could be doing anything anywhere right now what and where would it be?
Lying on a beach right after a storm on a big recliner knitting something in cotton watching Cody play with the dog.

13. What were you doing at midnight last night?
probably knitting and watching tv

14. What did your last text message you received on your cell phone say?
I think it’s from Justin, something about meeting the guy from Napoleon Dynamite.

15. Do you ever click on “Pop Ups” or Banners?
Popups? never ever ever ever I don’t like rewarding bad behavior. Banners? rarely but I have been known to.

16. What’s an expression that you say a lot?
I’m drawing a blank here

17. Who told you they loved you last?
Mr. Man

18. Last furry thing you touched?
Yarn. I was reorganizing the abundance of noro kureyon I’ve accumulated lately.

19. How many hours a week do you work?
define work.

20. How many rolls of film do you need to get developed?
none that I know of. There might be a disposable camera or two somewhere though

21. Favourite age you have been so far?
twenty-five was pretty good. Still young but old enough to feel like my brain finally started working like an adult.

22. Your worst enemy?
small-minded people who don’t want to learn anything new or change

23. What is your current desk top picture?
Winter in the meadow

24. What was the last thing you said to someone?
Told Mr. Man to have a good night on the phone.

25. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to go back in time and fix all your mistakes which would you choose?
I’d take the money. When all’s said and done I’m a materialistic little bitch. My preferred materials are usually quite different than what you would expect (electronics, punky clothes, pet and knitting stuff rather than jewelry or status-laden bullshit items) but I still love the presents.

You are Mohair.
You are a warm and fuzzy type who works well with
others, doing your share without being too
weighty. You can be stubborn and absolutely
refuse to change your position once it is set,
but that’s okay since you are good at covering
up your mistakes.

What kind of yarn are you?
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oh, I picked this quiz up at Knitting, Dogs, and More

I finished the Nouveau Poncho last night, even the beaded fringe. I haven’t managed to get a photo of it yet. This is something for which I’m going to need the help of Mr. Man to photograph. Also, I’m cranky because its rainy and the yarn I dyed yesterday isn’t drying properly. So next week I’ll have pics.

The good news is I have those backup fo photos. So here’s the little neck tube I made using one of my first kool aid dyed yarns.

Again, this was some thick and thin handspun from the notorious estate sale that I dyed with grape, blueberry, and lime kool aid.

There wasn’t a whole lot of this yarn. About 75 yards. So I was fairly limited in what I could make. I ended up using a neck tube pattern from the Lion Brand Landscapes label. Very simple pattern, alternating four or five rows of garter stitch and the same number of stockinette stitch.

I still didn’t have enough to feel comfortable seaming it up so I ended up sewing three buttons on one end. The stitches are so big I didn’t bother with buttonholes. I think it’s pretty neat. And not scratchy at all.

It was sort of a silly little project but I like it anyway.

In dyeing news I’ve been experimenting with dyeing blends of yarn. I did one a few weeks ago with kool aid that came out with an interesting stripe effect but I don’t like the final colors so I’m going to be doing it again.

Here’s some cotton/linen/acrylic that I bought for a dollar or something at a local yarn store with a HUGE cheap stash of old yarn from the 80s. I mostly bought a bunch of white stuff to play with dyeing experiments. These were dunked in leftover blue dye that I diluted a bit. There’s a slight difference in color because one was more diluted than the other and one was originally cream and the other white. Hard to get the striping effect in the photos.

Also, I didn’t like the fluorescent-ness of the yellow in last week’s kitchen cotton dye experiment so I added some green to tone it down a bit.

The drying rack is a leftover plastic-coated closet shelf from when I made the hedgehog cages. Also perfect using as a rack to keep the yarn from getting caught where the dye is mixing together and turning a gross brown.

I’m debating with myself over whether or not I want to invest twenty dollars in a beginning spinning kit. DAMMIT I’m fighting as hard as I can folks but you MUST stop making such beautiful yarn spun from painted roving. I will have no choice but to experiment with this.

I scored an abysmal 40 on Jim’s test but that didn’t stop me from making my own.

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