A very typical scene with my two most frequent knitting companions and a lovely hello yarn shawl in progress. I’d set the alarm on my computer to remind me when Adrian was updating and managed to snag the Maisy Day Pumpkin Patch kit.

We went to Wal Mart for the first time in months and months because it was the only place where I’d seen US 50 needles. Those suckers are HUGE I’ve already knit a really amusing scarf with them. I haven’t made anything with the US 35s I picked up at the same time. I also found that pink and chocolate brown quilt in a bargain bin for eleven dollars. A bargain bin at Wal Mart. Yeah I’m feeling real classy now. It’s an amusing quilt anyway.

Here are closeups of the two members of the let’s follow mom around like she has veal in her pants brigade.

Oh, I watched The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy last night and Lords of Dogtown today. Meh. They were ok. I think the people who made the Guide to the Galaxy had an appreciation for different things with the Adams books than I did because they took out a lot of the good throwaway lines that are my favorite part but kept a lot of the false Zen hippiecrite stuff that annoys me about his books. Complaining about the general yuckiness of the human race is fine. But it gets awfully tedious after a while. I did like the scene where everyone on the Heart of Gold turned into knit figures and Arthur Dent barfed up yarn. That was cool.

I hate to say this but I liked Lords of Dogtown better. Nice skaterboy eyecandy although I felt like an old pervy woman the whole time. And there were a bunch of invented dramatic devices that were a little weird for anyone who knows the real story. All in all it wasn’t nearly as fun to watch as the Peralta documentary.

Odd that both screenplays were written by the original guys and I didn’t like them as much as I wanted to. But Ann Rice wrote the screenplay for Interview with the Vampire and it sucked hard. Mostly because of Tom Cruise.

Oh and I watched Harold and Kumar go to White Castle the other night. And liked it. I know, shame on me. I had no idea what it was about when I started watching it. I’d thought it was a weird indie flick, I probably wouldn’t have watched it if I’d known what the real Dude Where’s My Car type plotline was. But I usually will watch the whole movie once I’ve started from the beginning. And I did like it. Mostly because of Kumar’s domestic fantasy scene with a large bag of pot. That’s probably the funniest thing I’ve seen in some time. I think it reminded me of old stoner boyfriends.

Sideways is coming on in a few minutes so I’m finally getting to see that too. Lots of new (to me) movie watching. I’ve been actually returning the Netflix and paying attention to premieres on the premium channels.