Dainty Kitty

Dead Like Me, Mittens & Snow Cream

I don't know what the finally tally was but we had to have gotten at least a foot of snow this weekend.  I wish I'd thought to take a few photos but I haven't left my apartment since I got home around two on Friday afternoon.  I have been nothing but loungy and pajama clad, watching the first season of "Dead Like Me."  All fourteen episodes. 

I did managed to do two things other than watch movies and old television shows.  One, I made snow cream for the first time...I was going to say since I was a kid but I think I made it with Nate over ten years ago.  Still, it's been a long time - you know, pollution and all that.  I couldn't help it...all that whiteness piled up outside and I didn't even have to leave my apartment to get any.    It wasn't exactly as I'd remembered it but it was till pretty good. 

I also finished my mittens.  Knitted with Di. Ve Autunno using the Easy Mittens patter in One Skein Wonders.  I had to add a few stitches to the hand but it was quick, easy knit and - hey! - I finished a pair of something!



I started the second Mrs. Beeton while I finished up season two of Bosom Buddies this afternoon.  I really need to do some housework before I go to bed but I think I'll placate myself with a load of dishes and a load of laundry and then a little more knitting along with an episode of the The Flight of the Conchords which I've heard is brilliant.  After all, I have to ease myself back in to reality....

On-The-Go Water Bottle Bear

This morning I finished my first project from Mr. Funky's Super Crochet Wonderful.  I was, unfortunately, too lazy to do a photo shoot until about seven p.m. so the photo doesn't give justice to the bright blue yarn or the beautiful day we had today. 

I might try again tomorrow. 

Anyway, I also made my first crocheted hat (also from  Mr. Funky) today.  I was going to save this project for vacation but I had a couple of balls of the Lion Brand Landscapes it called for and I was bored.  Good thing because we wouldn't have even left Ohio before I finished it had I waited.  So maybe I'll make a different hat or finally tackle a flower scarf.   I'll take a picture of the hat tomorrow....

Egads, we've been watching Veronica Mars for several weeks now and we watched five episodes tonight.  Pile that on the three episodes I watched this morning to catch up with Jake and I am way Veronica Marsed out.  It's a good series but I've discovered that doses of one to two episodes are much healthier.   I also watched the first season of Entourage this week (so that I could get my Netflix discs back in time for the release of season three of The Office) - it's good but the episodes are way short.  I feel cheated at the end of each one.   Once we finish season two of VM and season three of The Office, Jake is going to introduce me to Doctor Who.  We watched one episode - one from the seventies - and all it managed to do was make me want to knit his scarf.  We'll see what I think after watching it from the beginning, though.

Yeah, yeah, all I've done this week is watch television and knit or crochet.  Tomorrow, though, we're going hiking so I don't feel too awful bad.