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No Giggles HerePosted by on Friday 15 February, 2008 12:15 PM This lolcat deserved a full belly-laugh :)
GigglePosted by on Friday 16 November, 2007 01:51 AM Graphics geek silliness, lolcat style :)
I am a PincushionPosted by on Friday 9 November, 2007 12:44 PM If you're not interested in my medical chat please skip this post, I just wanted to give a quick update for everyone who wished me well this week :) I went back to the doctor today because my "hives" looked incredibly scary this morning and found out that my allergy is actually a bacterial infection (ewwww) that probably got in through a broken mozzie bite on my foot so I get to play at being a pincushion for the next few days (I have to go to the clinic every day for intravenous antibiotics for 3-5 days). This is good because I know it will definitely go away and I won't have to worry about it coming back. Yay! Plus I had a lovely chat with the nurse today because she's a knitter so it was kind of fun rather than dead boring. If you can't knit with a needle in your arm, talking about knitting with another knitter is just as good. So that's my little update. I thought I'd post to let folks know because I won't be blogging again until I feel totally better, but then my sister is visiting so I won't be blogging then either and I didn't want you all to think I was dead in a heap of red bumps or anything :) Now if I just knew of a fibre craft I could do with one hand. Hmmm, maybe I should take my weaving book to read! PS: When your Mum tells you not to scratch mosquito bites, PAY ATTENTION! Misspent YouthPosted by on Sunday 28 October, 2007 07:49 AM I love youtube. Where else can a person relive their wayward teenage years by watching favourite snippets of TV from an era when not everyone had a VCR? I guess I wasn't a typical teen in some respects. My favourite TV was usually to be found on SBS (the Aussie multicultural TV network, not always in English) and the ABC. I devoured any art and history documentaries that could be found (especially ones where lesbian feminist writers from previous centuries ran off to live in Paris with their girlfriends. I wanted to be them), watched classic science fiction films like Fantastic Planet (click through to youtube for the remaining parts) and could occasionally be found wishing that we could get records from cool French and German bands that I could only watch in the bad-signal low-budget-station cheap-aerial grainy, snowy interference that was my SBS TV watching experience most of the time... More typically for a teenager I couldn't live without the ABC's comedy show, The Big Gig and the Doug Anthony All-Stars. Don't watch any of these videos if you are offended by rude and off-colour comedy or have children in earshot :) The Doug Anthony All-Stars sang every Australian teenager's favourite song and ruined their reputations as serious comedians by singing pretty :) Here's the original by Hunters & Collectors: I never missed an episode of D.A.A.S Kapital. A strange show in which the Doug Anthony All Stars have been put in charge of keeping the world's art treasures safe in a submarine called the Titanic, unfortunately also populated by the very psychotic "Bob". They occasionally sang poignant songs Here's an episode (click through to youtube for the other parts).
So what am I into now? (I have a crush on Mel Fyfe) the musical comedy of Tim Minchin, science fiction I guess people don't change that much after all... PS: An extra treat: Tim Minchin ruining his reputation by singing pretty :) Can't BlogPosted by on Tuesday 9 October, 2007 03:26 PM busy playing with Librarything MeowPosted by on Tuesday 25 September, 2007 03:07 PM Whilst I slave away coding new pages of really interesting stuff for the site, Mr Knittingand (aka Jamie) has been investigating the best format for filming so I can have some really cool videos for the hairpin lace tutorials. I do believe he has the right format figured out now. To prove it, here's our little Mr Apricot in his first starring role on youtube! 6 Days LaterPosted by on Friday 7 September, 2007 11:29 AM It's now six days since I took my littler "trip" and the bruises on my leg are finally getting better.
Yep, the yellow bits in the picture are the real colour. That's the one bruise that's almost healed. The rest are on the way. But now it's fading so I won't bother. Except the bruises itch, which is maddening because they're under the skin and I can't scratch them :P The bruises are still a mystery though because I never hit any part of my leg that got bruised, as far as I can remember. Go figure. Hmmm, I wonder if I win a prize for using the word "bruise" 8 times in a single post... Should I?Posted by on Tuesday 4 September, 2007 12:06 PM Several years ago my left ear used to look like this:
but my earings died and since I couldn't afford to replace them at the time, the piercings all started to close up. Along with wearing a little hand painted vinyl hat, my excessively bejewelled left ear had always been a large part of my personal identity. (I only ever wore 1 earing in my right ear). Small children would use it to learn to count to 9. My siblings would tease me about setting off metal detectors. Then a year or so ago my brother mentioned to his gf about my excessively pierced ear and everyone suddenly realised I didn't wear any jewellery in my ears any more. I did all but two of the piercings myself originally but I'm thinking of saving up to go to the body piercing shop and getting them redone with proper surgical steel bars (the kind they use to train cartilage piercings) or maybe rings (but proper ones, not the old sleeper style because the joins irritate my ears). I was also thinking of getting the original piercings stretched. What do you think? PS: For the kinky among you (I know you're out there), since I know you're wondering: the only other thing I have pierced is my tongue so don't get too excited ;-) Splorf!Posted by on Thursday 30 August, 2007 11:07 AM This may be only funny to my fellow pommie vintage Dr Who watchers, but what the heck. If I had been drinking tea at the time I'd be wiping it off my monitor right now! http://bunny.frozenreality.co.uk/index.php?id=937 PS: If you're wondering why I'm not blogging much at the moment it's because I've been trying to get some projects finished and I couldn't be bothered taking photos and blogging about them. I'll show pikkies when they're done. Promise! Only 22 Days to Go!Posted by on Saturday 30 June, 2007 12:19 PM And since we all need a Harry Potter fix, I present "The Mysterious Ticking Noise" by Neil Cicierega And Now For Something Completely DifferentPosted by on Sunday 25 March, 2007 12:56 PM Mmmmm, coffeeeeee... One of my all-time avourite Sesame Street songs And a Little More SillinessPosted by on Wednesday 14 February, 2007 11:39 AM Draw a stick figure and watch it dance at http://roxik.com/pictaps/ ! Stash Elimination 2007Posted by on Wednesday 3 January, 2007 01:44 PM I know I've waxed lyrical about how much I hate having stash a large stash of yarn and fibre so this year I'm doing something about it! Step 1: I will celebrate that my sister can't possibly give me any more fibre or yarn by invoking step 2 Step 2: I will join in with Wendy's I'm on to you Jenny! (That stuff is soooo gorgeous BTW. Everybody go buy some so there's none left for me and I won't be tempted). She cleverly sent me enough to spin a fingering weight 2 ply and knit a fairisle baby cap so you may be seeing it soon. In fact you will, because it's sitting in my stash and calling my name and I'm going to use it after spinning the stuff for my hat book hats. It's so prettttty... Now, what was I saying? Oh yes, using the stash for '07. I will be adjusting the rules of course. A: I will be knitting, weaving, crocheting, embroidering, macrame-ing, felt making, spinning, dyeing and anything else fibre or needlework related from stash materials only (although fabric to embroider on doesn't count as I only have 2m of linen-look cotton and I'm thinking of making a table cloth so that would all be used in one project). Although I do have flax in the stash and a loom, so technically I could weave my own linen to embroider on. B: Sock yarn counts. I don't knit socks, I like to weave with sock yarn. Therefore it counts as weaving stash. C: Anything purchased for business related activities (other than Knitting-and.com and the hat book) doesn't count. More about that after I get the hat book done and published. D: I will only spin for intended projects. Otherwise the yarn sits around waiting for me to find something to use it in, or someone to send it to. I think that's about it! Now, back to teasing the stash wool that I'm going to card for my book hats. :-) Kids Can't Be Trusted!Posted by on Sunday 27 November, 2005 10:34 AM A word of warning to the wise: NEVER let your kids loose on the South Park avatar maker! Here I was, innocently making a rather sweet and lovely cartoon of my daughter, Miss Brittany
When she took over the computer and made such terrible, terrible parodies of her parents!
I mean, really! Insinuating that I like ACDC. How insulting. ;-) BoredPosted by on Tuesday 22 November, 2005 08:21 PM
Cooooool.
I love Velma :-)
:-P
Wow, I was REALLY bored... WOOHOO!Posted by on Monday 14 November, 2005 05:34 PM This house is only our house for another 32 days!
Because It's Important to Be Obnoxious as Often as Possible...Posted by on Monday 11 April, 2005 03:51 PM
Today Abbr.Posted by on Tuesday 5 April, 2005 12:05 PM Finished this. Thoroughly enjoyed reading this commentary. Drinking a lot of this
with milk. Off to take photos for this. |
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