Patience is a virtue, which I have naught.

So the hubby has caught me three times now staring at my aquarium, beautiful plants, gravel, betta caves…no fish yet. I keep telling him I’m practicing! Sheesh, he just doesn’t get it. It’s still cycling. Did you know that fishless cycling w/ ammonia taks a long time? Why do I, a person with very little patience, keep picking up hobbies that require patience? I don’t get it. Another recent hobby? See Gigi, the torch has been passed. My mom and grandma both have bird feeders. My grandmother has been known to fire a 22 from her kitchen window at those “Darn blue jays! Keep scaring off my songbirds!” Well my mom passed this tradition on to me during her last visit by starting me off with a window feeder and some sunflower seeds. OK, FINALLY the birds noticed it’s here, and now…wow, what a bunch of pigs! That little guy would be a purple finch…not bad ay Gigi? See, I paid attention.

I took a wee break from the Scoop Du Jour Cardi, but not before finishing the right front. Now all thats left is sleeves, blocking and finishing. Here she is pre-block.

I can’t wait, it’s still that weird chilly spring weather where you just don’t know how the day will turn out. So this sweater will be just perfect. In the mean time I have cast on a free pattern for a shell from Lion Brand, I need something quick and springy and this is just the shot in the arm I need to jump start that lagging knitting mojo. It is knit in Believe by Cascade, lovely color blue.

I needed something to wear under my new linen shirt for Easter anyway. I think I might actually be breaking out the sewing machine for Easter as well. I might be sewing a linen skirt. We shall see.

OH yes, and this very strange creature followed me out of the bathroom earlier this evening. It was wild and stringy and noisy and slightly damp. It chased Simon around the house, jumped up on the Monkey’s bed and barked at her, ran into many pieces of furniture. See, I knew it was dangerous leaving the toilet lid up, ya never know what’s going to crawl out.

Beam Me Up Scotty!

My darling hubby is a Trekkie. He has seen all the episodes, owns all the movies, many in “special edition” or “directors cut”. He has all of The Next Generation on DVD and several other versions as well. Memorabilia? Oh yes, we have memorabilia. Christmas ornaments that are ships or characters. Models of ships. A flag. Collector’s Plates. Collector’s Cards. Key chains. The list goes on. Now since I married this man, I accepted the fact that it would only be a matter of time before I was sucked into this phenomenon as well. So, I’m going to Trekkie School.

This past weekend, we decided to start with the movies. There are 9 of them, I am on movie number 5 and I am loving it. I have a small trekkie past. I watched the Next Generation religiously, growing up, and for a while I wanted to marry Worf.

So it is not hard for me to really get into this. All week I have been saying things like, “Damn it Jim, I’m just a doctor.”…”That is illogical.”…”He did a little too much LDS in the 60’s” Anyway, suffice it to say, I am having a blast and loving this. Do I see a convention in my future? Not yet, but I will tell you one thing, Star Trek has helped me find my knitting mojo again. I made some serious headway on my Scoop Du Jour Cardi over the last few days. Yay!

Pictures will be beamed up later this week.

“Engage!”

Daylight Slavings Time

Excuse me, have you seen my knitting mojo? I had it here a couple weeks ago. I can’t find mine, the Scoop Du Jour cardi I was burning through…..pft. The awesomeness of the Monkey socks……hmmm. The lovely JinBao Jeweltone socks……*sigh*.

Come to think of it, I haven’t touched WoW in about two weeks…..hmmm, I’m pretty sure I have several auctions that have expired by now. Wasn’t I saving up for my epic mount? *sigh*

What is going on??? I am so out of it this past week. Nothing seems to interest me, I am fidgety, I need a nap every ten minutes, I can’t sleep at night, my head is fuzzy and the brain isn’t firing on all 8 cylinders……oh yeah!? Daylight Slavings Time. Any suggestions for shaking this off?

Psst, I got a secret. Come closer, closer…are ya listening?

OK, now not many of you know this, but I knit, and this is a knitting blog…NO, NO, really, I swear! I’m not kidding, this blog did not get hijacked by the fish crazed woman who lives here. Proof? You want proof? Hmmm, let me see.

Let’s start with a thank you to my awesome SSSS Pal, Lynnett at World of Yarncraft, who I might add dyes her own yarn. Look at this package she sent me! Yarn, patterns, my own personalized colorway, doggie treats! Your the best!

And the sock…which I LURV by the way and can’t wait to cast on for the second one.

A close up of the beautiful pattern as well as my own personal colorway, in honor of my little fuzzy britches, “JinBao Jeweltones” Isn’t it gorgeous?!

And here is another skein I was gifted with, simply sweet, it reminds me of bubblegum and I am leafing through my patterns already to find something suitable, I am thinking maybe something lacey.

And also, I finally finished my SSSS Pal’s sock and it’s going to be mailed on the morrow. It was a great pattern to work with and I will definately be making a pair of these for me.

OK, there, see, knitting blog. Told ya so……we bought two more fish tonight. They are my daughter’s…what? Don’t look at me like that.

A Post Just For The Monkey (OK, you guys can see too)

Pst, Monkey, I know you are at Dad’s, but look at what showed up in your room. I don’t know who put it there?!

Got Rooby some shorter flowers too, he likes ‘em, he can actually hide in them.

The new tank is cycling as we speak, it should be ready in 10 days – 3 weeks!