WIP Wednesday the Fifty Seventh...

I don't have a picture this week - but I can tell you that I am 99% done with it. The stripes are completely done and all I have left to do is the border. I'm thinking something in bright green, because I'm strange like that.

Unfortunately I don't have any more works in progress to share at this time. I have plenty of yarn and plenty of ideas for projects - I just haven't started them yet because I can't decide which one to start!

How are your Works in Progress going?

The Dark Knight Rises Edition...

The husband and I saw The Dark Knight Rises today and it was amazingly good. A little long, a little slow, but really really really good. I have to say that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has come a very long way from his time on Third Rock From the Sun.

And Tom Hardy as a bonus because he was fantastic as Bane (even if the voice was a little hard to understand)

WIP Wednesday the Fifty Sixth

I'm posting a little late again, but, hey, at least I remembered to post this week. I've been doing a lot of emails at work lately, so I'm kinda tired at looking at a computer screen. (This is part of the reason why I haven't been so great about commenting on other people's blogs or replying to comments on my own. I'm horrible.)

I have reached a dilemma with the baby blanket:

I know I need to add one more small white stripe... but should I do another pattern repeat after that? I feel bad for taking so long to get this done, so I want to get it done as soon as possible, but I want to make sure I do it right y'know?

Decisions... decisions...

Check out Tami's Amis for more Work in Progress updates!

Messing with the Kid...

A couple of friends and I had a girl's day yesterday. We ended up going to lunch and then we went off to see Magic Mike. It was an okay movie over all. Seriously the best parts were watching Joe Manganiello sew his own thong, Channing Tatum dance (because GOD that boy can dance!) and looking at this kid - Alex Pettyfer:

I won't deny. I feel a little bit like a cradle robber right now. Just a smidge. 

WIP Wednesday the Fifty Fifth...

I have officially decided that the baby blanket is nearing completion. I remembered last night that my friends baby is going to be one year old soon so 1) this is way over due and 2) he's probably still on the smaller size, so a smaller blanket is fine. There's no need to create something that will last him until High School.

I think one more stripe of the white should be enough, and I have some green left over from the last baby blanket I did that I can use as trim. 

Connor-cat will be happy - I think he's getting tired of seeing me work on the blanket, because last night he decided to plop down right in the middle of it, making it impossible for me to continue crocheting until he left.

(see, that is an unhappy kitty right there. How dare I crochet when I could be petting him?!?)

Check out Tami's Amis for more work in progress updates!

WIP Wednesday the Fifty Fourth...

Since I tend to forget to update my blog on Wednesdays a lot, and since trying to write a blog on my tablet or phone is a pain in the butt because the blogger app won't let you add pictures from Picasa or create links, I am going to try something different this week. I am going to write my blog a day in advance and then schedule it to post on Wednesday instead! (And of course, as soon as I did that, I realized that tomorrow is the Fourth of July and my Birthday, so I'd be home to write the post and didn't need to schedule it. Oh well!)

Slowly but surely the scarf is getting ever closer to it's completion!

I had to go in on Saturday to work since it was the end of the month, and man was it dead - we're talking 30ish minutes between calls, under 20 emails... I don't think people realized we were open - so I plugged away at it until I was sent home early. I am hoping that I can finish it this week, and then I can focus on the baby blanket (though taking that to work will be impossible!) 

I started A Round of Words in 80 days this week! It's kinda like Nano in that it focuses on trying to get people to write more, but you get to set your own goals. For me, I am hoping to finish the short story (officially renamed... to what you'll just have to wait and see!) but my hard goal is at least 200 words a day.  I'll be tracking my progress over here at my new writing blog: The Girl Who Writes (which is a spin off of what one of the higher ups at my job calls me; the girl who knits) 

Check out Tami's Amis for more work in progress updates!

There's something about goalies...

They're crazy and quirky. They have to be. They have rubber pucks being shot at them. They also have to be pretty flexible in order to stop the pucks coming at them as a friend pointed out awhile ago when talking about her favorite goalie ;) They're also the most important part of the team - you could have all the best forwards in the league, who can get all the goals in the world, but if you don't have a good goalie to defend your team's net, you are nothing.

So, I give you, ladies and gentlemen, Jonathan Quick - probably one of the main reasons the Kings were able to make it all the way to the Finals to win the Cup.

Congrats on winning the Stanley Cup and the Conn Smythe - you earned it!

Continuing the Stanley Cup Celebration...

I give you Drew Doughty of the LA Kings for this week's Meatlocker Monday addition:

WIP Wednesday the Fifty Third...

Slowly but surely, we are approaching the end of the technicolor dream scarf.

The skeins are getting very small, I estimate I have a few more rows before it's done - and now that the Stanley Cup Finals are over with (YAY KINGS!!!!) I can complete the scarf without having to worry about frogging every other stitch. 

If my writing would let me, that is. It's been influenced by all the hockey going on lately, and it doesn't seem to want to leave me in peace any time soon (which is perfectly fine by me.)

Since everyone else is reading it, I decided to break down and start 50 Shades of Grey. It's okay. Not horrible like I was expecting, but not fabulous either. You can definitely tell at times that it started off as Twilight fanfic since Christian Grey does resemble Edward Cullen in that he's controlling, too good looking to be true, and seems to prefer monochromatic clothing. Anastasia is a clutz, and is far too forgiving of Christian's behavior because she loves him just like Bella.And they have that unhealthy dependent relationship - just like in Twilight. But it is a bit more understandable given their roles in their sexual relationship, though still so not healthy. I'm all for doing what you want in the bedroom as long as you don't seriously maim or kill your partner, but breaking down in to tears because they have to leave because they have to work in the morning? REALLY?!? Ugh.

The emails and texts between the two are probably my favorite parts - they're fun and flow well, and are full of flirting and teasing. Now if the author could have only let Anastasia could only open up like that in conversations, it would have made the book a lot better. 

As for the naughty bits? Well those are definitely fun. As George Takei would say... Oh, my!

Check out Tami's Amis for more WIP goodness!

STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!!!

Last night, the LA Kings beat the New Jersey Devils to become the 2012 Stanley Cup Champions!!!