poor lil muffins

the muffins are getting declawed today... send them happy little muffin thoughts.

copycat

hey i copied this survey from my little brother, who's really cool -- ya'll should meet him...

Choose a band/or artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band:	phish
Are you female or male:	funky bitch
Describe yourself:	slave to the traffic light
How do some people feel about you:	meat
How do you feel about yourself:	you enjoy myself
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend:	fluffhead
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend:	fluff's travels
Describe where you want to be:	farmhouse
Describe what you want to be:	bold as love
Describe how you live:	army of one
Describe how you love:	split open & melt
Share a few words of wisdom:	run like an antelope - outta control

Three things that scare me:
1	opinionated people
2	bugs & critters
3	the future
Three people who make me laugh:
1	j
2	j
3	j
Three Things I love:
1	yarn
2	my new bedroom
3	diet mt. dew
Three Things I hate:
1	people who hate things
2
3
Three things I don't understand:
1	how a tv works
2	why we risked starting a nuclear winter in florida by sending a rocket to pluto
3	men
Three things on my desk:
1	landscape plans
2	several files
3	2 tins of nivea lotion
Three things I'm doing right now:
1	billing this time
2	waiting for 5 o'clock
3	risking my job
Three things I want to do before I die:
1	live closer to my friends & family
2	start a sheep farm
3	pay off my debt
Three things I can do:
1	knit
2	draft
3	dig holes
Three ways to describe my personality:
1	bing
2	bang
3	boom
Three things I can't do:
1	climb rocks
2	eat applesauce
3	change --- lord knows i can't change... won't you fly high freebird. yeah.

i knat a hat

my first successful knit hat - ask joshua wade about my previous unsucessful attempt

it seems to be about right but it kinda feels like it might squeeze right off the top of my head. i think that it might not be tight enough? i don't know. i'm sending this off to the roamer to get a wearability review.

simple ribbed hat from a free pattern vogue knitting sent me in the mail. only one! skein of noro silk garden color 203 on pink aluminum straights. seamed up the back using the mattress stitch (my first time seaming)

2 days-o-knittin - anybody else want one?

fresh on the needles

lace leaf pullover - here's my swatch

pretty nifty flamin green yarn spun by women in rural uruguay - handpaintedyarn.com

"All the variety, All the charm, All the beauty of life is made up of light & shadow"

ugly

my dream man. if only my name was debbie...

this is my ugly avatar for JenLa.

xmas in pictures

my first day home, xmas eve was spent with jen. we had a great day driving around seeing funny shit...

spelling may not be a west virginian strong suit. dancing pizza on the side of the road. henri sleeps like that on his back. so cute.

we stopped for sushi...

when we ordered the love boat combo, we had no idea how huge it would be!

green tea ice cream for dessert...

it looks amazingly like wasabi, and doesn't really taste like green tea, but was good none-the-less

that night i taught jen to knit...

she, of course is a natural. progress shots.

mama & daddy got all kinds of fun yarn for me for xmas. you'll be seeing some completed projects eventually.

after xmas we headed up to montrose to visit my grandparents...

first pic is my mama's parents and most of my cousins on that side - please note that i am by far the oldest but still the shortest. my dad's mom taught josh to crochet. i told him if he mastered that, then i would teach him to knit.

i took a walk the next morning and took some pics of the winter scenery...

my cousin tina's austrailian shepard was not happy to see me. view out my uncle alvin's front door. a tree in a field.
a fence around one of my grandpa's fields. some frosty weeds. the cemetary.
my grandpa's barn. the hill behind the barn that we used to sled down. the old hen house.

on new years eve eve we all got together at mandee's to exchange gifts and fabulouse prizes...

whenever we get together, there always seem to be animals...

henri. lucy. harley.

after that party jen and i headed to the local bar to see if we could run into any of the old peeps from high school...

we only found jon. but it was great to see him.

jen & i at the start of the evening. then a few beers. then everything started to look a little blurry.

that's all of the pics that i have. i felt like i was constantly pulling out my camara but there are some obvious gaps in my documentation: my parents, cory, gretta, jess's family, miss karen, new year's eve, more of my family in montrose, etc.
it was great to see everybody.