Third Time's a Charm

This is my third attempt at blogging tonight.

So today was kind of a sucky day. One of those days where I hate everything and everyone. Not really, but when your neck hurts it makes you hate. I iced it when I got home and it feels better, but now a tension headache is coming on. Can I get a break?!

Sock update: there is none. See below for status.



Bag update: I bought the fusible interfacing. Other than that, nothing else has happened.

See I am lazy!

You have got to be kidding me.

durvasasana
Originally uploaded by bindifry.

This is why I love Flickr. You can find all kinds of photos, from cute kids to crazy yoga poses.

Sock class update

I was hoping to have a photo to share of my sock. But since I'm really sucking at this sock knitting, I had to frog it and have not started over yet. Maybe tomorrow.

Gas, fresh cut grass and dog shit

That's all I can smell right now because this afternoon I mowed the back yard. For the first time in 20 years or so, I mowed the grass. Last night Kristin and I went to Home Depot so I could buy a lawn mower. It's really belated Christmas gift, as my folks gave me a gift card to HD for Christmas. Funny, I got a belated Christmas present last spring as well (a new tv).

It's a good thing Kristin has more experience mowing the lawn or who knows what might have happened. Thankfully, my yard is tiny so it took maybe 5 minutes to mow. Even after taking a shower, my hands still smell like gas and the scent of dog shit lingers in my nose.

Here's Lulu enjoying not having to walk through a jungle to get to the fence to bark at menacing squirrels.

Bag report

I now have the fabric and pattern for my Sew? I knit! bag. The pattern is from Simplicity and is part of their Sewing for Dummies series. I'm not real jazzed about that because I ain't no dummy, but whatever.

The fabric is from Amy Butler. If it weren't for blogs I probably would have never heard of her or her fabrics and patterns. As you can see from the photo, the exterior of the bag is going to be the pink & green floral and the interior (not an Amy Butler fabric) is the green dotted one.





This other fabric is one I found at the same store and it's by Alexander Julian. I'm not sure what I'll make with it, but it was so cute I just couldn't pass it by. The needle case from the Stitch 'n Bitch book is calling out to me. I have a needle case but it's just a roll of fabric with elastic inside it and the needles tend to fall out.

Oh the whining

Or whinge-ing, as they say in the UK. Who is being the whiny-butt? Lulu. Kristin just left to take Gus for a walk. I'm tired and my feet and neck hurt so I don't feel like going. So I get to listen to Lulu whine and cry and run around the house from the back door to the front door until they get back.

Sometimes, she's such a pill. But how can you not love this cute face.

Poor Gus

Gus is sick. The intestinal sort of sick. So Kristin took him to the emergency vet, but she was worried he'd get sick in her car.

A blanket wrapped around him was her solution.

RIP Baby Possum

This morning the dogs found this baby possum in the yard. I figured it was playing possum so I put it on top of the a/c unit. It was still breathing, although quite heavily. Then I noticed the blood. I don't know if Lulu did that when she first picked it up or if it was already injured. Anyway, this picture was taken this morning, but when I got home the thing was still where I left it and covered in flies. Poor baby. It was kinda cute, although you can't tell from this picture.

Here we have a hat

My first hat! It's done. Yay! Kristin was kind enough to model it for me. Last night, as I was working on it, I thought I was running out of yarn so instead of knitting for 7" to 8" before starting the decrease it was more like 6". So it's a bit short but I still think it looks cute and I'm very happy with it.

Next up is socks. I'm taking a sock class at the North LYS this next Saturday. I'm very exicted.

psst. ...I figured out how to make a link. dur!

Lulu with her grandparents

Lulu with her grandparents
Originally uploaded by Liz K Austin.

Lulu has been spoiled this weekend. Not with treats but with attention. Mom and dad have been cooing over her like crazy. Telling her she's so sweet and cute and soft. Of course these things are all true, but really, we don't need to give her a big ego.

Where I make the big bucks

EK's cube
Originally uploaded by Liz K Austin.

This is my cubicle. Where I sit for 8 hours a day. Can't you just see my ass getting bigger and bigger in that chair?

Someone told me I should have cleaned my desk up before I took the photo. That is pretty clean but I always clear off the top and straighten all the piles before I leave at the end of the day.

I've taken a few days off at work to visit my parents. No one would ever call me a work-a-holic, but it I was home I would probably have a hard time from checking my work email. It is really nice to be somewhere with nothing planned. 4 days of lazy.

See, I knew there was a reason I named this blog the lazy life.

Ribbed for her pleasure

This is the scarf I knit for about 6 months in 2005. It's the "Ribbed for Her Pleasure" scarf from the first Stitch 'n Bitch book. I knit it in Noro Yoroi, color number 4.

The hat is being knit to coordinate with the scarf.

Sewing AND knitting

I have signed up for my first blong-a-long. Okay, that probably is not the correct phrase, but whatever. I've signed up for Sew? I knit, which I would link to but I am still a bit blog impared. Anywhoo, the point of it is for bloggers that knit to switch it up by sewing. The theme for April is to sew a bag.

After work today I stopped by Hobby Lobby to check out patterns and fabric. The fabric left something to be desired, but I did find a cute pattern. I'm going to make a bag that I can carry to Stitch 'n Bitch.

Photos and/or links to come soon!

Knit in progress

Knit in progress
Originally uploaded by Liz K Austin.

This is my first hat. The first knitted item that is not a scarf. It's very slow going. I first started it in early February and have knit maybe a row or two every week since then. There are other projects in progress, things that are for other people, so the hat gets pushed to the side. Besides, it doesn't get cold enough for a hat in Austin very often.

Dating Sucks

I have been single for nearly 5 years. Off and on I have tried dating and have come to the conclusion that it sucks worse than job hunting.

For several months I have been on eHarmony. Over 200 men have closed communication with me. Am I that fat & ugly that no guy will even meet me for coffee?

I swear, if I wasn't allergic to cats I would become the hermit woman with 23 cats.

Digging

Digging
Originally uploaded by Liz K Austin.

This morning, Lulu discovered that she's a dachshund and that it's in her DNA to dig. So every moment she's been outside, that is what she's been doing. Digdigdigdigdigdig.

Guess I need to call the dead tree removal people before she digs a hole so deep that the tree stump falls over.

My dog eats better than I do

Lulu eats better than I do. Currently, she is eating a lamb diet and she likes to supplement that with grass as well. Next week she'll be switching to a diet of duck. Do you want to know what I had for dinner last night? No, you really don't. I'll tell you anyway. Margaritas and shrimp nachos. That doesn't really sound so bad does it?

The fence was repaired today. It's a good thing, since it's cold out now and I don't want to have to stand outside with the dogs, but not so good because I was hoping for a new fence.

Why I am evil

Tonight, I tried to kill a possum. By whacking it over the head with my rake, while the dogs barked and jumped about. Kristin was laughing so hard her stomach hurts.

Attack of the pissed off possum?

Attack of the pissed off possum?
Originally uploaded by Liz K Austin.

Or was it, as some have suggested, a tiger? Something ate my fence in the middle of the night.

Worst blogger ever

So I am the worst blogger ever. Why? I couldn't remember my username OR password.

Perhaps this should blog should be called "lame life" instead. I am so bored. Despite having over 200 channels of cable, hours of things to watch on the dvr, books to read or things to knit, I am bored. The only people I've talked to since Thursday night have been my mother and my therapist. Ain't that funner than a box of rocks? Even the dog is tired of me talking to her.

It's 5:30pm and I want to nap. How depressing.