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Yes...three little things for today...

Un...
Pixiestikz got a new blog look.
Art originale by Rania of Shoofly...
Final Approval given by Pixie herself...
I have the watercolor hanging up in my room...
WE LOVE IT!
Rania is hella talented. Seriously.

Deux...
mmmm...pretty darn decent...a fabby new wine find.
Inexpensive?...yep...Tasty?...yep!
With a name like that...you know I had to get it.

Trois!
Here is some tasty Fair Isle Eye Candy for ya...
I'm no longer a Fainting Fair Isle Virgin.

I'm using Dalegarn Falk...
(remember KidsKnits.com? Awesome - go & buy!)
I bought my second Addi turbos ever to knit it with...(US 3 - 16")
I used to hate turbos...I'm kinda loving these!

My tension is alright I guess...for a newbie!

The Inside shot...
Apparently this is big in Fair Isle knitting...

I do have a few irregular ones in there...
Mainly the carrying of the main color with the contrast...
I'm struggling a bit with that one.

I'll be kind and spare you a piratey blog entry...
because *wow* I bet that has been DONE to death! :)
This pirate is one you can never tire of...

Arrr...he's sexy.

Obscure 80s Reference:
Remember the first and free Sassy Mag?
It came with a Johnny Depp Poster...from 21 Jump Street.
*sigh*

Other important breaking news...
I'm Finishing up the last inch or so on red's second sleeve...
I'm truckin! It's too big to haul about...but it fits like a dream!

I saw the sun today...
Which after 4 days of Rain Monsoon was a pleasant sight!

Pixie and I were reunited with our little red car
:) and there was much rejoicing.

I'm a nut for netflix.
What is in your queue?
Here are my first 3...
Six Wives of Henry VIII Disc 3
Two for the Road
Upstairs Downstairs, Disc 1

Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to fly Saturday July 1!

Snap!

Ya'll rock. Thanks for being so super awesomely supportive with all my scheisse.

The scheisse? It is clearing...

The score stands...

Pixiestikz 3 Mice 0

I do have to lament on one observation...
After I got Harvey, it is my belief I am now eradicating the offspring of Harvey.
Whom I believe was a MRS. Harvey.
Seriously, the little ones are Break your Heart Cute. *Sob*
I set more traps. I haven't seen any more turds.
That is all I can say. Yay for me. I'm winning.

My Car?
Not totalled.
My Knee?
Not totalled, either.
8 more days until my little red dirt devil is back...
I lose major coolness points in my Apt. Complex for getting rid of the 2006 Nissan Altima.
(yes, I'm the neighbor with the almost 5 year old car with the stickers
proclaiming my knittiness to all)

Yeah...I'm real sorry to see the gas guzzling behemoth go.
I like little cars...
I like to breathe relatively smog free air...
I like to pay less than 30 bucks at the pump even when gas is close to 3 bucks a gallon...
I like to park in small spaces...
I like not having to make 17 point turns to get out of a parking spot...
*ahem, my apologies if you were behind me when I was doing that
- I was just as upset as you were.*
I like not getting speeding tickets because my car objects to going over 75... ($#@*!!)
I like the comfort of my programmed buttons on my stereo...
I like being able to shrug off a few stray cheerios in the backseat...

Okay...Okay...
I do like the trunk opener remote thingy...
and how I can make it honk from like 100 yards away.
hee hee.
Me likey.
Me scare the nice lady in the Target Parking lot. shhhh.

Pixie was very happy that our car "twinkle" isn't going to be totalled.
Pixie spent the weekend at the Beach with her Dad for Father's Day...
I knitted and I studied for my sailing class. More on that later!

I'll be posting some Red progress soon... I'm on Sleeve Island! Wooo!

PS.
If you are using Oasis...it doesn't hide increases very well.
This raglan? She is the hottness! I love it.
The collar's short rows should be fun.

PSS.
I ordered some Dale to make THIS...
Arrr, My first Fair Isle. A Pirate hat! (MUST.FINISH.RED)
I LOVE Kidsknits. Seriously, fabulous service from an awesome knitter
Go! Buy! You'll be happy.

PSSS.
I mean no offense to anyone who doesn't drive a clown car like me.
I'm just an awful driver. (yes, many people can confirm this)
Imagine the worst driver you've ever encountered on the road.
Now, Triple it. It doesn't even come close to how bad I am. :)
Just so's you know. No offense meant. I'm just a wee bit better than totally horrific in the smaller vee-hicles.
But FYI...this time?...My first official accident wasn't MYfault. (I still love saying that)

honk honk!

A Week of Scheisse...

Yes, I said it. Scheisse. Merde. Shiteous.
I try never to complain...but well...here I am complaining!
This week has been shit (Sorry, Grandma)...
Lest you think I have given up hope...not my style tho!
(I got Mad Hopes!)
I did have one glimmering shining moment accompanied by Frozen margarita swirled with Sangria with 2 of my pals.

I present you with proof.

Scheisse Exhibit #1
Last Friday at 5:30pm.

Front end damage to your awesome but cheapy economical car: $3000.00 or Possibly TOTALLED
Phone Minutes spent with 2 Insurance Agencies: 97
Xrays to make sure your aching shoulder and knee is from getting older(it isn't): 2
Number of words it takes from the Police to make it all better: 3 * NOT *YOUR *FAULT
Watching the woman who made an illegal Left hand turn in front of you get a ticket: PRICELESS

Pixie and I are fine,
Thank G-d, Praise be Buddha, Lord Krishna, Pope Benedict, and whomever I left out..

Scheisse Exhibit #2

I have a new roommate.
Harvey.
He's a mouse (mice????) that uses my clean spotless apartment for his personal commode.

I don't keep out food and I am a constant cleaner...so he's getting his chow somewhere else.

Being a control freak, ahem...Effective Manager...I have inspected EVERYTHING.
No chewing. (I looked at the yarn first)
I'm a rest stop on the way to the Slob next to me.

My intelligent Apartment Fix-it-Fellas gave me sticky BUG traps that Harvey apparently likes to get into, lick all the peanut butter out of, and take a leisurely relaxing d*mp in.
Really.
I should have put out the Mouse Weekly so he'd have something to read.

The ones I laid out flat he's pushed under the washer and dryer because, well...
he's onto me and he already ate the peanut butter off those two as well.
They were of no use to him.

The icing on the cake for me was at Knit Nite,
Harvey decides to skitter around the corner and gross out my lovely guests and turn and run like mad.
This was not held against me as Donna and Lauren are wise in the ways of Mouse Warfare!

We weren't too freaked out. We had wine. BUT...

Oh lordy.

I do not believe in killing animals. But this is war, people.
I had a mouse turd on the bottom of my BARE foot. ew.

I was/am mad.
Mad at the turds. (plural turds...I'd venture to say MULTITUDE)
Mad at the Mouse who left the turds.
Mad that I had to Haul out the vacuum to clean up the turds for the 4th time this week.
MAD MAD MAD.

(I'd like some cheese with my whine please...a nice cab, please.)

Sooooo...I set out those horrific snapping traps and waited last night to hear snapping and prayed for my immortal soul.
Nothing.
I personally think that Harvey is wise in the ways of the Force.
Humane Traps? I thought about those for like a Nanosecond.

I couldn't find any that I was willing to pay the equivalent of a good amount of rowan yarn for.
The woman at the ACE hardware must have looked at the phone like it had 6 heads.
KMART afforded me better and I bought the "Victory over Vermin" traps of death.
Yeah, 95 cents for 2. I bought 4.
You can't even get red heart at a swap meet for that.

This is the face of a woman who has gone to the Dark Side and means to win.

It is also the face of a woman who plans to take her Pixie to the Pool and knit at nite and relax the Scheisse away!
Hope you Enjoy your Scheisse free weekend!!

Hug yer little ones, yer not so little ones and hang up or put those cell phones on speakerphone when you are driving!

Peace be with ya!