Pirates, bikes, and enabling

The weekend started off right with some pirate action. A friend of mine is a CSI in Austin, and this last week was "city employee appreciation week." She was a doll and invited me and a few other friends along to watch Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest in Zilker Park on Friday evening.



On Saturday, I rode the Danskin bike course with my training group. We had to be at Decker Lake ready to ride at 7 am.


(this is what "way too early" does to my otherwise poised and polished look (bwahahahaha))


Here we are, halfway done, getting some advice on our anaerobic capacity and how it relates to the hill coming up (short version: it will kick our ass, so be prepared).

After the 12 mile bike ride, Rachel wanted to bounce some ideas off me re/ her clapotis. (Isn't the yarn LOVELY??)

On Saturday afternoon, I started to fix this:

I dropped a stitch about a mile away from the current progress. Should I ladder it up or just tack it down w/ some spare yarn? Any thoughts?

Sunday was for swimming. There will be NO pics of that. But I did get a good workout in, and then at home w/ my BBE I started a new project. Which is RIDICULOUS. But I will post pics of that tomorrow.

Between swimming and startitis, I made a quick trip to my LYS to help a new knittin pal get some gear for two new projects. Maybe she will post about them in Ravelry (hint, hint, if you're out there, R). I showed remarkable restraint at the wall of Koigu. Also in the bins of angora. Side note: I would REALLY like a bed made of a silk/angora blend.

They just wanna, they just wanna....

Girls, they wanna have fu-un, oh! Girls just wanna have fun!


Ladies on stage, dancing to Cyndi

The Alamo singalongs are great, you can order pizza and beer, and they bring it to your theater seats, and then there is always some sort of party favor. For example, at the Reefer Madness singalong (it was not nearly as cool as it sounded) they gave out brownies about 2/3rds of the way through the film. This one was no different, and for the finale, we reached under our tables and 99 of us (yours truly included) found a red balloon to blow up.


The next one may just be EVEN better...

Earlier in the week, I saw a friend's band play a little coffee shop.


Misti is HOTT while her aspiring drummer boy watches on.

But wait! There are nearly some FOs... I *know* that's just crazy! But its totally true. This is Mom's scarf (a year old at this point... ridiculous). If anyone can remember ancient history, I had a problem with finishing the last three rows of this baby ages ago. I decided to just be zen and finish it without freaking out about perfection. It is still going to be beautiful after blocking.



And last... with nothing left to do but weave in some ends... Here are some gift mittens. Being guarded, quite literally, by PJ. Don't make him come over there and throw down. 'Cause he will.



Cross your fingers that tomorrow is an "ice day" and I get to stay home from work!

My, how you've all grown...

Seems like its been AGES. Oh, wait. That's because it totally HAS been ages. What the hell have I been doing?? The usual suspects, mostly...


Late nights...


Big shows (that's Joan m-F-in' Jett)


Noisy shows


Playin' dress up


Sightseein


EVEN a bit of knittin... but this is a super secret project that you will have to learn more about later.

I am going to do my best to resume semi-regular posts. Hope everyone is having a Happy New Year so far.