Blankie Friday - the Unhappy Birthday Edition

Lots going on at House of Kang today. Mostly involving more barfing, another fruitless visit to the doctor's office, and a very sad toddler, exhausted mama, and bored pre-schooler. All on Someone's second birthday. It sucked. Royally.

But. Let's forget about that for a moment. I've had a glass of wine and a long, hot bath. We've agreed to have a re-do of Sophie's birthday when she's feeling better. Hopefully on Sunday I'll make a cake and buy some balloons. Joe's set up her birthday present in the basement, and we'll show that to her in the morning assuming that she's up to it.

Here's the birthday girl at lunchtime, still in her PJs, eating applesauce and Cheerios. She wanted nothing to do with the Pedialyte that I dragged the girls through SuperTarget, to fetch.



Moments later, I was trying to take a picture of Julie to prove that she's still alive and happy. Um, yeah.



So for now, let's get on with Blankie Friday and some other fun stuff.

This week marks a milestone - I knit the last big square in the blanket just yesterday. My friends, there is a growing light at the end of the tunnel, and it's increasingly clear that the light is not an oncoming train. Shown here are the candidates for that last square. I'd used most of my more-favorite samples in big squares already, and I needed something that fit colorwise with the spot. So I cheated a bit and pulled out a few of the intact skeins on my shelf. I did end up using one of the intact skeins, the Opal one third from the right, so I'll make sure to add it to my plain-sock queue right after the Vesper pair that's on the needles and next in line.



Here is the big-picture shot for the week. 33 new squares total (yay!) I think the guilt of having played around with another new project really worked to motivate me this week.



And the up-close shots...







Once again, the girls were hanging around watching as I took my pictures, and Julie wanted a chance to play in the blanket. There is a series of Beatrix Potter videos that we sometimes borrow from the library, and one of them includes the story of Samuel Whiskers or the Roly-Poly Pudding. It involves a kitten who gets caught by some rats and rolled up in dough while they plan to eat him for dinner. He is saved just in time, thankfully, but Julie is really interested in the whole scenario. She loves being made into a roly-poly pudding.



Remember how I said I wasn't going to count how many squares are left to knit? Well, I gave in. I drew myself a little diagram, and counted up the empty squares - 58! Barring some unforeseen obstacle, I should be finishing my last square in a couple of weeks. Happy Dance time!



And finally, something completely unrelated but hilariously funny and cheers me up to no end...There's this show on the Cartoon Network called Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It's shown as part of their Adult Swim schedule late at night and is totally not meant for kids. Joe and I used to watch it back when we had cable TV, and he just bought the latest season that came out on DVD. He's been watching it all week, and last night he called me in to see this.

Two of the main characters, Shake and Meatwad (the show is silly and twisted and distusting and makes no sense, but it is still highly entertaining) are playing a video game.



A knitting video game!



Look at the little old lady face. Notice how purl is misspelled. And they're saying something like "Knit! Knit!" "Purl, dammit!"