Frenchy, Einstein, just another Monday

Watching Grease as a kid, I really admired Frenchy.  The smoking, the ear piercing, and hell, the pink hair.  Sure, I thought Rizzo was tough and awesome, but I was pretty sure a bun in the oven was not a good thing, unless you were a baker.  Which, all in all, was really confusing.

So like my Grease idol, I am a drop out.  Massage school drop out.



But sometimes, it takes the most tough and most awesome to quit.

So what do I have to fall back on since the massage thing didn't work out? SCIENCE BABY!

I had a chat with Albert Einstein (he does still occasionally catch a worm hole to knit with the Zombie Prom Date Knitters.)

He said to me "Fräulein, you do what volk on the tv do.  You use the pipette and catch bad guys.  Not everyone can do that."

Damn it!  Al's right! I'm like straight out of CSI!

Here's to Frenchy and Eienstein!  Let's share some fine dessert wine!

Official!

Today I gave my first real massage.  Oh, sure, the other massages I gave were in fact "real."  Today was real, real because it was with a previously unknown to me client.  Hurrah!  Hurrah!  I feel all official now, I've massaged the general public!

The general public, only if the general public is pregnant!  Yep, our clinic was for Pregnant Mommas-side lying pregnancy massage!  Really, if you are pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant look into your local massage school about signing up for a free massage.  Here in the Kalamazoo area, help us, help you, help us*, by checking out the Massage Institute at Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts.

It went really well.  I enjoyed giving the massage and I had a good time working with my client.  Asa true Zombie Prom Date knitter I was all "OMG!  I should have totally made her a baby sweater!!"

But I do believe that would have been considered a boundary crossing.

I knew it!

I wasn't kidding about being More Knit Famous in 2011!  In the Sunday, January 9th edition of the Battle Creek Enquirer the Zombie Prom Date Knitters were mentioned in an interview with the WonderWhyGal.

Here is the link if you are interested in reading about the awesome first hand.

Sadly, I haven't been able to meet up with the Zombie Prom Date Knitters very often this fall/winter knitting season.  I blame school, or work, or an overload of complete zombie annoyance blocking my every step.

But don't fear!  The Pigs and I are still up to insane levels of jackassery and knit goods that "will fit somebody" are still being made.

 

More Knit Famous in 2011

The Ogre heard there was a huge, I mean HUGE, zombie outbreak at the mall.  So of course, we had to go check it out.  For the record, Sears is where you want to go to stock up on your zombie slaying equipment.  I was never so proud as when Pig 3 slammed a hunch backer in a front loading washing machine.  It's totally cool, because now the washer has slight damage and will be sold at a discounted price.

While at the mall having our adventures, which included a dance party, a dance fight, and a new belt, I saw an amazing thing.  YES!  Something more amazing than Pig 3 and the washer!  A lady walked by wearing what appeared to be a hand knit hat.  I looked closer and thought "hey, that's the Hurricane Hat pattern!

"HEY!  That is my hat!!!"

She was stylishly wearing hers inside out.  Or, I didn't weave in all the ends and she was hiding them.

I picked the wrong week to stop...

It's like The One with the Embryos episode of Friends.  Oh, crikey, you know, the one with the QUIZ that leads to the apartment swap.  No, I'm not talking about "Every week the TV Guide comes to Chandler and Joey's apartment. What name appears on the address label?"  (Chanadler Bong)  I'm referring to "What is Rachel's favorite movie?"  Rachel claims Dangerous Liaisons is her favorite movie; her real favorite movie: Weekend at Bernie's."

So here we go. I claim that Gone with the Wind is my favorite movie, but it is any one of these:

Point Break-The best lines ever, an accidental comedy!!  "I'm not going to paddle to New Zealand."

Shaun of the Dead-Wait, more awesome to quote! "Don't say the zed word."  "The 'Batman' soundtrack?" "Throw it."

But most possibly, my all time favorite is........   ..........   ............

Airplane! There are so many great quotes.  I probably quote one a day.  It's sick.  I haven't even seen this movie since the 80's.

JOEY: And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try... except during the playoffs.
ROGER MURDOCK (Kareem)[breaking character] The hell I don't! LISTEN KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.

Just Monday I said "I picked the wrong week to stop drinking""...smoking" "... sniffing glue."

CLASSICS!!!

Plus, every time one of the Pigs get Boy's Life, I wonder "where the hell is my Nun's Life??"

So, tell me, what is your socially acceptable favorite and your real favorite?

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health:



The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,300 times in 2010. That's about 6 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 166 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1271 posts.

The busiest day of the year was November 9th with 51 views. The most popular post that day was To wake, or to contact?.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were knitwithsnotforyou.blogspot.com, ravelry.com, wonderwhyalpacafarm.blogspot.com, blogger.com, and twitter.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for llbean clock, joleisa avalon, knitwithsnot, knit with snot wordpress, and ihome alarm clock.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

To wake, or to contact? November 2010
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2

Whitewashing is Fun!! September 2010
7 comments

3

11 Years, Teeth and Spinning! September 2010
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4

Do the Right Thing-Spike Lee isn't wrong October 2010
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untitled November 2010
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Crocheted Away the First Day

Of the first day of 2011 BecandCall, and Loongirl came over for a day of crochet and ginger bread cookies.

We were all working on  Snotty Ripples Afghans.

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In true ZPDK form, many people are making a crochet afghan, many patterns are being used, and much fun is being had.  As Bec said "Yeah, I think “rules” is just a word to indicate we have some thing that looks like order in our group. That's how we roll."

I also have a photo of one made by our very own FatCat!

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So, you want to get in on the fun?  Well, if you need some crochet pointers, or inspiration, check out Lucy at Attic24.  Her Neat Ripple Pattern is full of instruction, and her blog is straight up filled with awesome.

Oooh, cookies.  Besides being a top notch zombie slayer, the Ogre is quite the chef/baker.  If I were to make cookies, they would be of the pilsbury premade variety.  The Ogre though got his mortar and pestle out and ground spices and made a delectable treat.

Here is the recipe he used-

Ginger Bread Cookies-courtesy of Disney Parks-via foodnetwork-drive ins, diners, and dives

It was really nice catching up with friends.  I miss everyone with all this work and school going on.

New Year's Day 2012...COME OVER!

 

It's 2011!!

I want to start eating healthy, today.  But we have all these delicious left overs!  The Ogre really out did himself and made a multi course meal with recipes from Disney.  No, not like Mickey Pancakes, food from the Disneyland and Disney World restaurants.

You too can own this lovely cookbook.  Available at Disneystore

 

Today is supposed to be the Grange Craft Day.  But really, I didn't feel that it would be safe to drive in all this snow.  Non locals-please note, it's Michigan, that is normally the case, but today, it's 53 degrees and sunny.

So, if you'd like to get crafty over at my place...come on over!  I have a lot of food.