an update

We are at our place for a bit so I can blog with pictures!!! Here's how the apt. garden is looking so far...

roma tomatoes

cherry tomatoes

a cluster of cherry tomatoes (squeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!)

a lil mini-bell pepper

a couple more mini bells

one freshly bathed munchkin

one cranky pants punk rockin' looking munchkin that just woke up from a lil snooze.

a monkey on my back

Disneyland pics to come! They're on my fiance's camera and thankfully, his camera is plug and play and the pics are already uploaded onto the laptop at the house. :)

still breathing

No pics for this post because I'd have to install my camera software onto sylvia and I don't have the software with me. Maybe over the weekend I can upload my pics onto my desktop and add to this post! Well, we are about to complete our first week of house sitting. I think the dogs miss having the lil munchkin around. My brother and his family came to visit when we started house sitting. By the time they left, I was all familied out! I don't think I'll be making a trip home next month after all but we'll see. We took her to Disneyland and she got to visit my school and the local park here and we took them to the Promenade. They didn't get to see much more because they would sleep so freakin' late!! There's been little knitting here with the fam having been in town but I plan to make up for that today. I'm going to just relax, catch up on blogs, veg, and knit!

sp 12 question of the week #7

What is(are) your favorite place(s) to knit? and

What supplies (besides yarn & needles) make the setting perfect for knitting?

My favorite place to knit is on my couch at home. Since we're house sitting, I've had to become flexible! I still knit on a couch though--with a tv nearby so I can at least listen/watch. These days I've got the couch, the tv, and a dog or two nearby while knitting! They're my guards. lol. I also currently have a bag of all my knitting with me, along with my emergency kit and all the patterns I could ever need. Oh, and a computer must be nearby as well!

ack!!

My brother and his family are literally on their way here and I had to do a rush cleaning job!! Not sure when exactly we'll be over at the house but there's a possiblity we'll be at my place tonight so I had to do some tidying. At least it gave me an excuse to put away stuff that needed putting away in the garage. The place isn't exactly child proof but it'll have to do!

eureka!!!

I may have struck gold this time around with my umpteenth chevron. Yeah, I frogged the last one. Are you surprised?? You shouldn't be! You knew it was in the cards all along. I can't commit. There was this one. There were a couple more in between too. And before that this one. And there was the first one. Sigh. Each new version I try, I always say how much I like the way the pattern is coming out. I'm not even going to say it this time. So there she is. I'm adamant about using the madeline tosh yarn in my chevron and I threw in some discontinued nevermore. The colorway is still being made but the base yarn is different. Both yarns feel so nice and soft!
Aside from working on my latest chevron, I've done a bit of work on my green gable and I've found another reason why I need to learn to sew. Sigh.
In garden news, I discovered a couple more little tomatoes sprouting. I'm so excited!!!
This is off topic but did you all hear about the children's motrin lawsuit?? The verdict was just announced. Apparently J&J aren't liable. I mention it because I know some of you are mothers but also because I know the lawyer who represented the mother (at least I think he was representing the mom--he was standing next to her during the press conference!). His youngest daughter will be in my class this school year. Talk about small world.

on a blogging roll!

Yesterday, while I was checking out my garden and cleaning out leaves that needed to be disposed of, I did a bad thing. I plucked off two basil leaves (which felt fuzzy underneath) and look what I found!!! Those suckers ate up one of my tomato plants and one of my basil plants. I think they're going to turn into moths. I have to figure out if I've already killed them though. :P Today, this is what I noticed on my biggest tomato plant! Do you see what I saw??? It was really hard to get a good shot. It's the start of a tomato!!!
And here's what my peppers have been looking like.
Over the weekend, I decided it was time to get a laptop--one that my fiance and I could share (particularly while we were house sitting) because the laptop he uses now is a bit old. For some reason, I thought only macs had built-in wireless so we got a macbook! Meet Sylvia. :) I have a mac at school and when I went to pick some stuff up for tutoring last week, I discovered that I have been given the brand new imac. :) Talk about being spoiled. Apple Stores are currently the worse place to try to go right now though-with everyone wanting to get the new iphone. We ended up getting Sylvia at Best Buy.
Here's my green gable so far. I messed up on the lace so I frogged a few rows and redid that section. I'm much happier with it. I hope to finish it at least within the next couple of weeks. I might actually get to wear this one since it's cotton!
I received some new yarn. I know, I'm supposed to be broke but I keep spending!! (Wait until you see what else I've ordered!!!) This is fig tart from yarn love.
This is sleeping beauty.

Question #6

Questions #6 What is your favorite type of project to take along on holiday/vacation? If you’d like to share a story…Tell us about a time that you packed too much knitting or were stranded without knitting. I don't have a favorite type of project that I take along on vacation/holiday. I usually take whatever it is I've cast on for in the hopes that I'll work on every project I bring at some point or other! For car knitting, it's got to be something simple (as you all know!). For at home knitting (since that's where I go for 'vacations,' I tend to prefer simple projects as well. There was a time when I was stranded without any knitting and I was SO tempted to go to the lys to pick up some needles so I could start anything. It was during one of my trips home. I had brought a sock to work on as well as something else (which I can't remember and I think I might've completed it too!) but the yarn kept pooling everytime I tried to get it to not pool. It didn't help that my parents have dial-up preventing me from finding a pattern that would work (also preventing me from figuring out a way to get the yarn not to pool!). Needless to say, that yarn is still waiting for it's ideal project. Sigh.