I make dishcloths and wake the dead.

I started a dishcloth yesterday while watching season two of Pushing Daisies. It was very soothing. I only watched the first two episodes, because I was too tired to watch the rest of the disc, but it was still nice. Emerson Cod is hilarious. I might watch the rest of the first disc later, if no one else is watching anything - or I could watch it upstairs, but I don't like doing that because the little TV upstairs isn't as nice as the big TV downstairs, and the DVD player up here is older and persnickety.

We had burritos for dinner last night, so I had one for lunch today. Though I'm still a bit peckish.

Knitting photos

I finally got around to uploading my photos, after a yelling match with my mother (don't ask...), and turned in my assignments for the House Cup. Here's my cowl for Charms...




I think I prefer leaving the flash off for photos of knitting and yarn. The end result is much better - less colour-washed-out-argh-my-eyes-hurt-ness.

And here's the Snoopy dishcloth for Herbology...




I love how the photo and the dishcloth turned out. Love the finished cowl, too. That green is my colour, I think. Pity I could only find one skein of it at the tent sale. I should've grabbed more colours, because the yarn is lovely and soft, and has a kind of springiness to it.

I'm currently uploading my mock bento photos to Flickr.

I also uploaded yarn photos from my computer to Ravelry, which saves a lot of space on my Flickr free account. I love that Ravelry has an upload from computer option :)

In other news, I watched the rest of season one of Pushing Daisies. Now I'll have to wait a while for season two to come in at the library, because it's still on order and over 30 people are ahead of me in line.

Now I'm hungryish. Maybe I'll have another bowl of leftover chili.

In which Merenwen yells at her knitting

Me and my neckwarmer are not speaking to each other. I ripped back because I thought I had done a row of purling (I'm knitting the neckwarmer in garter stitch), but then I realized it was just stretched out. Then I screwed up my buttonholes, so I had to rip back again. Now I think I'm going to rip back four rows where the novelty yarn ends and do the first teal-yarn-only row with a k2tog in the middle so that I have an even number of stitches. That way, I can put three buttonholes in.

Aaaaaaaand I forgot to upload my photos again. But, in my defense, my dad went out to get chips to go with chili, and then we ate, and then I got sidetracked. Tomorrow I'll ask Mom to help me with it. Hopefully tomorrow I can cast off my neckwarmer tomorrow - not sure if I'll be able to find the right size buttons, though. If I can, I'll get that done, too. Or maybe I'll just work on my hat. Yeah... hat... I love my hat...

I want to be able to hand in Charms and Herbology tomorrow, though. And upload photos of my mock bentos :) Damn, now I wanna look at bento photos on Cooking Cute...

So, yesterday, I watched Sister Act, Sister Act 2 and six episodes of Pushing Daisies while Mom and Dad were at a pig roast. It rained quite a lot, but I didn't mind. It was refreshing - made me feel like carving pumpkins.

Right now I'm yawning (Dad woke me up early-ish) and half-watching the season premiere of The Amazing Race. I'm glad I finally caught a season from the beginning - I haven't been able to in a while, because something was always conflicting with the date and time of the premiere, and it's not as much fun if you don't catch it from the beginning. Right now it's a Roadblock task in Vietnam, and they're herding ducks into a pen. Then they have to go to a market or something and find a boat.

I'm hungry now. Maybe I'll eat some more chili. Or a bowl of chips. Hmm.

Oh yeah. My mom was badgering me to volunteer for the fall festival at church, and I was like, "Well, I don't know if it's during the day or during the evening." So I didn't. I mean, if they want a couple of folks from the youth group to sell tickets for the concert, then maybe I'll do that, but I don't want to chance not being able to go to the concert. I want to enjoy the concert, not work and half-listen to it. Maybe I'll knit something for the silent auction.