I want to knit Roger Hodgson a sweater :p

More on that later :)

First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I spent New Years Eve watching the Best of Just for Laughs special, then the Royal Canadian Air Farce's finale, then a bit of Ron James' stand-up special, then I went on my computer. While watching all that, I ate a bit of calamari, a few of these chocolate-covered caramels with sea salt on them (they actually taste better than they sound!), then some butter puff biscuits that we got at the British imports shop. Then at 11:00, we put it on the local station to watch their New Years Eve program live in Niagara, in which Roger Hodgson, formerly of Supertramp, performed! I missed most of 'Give a Little Bit', though, because I was in and out of the living room. But he was still as awesome as ever. He was cracking jokes about the cold weather - it was so cold that the saxophonist's saxophone was squeaking! Roger himself said, "My guitar is saying, 'What are you doing to me?'", and "This'll be the out-of-tune version of 'School'." He's quite cheeky. There's a video on YouTube of him performing 'Easy Does It', in which he whistles, and the audience was whistling along with him, and he would suddenly stop, and wave his hands to stop the audience's whistling... it's hilarious.

Here's the video of him singing 'Easy Does It', which was from a gig in 2000. It's pretty quiet, so make sure your volume is turned up.




So anyways. I want to knit him a sweater. When my mom saw my Facebook status, which said that I wanted to knit him a sweater, she said that he needs gloves - fingertip-less ones, so that he can play the guitar and the piano! I think she's right - maybe I'll make him a pair of Knucks with 'rock' on one hand and 'roll' on the other!

So, if you're somehow reading this, Mr Hodgson, I think you need a nice sweater and fingerless gloves for playing music in the cold winter air. You probably aren't reading my blog, but if you are by any chance, um, I really like your music - I haven't heard any of your solo stuff, but I'm a huge Supertramp fan :)

I know that sounded silly, but hey, he might just come across my blog someday... :)

Youth group was AWESOME.

Youth group was pretty cool last night. I haven't seen Sela in a while. We're not exactly bosom buddies, but I'm jsut curious as to why I haven't seen her at meetings.

We're going to paint the loft. I'm a bit sad about this, but it really does need to be painted. We had to sand down the rough edges from where past members of the youth group had stenciled on designs, because the whole surface needed to be a bit smoother for when the primer goes on the walls. We're keeping the wall to the right plain so that we can project stuff on it, but the other walls are probably going to be an apple green. I won't be able to bring music because, by the sound of it, it'll all be mp3 players because someone has an iPod dock thingy, and I have no iPod. So.... yeah. Dammit. Emma won't be there by the sound of it because of soccer stuff. I don't know if I'll be going yet, but I hope I can go. We're also going to help with the other painting in the church.

Gah, I slept in until 11-ish this morning, and I didn't actually come upstairs until close to 12:00. I was on my computer at 4-ish, and I didn't even realise what time it really was until I heard my dad come home, and I was like, holy crap, it feels like noon, but it's 4-ish!

graaaaaagh.

I have to finish Justin's scarf tomorrow. And my hood. And my fingerless gloves.

Woo-hoo.

Another day of grogginess? SERIOUSLY?!

I'm still feeling weird. My stomach isn't as weird as it was yesterday, but I still feel a tad light-headed. Maybe I have a cold. I so do not want to go to cardio kickboxing tonight. I'd rather stay home and do push-ups and sit-ups. Squats, too. Besides, my workout music is so much better than the stuff they play in cardio kickboxing class. And the regular kickboxing class. By 'regular', I mean the non-cardio class where you actually get to hit people - just not too hard, or you get in deep, deep trouble. I love that class, but I can't go to that class because of the bone graft in my mouth. I can't wait until that fake tooth goes in! I know it takes this long for a reason, but I'm itching to kickbox a human being instead of a bag.

I swept a bit in the living room (I wanted to listen to that Bob Dylan CD I have out of the library, but the stereo wasn't reading it), then I went on the computer to load this morning's photos on the computer from my little camera, then I put them onto Flickr. Actually, I'm going to experiment... one moment, please...





Here are my fingerless gloves. They haven't been sewn yet, as you can see, but I'll get 'round to it.




Here is my kerchief scarf. I think I have enough cotton to make it into a wrap-of-sorts, so I put it onto a circular needle that Mom let me borrow. Thanks, Mom! :)




I took this a few days, maybe a week ago. It's my ruff - with a button! I was going to take a photo of the buttons, but I completely forgot.

And finally...




Mousie resting on my - wait, no, HER - chair. Ain't she cute? :)