Proof.

Proof was demanded. Now, admittedly I am not intoxicated at the moment, you'll have to take my word for it that I can still do it then. But I have just woken up and am ill. That said, skillz. I do has.

Bleh.

Not much going on today, yet again. We're still not quite recovered. I totes finished that bloody IRKSOME capelet for my MIL last night:


It's got the same pink kitten buttons I used on my boobholder. It's (obviously) not very me, but I think she'll really dig it. I adore the finished product even if I did get SICK of the pattern repeat & the yarn. Today I started a hat for my BIL. It's gonna be a basic stripey earflap stocking cap with a puffball on top, but it's gonna have a detachable beard & mustache. It's some fluffy mystery acrylic.


Dunno what the beard/stache will be made of. I can't decide whether to go natural or unnatural colored. We'll have to see when the hat itself is done.

Meme time.

Today's Unconscious Mutterings word association:

1. Alarm :: clock
   
2. Guest :: towel (lol, where'd that come from? The whole concept of those ridiculous little hand towels you're not actually supposed to use appalls me!)
   
3. Worm :: Richard Scarry
   
4. Puppies :: basketful
   
5. Honor :: roll (yeah, I got good grades, what?!?!)
   
6. No! :: means no.
   
7. Stomach :: blerghy (been sick lately, can you tell?)
   
8. Counter :: space (we have some, my husband is great & tidied the kitchen yesterday!)
   
9. Waffles :: House (Waffle House is quite possibly my most missed thing about the US aside from my family)
   
10. Plates :: armor (specifically the ones on the back of a stegosaur)

Aaaaand Sunday Stealing:
The Strange Question Meme, Part 2:

26. What color is your watch?
Don't wear one. INVISBLE ZOMG.

27. What do you think of when you hear “Australia”?
Upside-down kangaroos.

28. Would you strip for money?
You mean someone would PAY me for it?!?! Win!

29. Do you go in a fast food place or just hit the drive thru?
Usually go in, there isn't as much cause for drive-thrus in the UK.

30. What is your favorite number?
i

31. Who’s the last person you talked to on the phone?
Ooh. Probably my husband? God, I really have no idea.

32. Any plans today?
Fuck, it's almost bedtime. No. :D

33. In how many states have you lived?
4? Yeah, 4 I think. Plus, you know.... England.

34. Biggest annoyance right now?
John & Edward.

35. Last song listened to?
Little clip of One Moment In Time on X Factor

36. Can you say the alphabet backwards?
Even while very, very intoxicated. Skillz. Mad ones.

37. Do you have a maid service clean your house?
LMAO.

38. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time?
My fake-ass Uggs. WHAT? DON'T YOU FUCKING JUDGE ME.

39. Are you jealous of anyone?
Insanely. Envy is my second worst deadly sin, after sloth.

40. Is anyone jealous of you?
If they are, they are seriously misguided.

41. Do you love anyone?
Ferociously.

42. Do any of your friends have children?
Yep.

43. What do you usually do during the day?
Knit, play Farmville, watch Maury. It's a fucking difficult life.

44. Do you hate anyone that you know right now?
I don't think so.... Not exactly.

45. Do you use the word hello daily?
Probably.

46. What color is your car?
Grey.

47. What size wedding ring do you wear?
Smaller than the one I got when we got married.

48. Are you thinking about someone right now?
Yeah, this guy, 'cause he's on my tv, bein' all sexy & I can't figure out what else I've seen him in.

49. Have you ever been to Six Flags?
Many of them. But mostly Over Georgia. Hundreds of times, prolly.

50. How did you get your worst scar?
Hm. The most noticeable one is my chicken pox scar on my forehead. I had chicken pox on my 6th birthday. I got a She-Ra set, including wristlets, a mask, a sword, etc. I put the mask on & it scratched off one of the scabs & marked me forever. The one on my thumb might be a little worse, but it's hardly noticeable, given where it is. My first few weeks of college I was opening a package from my grama & the scissors slipped. Cut off pretty much the whole pad of my thumb. Couldn't have stitches, as it was a flat surface cut. I got home from the hospital and finished opening the package. There were Band-Aids inside. Thank you, psychic grama.

Laaaaaazy day.

I'm in a blanket cave, bitches!!!!!!

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Today I am watching the first half of this version of Rebecca. It's absolutely wonderful, and because it's a miniseries, can't really be compared to the classic Hitchcock version. You can cram so much more of a book into a miniseries, but you absolutely cannot beat the combo of Hitchcock & du Maurier.

Rebecca is one of my favorite stories of all time. And I think I'm in the minority, but definitely not alone in vastly preferring Rebecca herself to the insipid, pallid little Second Mrs DeWinter, who doesn't even rate a first name. I have always wanted to have the lasting impact on people that Rebecca has. I don't want anyone to ever properly get over me, for better or worse. I've always wished for a Mrs Danvers of my very own who would be an utterly devoted servant and absolutely terrorize anyone who ever dared try to take my place. Rebecca is the most fascinating character in the entire story, even though she never appears.

All that I've always felt about Rebecca, the character, was just completely buoyed up by Rebecca's Tale, by Sally Beauman. If you're a Rebecca fan, you simply MUST read it. It does what it says on the tin, it is Rebecca's story. Her marriage, her scandals, her reasons, her death... it's beautiful and I genuinely think Daphne du Maurier would have approved.

She was a fascinating woman, herself, that Daph, with all the rumors of bisexuality, gender issues, incest... Also she was a stone cold fox.

Srsly. Who wouldn't hit that?

Menabilly, the house she based Manderley on, does holiday cottages and tours and stuff. Yes, I desperately want to go. Need to go.

If you haven't seen or read Rebecca, do. Please. I want to know if you're a Rebecca person or a 2nd-MdW person. I want to know if it casts such a hypnotizing & lasting spell on other people as it does on me, if Rebecca haunts you as much as she does the story itself.


And now for something completely different:
Friday Fill-Ins
1. Plans and schedules elude me utterly .

2. I'm happy when things are stable but interesting, it's a hard balance to reach, but when it's there, it's SO fuckin' good .

3. The last thing I drank was a sip of orange juice to take some codeine .

4. One of the most valuable things in my life is obviously my husband & my kitty .

5. I like pineapple on my pizza.

6. Dear November, can you just be a little bit longer than usual so I can get all this Christmas knitting done?

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to trying to shake this illness, tomorrow my plans include probably mostly just Farmville and Sunday, I want to Farmville some more. IT IS BOTH WORSE AND BETTER THAN CRACK!

I apologize for the most boring Friday Fill-Ins ever. I'm not feeling creative today.

IVF update

So, my doctor's office apparently didn't send in the final batch of blood tests to the IVF clinic. Nice work, there. But anyway, once we get that sorted out, (possibly will have to have more blood taken, I don't know if they'll accept everything from many months back) then they said they'll basically fast-track us. When they get the tests, they'll send us a "welcome pack." WTF? Anyway, that'll have more forms to fill out, and when they get those, it will be about a month before we can actually have our one free NHS IVF cycle. If that doesn't take, we're boned. But still. Hope. I has it.

I really want babies so I can dress them up as things. Mostly Elvis.

GNOME.

Today I'm'a put the ear flaps on my Gnomey Hat! I'm still ill and don't have much knitting mojo, but this is going so fast & is so satisfying & adorable in my ZOMGKNITPICKS that it's helping me recover the urge to knit.


It's not helping anything that fucking Farmville is sucking my soul away as well.
Husband is home sick again today with me. We're not doing much of anything. It's pretty miserable in my house right now. [ham-handed segue, get ready!] If only we could win the lottery.......

1. If you won the lottery lets say 200 million dollars what would be the first thing you would do? Pay off debts. How boring is that? It's true though. But then, the shoe shopping!!!
   
2. Do you think your a lucky person? why? Meh. I definitely don't think I'm lucky. Maybe not particularly unlucky, maybe on the slightly-less-than-average side.
3. Do you have any lucky charms? Way too many. I'm very object-oriented. (zomg geek humor)
4. Have you ever knocked on wood in hopes whatever you said doesn’t get jinks? Yes. Always.
5. If you could have just one thing..anything besides riches (money/gold) what would your wish for? Antlers.
6. Do you listen to your gut instincts or try to ignore them and wish you did? I tend to listen to them, yeah. Then I dither and second-guess myself and overanalyze, but then I usually go with what I originally felt & it usually works out.
   
7. Are you a glass half full or more of a glass half empty type person? I'm just like... whatever. Put some whiskey in there. We're cool.
8. Do feel like you are fortunate in life or waiting for your turn? why? Definitely waiting. If I could get pregnant, I'd feel like my turn had come.
9. what is an attainable dream that you want to accomplish before you die? I want to dye yarn with squid ink.
10. If the world was going to end on friday…what would you do before it ended? Try & somehow get to America to be with my family. By hook or by crook, as 'twere.
11. Do you believe rabbits foots are bring good luck? Nah, they're just pretty gruesome.
12. Do you believe blondes have all the luck? What? No.
13. If you could come up with an invention and make millions of dollars what would it be? Antlers-on-humans-growing-pills.

Ruby Tuesday

I promise this blog won't be ALL memes. Just.... I've been ill. Still am. Very. And there was a cat vs knitting projects/yarn clusterfuck this morning. My sore throat did *NOT* need all the yelling that proceeded from that. And I just particularly like this meme.

Kitty repellent. Maybe I should make some sachets of it to scent my entire yarn stash.

The offender.

Also here is a picture I drew of mermaid-me with a friendly octopus for this contest over here: