busy busy busy
Another month has flown by...hurray.
I have been doing all sorts of spring cleaning around the house lately. Nothing is more satisfying than throwing away tons of your (and preferably, your husband's) old junk. This leaves us more space in which to put new junk that I can throw away next year.
I've also worked diligently in our yard trying to destroy the ivy that I hate without resorting to burning down the house. I curse the previous owners of this house and their stupid ivy fetish. I am currently fighting 3 different kinds...my favorite is the one that spills over our fence, down a stone wall, and across the street. It would happily spread across the entire road system in our neighborhood if I let it, because it can apparently survive on asphalt and being run over by cars is not a problem, either. I put a temporary stop to its master plan when I hacked the majority of it down and bagged it up before it could escape.
I spend way too much time digging up dandelions and weeding. I'm at the point where I am not actually sure if I'm pulling weeds or plants out of our flowerbeds, because the garden was so irrationally over planted with things that spread like the plague. I do love our giant patch of lavender, though...and our lovely smelling lilacs, everything else is expendable. The red maple seedlings I picked up at the Cloverdale flea market last year have come back really nicely, I have them growing in pots on my back porch. Here's some pictures for my fellow gardenin' grandmother (and anyone else who wants to look).
I've also been crocheting quite a bit, I've been concentrating on thread crochet more than yarn...it is more difficult, but more interesting to me. This is a sizable piece I finished up while waiting at the dentist office last week. My dentist was really impressed and said that I should be proud of keeping up such a lost art, which was a really nice sentiment...however, it should be noted that this didn't stop him and the hygienist from doing all that horrible scraping with tiny sharp instruments for what seemed like an eternity.
What else? We saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and we were not that impressed by it. It wasn't horrible, just not as great as we expected. I also don't understand why there is a group of British actors who must appear together in every movie, is there some unknown shortage of actors in the UK? Are they operating on the buddy system over there? If I see Bill Nighy in anything, I can pretty much count on Alan Rickman being involved. The guy who played Arthur Dent ( Martin Freeman), was in Shaun of the Dead with Bill...as well as Love, Actually with both Bill and Alan. I kept waiting for Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, and Hugh Grant to show up...but had to make do with the voice of Helen Mirren.
My new site discovery of the month is television without pity. Fantastic writers recap the shows we hate to watch in short recaplets and in depth recaps so that we really don't have to watch them anymore. Speaking of shows...I am so happy that Uchenna and Joyce beat that smug bastard Rob and the dysfunctional Team America on the Amazing Race. They totally deserved the money just for being "the good guys" throughout the entire race. If there is a God, we will never have to hear about Rob and Ambuhhh again (after they broadcast their wedding during sweeps week, of course). I suspect they will sell off the rights to view the birth of their first child next.
I have been doing all sorts of spring cleaning around the house lately. Nothing is more satisfying than throwing away tons of your (and preferably, your husband's) old junk. This leaves us more space in which to put new junk that I can throw away next year.
I've also worked diligently in our yard trying to destroy the ivy that I hate without resorting to burning down the house. I curse the previous owners of this house and their stupid ivy fetish. I am currently fighting 3 different kinds...my favorite is the one that spills over our fence, down a stone wall, and across the street. It would happily spread across the entire road system in our neighborhood if I let it, because it can apparently survive on asphalt and being run over by cars is not a problem, either. I put a temporary stop to its master plan when I hacked the majority of it down and bagged it up before it could escape.
I spend way too much time digging up dandelions and weeding. I'm at the point where I am not actually sure if I'm pulling weeds or plants out of our flowerbeds, because the garden was so irrationally over planted with things that spread like the plague. I do love our giant patch of lavender, though...and our lovely smelling lilacs, everything else is expendable. The red maple seedlings I picked up at the Cloverdale flea market last year have come back really nicely, I have them growing in pots on my back porch. Here's some pictures for my fellow gardenin' grandmother (and anyone else who wants to look).
I've also been crocheting quite a bit, I've been concentrating on thread crochet more than yarn...it is more difficult, but more interesting to me. This is a sizable piece I finished up while waiting at the dentist office last week. My dentist was really impressed and said that I should be proud of keeping up such a lost art, which was a really nice sentiment...however, it should be noted that this didn't stop him and the hygienist from doing all that horrible scraping with tiny sharp instruments for what seemed like an eternity.
What else? We saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and we were not that impressed by it. It wasn't horrible, just not as great as we expected. I also don't understand why there is a group of British actors who must appear together in every movie, is there some unknown shortage of actors in the UK? Are they operating on the buddy system over there? If I see Bill Nighy in anything, I can pretty much count on Alan Rickman being involved. The guy who played Arthur Dent ( Martin Freeman), was in Shaun of the Dead with Bill...as well as Love, Actually with both Bill and Alan. I kept waiting for Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, and Hugh Grant to show up...but had to make do with the voice of Helen Mirren.
My new site discovery of the month is television without pity. Fantastic writers recap the shows we hate to watch in short recaplets and in depth recaps so that we really don't have to watch them anymore. Speaking of shows...I am so happy that Uchenna and Joyce beat that smug bastard Rob and the dysfunctional Team America on the Amazing Race. They totally deserved the money just for being "the good guys" throughout the entire race. If there is a God, we will never have to hear about Rob and Ambuhhh again (after they broadcast their wedding during sweeps week, of course). I suspect they will sell off the rights to view the birth of their first child next.