Knitting projects, tv, rat pictures
Haven't been blogging lately (and by "lately," I mean "in the past two days"), largely because I am still mainlining Avatar and knitting like mad. Actually, the latter is inspiring the former, rather than the other way around. I've sort of been watching Avatar out of the corner of my eye while I attempt to work out assorted knitting problems; I wasn't very impressed with the first season at all.
Either the writing has gotten better, or I've gotten more used to the voice actors (non-Japanese voice actors sound SO WEIRD now!), because I'm actually paying attention to the second season. It also helps that more cool female characters have been introduced.
Knitting-wise, I have finished two pairs of fingerless gloves and am nearly done with a third. I think I've memorized the entire pattern now, which is a little scary. I actually knit some Christmas presents, which I swore not to do, largely because the fingerless gloves take about a day to complete (that is... if I knit through ten episodes of Avatar...). And now, I'm starting yet another scarf!
I spent ages and ages looking for a nice, reversible scarf pattern that would look good with self-striping yarn, which ruled out pretty much all cables. And I didn't want ot do seed stitch, because it bores me. After driving myself insane, I ended up going to the local yarn store to look for a stitch dictionary, only to find they were sold out on everything that wasn't Vogue Knitting's stitch dictionaries of cables or colorwork, neither of which I wanted. Borders also only had two, neither that I wanted for my personal library. So I am now just sucking it up and doing mistake rib, which will mean I will have enough brainpower to actually pay attention to whatever I'm watching at the moment.
And... the rats continue to be cute, albeit naughty! For a period, since they can easily jump off the couch, I was sticking them in the bathtub when I cleaned their cage.
Unfortunately, but really not that unsurprisingly, Ruki has already discovered that he can jump out of the bathtub, despite it being about ten times as tall as him. I stand there and glare at him, while he happily chitters to himself and tries time after time after time, no matter how often I dump him back into the tub.
I think he thinks it's a game.
Renren, curled up in the tub
Byabya and Ruki staring at me
Ruki cleaning himself
Ruki, probably attempting another escape
An awful picture of Ruki that I'm only keeping because it amuses me so much to see just a rat nose and whiskers sticking out through the window cover.
Renren trying to eat the camera cord
Ruki and Byabya
Either the writing has gotten better, or I've gotten more used to the voice actors (non-Japanese voice actors sound SO WEIRD now!), because I'm actually paying attention to the second season. It also helps that more cool female characters have been introduced.
Knitting-wise, I have finished two pairs of fingerless gloves and am nearly done with a third. I think I've memorized the entire pattern now, which is a little scary. I actually knit some Christmas presents, which I swore not to do, largely because the fingerless gloves take about a day to complete (that is... if I knit through ten episodes of Avatar...). And now, I'm starting yet another scarf!
I spent ages and ages looking for a nice, reversible scarf pattern that would look good with self-striping yarn, which ruled out pretty much all cables. And I didn't want ot do seed stitch, because it bores me. After driving myself insane, I ended up going to the local yarn store to look for a stitch dictionary, only to find they were sold out on everything that wasn't Vogue Knitting's stitch dictionaries of cables or colorwork, neither of which I wanted. Borders also only had two, neither that I wanted for my personal library. So I am now just sucking it up and doing mistake rib, which will mean I will have enough brainpower to actually pay attention to whatever I'm watching at the moment.
And... the rats continue to be cute, albeit naughty! For a period, since they can easily jump off the couch, I was sticking them in the bathtub when I cleaned their cage.
Unfortunately, but really not that unsurprisingly, Ruki has already discovered that he can jump out of the bathtub, despite it being about ten times as tall as him. I stand there and glare at him, while he happily chitters to himself and tries time after time after time, no matter how often I dump him back into the tub.
I think he thinks it's a game.
Renren, curled up in the tub
Byabya and Ruki staring at me
Ruki cleaning himself
Ruki, probably attempting another escape
An awful picture of Ruki that I'm only keeping because it amuses me so much to see just a rat nose and whiskers sticking out through the window cover.
Renren trying to eat the camera cord
Ruki and Byabya