Things I Call My Cat.

Things I Call My Cat:

Muffin (her real name)
Beetle Butt
Sugar Butt
Baby
Baby Girl
Princess
Kitty
Smelly Cat
Smelly Butt
Fatty
Sweetie
Poopy Pants
Fluffy

Yarn Haul!!

I totally just realized that I forgot to update my Christmas yarn haul on here. Dressew is EVIL!! $1.99 a ball!?!?

So the story is, I went to Vancouver before Christmas to be a nice and drive my sister up here for the holidays. She had to work on the 23rd and I figured if I got there the night before, then I'd have plenty of time to check out the yarn stores down there since I'd never been. First Yarn stop (not the first stop of the day, in fact by this time I'd already spent most of my budget) was Sweet Georgia Yarns, a lovely lady who has a dye studio that's not really a shop, but you can drop by and see her doin her thing.
An unassuming building:

What you see when the elevator door opens:

I got 2 skeins of Fairy Floss (Purple), and after Christmas I went back and got 2 skeins of Big Buttercrunch



Next stop was Birkeland Bros. where I picked up a little bit of roving. And after MUCH to much walking I made it to Three Bags Full, where I picked up my first 2 balls of Noro.

Then I was headed down to East Hastings to check out Bad Anna's (which was totally awesome AND having a sale the day I was driving my sister BACK to Van) where the totally awesome girl told me about the yarn they had at Dressew for $1.99 a ball. I wasn't originally going to go there as it's mostly just acrylic junk, but they had some 100% wool too, and as it turns out, some yarn that I had been looking for in Kamloops and couldn't find.

So things got a little out of hand there:

Knitting Knot

It's ridiculously hard to motivate myself to get knitting again. I still still have a million gazillion projects that need to be finished, and I don't want to pick up a single one. I apparently would rather spend all my time in front of the computer.

Maybe it's because all these projects are in the beginning stages and aren't nearly close to being finished so it's not like I can go "Oh! I'll just finish up this one!" and get into the groove again. They're all just monotonous and boring stitches too. Or I have to frog and start over on some... I did start a new scarf with a heavy cable (getting ready for next winter YAY me!!) but, I didn't like the gauge and I don't have any bigger needles, so I have to go buy some. And I stepped on the needle that it's on and broke it (grama's old plastic ones so no real big lose). I have the knitting blahs. Maybe I should try spinning for a bit. I'm sure increasing my yarn supply EVEN more will motivate me to knit more. NOT!!

In other news, I opened up my Etsy Store!! Yay!! You can now by my stitch markers and jewelry sets at Pandalina.etsy.com. And what ever I decide to make and put up there in the future. I just got a yummy book on how to make soaps and bath bombs GLEE!! Need to get supplies for that now. Why do all the things I like to do require me spending money I don't have? Well, I guess that's why they have etsy! Good thing there's a good sale at Michael's this weekend.

I've also got to get a shaped cake pan for a 4 y/o. My little princess Quinn's birthday!! Haven't made one of my cakes in FOREVER!! So yummy!!

Christmas 2009 Haul

All I got for Christmas was:

• Gift cards for: Esso, iTunes, Michael's, Visa gift card


• The Guild Seasons 1 & 2


• Flannel PJ's


• 2 Nightshirts


• 2 pairs of Lounge Pants


• 6 pairs of Socks


• 4 pairs Fuzzy Socks


• The Joy of Socks (sock knitting book)


• Fuzzy slipper boots


• A pink Neoprene sleeve for my laptop


• Daily Calendar that you fold into paper airplanes instead of just throwing away


• Scented Pencil crayons made from recycled newspaper


• A Puzzle of a picture made from a picture mosaic


• Books:
  • Dirty Girls on Top by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
  
  
  • Uncle John's Curiously Compelling (Bathroom Reader)
  
  
  • The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do
  
  
  • From Dead To Worse by Charlaine Harris
  
  
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (which I traded with my sister for another book I already had)
  
  
• And a book that by coincidence happens to be by one of my favorite authors from when I was a teen. Which also happens to be 3 books from a series that I read and I just HAPPENED to not own those 3! I love when my dad picks up something random and it's SO the RIGHT thing :D Night World No.2 (includes Dark Angel, The Chosen & Soulmate) by L.J. Smith

In other news, now that I have a Visa Gift Card, I can open up my Etsy store now. YAY!!

Dear Santa

Dear Santa,

I have been really good this year. Could I please have one (or a few) of the following

A laptop bag to hold my 15" Laptop (preferably something pink and pretty)

Gift Cards to any of these stores:

• Future Shop


• Walmart


• Costco


• Twist of Fate Yarns


• Micheals

If your being very kind, I wouldn't mind DVD sets from the following TV shows:

• Angel (season 4 cuz Jeremy Phelps still has mine) Got it for myself


• Dollhouse


• True Blood


• The Guild From my sister


• House (Season 4-current)


• The Tudors


• Battlestar Gallactica


• Le Femme Nikita (season 2-end)


• The Pretender (season 3-end)


• Sex and the City (season 5-end)


• Stargate SG-1 (season 3-end


• The Big Bang Theory

Thank You and have merry Christmas and a Happy 2010