Eat Me!

Eat us, hey, it's Thanksgiving day

Eat us, we make a nice buffet

We lost the race with Farmer Ed

Eat us 'cause we're good and dead

White man or red man

From East, North, or South

Chop off our legs And put 'em in your mouth

Eat me!

Sauteed or barbecued

Eat me!

We once were pets, but now we're food

We won't stay fresh for very long

So eat us before we finish this song

Eat us before we finish this song

- lyrics from Addams Family Values

Just a brief sharing of my weird and demented sense of humor. It’s one of my favorite parts of the movie, second only to Joan Cusack’s evil villain monologue at the end of the movie (My parents, Sharon and Dave. Generous, doting, or were they? All I ever wanted was a Ballerina Barbie. In her pretty pink tutu. My Birthday: I was 10, and do you know what they got me? MALIBU. Barbie.)

Anyway Turkey Day is fast approaching, and I’m still knitting like a freakin’ fiend. I’m actually making decent progress, but I’m waiting on the blocking wires I purchased to arrive before I take pictures. So, I’ll leave you with the Things latest offering. The art teacher at one of my schools was doing this with one of the grade levels, and I thought it was just too cute. She was gracious enough to send home some clay with me and let me bring them back to be fired in the kiln. I think the boys did a great job. And, yeah, since I'm basically an art geek, I made one, too.

It figures.

I saw this test, and thought I'd take it to see what happened. Here's the result.

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Wild Horses Couldn’t Drag Me Away

That’s my favorite Rolling Stones song. What does it have to do with the post? Not a lot. I heard the song on the radio, and it’s in my head now.

I am around. I’m knitting like a fiend for the holidays. Chances are, if you’re friend or family expecting a gift from me, it’s probably going to be something knitted, assuming I don’t run out of time. I’ve gotten quite a bit done, and I’ll be taking better photos and showing them here. Some are of my own design, some are patterns. The pictures shown are of the scarf pattern “Branching Out” from knitty.com. It’s fairly safe to show on the blog, since it’s probably going to Things 1 and 2’s teachers.

Hopefully, I’ll get more done over the weekend. Look for more progress.

NaNoBlah Blah Blah

I don’t know why I thought doing NaNoBloMo was a good move for me. Who am I kidding. I can’t half remember what day it is, and before I know it, the day is gone and the last think I want to do is get up just to post to the blog. And, for me, it would be more NaNoBlahBlahBlahMo, since the pressure of daily posts makes everything but total inanities run fleeing from my brain. Of course, the argument could be made that what I write in here is total inanities anyway. Can’t argue with that.

At any rate, I thought I’d devote this to why I need a better camera. Or, more correctly, just imagine what I could do with the proper equipment (and training, but that’s another issue).

Recently, our fair Garden City had an airshow, and part of MUC’s scout stuff was to attend this. We decided to make it a family day, and all of us tagged along. GLB and I just roamed around and took pictures when the scouting got too tedious.

We also have a much older digital point and shoot that sucks all the energy from 2 AA batteries in about 10 pictures, and MUC has claimed it as his own. He thought he was just too much, being there with his own camera. He took some photos of his own, and I loaded them to Flickr for the sake of argument. He thinks he’s hot stuff now. These are his.

This one is my favorite. I know it's probably a fluke that GLB's in the pic at the far left, but I think it's just a really cool shot.

An Evening With Harry and Jack

Halloween has come and gone, and the boys (all three of them) had a jolly good time. In some ways, I miss the days when I decided the costumes the boys, yet it's always fun with my kids. This year, they were pretty 'normal' in their choices, but we did it our way. GLB decided to be Harry Potter, and he's complete with a 2/3rds complete scarf. There's some interesting pinning going on under that scarf. If it weren't such a dull knit, I probably would have finished. Or maybe not.


MUC has talked about Captain Jack Sparrow for months now. He stuck it through, and we did it our way, complete with beard and drawn-on mustache. And khol around the eyes. He enjoyed it so much, I found him in front of the bathroom mirror tonight, reapplying his facial hair with my good eye pencils.


Necropolis enjoys scaring the snot out of the neighborhood children, so he gets candy duty while I tour the neighborhood with the boys. We made it a quick night, all in all, but have a boatload of candy that will probably last us until next summer.

NaNoBloMo and Me

NaNoBloMo is a challenge to blog every day for the month of November. Somewhere, somehow, in some maggoty part of my brain, I thought this was a good idea.

I signed up.

And, I missed blogging on the very 1st day.

So goes Jenni P McD and Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.