Friends, Family, Dogs and a Turkey

The Thanksgiving holiday went pretty well, other than it was too hot. My Friend came home from Urbana/Champagne, IL where she goes to school. She had not yet seen my house, and she came over one night last week with her dog Sancho (that's him in the picture) and spent the night. We ate Sushi, drank champagne and watched a girly movie- just what old friends are supposed to do when they haven’t seen each other in a while. I can’t say the Jennifer Love Hewitt movie wasn't all that great, but we did have a fun evening.

The kitties I was babysitting got to go home last week, so I haven’t had any pets in my house since. In addition to Sancho in my house I also rescued a very cute Beagle on Thanksgiving that spent the afternoon with me until I was able to locate his owner. I enjoyed having the company of those two dogs, but I think my next pet will definitely be a cat or two.
Thanksgiving dinner was prepared by the wonderful cook Red Molly. I helped a little, but mostly just made 2 pumpkin pies, from a recipe out of The Silver Pallet Cookbook. The entire crew at the table that night included my parents Mr. And Mrs. Red Molly, my grandmother, Nowhere Nick, and a few other friends. I won’t go into it because Nowhere Nick summed it up pretty well here. After I left the parental unit’s house I went to a party near my house with some of my friends who joined us for dinner. Nothing out of the ordinary about this party, but I was sitting out on the front porch (did I mention it's still warm here) and heard someone playing guitar singing the line “my favorite color scheme.” For those of you familiar with Red Molly’s blog that’s a line from the Richard Thompson song “1952 Vincent Black Lighting.” I new I wanted to hear the rest of the song so I joined the people inside. After that song the 2 guys playing guitar suggested doing “a band song”, I was thrilled, I just hoped the meant a song from The Band and not their band. Well not only did they play a song by The Band, but the played "The Weight", definitely my favorite!
Last week I got a chance to spend a lot of time doing some of my favorite things. I watched quite a few movies last week. Tuesday I went a saw Walk the Line, the new Johnny Cash movie which was better than expected. I thought Reese Witherspoon was exceptional at portraying June Carter. Another movie I was last week that I would recommend to Amelie fans is City of Lost Children; both movies were directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. I watched a part of The Life Aquatic, but never finished it. I think I’ll just watch Royal Tenenbaums when I want to see a Wes Anderson movie.
Knitting is another activity that I had the chance to do a lot of last week (this was partly due to being sick Saturday and Sunday). I haven’t finished the anthropologie capelet yet, but I just felted a vase from a Plymouth Yarns patterns. I think it turned out nicely, and pictures should come soon. Of course listening to lots of music goes along with lots of knitting, because I’m less likely to make a mistake and turn my current project into as Red Molly says “A such-n-such DAMN knitting project.”
I’m sick of typing. Off to more knitting….

Brunch, baby, and the BG

Just short post about my weekend: I got to spend Friday evening with my Dad at a party at the library, enjoyed a beer in the cold and then dinner the Burrito Gallery. Saturday I had fun babysitting for my friend’s baby and then went out drinkin’. Sunday I went to brunch at another local restaurant and did some more drinkin’. I finished up the weekend with a wonderful dinner prepared by Nowhere Nick.

Unfortunately, Shadow and Cocoa-

the two cat’s I’ve been taking care of for the last month or so got to go home today, so my house is very lonely. I think I’ll just have to get some kitties of my own soon.

stats check:
Current Knitting project(s): Miss Dashwood from knitty.com, Anthropologie inspired capelet from Craftster.org
Current CD which I can’t seem to listen to enough: remember who i am by Girlyman
Current book I’m reading and hope to finish: High and Mighty by Keith Bradsher

número dos

Well, after some persuasion from fellow bloggers red molly, nowhere nick and tennessee jed I think it's about damn time I really start a blog. It's been a year since my first post, so I'm just going to consider this as a fresh start.
A lot of things have happened in the past year. I am of course a year older and I hope a year wiser, but I'm not so sure about that sometimes.
The most exciting thing that has happened is I bought my first house. It's a cute little bungalow built around 1927. It had been renovated a few years before I bought it so there are lots of new things, but it's the original parts I like best. I love the hardwood floors, the front porch (even though it's too freakin' hot to sit out on most of the year here), the original doors and windows. I really like the fireplace that doesn't work (but as I just said it's too freakin' hot here most of the year to use it anyways). I no longer live with my parents, or my brother, but I currently live with 2 cat's that aren't mine and will soon return home to their rightful owners.
A year ago I had just started my job at the local utility company. I still work there but have moved up to a Junior Engineer position. More on that later.
So other than the things that come along with owning a house and working to pay mortgage I try to find time for the more important things in life like family, friends, great music, interesting movies, knitting, a little drinking and even reading. I’m sure that my blog will consist of themes mostly related to those topics.