I, Mouse, being of sound mind, hereby bequeath my entire estate to my pet rock. I do this because it understands my needs.

My only regret in this life was that I didn’t punch more people in the face.


Hee hee hee!! I can’t actually remember who I stole this from but I nearly snorted my coffee (iced..) when I read my results. I’ve got some finished 2 ply merino handspun to show off as soon as it cools down a little to take photographs outside..  its over 100 degrees here in Georgia and I’m absolutely miserable. Apparently when it gets this hot and you live in a house with no trees and no shade.. the best your air conditioner can do is 85 degrees inside. This is still too hot. I’d like to move somewhere that has no more than a month of summer- preferably in Canada… can that be arranged?

Other than alternating between complaining and roasting from the heat.. there’s nothing going on around here at Chez Mousie. Munchkin started school on Monday and is slowly adjusting to life as a first grader.. which he says is significantly less fun than being in kindergarten. Both of us are doing more than our fair share of complaining in the morning because getting up at 6:30am is just cruel and unusual punishment - not to mention that we have to be at the bus stop over an hour before last year and we have the bus driver from hell. If it wasn’t so hot.. I’d be driving Munchkin to school instead of putting him through that horrible woman’s attitude every morning and evening. Unfortunately both the car AND the people inside it would overheat before we got through the car rider line - I have one working window in the car and no AC. I’m still hoping to be able to get a new (to me) car in the next 6 months.. but I can’t do more than cross my fingers for that.

I haven’t been knitting anything for over a week now.. but I do still have a bunch of projects on the needles and my Ravelry queue is getting more and more out of control. At the moment I’m considering my choices for a sweater to wear to SAFF ala Jen of Jenla - though without the bet and the handspun. I don’t have a very big stash.. and I only have enough for one sweater (6 skeins of Cascade 220) so I’m rather limited in my choices. Right now I think I may knit Samus, or  Mariah, or the “A Cardigan for Arwen” from Winter 2006 Interweave Knits. I don’t have a very big stash.. and I only have enough for one sweater (6 skeins of Cascade 220) so I’m rather limited in my choices unless I can get the same dye lot of the cascade 220 that I already have. Everything about Samus looks pretty easy and I have the yarn to make it (and the zipper if I decide to use it) but I don’t like that Samus doesn’t have a hood. I’d like to add a hood but I’m clueless as of how to do so.. I’ve never made anything hooded.

Now if you’ll excuse me….. I’m going to go back to standing in front of the open freezer.