Knotty Mouse

knitting.. spinning.. motherhood.. life

April 25th, 2008

I can has geek humor?

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Because I’m a geek who spent way too much time playing Magic… this really cracked me up. Have a good weekend y’all.

Edited to add:  Oh happy day…  WordPress 2.5.1 upgrade is live !  It says that it has “many bug fixes” - um.. yeah, that’s the understatement of the year.  I’m hoping this means that I don’t have to keep publishing my blog in HTML anymore…

January 31st, 2008

doh.

So.. I’m in my kitchen cutting off box tops for Munchkin’s school  (one of those ‘boxtops for education thingies that they’re doing for Valentines Day)  and I’m  struck with a case of deja vu.  I’m standing there going.. “what does this remind me of?” as I’m sticking the cereal box minus half its top flap back into the cabinet.. and suddenly it dawns on me.  There is a scene in the movie Better off Dead where the main character Lane Myer (John Cusack) is pulling out boxes of cereal from the cabinet and the cereal is pouring out all over the countertop & floor because the boxes have holes in them from where his kid brother has clipped the ads on the back to send away for the toys (and working rockets from vacume cleaner parts.. and books on how to pick up loose women..).  I am in the house by myself and I’m laughing my ass off over this –  the cat is now avoiding me because its clear that my crazy is of the contagious variety.

November 19th, 2007

Completely pointless


(imbedded video from YouTube)
I found this via one of the “Harry Potter Fans” forums on Ravelry.. and it was so funny & obnoxious that I couldn’t resist sharing it. Enjoy..

November 9th, 2007

I can has kitteh train?

 After telling the story of my silly dream to two people today.. I was told that I HAD to post this because it was entirely too goofy not to let other people hear it.  So.. here it is.  (this was previously an IM conversation but I removed the names.. so its a bit choppy and with my usual mind-numbing lack of proper grammar and half assed punctuation)

Some local knitter friends and I were getting on a train to go to MDSW and we’re standing in line to get on the train and we all have our knitting.  The man who is taking the tickets is all “are you SURE y’all want to bring YARN on THIS train?” We’re like.. “um.. yeah..”  and he says.. “ok.. well good luck with that”  and lets us on board..  There are business people in suits with laptops.. and other folks..
We sit down and start knitting and chatting. After a while the train starts moving and the announcer comes on and says “HERE THEY COME” or something.. (I can’t remember what it was exactly..) and there is this strange sound from the back of the train.
All of a sudden.. there’s like eleventy million kittens in the train and everyone is playing with kittens and petting them.. and rolling on the floor… and this goes on for a while.. hours even..
When we reach Maryland the train workers come through and round up the kittens and they’re like.. whisked away to the back of the train. The business people pull out lint rollers.. and roll the fur off of their clothes.. and straighten their ties and get off the train like nothing ever happened…
and we’re left sitting there like.. WTF?
When I go to get off of the train.. we’re AT MDSW.. (which is impossible.. but.. you know.. its a dream)  and I’m like.. I HAVE to tell RABBITCH about the Kitten Train!!!

… and then I wake up because the phone was ringing.  It was one of those weird birthday club call things for the toy store with the giraffe.. and I tell my husband… “ Dude.. I had to get off the Kitten Train for THAT?”
(and he looks at me like I just suggested that we go play with plague rats)

And THAT folks… is how I started my day.

September 29th, 2007

Silly things found on Ravelry..

I found this on the Ravelry tea-drinkers group (yes.. there is one. Yes, I joined it. Please don’t get me started about all of the groups on Ravelry or this will be a very long and silly post.) and had to share …

“Pantone-style mug for tea drinkers - colour matching mug” 

(I actually want one of these.. I think its hysterical but I’m pretty sure my tea would fall between the “milky” and “British” chips)

I also found a pattern for the following item while feeding my queue of doom (its at 170 patterns or so and is now requiring virgin sacrifices so that it doesn’t eat me) on Ravelry…  Its perfectly work safe but will probably induce loud snickering.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52765712@N00/1441328096/ 

yeah.. you’re welcome.  If you are on Ravelry you can find the pattern to the item here.  I’m also taking no blame if you make one of those and your cat kills you in your sleep..  you’re on your own there.

August 11th, 2007

Don’t even THINK about ‘atherin here

I haven’t been blogging much lately due to trying to get Munchkin ready for going back to school on Monday. I’ve also been rather miserable as I’ve got one of my wisdom teeth cutting through and its absolute hell. In between running around getting laundry washed and Munchkin’s room in order, I took a trip to the Mall of Georgia with my MIL so that Munchkin could play at the play area and fountain. You have to click on the photos to make them bigger because I took them with my cellphone. As you can see.. people were paying attention to the sign and refrained from ‘atherin in that there area.

Lest you think that the Mall of Georgia is without its own designated areas of fun.. here’s where you can pick someone up if you’re in the market. I think it would be faster, as you could weed out the folks who were taken or otherwise uninterested in being picked up. I was surprised that there weren’t many people in the “pick up” area but I guess it was too hot out there for trolling for a date. Most of the teens and tweens in the mall were too busy being in my way inside the mall and knocking into me with their giant Abercrombie shopping bags. Are those giant paper bags actually necessary? I could easily put half of my closet inside one of those… talk about wasteful! I hate the mall and I hate back to school shopping time.. especially on a Friday evening.
Here is the fruits of our labor.. all that for a Pirates lunchbox at the Disney store. The horrible migraine I received from spending an entire day at the stupid mall was not included in the picture - you can just imagine it along with the overwhelming urge for an alcoholic beverage and the thought of moving to somewhere where the words “Excuse Me” actually make people get out of your way without having to physically move them while glaring at them.

According to the rule book for the new elementary school Munchkin will be attending on Monday.. there is nothing against dress code about wearing or having things with skulls. HOOORAY!! I had already bought him some new running shoes before I found out about the dress code or he would have gotten the cool Airwalk shoes with the skulls that I found at Payless.
We got to meet Munchkin’s Grade 1 teacher and visit his new school on Thursday of last week.. she seems very nice and both the school and the classroom were so clean because of being a brand new school. I’m more than slightly peeved at the new bus schedule though.. the school is less than 2 miles away and we have to be at the bus stop over an HOUR earlier than last year. I am NOT happy about having to be at the bus at 7:20AM — and even less excited about the fact that they moved the bus stop TWO blocks farther away from my house. We’re the only people in this side of the subdivision that are putting their child on the bus.. so I’m assuming its why I will have to walk Munchkin 5 blocks one way to the bus on Monday morning. Regardless.. I’m going to be calling the transportation dept. bright and early to arrange for another stop. Just because the people in this community see it as something of a status symbol to drive their children to school in the morning (really.. I’m not just making broad assumptions here.. I was told that “car riders” are far superiour to “bus riders” and that only “trash” bus their kids) wasting time and gasoline.. is no reason for me to have to drag my poor 6 year old that far in the sweltering Georgia heat.

June 22nd, 2007

Found at the Grocery store

Ok.. I’m sorry for this post in advance. Really. Please let me indulge my inner 12 year old with these photos.. I’m having a rough day. After a minor meltdown at the grocery store with Munchkin involving the bakery’s lack of free chocolate chip cookies (we had to settle for a donut that was alas, not free) we visited the grocery store bathroom.. which is right next to their new Jamaican food section. I spied this and had to take a photo with my phone- so forgive it being dark and blurry. The package itself says ” c8ck flavoured soup mix” and the shelf below says “Jamaican Instant Spicy c8ck- $1.69″. I giggled like a teenager and nearly bought a package because the directions on the back nearly made me pee. Yes.. I know they mean chicken.. but its still funny.

If the soup wasn’t bad enough.. I stopped at the dollar store next to the grocery store to buy some hangers for the closet and some of these cheapo sponges for dishes. Do click the larger photo to see that the orange circle on the front says that these sponges are for “returning the reality of your life”.. hmmm. I’m not entirely sure that I want that.. but thanks. The makers of these sponges also couldn’t decide whether the name of the company was “Ceaning King” or “Gleaning King” like it says on the other side of the package. The opposite side gives you this gem of wisdom..
Um.. yeah. I’m not even going to try and figure this one out.. especially the bit about its character.

So.. happy Friday folks!

April 18th, 2007

#$%^!&^@!@

I am definitely having one of those days where I should have just said ‘the hell with it’ and crawled back into bed rather than staying up and facing the day. My day started at 5am when our neighbors cat woke us up by serenading us with numerous acts of the kitty opera (the long version) right outside the damn window. I should have just gotten up and stayed up but instead went back to sleep and had bizarre dreams until 735am.. when I woke up without the alarm.

Unfortunately Munchkin’s bus leaves at 750 and its a 5 minute walk.. so that left a very short amount of time to get him dressed, fed, lunch & snack made.. and get myself dressed. I was rushing to put my shoes on and fell down the front steps on my ass. I’m ok.. just a bit sore and glad that it was the INSIDE steps instead of the brick ones outside. We made it to the bus stop just in time.. but I spent the entire walk back listening to my neighbor who is having serious marital issues (as in her husband is a cheating slime-sucker who deserves to be run over by a truck a few times..) all before morning coffee. I got back to the house and went to make said coffee.. and ended up spilling the nearly full pot (all 10 cups of it) all over the kitchen and myself! I suppose that I should be thankful that the coffee was cold, but I don’t really care because it sucked AND it left me without my reserve of very strong coffee to make iced coffees with all day.

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January 13th, 2007

Remember me?

Um.. yeah. Hi.. I’m Mouse, the terrible blogger. I actually finished my first object for 2007 and sent it off to live with my son’s bus driver - and of course.. I’ve misplaced the camera somewhere in this mess of a house and can’t show you what it is. Why? Clearly because I suck. (you, in the back.. shut up.)

I’m basically posting because I realize that I haven’t since sometime last week.. and I don’t want anyone having a party mourning my loss prematurely. I am actually STILL LIVING..  (please stop thinking about how y’all are going to divvy up my stash.. its just rude with me standing here) but I’m trying to get some control over my absolutely hideous house. “How’s that working out for you, Mouse?” Not well.. but thanks for asking folks. I have managed to clean the master bathroom ( I just wrote “bastard bath”.. hmmm.) from top to bottom and spent the entire day on Friday basking in bleach fumes. Unfortunately the rest of the house looks like I had a visit from the Chaos Fairy.. but it IS a start.

Tomorrow is another birthday party for Munchkin’s classmates at Chucky Cheese.. at 10am. Please kill me. The only thing that is making it somewhat tolerable is the fact that the last time we were there they actually had some pretty decent pizza - and that World Market is in the same shopping center. Hopefully I’ll locate the camera under a pile of something tomorrow and get some pictures up here soon. Until then, I’m going to go admire my nice clean bathroom.

October 27th, 2006

Technology continues to hate me..

(8:55am) Pulled this from Bloglines this morning:

Network Outtage

Bloglines will be down on Sunday Oct 29 at 7:00 PM PDT. We will be making changes to our network infrastructure which should take about 2 hours. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to be up and running ASAP.  

-The Bloglines Team

In other words..  We’re not going to allow you to access blogs on your birthday either Mouse, because technology as a whole hates you right now and we’re doing our part to drive you insane. This little “changes to network infrastructure” isn’t going to do a DAMN THING to help the problems you were having with claiming your blog feeds or making sure that all of your feeds actually WORK PROPERLY.. but we wanted an excuse to sit around and drink coffee & eat donuts for about 2 hours.  In short..  “Neener-Neener”. Thanks.

October 26th, 2006

Testing Again

Testing take 2

posted at 4: 28pm

Trying to get the posts to show up in Bloglines since I’ve mucked with all of the feeds and re-routed them to feedburner.  I also fixed the problem with the site not loading up when you come straight to the page.

If anyone who is subbed here happens to be on Bloglines when this post first shows up.. can you record the time and the timezone in the comments for me? thanks. I swear I’m going to have this worked out soon.. or I won’t have any damn hair left from pulling it out in frustration.

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