Michelle’s House of Horror

This would perhaps indicate that I need to get everything out of there and block up any holes where it/they might be entering, and generally clean up, don’t you think?

I did go on a cleaning tear in the kitchen, and rearranged the stuff in the cabinets…but….well…I just can’t bring myself to get under the sink! Not because I’m really scared of mice. I think they’re kind of cute, actually. I can’t bear the idea of one just popping out at me while I’m cleaning up. If someone came over and said “look at my new pet mouse. Do you want to hold him?” I would say “ohhh what a cute little mousie–yes I want to hold him!”

I am totally lame.

Not as lame, however, as the stupid cat. I am going to stop feeding him and see if that motivates him to do some serious mousing. (Not really)

But seriously–all we ask in return for his food dish being full is that we not have a house full of rodents. Perhaps we need to make him pay for play kitty since he doesn’t seem to be taking his cat-ular obligations as seriously as we might have hoped.

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These were all knit over the last month, and I have another pair on the needles. Seems like if I disliked it, I would not keep casting on additional pairs.

Although I don’t really enjoy knitting socks, I do belong to a sock club. The reason I belong to a sock club (the Blue Moon Fiber Arts sock club to be precise) is because I love the Blue Moon yarns and fiber more than I don’t love to knit socks. (Interesting grammatical choices in that sentence….)

The first months yarn kit, in a very nice color called “Monsoon” was immediately knit into…a scarf. Not a sock, although the sock pattern did look interesting. A reverse ribbed cable. Here’s how the scarf turned out:
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For the second months kit, we received a very pretty yarn called Silkie in a color called “Walk on the Wild Tide” and a pattern called Knee High to a Grasshopper. Also very pretty. The pattern had a couple of issues for me–it made my hands hurt to knit it, and when I finished a slightly altered version of the sock it made my ankles look fat. Cardinal sin.
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So….I ripped out a whole sock, which I had not enjoyed knitting, and knit some plain socks with the yarn. Did I mention that the yarn is really lovely and soft and contains silk? These were much more enjoyable. For those of you who care about such things, they’re toe up on two circs two at a time in plain stockinette with about 2 inches of k1p1 ribbing at the top:
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The June sock kit is a gorgeous color called Firebird. I am going to try socks again, but have not yet decided if I will use the sock club pattern. Probably not, as I have cast on and started to knit stockinette toes.
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Although one tends to think of the Onion as a source of humor, sometimes their parodies strike a little to close to the truth to be strictly funny. This “story” from April 2003 called “I Should Not Be Allowed To Say The Following Things About America” is an excellent example. It could also be entitled “Things the Current Administration Actually Believe Americans Should Not Be Allowed to Say.”

I Should Not Be Allowed To Say The Following Things About America

As Americans, we have a right to question our government and its actions. However, while there is a time to criticize, there is also a time to follow in complacent silence. And that time is now.

Found on a box of foot cream:

I had only one question: what in the HELL is spermwax??
Answer: according to the Straightforward Guide to Food Additives, it is “A white, waxy substance consisting mainly of esters of FATTY ACIDS, particularly PALMITIC ACID, obtained from the head of the sperm whale.”

Ew. Just ew.