Stretched Thin

    I haven't been as on my game as I would like to have been.  I have indeed been crocheting a lot and now that I'm taking a breather and trying to remain calm ...

(source:  PosterPop on Etsy)

I'm going to make an attempt at a real blog update!  For the past few weeks I've been attempting to make this faux grass rug for a friend of mine and its done nothing but make me want to pull the hair out of my head.  I've always been a hands on / tutorial kinda girl, reading patterns or diagrams frustrates me and I hit boiling point at ridiculous speed.  So consulting with friends and looking up random tutorials online, it seemed 99% positive and that everything was being done right and that there was no need for me to worry, only I couldn't stop.  After starting multiple other projects to calm myself and take my mind off of the rug from hell (its not actually that bad, but I get worked up), I finally sat down a few nights ago and tweaked the pattern to make it my own and FINALLY have complete faith in it and that it will stay together (which was my fear, that it'd unravel as soon as he walked on it).  I give you a sneak preview of the Grass rug:

I've also taken up making granny squares to use up all my bits of random yarn.  May just make a pile of them or some day decide to make an actual afghan or something of that nature.  Lets not get started on my new MLB obsession and/or the fact that I cannot stop buying Giants colors.  Just observe.

reggief on etsy

xxo

I just cursed at my yarn..

(via natalie dee)

    This was me about 20 minutes ago and it resulted in my pulling the guts out of my yarn and having a HUGE knot to unravel.  Now, yarn spread neatly across my desk, 7 & 7 in my glass and my work it out mix playing, I am ready to conquer this project.  Within a couple weeks I hope that some peoples I know are digging their toes into a plush rug of faux-grass!


xxo

Godily-bob-howdy!

    I have a hard time sticking to doing just ONE thing at a time, and when it comes to being on the computer 75% of the time I'll want to have a movie going.  My problem with that is:  I can never decide!

• I want to watch whats on my Netflix queue
• Too many foreign flix that I can't get around to, because I'll be occupied with editing photos, crocheting, blogging, something.  
• When I pick a documentary, I want to actually watch and pay attention
• Sometimes I want to see whats new in theaters & I'll see if I can find it, therefor I hunt

Its just a pain because, if I haven't seen it, I want to give it a fair amount of attention and if I have seen it, that must mean I liked enough to want to watch it again therefore I get sucked into at least 3/4 of the film.  SO, a couple years ago in my search of a random movie to watch I found this gem of a site, Listen To A Movie.  I swear to you, this is a godsend for an indecisive person like myself.  You have a decent amount of flix to pick from and when you pick one, a little player pops up.
    Right now I happen to be listening to Toy Story (along with quoting most of it) and working on a beanie, all the while I am NOT being distracted by watching anything.  I simply picked a favorite movie and the audio is entertaining me, alas I am a happy camper.

    That'll be all for now,  I actually may listen to Big Fish and crawl in bed shortly.  If I keep Toy Story on, I'll just lay in bed quoting the whole thing when I could be drifting off into slumber thinking of young Edward Bloom :)

I was thinking about death and all. About seeing how you’re gonna die. I mean, on one hand, if dying was all you thought about, it could kind of screw you up. But it could kind of help you, couldn’t it? Because you’d know that everything else you can survive.

-edward bloom 

xxo

March 2011 'Resolution'

1. I will work out for an hour a day
2. I will devote an hour to blog
3. I will go through 1 skein of yarn

That is all.

xxo

My lack of updating. Gah!!!

    This has sucked greatly. I've been jam-packed with stuff and orders the past couple weeks & had 2 weekends of Fisher sibling fun, therefore no internet access.  I've got a busy couple days in front of me as well, and a clusterfuck of ideas in my head to go with the 8 skeins of yarn I purchased on Monday.  PLUS, I need to take photos of about 6 new things for etsy.

    I seriously need 3 more hands, 2 for crocheting/knitting & 1 to consistently feed me coffee and/or RedBulls.

    On a not-so-new note, I'm (still) obsessing on some Mike Patton right now.  Cannot stop listening to Faith No More and Mondo Cane.  But to keep from going on and on I'd like to share St. Vincent:  Ride.  Random bit that popped up on my neighborhood plays and I love it, quite possibly my favorite out of all the songs I've heard by St. Vincent.  Trying to research at 2 am isn't proving successful but  the link isn't by the female St. Vincent (Annie Clark), its by one of the others who I cannot find right now.  If my life depended on this, I would die by 2:16.  Due to my extensive library of useless knowledge though, I can tell you that she was born 1 day after Lil Wayne, making her exactly 4 months older than me.  

    I'm going to crawl my old lazy ass into bed to refresh & sleep.  Here is my sleep music:

then hopefully tomorrow I can seriously get around to blogging a bit more and not just say that I will.

xxo

My Life.

You Blockhead!!!

    So today was quite the long day.

    I got about 4 or 5hrs of sleep, up and showered and half dressed by noon.  Then I headed over to Brittaney's to take beanie pictures, I actually accomplished one of my "goals" for the day:

    Finished another beanie, so possibly maybe, take a couple more pictures tomorrow.  We'll see.

    Hmm, what else.  I went over to Brandons and we headed out to have dinner. I  ordered a margarita on the rocks, which I guess they took as "give me tequila and 2 cubes of ice, with a dash of salt. Thanks" because thats exactly what I got.

    After, we grabbed coffee and headed back home to watch The Mentalist & work on magic and beanies.

(side note: watch The Mentalist. you won't regret it. and the fact that Simon Baker is a bit foxy doesn't hurt...)

    Anyhow, Brandon's doing his thing, and I'm working on another beanie as I watch the show - and I get incredibly into whats going on and zone out.  Next thing I knew, I snapped back into reality and realized I had a crochet needle (size G) in my nose.  I turn around to Brandon and say "Holy crap, check this out!!!" I gauge down on the needle, to an E I believe, and ta-da I'm a blockhead.  Needless to say I'm pretty jazzed on my random new talent, which I say like that because at the moment I'm only sticking a random crochet needle in my nose, I've not yet "mastered" lol.

(PS: Crochet needle that I don't use to make the beanies I sell, just saying!)

    I'll say that this guy is my subconscious inspiration:

(via  http://www.flickr.com/people/docjen)

    Also had discussions of going to Disneyland next month with a big group of friends, and if Derek can get it worked out, we'll be seeing Converge & Mastadon the night before Disneyland.  THEN after DLand, going to The Magic Castle.  If this weekend all works out just right - I can easily say it will be one of the better weekends of the past couple years.  Fingers crossed!

    As for now, I sleep.  Hmmph, look at that.. it's not even 4am yet.
♥reggie