What?!?

This is crazy. Cool, but crazy.

The bright side?

I have nothing good to write about today.

You know those lists that say things like, "I am grateful for piles of laundry to do, because it means my family has clothes to wear" and "I am grateful to clean up dishes and a cluttered kitchen because it means I fed a house full of friends" and stuff like that? I usually can talk myself into thinking that way, most of the time. But right now I'm trying to see the bright side of not being able to see the top of my desk. And I just can't see figure out how to be grateful for a headache and sore throat.

So instead of me complaining, please enjoy:



This always cracks me up.

Here, not here

Dear friends,

I don't feel like blogging today. We got back early Monday morning and I haven't felt like blogging all week, but I wanted you to know that we weren't mugged and left for dead in NYC. In fact, we had a fantastic time, but I just don't feel like writing.

I'm good, everyone is good here at the Kilburns' home. I'll have pics and stories again soon. In the meantime, please to enjoy:

Mothers' Day

This has been on for the last two weeks, and I still cry every time I see it.



Happy Mothers' Day, all.

I miss Smack The Pony

Dear Rachel,

Did you ever watch this show when it was on Bravo? I wish they'd show it again.




One of the best British imports ever.

Love,

Kim

More Sesame Street clips

Dear Rachel,

Are you tired of these yet?

Two little girls

On the subway

Me, neither.

Love,

Kim

I'm just tired and bored with myself

(with apologies to Bruce Springsteen)

but I am. I haven't posted in forever, and basically, it's because I feel so boring. I feel like I'm not doing anything these days, which is strange because December is the month I'm usually the busiest. Rose has had a cold, a much worse one than usual (although no fever, thank goodness). She's just been miserable and we haven't left the house for two days. Maybe that's my problem -- I need some fresh air. You'd think this would leave me plenty of time for knitting, with no outings, but I just... I just don't feel like knitting.

*sigh*

But I found this earlier this morning, and thought you'd like it, too.





Love,

Kim

Links

Dear Rachel,

How about some random links today?

I love the third photo in this blog entry... it's her sock yarn stash. I'm drooling.

This clip was on Sesame Street this morning.

This color for your peanut's blanket? Or this?

I LOVE this colorway.

This is Ms. Knitingale's first post about the exchange I want to do. More details follow in later posts. By the way... you may be interested in her entry for yesterday (10/11), for reasons you will discover.

Let's see, what else?

I did what you suggested and put the live stitches of the body of the green ribbed sweater on some waste yarn so I could try the length. I decided to add another inch and a half. It probably would work at its current length, but I wanted a bit more insurance that I could reach up and not have the belly button show. It won't take much longer. And the second sleeve is already almost 5 inches long. Hooray!

I really hope I'm not to worn out to come see you Saturday. I want to do some show and tell, and get the lace pattern to you, now that you have the yarn, and see all your new loot! And we can go have yummy dinner and blab! I will let you know for sure soon.

Love,

Kim

I almost forgot...

Here's my next contribution to our growing YouTube addiction: Rhyming.

Love,

Kim

Kim circa 1986

Dear Rachel,

Remember our conversation about fashions we wore as teenagers? How we were the height of cool with our two pairs of socks stacked and scrunched around the outside of our tapered, pegged jeans? Okay, check out the following number:

This was Spring of 1986. Check out where the armpit of this dress is! Dude, and do you love the white nylons (with black pumps)? I wore this for my Confirmation, and I thought I was so cool and sophisticated.

I posted Rose's aran sweater to my Finished Projects and realized, to my shock, that I have no more finished projects to post. I finished that sweater in February and it is now September, and I have finished nothing else in the past seven months! Now, I did have that wrist issue, and I was a little hesitant to get back in the groove even after I had the cortizone shot, but still -- seven months? Yikes.

However, the log cabin continues apace, and I've really hit my stride with the Cozy, so I hope that before long I'll have something else to show you. I'm really sorry we didn't get our Show and Tell on Saturday.

As far as the Sesame Street videos go, there are way too many for me to list my favorites, but this one would be way up there: Imagination. And, Rachel? "Cat... I'm a kitty cat... and I dance, dance, dance, and I dance, dance, dance..." tee hee hee

Love,

Kim

Videos (non-knitting)

Dear Rachel,

As I write this, I can hear Rose on the monitor reciting "Brown Bear." It sounds exactly like this: "Bahm beh, bahm beh, hah hah haaah? Ah see reh bir hah hah haaah. Reh bir, reh bir, hah hah haaah? Ah see lellow guck hah hah haaah. Lellow guck, lellow guck..." You get the idea. I'll have to go up and give her some milk and a book in a few minutes, so here are the videos I promised.

This is what got me started, a little trip down memory lane: Twenty

Then a bit of bizarre music mixing: The Simpsons vs Star Trek

Are you still with me? Okay, this apparently has something to do with pasta sauce: Tarako

And finally, this is the one you have to see, even if you didn't watch the others: I'm a kitty cat

Love,

Kim