…since I only work 3 days this week! So tomorrow is actually Friday…
Valerie is having a contest to celebrate her one year knitting anniversary. If you leave her a comment before midnight, Sunday, November 26, about how you came to be knitting or about the person who taught you to knit, you could win a skein of Fleece Artist sock yarn.
Don’t forget that you have until 7 pm CST, Wednesday, November 22, to leave some words of wisdom for me as I embark on a new decade of my life! (This would be a real-time deadline, not a Chris interpretive time deadline…)
Reading Update
Smoke and Shadows, Smoke and Mirrors, and Smoke and Ashes by Tanya Huff. These three books take up where the Blood series left off, sort of… Wizardry, vampires, and other things that go bump in the night, but in Vancouver instead of Toronto. In one of my favorite bits, the main character muses how peculiarly Canadian it was that he was taking public transportation on his way to save the world…
The Dead Cat Bounce by Sarah Graves. I think this is the first book from the Home Repair is Homicide mystery series… Having read the series utterly out of order, it was interesting to go back to this one and see how things began.
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison. This is the first book in a mystery series featuring Cincinnati witch Rachel Morgan, her roommate (the “living” vampire Ivy), a family of pixies, and more… I already have the rest of the books on hold at the library!
Knitting Update
I’m in the midst of the gusset increases on my second black and hot pink stripey sock. The first sock is done to just above the heel and I’m knitting the second sock from the other end of the ball. Why, you might ask? Well, I apparently had some sort of mathematical meltdown when I was winding off yarn to dye and let’s just say that it’s going to be very exciting to see how tall these end up. I’m hoping for short ankle socks at this point!
Feline Update
Chaos has been, well, chaotic lately. More on that tomorrow. Here he was in an unguarded moment last night:
Mayhem could not be reached for comment, since she was hiding.
I love when they hide like that.
“Invisible jungle kitten” is very cute.. I mean.. I think she’s cute.. since she’s so skillfully hidden.. and all.
Hooray for 3 day work weeks. The only thing better is 0 day work weeks and that’s what I’ve got because I’m on VAY-CAY-SHUN.
Don’t need to be reminded that the kids also have a 3 day week! Seems like every week has been that way lately.
Thank you! Your cats are so cute! And you come up with the best captions, I could never be that clever!
Every day is a Saturday when you don’t really work at all!! Happy Thanksgiving to you and the kitties!
Whoo hooo! I love Wednesday Fridays!!
hey kitties!!
Hee hee…yup, I don’t have a car, and don’t need one with the public transportation we have! Not that I’d be saving the world or anything like that…
Chaos – Atticus has always gone whacko with the moon phases. What’s up with you?!
lol ahhh jungle kitten you hide so well 🙂
Have a good Thanksgiving!
You lucky thing. I’m meant to be on a four day week this week but as it is it might be a no day week!!
I just love this week, it’s my favorite work week by far every year. Yeah for the Friday/Wednesday. If only it was today.
I love three day weeks followed by four day weekends . . . but it always makes the five day week following SO hard! (grin)
My husband and kids all have 3 day week, this is the first year I’m not working on Thanksgiving night, so it will be a special Thanksgiving for us.
Today is my Friday!! Have a great turkey day.
I love your mirror shots – had to look twice though now that you have TWO black kitties 😉 Fingers crossed for your mathematical somersaults in the sock yarn department!
Yay for short work weeks! Hope you have a great Thanksgiving. 🙂
LOL — what would have made it REALLY Canadian is if, while on route to save the world via public transportation, he spent the entire time apologizing for it. 😉
So happy for the short week. Hurray!
What fun – love the kitty shots…and can’t wait to see more of Chaos…he’s been sorely missed!
I’m surprised he didn’t sneak up on May in that moment of jungle kitten-ness and pounce her! That was a prime opportunity, Chaos!
(((hugs)))
I love how she’s hiding. Miss Lulu does that, too. She sticks her head under the bed, but her butt sticks out, and she think she’s hiding.
Meditative Trance doesn’t roll off the tongue the way Chaos does though.
So cute when they hide like that! Nice try, Mayhem.
When my dearly departed Aggie was a kitten, she would crawl up into the bed slats. When she got too big to do that, she would go under the bed, then stick her head up in the slats, making herself “invisible.”
Happy Thanksgiving!
Yay for three day weeks! Hope your socks make it to at least ankle length.
Stumbling over Meditative Trance just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Besides he’s got to live up to his name. 😉 I think it’s the kitty crazy season anyway.
Glad that you got so many goodies for your b-day. you totally deserve them.
and thanks for the book ideas. I am in a book-conundrum right this moment, so I shall head over to the library and see if they have any of these. thanks.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Heehee! Meditative Trance!
“Chris Interpretive Time”? Tee hee!
So did Chaos take off like a rocket right after his picture was taken or did he continue to say “Om”?