man, i feel like i was run over by a truck.. or a bus.. or some other large moving vehicle. remember how i was feeling crappy? well, it hit me like a ton of bricks and tuesday and wednesday i was laid up at home, barely able to move, much less go to work. i ask KP to get a gun and put me out of my misery at least twice but he refused. he’s a good man. as is my usual style whilst sick, i sat on the couch all day and watched movies.

have you seen shall we dance? not that crap jennifer lopez remake but the original japanese one? so very cute. i actually lifted my boycott of subtitled movies (this boycott is in effect only because i can’t knit and read subtitles at the same time.. well, i didn’t think i could but now it seems possible) and popped this in on tuesday. there’s just something about japanese men and women ballroom dancing that is so strange yet endearing that i couldn’t help but laugh and cry at many points in the film. yes, i’m sick but that doesn’t mean i’m overly emotional. i highly recommend it.

then i rewatched anne of green gables for the umpteeth time. this is one of those movies i only watch when sick. i progressed to anne of avonlea on wednesday because i was bored out of my skull and couldn’t think of anything else to watch. i’m eagerly awaiting my next netflix shipment which will contain more prime suspect dvds as i’ve already watched the first in the series and am now hooked. it’s like law and order but in england with a woman protagonist. fantastic.

speaking of TV, my two favorite shows are now back on air. battlestar galactica started back up on friday with new shows in season 2.5. i’m sticking by my assessment that this is the best show on TV because it is. it makes my heart race. it makes me cry. IT SPEAKS TO ME. there is something so poignant and real about it. it’s not scifi. it’s drama of the highest caliber and god do i love apollo. break me off a piece of that! ron moore is continuing his illustrious podcasts so if you want all the cool behind the scenes info you should subscribe to it with itunes.

lost is also back! i watched the entire first season on DVD in december, caught up with the second season online and am now watching it with the rest of civilization. intrigue, mystery, hot hot men (jack, you are so dreamy), a tropical island. this show has something for everyone. i’m happy to say that there’s finally good things to watch on TV that aren’t on HBO anymore.

speaking of HBO, still love it too (i’m biased, i know, but i still love it.) the sopranos is back in march. watch out for it.

ok, enough with the TV talk. during my days of sickness, i was feeling very weak and didn’t knit as much as i thought that i would, but progress has been made on both the somewhat cowl and the embossed leaves socks. i took these pictures during the small amount of daylight we had yesterday before it rained sideways and thunderstormed in the evening. people, it’s JANUARY! it’s also 55 degrees and THUNDERSTORMING. the weather around here has been unreal. i still believe in global warming.

almost done with the top half

tiny stitches

hours after taking these pictures, i managed to get the sleeves onto waste yarn (and i just realized that i have been using waist instead of waste on all the comments and entries thus far. homonyms are a bitch) and knit away at the main body. i have to knit to 13″ before i can join it in the round and try it on. i still have 2″ to go before i make it to that goal.

socks a comin’

here is the first embossed leaves sock right before i picked up the stitches the wrong way, redid it and got through most of the gusset last night. i’m hoping to have it done over the weekend and get started on the second one next week. we’ll see. this has been a tough project to get going on because of the chart. it’s not memorizable and i always have to pay attention so it’s not good mindless knitting like the somewhat cowl is.

anyway, i’m back to normal now and will be hooking up with the spiders tomorrow evening again. i just updated the gallery by reorganizing the crafty section again. i wanted to keep all finished projects in the knits area so i took out all the progress shots and made a different gallery for them. i also moved out any pictures i’ve taken of yarn to the queue gallery (if you see any broken images in my old posts, let me know though i think that i got them all.) i have to update my book blog as i finished xenocide ages ago and read the last otori book and have now started a new book so i now have to write two reviews instead of just one.

oh, and my 30th birthday is only 6 days away. holy crap.