V...They're Coming

The original 1980s science fiction television series started out with a 200 minute mini series and a sequel about aliens known as Visitors, who came to Earth with an agenda. They offered to share their advanced technology in exchange for minerals and chemicals needed for their world. A photojournalist boards one of their ships and discovers that the Visitors are really reptiles disguised as humanoids who eat rodents and birds. He takes pictures of them secretly and plans to expose them to the world.

Can I tell you how riveted to the television I was, watching this show?

And guess what?...They remade it and the series starts tonight.

MK out.

Barbie Isn't the Only One...

...turning 50 this year!

I have half of my Birthday Season left to go! The first part was spent on our trip. The actual day (October 3rd) was spent in Seattle.

I usually get myself something special for my birthday. It is usually something indulgent. This year is no exception, and it's a biggie. It may appear to be quite practical to some, and it is I suppose, but since 1. it is clutter-free and 2. it will free up lots of my time to do things that are way more fun, it is quite indulgent to me.

Stay tuned for the big reveal...

MK out.

It's Movie Season

It's that time of year again...I am a little behind since I was on a long trip, but I hope to catch up in the coming weeks.

I have seen a few flicks, though:

In The Life Before Her Eyes, Evan Rachel Wood and Eva Amurri play two best friends who are involved in a school shooting. Uma Thurman plays the grown guilt-ridden survivor. The movie is very good, and well done. At a certain point, things seem to go a little awry, but there's a major twist at the end that puts it all in place. I really liked it.

The Counterfeiters is another WWII/Nazi movie...I seem to gravitate towards WWII/Nazi movies, don't I? In this one, Jewish prisoners are recruited to produce counterfeit money to fund the war effort and to destabilize the economies of the allied powers. It was good.

Darfur Now is a documentary about the genocide that the Sudanese government refuses to acknowledge. It is sad but relevant subject matter.

Nia Vardalos and Richard Dreyfuss star in My Life in Ruins. It is a total fluff piece about a woman who follows a man to Greece. He dumps her, and she is stuck in a foreign country trying to make her way. She ends up working as a tour guide, while applying for university teaching jobs. She's lost her passion, until she meets an unlikely match. It was okay.

Remember how warm and nurturing Hogwarts was in the first Harry Potter movie? In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hogwarts is darker and more mysterious. The Dark Lord is a looming threat and even Hogwarts cannot protect Harry. The book was quite more involved, but I think it was adapted well to the big screen. I loved it.

I better get busy now...

MK out.

Whip It Good!

I am highly recommending that you see Whip It with Ellen Page, Juliette Lewis and Drew Barrymore - who also directed the movie. Page plays Bliss Cavendar. Marcia Gay Harden plays her mother, a former beauty queen, who wants her daughter to succeed in that arena. Bliss finds that her heart belongs to a different arena. She lies about her age and tries out for a roller-derby team and makes it. Well...you know momma won't like that! Shauna Cross, who wrote the script, used to be a roller-derby star. It was a really good movie. See it...See it now!

MK out...but will return with more.

Yarn Saves the Day!

Been gone awhile, People. We went on a trip. As we were driving from Washington to Colorado, a trucker stopped us to let us know that the trim over the front left tire was flapping in the wind.


The Husby was panicked. Of course, it could have been that way the whole trip, and we were two weeks in at that point. He needed some nylon string to tie it up and try to keep it together until we got home. We weren't exactly in a shopping mecca at that point.


I continued working on a tank top that I am making myself out of Berroco Suede, and it hit me....The yarn is 100% nylon! I offered it up to The Husby. At first, he thought I was crazy - Yarn? Seriously? I reminded him we didn't know where the nearest establishment that might have nylon string was, and that the yarn could possibly hold it until we found such place...


So, he used it. Later that day, we found an Ace Hardware store and he bought some nylon string and tied up his RV, but he left the yarn on too.


This picture was taken a week later, after many hundreds of miles more, and besides being dirty, the nylon yarn is still holding strong.


MK out.

Sock Summit Loot - After the Event

After Sock Summit, I got home and thought about all the neat things that I saw. There were only two things that I figured I could not live without.

First, I tried on some Dansko's that I liked, but they didn't have my size in black. I searched the web and found some in stock and ordered a pair. I am looking forward to knitting up some pretty socks to show off in these pretty shoes.

Secondly, I really wanted some BMFA Socks that Rock in the Sock Summit themed colorway, Sockgate. I went to the website and saw that it, along with ST-1 and ST-2 were listed and in stock; so, I added all three to my shopping cart. Then, I checked out the Knitters Without Borders colorway that I have long admired. They did not bring that one to the show, but I feel that 1. it's pretty and 2. I support the cause; so, badda-bing! A skein was added to my shopping cart as well.

From left to right - Sockgate, ST-2, ST-1 and Knitters Without Borders.

That's all folks!

MK out.

Sock Summit Loot - At the Event Part 2

I had to buy a skein of Skinnamarink that Amy dyed for the Sock Summit Dye for Glory contest. She got honorable mention in the Watercolors category. Go Amy! I also bought a tape measure from the Loopy Ewe.



All in all, I think anyone would agree that I didn't do too much damage to the wallet.



Until...



MK out.