Stranger Than Fiction

I just got finished watching one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. The movie is about a man named Harold Crick. He is an accountant and totally trapped in his own life. He always does the same thing day after day. Nothing changes for him until one day as he is walking to the bus stop, he hears a voice. This voice is narrating his life. He thinks he's crazy at first but then he realizes that the voice is telling him what is happening while it is happening, so he can't be crazy. He talks to a psychiatrist and she sends him to a literary professor. He doesn't believe him until he says this quote from the voice, "Little did he know....". The story goes on from there of Harold and the professor trying to figure out who the author might be. One day while in the professors office, Harold hears the voice on T.V. Immediately, he runs and finds the author, to tell her not to kill him. I wont tell you anymore because you need to see this movie.

This movie isn't just a comedy. It is about life and living our lives. We all live and we all die. It is what you do in between that matters. Do you want to make a difference in this world? How will you go about doing it? Will you just walk through life never touching another's, or will you go beyond your comfort zone? This movie is awesome. It is poetical. It is cinematicly beautiful. See this movie. It will touch your heart on so many different levels.

It's Official I am a Hufflepuff!

This happens to be the house I really would want to be in if this was a real school!

The sorting hat says that I belong in Hufflepuff!

Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, and treat them just the same."

Hufflepuff students are friendly, fair-minded, modest, and hard-working. A well-known member was Cedric Digory, who represented Hogwarts in the most recent Triwizard Tournament.

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Knitting Obsession

I have had other hobbies before.... beading, macrame, quilting, crochet .... and not one of them has hit me like knitting has. For years, I sewed my own clothes. I even designed a few outfits myself but I had to give it up because of babies. Those baby things take up a lot of time, you know? You can't really say, " Hey, you there, Baby, I just need to sew this one last seam then I can change your diaper, so you can stop crying now." No, you can't. You have to stop what you are doing before you get to that seam and if you are caught in the middle than be careful not to pull it out from under the sewing needle. I just pretty much have to give up my hobbies whenever I had a baby. They just weren't portable enough.

Now, knitting is something that is super portable and stopable in the middle. You can be in the middle of a row, stop what you are doing stick your needle stops on the end and do whatever the baby wants or needs at the moment. You can sneak in a couple of stitches while waiting in line at the store. You can sneak in a couple of stitches anywhere, really. As long as you remember the yarn is on the right needle then you wont ever make the mistake of going the wrong way.

Another thing I like about knitting, is the design element of it. I love thinking up designs. I see a shirt in a store and take the bits I love about it and replace the bits I hate about it and viola I have my own design. I see so many designs in my head of sweaters I want to knit and they are all my own. I found EZ's Knitting without Tears and she has made making my own designed sweaters a dream come true. I can now make a sweater with my own gauge and design. No longer do I have to follow a pattern that I can't seem to get gauge on. Just make my own gauge swatch, do a little math and I can make it my own.


I looooooooooooooooooooooooooove knitting.

Zoo Adventures

Saturday, September 29, 2007 promised to be a great day to be out and about. My hubby, youngest son and I decided to take a trip to the D.C. Zoo. We hadn't been yet this year because the spring was just so cold and you don't go to D.C. in the summer (too many tourists). We got our snacks and everything ready and off we went. We wanted to ride the Metro into the city because the last time we tried to find a parking space it took 2 hours (yeah lets not talk about that one), plus Liam loves riding "the choo-choo train" to the zoo. Everything was great until we got to the Main station to hop on the red line. There were a lot of people hanging around and I was like wow lots of people here is unsual for a Sat morning. My hubby said one of the tracks wasn't working and red is the main line. This didn't really click in my head at first. 45 minutes later of waiting for a train to come that was going the direction we wanted to go I was like great we are FINALLY out of here..... Soooo wrong. The train that was finally going our way started smoking so they closed the whole thing down. When I heard this I said lets get out of here... Well shouted... and ran up the nearest escalader. When I got to the top I turned around to see where my hubby and Liam where and I saw this....

I have never seen so many people standing in the metro at once. It was incredible. Next we decided to hop on a bus. We were totally confused as to which one to take but finally, after asking a bus driver, and a patron standing next to us, we got a vague sense of which one to get on. After a nice tour of D.C. we got off the bus and stood waiting for another that would take us close to the zoo. And we waited.... and waited.... oh and waited some more. After 30 minutes of waiting we took off walking. It was a mere 10 city blocks to the zoo. Well we didn't think mere really we actually thought the bus would come along and pick us up so we wouldn't have to walk to whole way. Well 2 blocks from the zoo we finally saw an L bus. but it was already too late we were past the last stop.

We arrived at the zoo 3 hours after getting to the city (snicker) and were so tired from our ordeal that we had to sit for a while before we could even see anything..... but oh the sights we saw. Best day at the zoo ever I would say.......