JEN In Touch With You Sporadically

Ok, ok, I give up. I tried to be all cool and have a wordpress blog because this one is so so annoying to use, but I couldn't even manage to make the photo upload thing work. Stupid! Stupid! So I'm back on the blogger. Don't worry, Tumblr fans, I'm still putting stuff over there. Like this!

I've been busy this morning learning about pork and the way it touches me. (Gross!) I picked up this informative pamphlet at the TEXAS STATE FAIR Y'ALL! I trust you've already seen the pictures, so you know it was the best weekend ever (to date). I've waited all my four texan years to go to the fair and it was everything (and more) that I'd hoped it would be. Fried stuff, sparkly lights, livestock, crafts...magical. And, to make it even more super fantastic, opening day just happened to be the birthday of the greatest man of all time. Perfect. More gushing about how my weekend was so much better than yours: After the fair, we went to visit the Starks in Denton. Home videos from the 80's were watched. I love the Starks, and I'm not just saying that because I know Mom Stark is reading this. It was a wonderful visit, and I even got a little present- tiny working scissors (clapping) and a cool plastic ring for my collection. 

Sunday we went to a Rangers game (sorry, Erick) and while my love for baseball is minimal, it was a beautiful day and the hotdogs were yummy.

So now I'm back to my workaday life, which let's face it involves very little work. Yesterday I bought some buttons for this sweater that I'm working on. I like them because they look like smashed up play doh, but I don't like them because they looked like smashed up play doh. We'll see. Yes, I have about 1000 buttons already, but I needed five of the same kind. 
Check it! I actually finished the owl sweater. Maybe I'll take a picture of myself on the one day in December when I'll wear it. I think I'm opting to do it without the button eyes, mostly because I'm too lazy to sew them on. 

I've become a little knitting obsessed lately, since I finished that giant ass book. No, it wasn't worth my time. Not that any of y'all would be rushing out to read it anyway. Besides, everyone knows that everything you need to know can be learned from a three and a half minute country song.
Look at this cool bag my mom sent. I love it so much I even called her to say thank you! Thanks mom! 
Yes, this is queso in the cup holder of my car, and yes my car is filthy (y'all know me!). I bet y'all in the NW don't have queso in the cup holders of your car. I heart Texas.

i'll tumble 4 ya

hey y'all. think i've decided to switch to the tumblr. so far, it was a billion zillion times less annoying to use than this. we'll see. thanks for following me, one or two readers! reset y'all's bookmarks!

Reading is FUNdamental

A dear old friend tells me "reading all that white lettering with a black background makes my eyes all stingy and blurry." I've got two things to say to this dear, old friend : 1. You're right. Is this better? 2. It's nice to know marriage hasn't changed you a bit. 

On we go. 

I'm doing a gimmicky summer reading thing. I know, but post "4/21" and everything...y'all cut me some slack. But this book is so huge! And yes, I did try (and fail) to read it before. 

I looked all over for a used one, but no luck. Apparently even people who shop at the half price books way way up by the fry's are doing this too. So I went ahead and got a new one (yikes!) along with a g.d. peppermint mocha cause I was at the B&N. (Slow headshaking) Check out who wrote the forward! (This is the 10th anniversary ed.) That's right, it's Dave, the only one of my imaginary boyfriends that I pretended to marry. At the very least those five pages are worth the $17. Right? Right?!

Why yes I have gone to the movies since my last post. Today, in fact. Adaline and I went to the Hannah Montana movie. All I'll say is there was a ferret. Adaline, however, seems to think it was the best experience of her young life. The best part was that it was 10:30 in the morning and we were the only ones in the theater. I love that. 

No, I have no idea why the font just randomly changed. I have really grown to hate this blogger thing and yesterday spent a huge amount of time looking at tumblr layouts. I think I'll switch. Good news for y'all, tumblr lets you post songs. Watch out!

Monday in the garden of dirt and weeds

So yeah I've been giving in and letting the cats play outdoors. Hopefully Notlee can protect Lee from any of the backyard perils he could face: birds, dogs, creepy mutant insects...Speaking of birds, I'm still amazed at the number of bird species I can see right here in my lil' old duplex yard. Fans of the olde tyme excruciating minutiae will remember how enamored I was with the birds when I first moved here. It's still pretty exciting for me to see "exotic" birds like bluejays and cardinals in my very own yard. (Dork!)

It's been a while since I've posted anything, I hope you've found other things to do in the meantime. If I made a pie graph of my recent activities I think the biggest slice would go to watching movies. I'm finally free from the scorn of my sis because now I've seen Casablanca. It was part of the Paramount Summer Film Series. Check out the schedule of super fantastic movies! Y'all should come down here and go to some of them with us. We also went to Scarface at the Alamo Ritz and Terminator at the regular Alamo by my house. I have no idea if anything actually happened in the Terminator movie, but lots of shit blew up and that's why I went. Plus there's nothing wrong with jalapeno poppers and beer. And a side of pizza. 

Saturday evening we went to Walberg. After coming to terms with the fact that this trip had nothing to do with Marky Mark,  (it's not even spelled the same, silly!) I had a wonderful time. It meant a lot to me to get in touch with my German heritage.  Plus there was a Pollyanna style brass band. Beautiful. 

Scenes from my room

The cats and I decided to be brainy and watch Scenes from a Marriage the other night, but we all fell asleep.
It wasn't too bad of a movie, but it's in swedish and the reading was more than we could handle. Yes they did drive some badass volvos. And I loved how everything had a slightly washed out 70's look. I think they get divorced. 
Hey look! a tiny part of one sleeve. I made this much progress today while I watched The Released on Frontline. I love Frontline and I haven't watched it in ages. Good thing there are plenty of episodes to get me through the other sleeve. 

How was y'all's weekend? Mine was just fine despite a lack of crazy fun road trips. We had a lovely little staycation with John's parents. They are really sweet but I'm not surprised. Sunday we saw Star Trek and it was actually entertaining. I know! Did you know there's a new Woody Allen movie with Larry David ? Please don't let it suck...please don't let it suck....please don't let it suck...

Lazy Saturday

It is this kind of day. It's 3:30 and I just got out of the shower. I guess I'm not too lazy, because I did "work" this morning so I've been up since 7:00. It just took me till now to get motivated enough to shower. That's about where the motivation stops because then I put on my owl long john jammies.
You can see I'm getting ready to ball up the other hank of yarn so I can start the sleeves. I've got Love Story ready and I was going to eat the rest of my junior mints but I never learn that if you don't eat all of your junior mints in one sitting, you get this:
Oh well, luckily I have some texas taster crackers to get me through. Yes of course they're jalapeno cheese flavored. Most things here are. 

Mmmm...

I love giant fuji apples. Someone I know says apples are his least favorite fruit, but I think that's because he's never had one of these delicious giant fujis. Funny how the least delicious apple is called "red delicious". A cruel joke. I bet the apple Eve ate was a fuji. I mean I would bet that if I believed in that shit. 

It's already Friday? This week went by really fast but it was kind of melancholy. There was some sad news, it's been humid and yucky, I'm back to working this weekend...Ew, sorry for the whining. 

This morning I wasted a good deal of time watching the Grey's Anatomy season finale. It was even more craptacular than I could have imagined. Melodrama city. I am ashamed of how much I enjoyed it. On the plus side, I did finish the body portion of the owl sweater while I watched. Now it's on to sleeves, the most boring thing to knit ever. Better bust out the Love Story. Speaking of love, I have to apologize to my love Leechat for neglecting to mention that this past Sunday was his birthday. Or at least what I vaguely estimate to be somewhere near his birthday. He's 4! Happy Birthday Leechat. Isn't he the cutest thing?