Happy Birthday Adaline!

The Sweet Perfume of Bacon

Last night we went to the Geeks Who Drink pub quiz at Mr. Tramp's (my new fave non-Burnet Rd. spot). We won bacon soap!! Check us out on the internets. Y'all in the NW will remember my passion for bar trivia, but this was the first time I've gone in TX. I was a little rusty, but since I plan to go each and every week, I think I'll get back in the swing soon. 
In all the hustle and bustle of festing and bacon soap winning and stuff, I forgot to mention that October 10 marked the 4th anniversary of the adoption of sweet Lee Chat. Isn't he cute? He looks just the same, only a little bigger. We love you Lee Chat! 

October and kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall but you go on and on

This photo illustrates a few key points: 

• It's cold (60 degrees!) all of a sudden, so I can wear socks and non flip flop shoes
• It's almost Halloween! 
• I can zip up the green pants again (just barely)
  

At least I could zip up the green pants the other day. Today, not so much, because yesterday we went to two count 'em two fests! Accordion Fest  and (the first in a series of, I'm guessing) Oktoberfest.
Look what I wore! That's right, the owl sweater in actual use. (I told you it was cold) I even accidentally-really!-went for the dork double play of owl sweater AND owl bag. Mmmhmm. Of course the events were somewhat documented on the flickr. Hope y'all had a good weekend too.

knitting, rain, soup, love, lee...

Hey look! I finished the back of this! It's actually a dark navy blue, but I guess with the flash you can see the fancy pants cables better. (Oohh! fancy cabled pants....wish I was five again...)

Nothing much happenin' here in the atx. God's been mighty generous with the free car washes lately, so much so that I've been feeling a bit northwesternly (read: depressed). Luckily I have happened upon the cutest boy on the face of the planet and last night he made me soup! He made me soup! Potato and BACON soup! (tears welling up) Then he tolerated my friend's birthday party where there was loud hip hop. (heart growing three sizes).
Yes, I let Lee drink the rest of the milk from my cereal, and yes I photograph him doing it. What's it to ya?

Chairity

Hi y'all. Happy Monday. Things have slowed a bit around here since last week's grand summer finale. It's raining and the temperature has dipped way down into the low 70's. 

Check out the cool chair I got from my sweet love. Time to start on a macrame curtain for that window. 

commentary and dissent recommends

I'm always late to the cool tv shows party with the no cable thing, but in case you've never seen this show, cancel 

your plans and watch it right now. It's great. 

In other entertainment news, I've seen a few good movies

lately. The Stark bday weekend kickoff event was 

Anvil: The Story of Anvil. It was surprisingly touching, but 

still funny. My two other picks are kind of dull and moody, but I liked them. They're both Kelly Reichardt movies: Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy. 

Any of y'all seen a good flick you'd like to share?

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.