Happy New Year

[doronjosama]

Last night, we had a lovely time, with noodles (for good fortune) at Pho Cong Ly and then much hanging out with friends. I received a late Xmas present of a Hello Kitty juicer, which I am both delighted and scared by. My kitchen skills are weak... ^_^;

Today, I have learned how to purl. I have almost conquered the stockinette stitch. Is the knitted chunk supposed to curl up or am I doing something horribly wrong? Because it gets all curly at the bottom...

Today I am also working on Genus: Male #5.

Also, I cannot stop eating Best Maid baby dill pickles. They're just too good!

Here's hoping 2006 is better than 2005.

Comments

[cluegirl.livejournal.com]

...You bought a KITTY JUICER???

That's GROSS!

[phil-knall.livejournal.com]

hey now, nothing like a nice glass of kitty juice for breakfast.

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

I didn't buy it, it was a present!

It doesn't juice kitties, although my tubby cats are probably full of delicious juice.... XD

[phil-knall.livejournal.com]

Mine is probably too, but her breath makes me suspect it'd taste like rancid tuna.

[elcucuyfeo.livejournal.com]

And you KISS with that mouth!? 0.0

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

No, I don't, actually! I was never big on kissing.

But those pickles are YUMMY.

[phil-knall.livejournal.com]

I do think it always curls up. At least I've seen that a bunch.

[jmtimages.livejournal.com]

OK, I thought they had run out of products to put the Hello Kitty stamp on, but...a juicer?? o__O;; Next thing you know, they'll put the HK logo on a satellite or rocket booster.... I'm surprised it hasn't been put on an airline yet....

But hope youse guys down there have a great 2006! I've already had one pleasant surprise today, so it's starting well up here. ^_^

[zorichan.livejournal.com]

Hmm... a hello kitty juicer? That's a new one.

Knitting... I had to give that up long ago. All I could ever do is make one long string. I could never figure out how to twist it back around to make it thicker. Ah well ^_-

And yes, here's to 2006 being a much better year!

it's not a bug, it's a feature

[obimom.livejournal.com]

yes, stockinette curls - toward the purl side on the sides,
and toward the knit side at the top and bottom. hence
all those stockinette sweaters with ribbing on the bottom.

do you still have the teletubbie hat i made you? i believe
that had a rolled bottom, due to its being worked in
stockinette.

Re: it's not a bug, it's a feature

[wendini.livejournal.com]

Well, I was going reassure you about the curling thing, but she beat me to it. To avoid curling, knit the first 4 to 6 rows in garter stitch, and knit the first and last 6 to 8 stitches on all rows.
A Hello Kitty juicer. Eeep. I may have to make my hubby get me one. Heh.

Re: it's not a bug, it's a feature

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I was afraid I was screwing up somehow. It took me hours to learn the stitch, so when it started curling up, I was afraid I had somehow learned it a goofy way, or something. ^_^

It takes a little getting used to, but I am getting it. I can still knit way faster than I can purl....

Re: it's not a bug, it's a feature

[obimom.livejournal.com]

hey, I knit faster than i purl. don't sweat it.

Re: it's not a bug, it's a feature

[dork-grrl.livejournal.com]

Hey, not to hijack this post, but upside-down egg sammiches are da bomb. DA BOMB. One o' those made me very very happy one grumpy morning a few days ago. Just thought I'd let you know, you made some random woman in California smile the other day :)

Re: it's not a bug, it's a feature

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

They ARE the bomb! They have been one of my all-time faves since I was old enough to eat solid foods. They are filled with YUM. But soooooo simple.

It pleases me very much that they made your morning better!

Re: it's not a bug, it's a feature

[dork-grrl.livejournal.com]

yes, cheered me considerably. oh, happy new year to you, by the way, if you wer ehere, I'd give you a great big hug. I'll save it for July!

and then there's this

[obimom.livejournal.com]

the Girl Scout variation on the egg sammich theme: Egg in a Frame.

make a hole in the center of a slice of bread. again, white kleenex type preferred.
(either pick it out with your fingers, or cut it out with a biscuit cutter - if the latter,
you can butter & toast both sides of the "hole", too)
melt some butter on cooking surface* and place "frame" in melted butter.
break egg into hole in "frame".
butter the exposed side of the bread.
flip when egg is sufficiently set, to toast other side of bread & cook top of egg.

*traditionally cooked at camp, on a personal cookstove made of an upended
3-lb coffee can, with holes punched around the top & bottom for air, using a
can opener (the triangular kind you used to need for beer cans & still use for
condensed milk), and fired by a burner made of a tuna can filled with a tight
coil of corrugated cardboard which has been saturated with melted paraffin
(as in wax, not the UK paraffin, which is kerosene or something).

i suspect Girl Scouts don't/won't do this sort of thing anymore, due both to
liability issues regarding the melted wax/open flames, and to the fact that
the organization seems, sadly, to have degenerated from its original empowerment
of young women into training them to be bowheads. i had hoped that was a TX
phenomenon, but see much the same thing here in IL. tragic, really. Girl Scouts
did a lot to make me the woman i turned out to be.

Re: and then there's this

[dork-grrl.livejournal.com]

That one I actually learned from my mom-in-law the first time she visitied from Louisiana a few years ago. I doubt she was ever a girl scout, though :)

I'm suddenly thinking about starting a recipe community here on LJ.

Re: and then there's this

[dork-grrl.livejournal.com]

okay. it's happy_tummies

come visit!