your heart is ripshit

okayyyyyy so knitting group didn't happen last night. the girl who is always there posted on ravelry that she wasn't coming, so we opted not to go because last time it was just that girl and one other girl, and the other girl did not seem to find us as delightful as we find ourselves. haha. so we went to the regular green line by ourselves and drank a billion iced coffees and knitted.

i hope my uh, "thing" with iced coffee clears up soon because i've been on a medical cornholio watch for like 2 weeks because i keep drinking 230293 of them.



we had a pretty good time as usual. there were two other cute girls there and i talked to one about my glasses and gave her the name of the ebay seller who makes my frames/the place i get my prescription put in them:


i bought both pairs... and a pair in solid black

and it was like the perfect moment for us to make a friend move and i choked ! usually in situations like that i'm like HI I'M ROXY DO YOU GUYS WANT TO BE FRIENDS (#@@)(#$)( and for some reason i didn't say anything... even though i wrote one girl a note with the ebay stuff, and told her that we would, ahem, be twins forever.

mouse met up with us after that and we had a good time with him, mostly because he had low blood sugar and was being really funny. his exciting news of the day is that he bought a yoga mat that used to belong to someone we know at the thrift store (don't worry, after going to jiu jitsu class with college dudes he is really careful about disinfecting stuff !).

on our way home we saw a beautiful fluffy tortie who we see all the time. it's like, the cutest most beautiful cat i've ever met and she makes pizza look like creamed crap and i can't believe her irresponsible owners let her outside? like not only for all the reasons no one should EVER EVER EVER let a cat outside (no exceptions, don't care if you had an outdoor cat who lived 17 years because for every cat that lives 17 years there's about 500 that get stuck/lost/killed by a car/killed by an animal/killed by a person/caught on a fence/got wounded or diseased/ate or drank something poisonous/picked up by animal control and euthanized/tortured/injured etc. and also cats kill tons and tons and tons of small birds and mammals), but i'd be afraid that someone would steal her because she's the most beautiful cat ever who LIKES BELLYRUBS?


this cat is a MERE SHADOW of this other cat

what else? oh, i got my yarn for the nightingale socks:


by vintagepurls on ravelry, though these were knitted by pSTATqueen

i went with the stroll tonal yarn from knitpicks and it's fucking beautiful. how many times have i said "beautiful" in this entry?

i'm not doing much this weekend- knitting, iced coffee, doctor who, possibly watching mike and mouse box, saying weird shit with christina.

p.s. we named that tortie "randy"? don't know why.
p.p.s. june 5 2010 = my birthday party. put it on your calendar.
p.p.p.s. the rest of my team is on a retreat today (a lot of it is about fundraising stuff so i don't have to go !) and it's the best quietest.

i don't do too much talking these days

hayyyyy guys. last night, christina and i went to the west philly knitter and crocheter meet-up at the other green line. the group is a ravelry group- i didn't know ravelry had groups because i'm not an overly attentive internet patron but christina found it !

we got there a little bit late, which was fine because there was only one other person there. her name is min and she... well, lives in west philly, and she was making a baby cardigan and is originally from minnesota. she was really funny and immediately riffed with christina and i and we spent a lot of time talking about how the recession is negatively impacting the clowning industry



and nurse strikes and stuff. after awhile, a second girl named elizabeth showed up. she... also lives in west philly, and works with kids and was making an adult sweater. both ladies were really nice, and they said attendance is usually higher (and one of the women who goes is the girlfriend of a guy i used to be friends with [not that we're NOT friends now, i just haven't seen him in awhile] and i always thought she looked neat and wanted to get to know her). we'll probably go next week too and i'll have another iced mocha and stay up all night !

please note that i barely did any knitting at this thing. i had mouse's sock with me and the teeny stitches + black yarn + lack of christina's ottlight = me not really being able to see what i was doing. plus i was excited and wanted to bug everyone !!!



i didn't make it to mouse's show afterward because it was in an awkward location. not like, the worst neighborhood ever, but it would've required me to walk alone at night through some rough spots. i don't think he minded though because his m.o. for shows on weeknights is like, play and then go home and go to bed as soon as possible.

when i got home, there weren't enough people for a raid, so we did a ten man. it was like, the dullest ten man of my life? paul and jay were in my group and they're great, but there were lots of boring duds and no one talked on vent (the program we use to talk to each other during raids). we ended up wiping on blood princes because we didn't really have an optimal way to tank the orbs.



tonight, i really truly hope to do nothing. my ideal night would be:

- taking a nap
- eating a hoagie
- messing around in wow a little bit
- starting my sweet socks over on metal needles
- hanging out with christina.

saturday, mouse and i are going to new york to go to look at some art. it's kind of a bummer because it's just a quick day trip and there's so many people i want to hang out with, plus everyone in the world will oddly be in nyc this weekend. oh wellllllllllll. saturday night, i hope to watch the new series of doctor who.



i know bbc america is three or four episodes behind but i'd rather not download them, soooo don't try to talk to me about them OR tell me to download them ! haha. i'm skeptical about this new doctor because he's half my age and looks like frankenberry but i'm willing to give him a chance.

i'm like 99% sure i promised someone i'd hang out with them on sunday but i truly cannot recall who or what i said i'd do. hopefully i'm mistaken and can have a repeat of my ideal friday. hey dudes ! let's have a good weekend.

p.s. i started uploading all of my blog images to an alternate flickr account yesterday and it was so so so so so so so so tedious. my calendar is pretty clear for the day today so i will try to finish it, but i'm buying myself a v8 as a bribe.