Rambling Warps

Our Yearly Trek for Matzo & some other ramblings

Today we're going on our yearly trek to the metromess to pick up matzo and any other Passover foods that look interesting & useful. I think we will be picking up 4 or 5 packs this year. 2 years ago I wrote that we picked up three 5-packs...

I'm trying to think whether or not 20 boxes will be enough but Gary says that the twins have really picked up on their eating lately and may be growth spurting... 5 would be awesome, but I THINK 4 would be enough... that gives us 20 boxes & I think 25 would be a bit much, though maybe next year we'll really need 5... hard to say! However many we got last year, we did have 1 or 2 boxes left over, which we ate one day a few weeks when we ran out of bread and didn't really NEED to go shopping except for bread & a couple of other things.

We make our own matzo meal by crushing the matzo in a jar... much cheaper than buying a box of matzo meal!

Knitting hats

I've got a hat in progress that I am ready to finish the crown for but am totally unsure of HOW I want to finish the crown... I made up the pattern myself (I THOUGHT I saw a hat that you do a band, like a garter stitch band and then twist like a moebius SOMEWHERE online, but can't find it)... I basically want a domed top, not a flat top, not a pointy top... I've seen several but the theory escapes me at the moment. I've looked at several hat and beanie patterns and they have so many different ways to finish... the best I've seen has been here based on the picture... several other hats I've looked at seem to have a bit of a gather at the top... I still don't want it THAT snug...

Movies & DVD by mail services

Last night we watched Kiki's Delivery Service (a Hayao Miyazaki movie), which came from Blockbuster... yesterday we returned Princess Mononoke to Netflix (and I just now got an email from them saying that they received it, which means that they'll mail another today & will arrive tomorrow: Paper Clips is next in our Netflix Queue, and will be here JUST in time for Passover since that movie is about Holocaust awareness.

We're also taking advantage of the Blockbuster 2 week free trial period and so far Netflix is winning for speedy delivery. On Friday we got an email from both companies saying that they had movies on their way to us. Netflix's movie arrived on Saturday and BB's movie arrived yesterday (Monday).

Both emails said that the movies would arrive when they did. The distribution center for BB is a little further away (about 1-1/2 to 2 hours without traffic) so that may have something to do with it, I don't know for sure. We'll see what happens next. We'll be mailing the Kiki movie back today, they SHOULD get it tomorrow, which might bring us to the point where we'll get another movie on Saturday from BB... the reason we are trying BB is because they say they ship DVDs on Saturdays, which NF doesn't, but NF is faster... we may upgrade to 2 DVDs at a time, we are now getting just 1.

I also like Netflix's website better than Blockbuster's... it's easier to navigate & I like the way the movie descriptions balloon out when you put your mouse pointer over the movie name without having to go to another page or click on anything...

Off to look up some Passover recipes so I can do a shopping list...

update, update where's the update?

We were rearranging the computers & didn't move my bookmarks over & I kept forgetting to ask Gary what the link is to work on my blog... I've got it now!

Been working on a dishcloth pattern that a friend designed & a pair of sock it to me print socks... the yarn is the same combo blend as the Cascade Fixation yarn... 98something cotton with the rest spandex... fun to knit with!

Here are a couple of pics of the cast on process (on a long circular... )

This one shows the toes both turned before removing the provisional cast on:

This one shows the provisional cast on removed & the stitches placed on the long circular:

This one shows the socks after knitting for a while:

This shows the ribbing:

I may frog back a few rows so that I can put more stitches on since I've been knitting a little on the tight side...

The weather has been TOTALLY weird here: this winter we had roller coaster weather, a few days of cold and a few days of warm... (warm is defined as 50-60 during the winter months)... now we're roller coastering between 80s & above and 70s and below... we're supposed to be in the low 80s today.

We took Lily Potter in to be spayed on March 15th... the vet there guesstimated that she was 11 months old... she's small for her age, but we've NO idea what her life was like before she came to us... and boy was she ticked off that evening when we came home with her: she was growling & hissing at anyone who came near her... but she has gotten over that & is now her sweet & spicy self... she definitely fits in well: she gets along with the other cats & she is often seen galumping around with our biggest cat, Dumbledore (he's around 15-18 lbs or so)...

All together now: "AWWWWWWWWWWW!!"