Are you pregnant??!

I think this might be the only picture of my Halloween costume.. Everyone thought i was a naked pregnant woman.. But no.. I was a sumo wrestler.

so the videos of pigs won't let me write about why I did videos of pigs just now..
so I'll do a quick note on a DIFFERENT blog post!
I hope not tooooo many of you are confused by this


Aryk and I were talking about pet pigs
(okay I was... but Aryk was looking up many pig videos)

so I decided... I'd show you how precious they are!

though there seems to be arguments online from animal rescue people saying don't get pigs because there is already toooo many dogs and cats that are homeless.
sigh. 

can we get one?

a pom pom would perfect this..

as mentioned before (and I'm sure it will not be the last time..)

I am stubborn
and part of my being stubborn had to do with knitting (remember the mittens blogpost?)
well.. instead of mittens I made a hat!

and instead of following instructions
(for I have only made a rectangle.. )
(and no one has taught me anything besides THEE knit when i was in elementary school)
I decided I had enough skills and talents on how to make my own hat

without a pattern or anything to follow

I went out and bought needle things with the thing connecting them..
the kneedles were fat, and hard to stitch with..
and later on I had to switch it to using three needles?
of course I only have my two original needles and then the two fat connecter ones... so.. I used what I had..
so the hat is a little lop sided and.. large and un 'snug'

and so I'd randomly knit here... purl here... maybe purl twice..

k2, p6, k4, .. did I just knit? hmm I don't think so.. k4 more..

drop a stitch here (on purpose) annnd tralaa time has passed

but just when I was nearing the end I somehow dropped ALL of my stitches so.. I just picked up random ones and connected them and dropped them until they were all gone..

so...

thats..

what happened.....

and heeeeeeeerrreee it is!
hmm.. the quality of this photo isn't great.. I'll retake it later.

I think it looks like I have a honey comb on my head

"can we use that as part of a halloween costume??!" was Aryk's response..

did I learn my lesson?
follow directions?
no.

(k now that I look at the hat in the picture it could also look like I am wearing a pear on my head..)

CORRECTION! after I wrote this blog I took out some brown yarn.. made a pompom.. and then 'sowed' yarn with a knitting needle and the brown yarn along the bottom to make it tight! now its actually kinda actually hat like (photo does not do it justice)

fur hats

soooo.... I bought this yarn

and last night I had a dream about it! so I shall tell you.. and you can decide what this dream of mine means!

I dreamt that I was looking at the label of which the yarn comes wrapped in. The label was bizarre and it was informing me how the yarn wasn't made out of lambs wool.. and it wasn't made out of cat fur, or dog fur, or cow hair... etc. I mean it was a LONG list

it was kinda like the eco-friendly labels that tell you all the bad stuff that ISN'T in your natural food but IN the normal grocery store list.

but at the very end it informed me how the yarn was made out of...

MOOSE HAIR 

first of all : ew

and also.. WHAT?!!

I was upset in my dream (as I would be in real life) for I like moose... and I knew (somehow) that when they make moose hair yarn they HUNT DOWN the moose. I couldn't BELIEVE that I bought yarn in support of moose killings! 

and now I was in a situation.. do I use this yarn? for I already did the awful thing in purchasing it?

or do I throw it out? even though the moose got sacrificed for it?

could this dream be because I am a vegetarian that has kind of started to slowly fall off to the band wagon and eat bacon once in a while?

could it be a sign that whatever it is that I choose to knit it will not work out and it will be a WASTE OF YARN??

or... is it my subconscious telling me I need to save moose? 

my mother says...

My mother says "Kristen... WHAT are you doing standing on the table?!!"

 "I'm taking pictures of your gourds.. do you mind if I move your pumpkin?"

Mom carries on with her usual things while I carry on with mine...

its like she asks these questions.. and then remembers who it is that she is asking the question to.. and then shrugs cause its normal 

or maybe because she knows that if she tells me not to.. 

I'll do it anyways..

 I show mother the pictures.. she is thrilled! she loves gourds.. every 'fall season' since I remember mother has gone out and gotten little gourds and mini pumpkins.. she is a fall Autumn kinda gal. 
so really I stand on her kitchen table for her happiness.

so never stop someone from being bizarre! they just might surprise you with beauty.

this was found when I searched 'cute'

and boy oh boy.. isn't it??!

Oppppeennning windows lately!

Have a mentioned how much I love my landlady???!!!!!!!! I'm giddy now. She just talked to me for a hour about primates and Rwanda and and other Africa stories and even lent me a ton of conservation books!!! I feel a trip coming on!!! :)

running a daycare around here

exciting news folks!!
a week today..

I put coffee grounds in a old used soup can.. and I filled it up ALLLL the way and I also put a used toilet paper roll in there (a. to fill up space b. because it composts c. because remember I am finding ways to eliminate waste and be more resourceful - yes I know that you can recycle toilet paper rolls d. because you will be able to track WHERE the seed is that you planted! - not very useful for THIS time 'gardening' but I'm doing it so my memory will likely be more memory like)

ANYWAYS
I also put in a garlic seed. about a inch deep

TAH DAH!!

garlic in the tin. and the always sprouting green onion

a new parent I am!

(to be honest I really wasn't expecting it to work)

see people? 

living in a basement aint so lame after all is it?!

we can do all the excitement you normal folk do!

so yes... I am once again..
  a plant mother! 

hopefully the outcome will be better than the tomatoes..

-side story about the tomatoes... our sweet landlady brought us like... 30 tomatoes from her Dad's house to give to us because of OUR sad outcome. harhar.. but really.. thats sweet, cute and funny

AND

speaking of babies!

I'm going to be a Auntie :) my dear bestfriend/sister is with child.

so now we BOTH have babies!!

(shhhh! yes I know the difference! but this way I can feel like I'm mile-stoning with her!)

congrats from Kris10 to my lovely J9 annnd.. D3r3k (Derek)

 haha trying to make him feel number special too!

Fact: the day I planted my plant baby.. is the day I found out about Janine's human baby! ooo!

un-3D shapes are just so not fun

I know that I am impatient.
but here is a example I just noticed

yes. learning to knit.
made scarf.. know all the tricks (ha) (especially only owning 2 needles..)

and... NOW
I AM DETERMINED TO MAKE MITTENS!
(and impatient)
I'm trying but I do not know any of the lingo on these websites... k1 p2 is the only kinda things I understand..
now I'm peeved..
and impatient
and I don't want to make stupid things (squares or rectangles) 

grumble mumble grumble.. this is giving me forehead wrinkles

doesn't help either that I'm trying to do it the whole 'vintage' way instead of 'modern' with all these useful tools that makes your knitting this quick easy job!

must..

make..

mittens..

RIGHT NOW!!!

if I didn't live with anyone I would actually sit here until I was on a roll and could accomplish things 
but.. I know Aryk will be home from hockey soon... and he will thing (and not be incorrect) that I've been a couch potato.

must..
make..
mittens..

I seriously bet you I will be dreaming about knitting mittens all night
just like how ever since Aryk learned how to fish.. he's also taken up sleep talking
and ALWAYS about fish!
though the other night I got up to go pee.. and when I got back Aryk was warning me that there is another guy in the room.
sleep talk Aryk is confusing.. though I prefer when he sleep talks informs me how in love he is with me. 

thats it! 
tomorrow I am going out to purchase another needle (and that means two because I'm pretty sure you can't just buy one needle?)

perfect pear

I'm cheesy okay?

and plus it was a really good looking pear..

it IS in the family without a gap after all!

p.s exciting news!
after my Aunt had read my blog post about what a shame it is that none of my nannie's children continued the family woman tradition of knitting and charity work...

SHE SENT ME A TEXT INFORMING ME  THAT SHE DOES LOTS OF CHARITY WORK AND KNITS AND CROCHETS!!

thats it.. I need a leave of absence for a lengthy amount of time to go hand out in Vancouver with my kindred spirit Aunt! 

I also would like to apologize for my lack of knowledge that you knit, crochet AND charity fun times! geez kristen! get with the program!