Just watching him is exhausting, but often amusing.
He loves this thing. <3 Although trying to thread his legs into it can be something like trying to thread wed spaghetti.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Bugsulating
So we gave in and bought an AC unit last night. Tilmani was ok, but it was just SO HOT. Mini Monster and I were totally miserable, so Til ran out and got us an AC unit and installed it last night. That was... an adventure. We turned out to have a different kitchen plug at the window than we thought we did, he had to cut a block of wood to brace it because the window frame wasn't designed for an unit. ((it's an old frame.)) And then we had to cram some insulating material around it anyway because the fold out parts that are supposed to keep stuff from flying in... well. Don't.
But hey, you know what? It's cool man. ((bricked for pun))
But hey, you know what? It's cool man. ((bricked for pun))
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Summer Daze
So I changed the name of my blog. I rarely get knitting stuff up there these days so it seemed appropriate to change it up a little. I went with Eldritch at Home because I'm still a big Lovecraft Fan, but, yeah, knitting hasn't had a lot to do with my posts these days.
Just got done reading the latest "Harry Dresden" book. Man, I can see why people are going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA over the ending. What a goddamn cliffhanger. (Jim Butcher, you bastard! )
I also read the new Koontz 'Frankenstein' novel. I took a while to read that even after picking it up because I enjoyed the first three so much I was dreading that he'd somehow turn them bad. I mean I enjoyed the first "Odd Thomas" too, but then it started feeling rote, more like a Danielle Steele, rehashed plot, new names sort of thing. See Odd. See Odd suffer. Suffer, Odd, suffer." Although I'd still rather read Odd Thomas than re-read "Your Heart Belongs to Me". Ever. That was so disapointing I'd expect it from King, not Koontz. :p I mean was that really the same author who produced "The Face" and "Under the Light of the Moon"? ((Koontz I mean.))
The new Frankenstein book wasn't too bad though. I think retrospectively it lacked some of the punch of the original, but Victor Immaculate is definitely one f-ed up guy. Which really kinda fits with everything else Victor the First created. I mean none of his other creations went quite the way he planned, why would Victor Immaculate?
So Yeah. Not bad.
Movie Wise: Mixed Mess.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Theif: ..... could have been fun. Could have been a LOT of fun. But really, the matrix downloading of the ability to fight with the sword after touching water? lame. Not knowing what a MINOTAUR was? Lame. NOT being tracked by the cops on any visual level even though he was supposedly being man hunted, since clearly an entire investigation would hinge on ONE guy of blatantly questionable character? LAME. What he knew and didn't know about Greek Mythology 101 even. I mean CHRIVIST. Pick up a copy of D'Aulaires Greek Myths! Read it on the road! Do something to explain how you go from knowing nothing to knowing superamazingallimportantstuff when it makes you look cooler.
Overall: Not really worth seeing, but there were worse films made.
Book of Eli: Better than I was expecting, lots of kinda annoying work with the camera lenzes and lighting, but not bad. Coulda done with more indication of how an apparently blind guy was doing certain things. ((The voice of god informs you that your Ipods battery is low? IDK....)) But yeah not too bad. Better than Percy Jackson.
For the win though I'd have to put my money on "Give Em Hell Malone." It was kinda like Kill Bill, but, well. FUN. Lots of Dark Humor, some running jokes, and characters that when you stop and think about it, are actually pretty interesting. Not one to watch with the Mini Monster though. Fortunately he was sleeping anyway.
Fourth of July was fun, we got with my folks for a couple days around then and did some major work in the basement. Tilmani took a video of what it looked like 'before', which is cool, because otherwise you'd never believe that it ever looked the way it did. We have an entire dumpster filled with trash that came out of that basement. A Dangerous old wood burning stove, old shelving in horrible condition, cinder blocks by the ton...
Mini had a slightly more traditional fourth, and went out to a Parade with his Nana and Auntie Kris. I think they probably did more than that because Nana didn't surrender her 'hostage' until almost eight that night,
Tilmani and I chilled out during that time, but we both kinda missed him and worried a bit, since it's been getting amazingly hot. It'll probably be even hotter today, and yesterday was so hot and miserable we went out just to go take advantage of store ACs. We had a light dinner at Panera, and Mini stole my straw and played with it. He's a smart kid, he figured out that what we did with straws had SOMETHING to do with putting one end in his mouth, but otherwise he seemed like he was pretty sure he was missing some important element to what made them so interesting to us. It was cute.
That and he turned all kinds of random people to mush. <3
Just got done reading the latest "Harry Dresden" book. Man, I can see why people are going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA over the ending. What a goddamn cliffhanger. (Jim Butcher, you bastard! )
I also read the new Koontz 'Frankenstein' novel. I took a while to read that even after picking it up because I enjoyed the first three so much I was dreading that he'd somehow turn them bad. I mean I enjoyed the first "Odd Thomas" too, but then it started feeling rote, more like a Danielle Steele, rehashed plot, new names sort of thing. See Odd. See Odd suffer. Suffer, Odd, suffer." Although I'd still rather read Odd Thomas than re-read "Your Heart Belongs to Me". Ever. That was so disapointing I'd expect it from King, not Koontz. :p I mean was that really the same author who produced "The Face" and "Under the Light of the Moon"? ((Koontz I mean.))
The new Frankenstein book wasn't too bad though. I think retrospectively it lacked some of the punch of the original, but Victor Immaculate is definitely one f-ed up guy. Which really kinda fits with everything else Victor the First created. I mean none of his other creations went quite the way he planned, why would Victor Immaculate?
So Yeah. Not bad.
Movie Wise: Mixed Mess.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Theif: ..... could have been fun. Could have been a LOT of fun. But really, the matrix downloading of the ability to fight with the sword after touching water? lame. Not knowing what a MINOTAUR was? Lame. NOT being tracked by the cops on any visual level even though he was supposedly being man hunted, since clearly an entire investigation would hinge on ONE guy of blatantly questionable character? LAME. What he knew and didn't know about Greek Mythology 101 even. I mean CHRIVIST. Pick up a copy of D'Aulaires Greek Myths! Read it on the road! Do something to explain how you go from knowing nothing to knowing superamazingallimportantstuff when it makes you look cooler.
Overall: Not really worth seeing, but there were worse films made.
Book of Eli: Better than I was expecting, lots of kinda annoying work with the camera lenzes and lighting, but not bad. Coulda done with more indication of how an apparently blind guy was doing certain things. ((The voice of god informs you that your Ipods battery is low? IDK....)) But yeah not too bad. Better than Percy Jackson.
For the win though I'd have to put my money on "Give Em Hell Malone." It was kinda like Kill Bill, but, well. FUN. Lots of Dark Humor, some running jokes, and characters that when you stop and think about it, are actually pretty interesting. Not one to watch with the Mini Monster though. Fortunately he was sleeping anyway.
Fourth of July was fun, we got with my folks for a couple days around then and did some major work in the basement. Tilmani took a video of what it looked like 'before', which is cool, because otherwise you'd never believe that it ever looked the way it did. We have an entire dumpster filled with trash that came out of that basement. A Dangerous old wood burning stove, old shelving in horrible condition, cinder blocks by the ton...
Mini had a slightly more traditional fourth, and went out to a Parade with his Nana and Auntie Kris. I think they probably did more than that because Nana didn't surrender her 'hostage' until almost eight that night,
Tilmani and I chilled out during that time, but we both kinda missed him and worried a bit, since it's been getting amazingly hot. It'll probably be even hotter today, and yesterday was so hot and miserable we went out just to go take advantage of store ACs. We had a light dinner at Panera, and Mini stole my straw and played with it. He's a smart kid, he figured out that what we did with straws had SOMETHING to do with putting one end in his mouth, but otherwise he seemed like he was pretty sure he was missing some important element to what made them so interesting to us. It was cute.
That and he turned all kinds of random people to mush. <3
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Capricorn the Frankenknit
I've been trying really hard to put pictures of this on Ravelry, but neither it nor photobucket seem to be terribly inclined to agree with me at the moment.
These are pictures of the 'long awaited' Capricorn Knit, of which I'm rather proud. I don't have pictures of the white lion I made for his Grandmother, but at some point I'll bring the camera over and see if I can get a photoshoot done.
He's knit with small needles out of some of KnitPix yarn, and his most complicated peice is his tail fin, which is one piece. Mostly he's straight 'Fuzzy Lamb' from Fuzzy Mitten Designs, but his horns and from the 'waist' down he's all franken-knit.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Lithium-Flower (power)
First: if you've never heard it, this song is awesome...."Lithium Flower"
Second: Tilmani finally found a way to charge the camera battery, allowing us to take some new pictures and video of Mini Monster (now an amazing five months old).
Second, we have photographic evidence for the first time of him smiling! Prior to this he was forever being distracted by the camera.
He's only in a diaper because he just got back from his Nana's. It was hot and second, although he has three different possible cooler outfits, I think she just strips him down if she doesn't like the choices.
Here we go!
Second: Tilmani finally found a way to charge the camera battery, allowing us to take some new pictures and video of Mini Monster (now an amazing five months old).
Second, we have photographic evidence for the first time of him smiling! Prior to this he was forever being distracted by the camera.
He's only in a diaper because he just got back from his Nana's. It was hot and second, although he has three different possible cooler outfits, I think she just strips him down if she doesn't like the choices.
Here we go!
Monday, June 21, 2010
This Flavor not tested on Actual People
So apparently in the spirit of "They can't talk so they can't complain", the makers of Ora-Gel forgot to actually test their artificial flavoring on someone who could share an opinion... well. In anything resembling words.
Mini Monster would like to convey his extreme disapproval of their artificial cherry flavoring, the horrors of which apparently entirely outweigh any benefits of the powers of Ora-Gel.
First time but probably not the last time in his life when he'll make that face of pure, unadulterated "WTF", followed by distressed howling and a drool fest to beat Niagara Falls. A quick shot of formula helped rinse his mouth out, but mostly because he drooled all of it back out again after sucking some quickly into his mouth. ((Baby Rinse and Spit?))
He slowly calmed down after this rinse and spit and being allowed to chew on a clean cloth diaper, but was definitely not impressed at all by the experience. His Dad actually put some on his own tongue while I was working to settle him down again. Impressively, their expressions of horror were actually pretty similar.
Tilmani apologized profusely for this accidental and extreme abuse of the taste-bud.
Mini Monster would like to convey his extreme disapproval of their artificial cherry flavoring, the horrors of which apparently entirely outweigh any benefits of the powers of Ora-Gel.
First time but probably not the last time in his life when he'll make that face of pure, unadulterated "WTF", followed by distressed howling and a drool fest to beat Niagara Falls. A quick shot of formula helped rinse his mouth out, but mostly because he drooled all of it back out again after sucking some quickly into his mouth. ((Baby Rinse and Spit?))
He slowly calmed down after this rinse and spit and being allowed to chew on a clean cloth diaper, but was definitely not impressed at all by the experience. His Dad actually put some on his own tongue while I was working to settle him down again. Impressively, their expressions of horror were actually pretty similar.
Tilmani apologized profusely for this accidental and extreme abuse of the taste-bud.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
All I want for Christmas is
A clean pair of jeans!
The washing machine (the new one) gets here tomorrow, which will be SUCH a releif since we unplugged the old one so we could clean and put down some waterproofing to prepare for the arrival of the new one. The waterproof paint makes this HUGE difference down there. It could use a couple more coats to look truly 'white' but even as it is, it's so much brighter down in that section of the laundry room.
I did do -some- laundry at my folks place a couple days ago, that was a fairly huge undertaking, even though I wasn't actually even doing all of the laundry we've accumulated. ((Mostly Owen's, some towels, and some changes of me.))
I'd also forgotten when I left that I'd brought some of it home wet and tossed it into -our- drier, because I was so exhausted and still needed to replace some of our fridge contents from the power being turned off for... well PSNH didn't actually tell us WHY they needed to turn off the power for a good chunk of the day just that they needed to. I'm sure they had some reason other than humor value of imagining me cramming as much as possible into an cooler, but I just don't know what it was.
Anyway: Shortly following me doing laundry at my folks place. ((And needing to change my clothes AND Mini Monsters clothes while we were there because he was SO excited to See Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie Ende and "Grandpa's-huge-TV-which-gets-mythbusters-and-animalplanet-and-isn't-that-amazing" <-- interpreted from the constant excited flail of M.M, who makes watching both of these into an interactive experience. So yeah. Spit up. Loooots of spit up.
I brought home the wet laundry, tossed it in our drier, and forgot about it. Which proved to be kind of ok, because Mini Bworked all over the pairs of jeans I'd gotten both washed and dried, and I thought that I'd be spending the next day and a half or so wearing my sweatpants.
But nope. I suddenly remembered that I'd forgotten some stuff in the drier, and lo and behold, resting atop a bath mat like a king was a pair of jeans.
MY. Jeans.
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.
The washing machine (the new one) gets here tomorrow, which will be SUCH a releif since we unplugged the old one so we could clean and put down some waterproofing to prepare for the arrival of the new one. The waterproof paint makes this HUGE difference down there. It could use a couple more coats to look truly 'white' but even as it is, it's so much brighter down in that section of the laundry room.
I did do -some- laundry at my folks place a couple days ago, that was a fairly huge undertaking, even though I wasn't actually even doing all of the laundry we've accumulated. ((Mostly Owen's, some towels, and some changes of me.))
I'd also forgotten when I left that I'd brought some of it home wet and tossed it into -our- drier, because I was so exhausted and still needed to replace some of our fridge contents from the power being turned off for... well PSNH didn't actually tell us WHY they needed to turn off the power for a good chunk of the day just that they needed to. I'm sure they had some reason other than humor value of imagining me cramming as much as possible into an cooler, but I just don't know what it was.
Anyway: Shortly following me doing laundry at my folks place. ((And needing to change my clothes AND Mini Monsters clothes while we were there because he was SO excited to See Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie Ende and "Grandpa's-huge-TV-which-gets-mythbusters-and-animalplanet-and-isn't-that-amazing" <-- interpreted from the constant excited flail of M.M, who makes watching both of these into an interactive experience. So yeah. Spit up. Loooots of spit up.
I brought home the wet laundry, tossed it in our drier, and forgot about it. Which proved to be kind of ok, because Mini Bworked all over the pairs of jeans I'd gotten both washed and dried, and I thought that I'd be spending the next day and a half or so wearing my sweatpants.
But nope. I suddenly remembered that I'd forgotten some stuff in the drier, and lo and behold, resting atop a bath mat like a king was a pair of jeans.
MY. Jeans.
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.
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