Twitter & FB

so, i'm sort of using twitter for the polaroid stuff. follow here

so, i also have a facebook fan page for ehl creations. be a fan here

visit ehl creations, too.

so, that's why i've abandoned the blog. maybe i'll pick it up again this summer. we'll see.

whoa! she's alive!

yes yes, bla bla bla

what have i been up to? in a nutshell...

* school! yah, i'm officially in grad school now and took my third class during the first summer session. that ended, thankfully, 7/21.
* work! i got a great new job at my current association that gives me more responsibility, travel and moolah!
* travel! a week in sexy kansas city, mo. not so awesome.
* vacation! i'm taking this week and next week off in between my old and new jobs. i'm not really planning on going anywhere, and i'm really bored already.
* computer! bought a new macbook. sweet.
* photos! i had a show of my Polaroid prints at the awesome Java Shack near me. My prints were only supposed to be up for the month of May, but I finally took them down in July!
* food! i'm trying to move towards a more bean-focused diet to replace the meat protein i'm not getting. i like beans, anyway. i think they're super tasty. save your jokes.

last week i tried this recipe, originally from about.com here

• 2 cups mashed garbanzo beans (chickpeas)
• 1 stalk celery, diced
• 1 carrot, grated
• 1/2 onion, minced
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1/4 cup flour
• salt and pepper to taste
• oil for frying

Preparation:

Mash together all ingredients, except oil, thoroughly. Form into patties and lightly fry on each side in oil until golden brown. You can also barbecue these veggie burgers on a hot grill.

all i did was add some cumin, and you know how much i hate cumin. they are really good. i got four patties out of this mix.


then i cooked them up. i need to work on my fry practice.


i put my burger on a bun, which is kind of silly, but a later version had muenster cheese and dijon mustard. i'm salivating just typing this.


also went on another photo day trip to pearmund cellers. here i am in no condition to drive home yet. (i spent another two hours there after this pic was taken, so relax.) i took two awesome rolls, then lost one! argh. i was so upset. you can imagine how relieved i was when i found the lost roll....in the bottom of the washing machine. >sigh<

so, what have YOU been up to?

weblog awards - vote by Nov 8!

no no, i'm flattered, but i wasn't nominated for a weblog award. probably because my blog is boring and no one reads it and i haven't updated in forever. but Tifaux and Frumteacher were nominated! go vote for them once a day until november 8!


Vote here for Tifaux in the Culture category

Vote here for Frumteacher in the Education category

my universe now revolves around josh ritter's new album

(bit of a long catch up post again today)

i posted a josh video here a few weeks ago. here's another one.
(hi doug!)

the new album is called "the historical conquests of josh ritter" and came out aug 21. hey josh, don't forget about us old fans who came to see you back in the day when you opened for joan baez!
(josh is from latah county, id. COUNTIES!)

next, here's another baby hat from last week. i added a pom-pom after i took the pic, too. i've made about 4 hats in the last week. they take me about two metro rides and a lunch break. i'm going to start on some child size ones soon.


i'm going to do a happy heads, dc push in the next month. if you have a knitting related list or friends who knit, please let them know about happy heads. our 4th year!

i started a scarf for my boss's (almost) three year old daughter. now i have about 24" finished...about 2" yellow, 4" pink, rest purple. i'm doing two little cables in it, too. i think it's pretty cute. i'll take another pic tonight. i'll probably make it about 32" long. she's really little. i think she'll like it a lot. i'm using left over blue sky cotton.


do note the stain on my couch. that's from cheese. i wound up cleaning the covers of the cushions on saturday, and then i stitched up some bunny-related holes.

dante came to visit on saturday, too. he brought his mom and dad. he's just starting to crawl and sit up on his own.


(don't worry, dolley wanted nothing to do with him.)

dante was interested in the aflac duck i have. don't know where i got it, but if you squeeze it you hear its annoying "aflaaaaac" thing.


here he's showing off his two fabulous bottom teeth.

taxidermists are our friends

i'll post AR pics when i get home tonight....if i get home. my 1235 flight was canceled and i'm waiting for a 335 to take me to o'hare, then eventually home. considering my luck at o'hare, i might finish up my crochet work here to make myself a pillow on which i may sleep tonight.

had i known that i'd be stuck here for an extra 3 hours, i probably would have gone to the clinton library for real, and not just looked around the lobby and pished in the bathroom. i did learn that FDR was the first president driven around in an armored car after the attack on pearl harbor. at the time, the only armored car the secret service could get right away had been confiscated from al capone in 1934. it was a black and green bulletproof 1928 341A cadillac town sedan weighing 9,000 pounds. here's the whole story.

free wifi in the airport at LIT. that's making this a smidge more tollerable.

*smidge.*

like the deer? he looks so real, it's almost like he wasn't shot in the woods while eating!

bill clinton is a rock star in arkansas

really.
he really is.
people LOVE him here in arkansas. i'm in hot springs for one more day. going to try to go to the clinton library tomorrow before i fly out from little rock. it's beastly hot here. i have to go to a party now. more free light beer!

so, jack at work thinks my simpsonized self is a little off. he thinks i'm more like this...


i'd say, on a humid day....

guess what movie i saw this weekend...

yes, that's me.


www.simpsonsmovie.com

i should by asleep now...

....and not watching this great movie on lifetime movie network!

in a nutshell, a 14 year old girl gets an STD and starts drinking with her friends! everyone in her high school is chock full of STDs, too! terrific! how did she get it? it was the cute older boy. who'duh thunk it?

a novel idea!
go LMN!



where's my yarn....

Tourists fined for cycling nude in heat wave

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19914229/
Tourists fined for cycling nude in heat wave
Two Austrians, German stripped down in 104-degree scorcher

Reuters
Updated: 11:21 a.m. ET July 23, 2007

BELGRADE, Serbia - Two Austrians and a German were fined for cycling naked along the banks of the River Danube in Serbia where a heat wave has sent temperatures soaring.
“Police arrived after being alerted by passers-by,” said police spokesman Stevan Krstic in the northern city of Novi Sad.
Temperatures in Serbia and other parts of the Balkans have hovered stubbornly for the past week at around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
The three men were brought to a magistrate on charges of disrupting public peace and order and were fined 10,000 dinars (125 euros) each.

stuff i want for my birthday

here's a list of stuff i want for my birthday...coming up in just over a week.

(the first time i posted this something went wrong and it didn't save. %^*#!)

* duh
* anything here (specifically on the first page, top right column)
* this, but just the body would be ok
* delish. lots of it.
* this GRE stuff finished already.

i wrote more stuff, but i don't remember it. something about a vase i'm looking for for some new slides. something about crying at disney world.

i haven't picked up my knitting needles in over a month. GRE.

curse you, GRE!

also, some pics.
here i am with tamara at jo's wedding last weekend in ny. i was in richmond, va at the time for work, so i flew up for the night and back in the morning. this is the only picture i took in which i actually look like myself.

here are jo and erik


also, i made this jewelry box with crackle paint a few years ago. here is pic of the box, and detail of the crackle effect. it's pretty cool. i smudged it before it was fully dry. i also could have taken the hardware off before painting it, but i just thought of it now. hm.

hm

i dunno...i did some stuff. made some things.

here are some fireworks from july 4. i watched 'em on the national mall.
ooo

aaah

this one looks like a koosh ball

we were right in front of the monument

straight ahead was lincoln


and here's doll last night

stupid things that arrive in your inbox

i just checked an email address i (clearly) don't use. i logged on for the first time in a long time and started giggling at the messages that would normally get stuck in a filter. here are selected e-mail subjects from messages from the last 6 weeks and a bonus. read them really fast and they're pretty funny. i wonder how many google searches will find my blog now...

(anything in brackets i added. duh. i also haven't changed any spelling or punctuation.)

* you wont believe how easy to get university degree!
* Such a big size that she never felt before!
* Products that can improve you life
* Why don't you buy some drugs to be healthy
* impress your girl with a WonderCum!
* Make your sexual life more different and easier!
* Investitionen in Mobilfunkmarkt (hm...where does one find a mobilfunkmarkt?)
* fool watch weekly
* No caucasian of concertina
* Wait nolonger, order WonderCum today!
* MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH THIN UPPER LEVEL CLOUDS.
* Remember to tell me later
* Tell me now. Okay
* These data support the notion that visceral fat produces inflammatory cytokines that contribute to insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease.
* Always ask yourself the magic words: "For example?
* Separate yourself from other men
* you and postmultiply
* Где_ты (this one actually came in in russian characters from "Гладков Юрий" but it's not so funny because i know the guy. ok, not really.)
* What to look for when purchasing a replica watch!
* Happy
* No prescription requered for So|m|a v1aGr@ FLiU1NaY
* WonderCum - is a sperm enhancement pills (finally! i was wondering)
* pleasure and beauty
* Meet and Email 1,000s of hot Singls

here's one i love...do note that i didn't have this particular domain name until 2002. (i took out e-mail addresses, the rest is just as it arrived in my inbox)

Subject: Re:
From: "Vy & Jan Grimaldo" riggedhuskers@blablabla.bla
Date: Mon, January 1, 2001 2:44 pm
To: ehl@blablabla.bla
Options: View Full Header | View Printable Version | Download this as a file | Whitelist Sender | View as HTML | Add to Addressbook

Hello my friend!I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here
(http://flowbell.hk) are bad.Look, the site and call me 1-800 if its wrong..My dog
and I are still alive :)

quick finger puppet update

lucas's sweater is done! i hope his mom and dad will send me a pic of the sweater in use!


i had brunch with dante yesterday. his mom came too. i made some finger puppets for us to play with...they're a little scary, but i didn't think that would bother him too much.


i make interesting puppets...


finger puppets are huggable...


and apparently, they are very funny...

Would You Like to Buy an O?

my mom just told me i used to listen to this record every single night....when i wasn't listening to "annie" and singing to the "annie" poster in the kitchen.

not craft related, blanktop cab!

i'm at my parents' house until tomorrow. i'll post updates of my favorite model's new sweater when i return to my place. until then, read this guy. he's funny. i have taken "blanktop" cab many times before. i haven't had a problem with them. seems like they have great customer service, too.

http://blanktop.blogspot.com/

levels of tzedakah and why i'm a little annoyed now

Levels of Tzedakah
Certain kinds of tzedakah are considered more meritorious than others. The Talmud describes these different levels of tzedakah, and Maimonides organized them into a list. The levels of charity, from the least meritorious to the most meritorious, are:
Giving begrudgingly
Giving less than you should, but giving it cheerfully.
Giving after being asked
Giving before being asked
Giving when you do not know the recipient's identity, but the recipient knows your identity
Giving when you know the recipient's identity, but the recipient does not know your identity
Giving when neither party knows the other's identity
Enabling the recipient to become self-reliant
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/jewfaq/tzedakah.htm

so remember a few weeks ago i wrote that my coworker and i bought soup for one of the homeless guys we see all the time outside union station, and that he wasn't there when we passed back? well, we tried again yesterday. of course, he wasn't there again when we went back to the office. (this time we had tomato basil soup...i had a cup, too. it was tasty.) another dude asked for money, so i offered him the soup.

dude - "got any money?"
me - "no, but do you want this soup?"
dude - "yeah i want some soup!"
me - "here you go, enjoy!"
dude - "thanks! (mumble mumble mumble) you know what the greatest story ever told is?"
us - "no, what?"
dude - "i have no idea (mumble mumble)"

we begin to walk away and the dude keeps talking to us, mostly incoherent something about home made american money? he asked for money, a dime or nickel. i replied that we only had the soup, so he asked my coworker, and she said sorry, just the soup. he sort of got a little mad at us then. hey, pal. i just gave you soup and a nice crusty piece of baguette and you're asking for a dime? i don't understand that, man. i felt good at first, then i got mad. is that wrong? how would some coins help you then?

i'll continue to try to buy soup for the original guy. he has no teeth, so i may rethink the crusty bread.

sharks and birds and sweater update

first off, are you WATCHING THIS??? i am watching now and not really looking at the computer too much so let's see how i type. go discovery channel, go! (in case you're not interesting in clicking, i am watching the discovery channel's planet earth series which started about 32 minutes ago.)

did you see that great white shark get the seal? amazing. totally amazing. that one second kill was stretched out to 47 seconds. you can almost see each drop of water fly in the air.

i have a new philosophy on courtship. i think humans should follow bird behavior. males should clean up their nests to make it attractive for a mate. then, he should get all gussied up and dance, >DANCE!< to impress the ladies. we'd have our pick of the best housekeeper, dresser and dancer who's all about doin' the deed and makin' some baby chicks. sure, he won't stay around but it'd be fun while it lasts.

if you haven't noticed, check the "movies" section on the right. i am updating this section every time i see a movie. i am putting a link to imdb there, too. most of them are from the cable "on demand" thing. i have it, i may as well use it! very nice, considering i'm spending a lot more time alone now. boo.

anyway, i am once again obsessed with tyrone power. he's so dreamy. i watched 1939's "jesse james" with ty (we're on a first-name basis) and henry fonda. yes, yes, i'm the one who threw things at the tv while watching "the patriot" several years back thanks to the historical inaccuracies, but there were lots of things i didn't like about that movie. this one was good because tyrone powers is so dreamy. i had a major hollywood crush on him my freshman year of college. too bad he had died 39 years earlier.

so, here is a sweater update. i went to wonderful stitch dc today. marie hosted a "yarn tasting" fundraiser for a woman doing a triathalon benefiting the leukemia and lymphoma society. i went to knit with others and make a donation. (marie also said they're going to be updating their web site soon, so more on that later.) everyone was impressed with my seed stitch abilities because it isn't as easy as straight knitting...k1,p1,k1,p1...and so on. it hurts my hands a lot sooner than usual. here is my progress. after 5 days, i am pleased. if i continue like this i should have the back done by saturday.
i need 40 cm and i'm at 22, as you can see.



plus, rabbit enjoys folding socks.

School shuns tech, teaches fountain pen

School shuns tech, teaches fountain pen
In this age of cell phones, text messages and computer keyboards, one school has returned to basics. It's teaching youngsters the neglected art of writing with a fountain pen.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16151317/from/ET/




So? What do you think? Leave a comment. This goes back to the whole handwriting issue I tried to discuss several weeks ago.

Seriously, people, your teeth are white enough! - More Health News - MSNBC.com

Seriously, people, your teeth are white enough! - More Health News - MSNBC.com

i thought about that "friends" episode where ross bleaches his teeth before a date and they glow in the dark.

ok so i once tried those strips...i got through about a day and a half before i had to stop. i have really sensitive teeth. duh. keep away from coffee and smoke and such, but my weakness for tea is great.

my teeth are white enough. i pick food out of my teeth often, and, uh, sometimes brush a few times a month. what else do you need? why am i blogging a second news article instead of knitting? because i'm at work and if i type instead of plug in my camera, it looks like i'm doing something.

katie and i went apple picking this past weekend. i got an 11 lb. pumpkin. i'm going to cut it up, roast the seeds, give her the flesh. i'll put up pics of that when i start it this coming weekend. also, ran into shed today at mayor williams's press conference (that was cool...my first dc gov't press conference.) though he did not come out and ask for a sweater update, i know i have to put up the latest pic. i swear i'm going to finish it.

WP article about handwriting

yes! handwriting is a craft!
remember that i have a pen pal 3800 miles away!
remember that we send each other letters because handwriting is an art and that the connection that comes with a letter can never be duplicated in an e-mail! sure, my handwriting isn't the greatest, and now i write in emily-script. but if i really wanted to, i could write in proper cursive.
here is the article.
please leave a comment let me know what you think.