disclaimer: I have not yet seen Total Recall starring Arnold.
My thoughts:

1. I was worried near the beginning that the movie was going to be one continuous chase scene, thankfully, it was not.

2. My compliments to the costume designer(s). I think Colin Farrell should just give all his shirts away to needy folks.

3. Also, I’d like to know what he eats because while he was cut, he wasn’t crack ho skinny.

4. This movie made me want to go work out because Kate and Jessica were in great shape too. And I always say that it is important to be able to run….you know, in case you’re being chased.

5. The ladies had great hair. I’d like to think my hair could look that great all the time if I had a staff of people around to see to it. I wonder if Santa could bring me a team of hair-styling elves for Christmas.


6. I could have used more John Cho. Bet you wish you had a nickel for every time someone says that.

7. Overall, a good action film. I felt like there were some slow points, but I’m not sure what they could have trimmed, so I give it a B.

In other news, I’m soooo ready to see Looper, which doesn’t come out until Sept. 28. I feel like I’ve been watching previews for six months….and I’d boycott it because I’m that annoyed by previews for it, but I want to see it way way too bad. I guess “they” win.

I recently finished my Annetrelac socks out of Schaefer Yarn Company Anne. This yarn is light fingering weight, so I had to use smaller needles than I normally do and wasn’t THAT crazy about how this yarn feels. So, all around, not my fave, but my SIL picked the yarn out so I was determined to conquer some socks. It helps that I learned recently that you can condition natural fibers and since I’m blaming the mohair for the unpleasant feel, they are gonna get some conditioning before I call them done.

Also, found this yarn not to be terribly forgiving with regard to stitch definition, so no matter how much I might like a pair of Annetrelac socks to wear myself, I doubt I’ll use this yarn again. On ravelry, other people have used Noro with success, so I may try that.
OR does anyone remember the tulip yarn?

What do we think? Could this be a match made in heaven?

The pic below is 64 sts around and I don’t like it. Annetrelacs are 72sts around the cuff so that could be an improvement.

Time will tell!

1. I didn’t blog at all last week. I think the lack of knitting for so long left me in a funk; I was not fit company.

2. The problem with being mildly OCD is that you have a lot of trouble settling for plan B even if plan B is perfectly reasonable. I found 3/8″ grosgrain ribbon in the exact shade that I wanted at the 5th store I tried.

3. No, I did not see Batman – 2 hours and 45 minutes is longer than I want to sit in a theater for any movie that isn’t about an epic war (think Gone with the Wind, Braveheart). And also, Christian Bale just doesn’t move me. Michael Keaton is and always will be Batman…..I’m sad about the Colorado shooting – feel like the midnight movie folks are my peeps…what a senseless tragedy.

4. The Annetrelac socks that I started in September of last year are finished. It took me over a month to finish just the toes of the last sock because I was just more interested in my Hunter Hammersen socks in progress. As I got back into knitting after my hiatus, I had to start with stockinette and lo, the second sock fell off the needles completed.


5. Speaking of Hunter, she has a new mini-book out. It looks fab! Check it out!

I want to make a chocolate colored Uproar Cuff out of this book for myself and wear it like a bracelet…..with a pewter button. What do we think? hip like Johnny Depp or will look like I’m trying to be hip? (probably not a good sign if I’m using the word “hip”).