Kiss My Knits!

Today’s trip to the Renaissance Festival involved an extra special ride!

For our car!

On a jack!

After its tire went flat!

Whee!

Had a wonderful time at the Renaissance Festival with and her friends. Getting away from house and home for a bit was exactly what I needed.

Long meanderings about the fest below cut.

More backchannel follies.

[Tvini] Why would you want a spellbook? Traders don’t need spellbooks.
[Ilanya] …
[Ilanya] Why wouldn’t a trader want one, huh?!?
[Tvini] Why would they?
[Wythor] A trader could sell one for a good profit…
[Ilanya] Scholarship, and they’re purdy
[Ilanya] And that too
[Tvini] To smack the yak?
[Tvini] Actually, “smack the yak” sounds like some kind of euphemism.
[Chakram] That a dirty euphamism (Tvini)?
[Chakram] Hehe.
[Tvini] hee!
[Ilanya] See, I’m telling you…
[Tvini] We’re in sync today.
[Chakram] (Ilanya) smacks her yak all the time, don’t you?
[Wythor] You should make that your new signature on the boards. “Go ahead… smack my yak.”
[Chakram] Trying to get it to go faster.
[Tvini] sidles up to the guild butler and says, “So… you wanna go smack the yak?”
[Ilanya] You guys are sick. SICK!
[Chakram] Glad you noticed.
[Ilanya] I’ve been trying not to.

Went in for my photo shoot at the Observer this morning. It would appear that the staff’s favorite shot is of me wearing two hats, with two scarves wrapped around my neck, twirling the scarf ends like a 50’s hoochie-koochie dancer.

So much for dignity.

Some time ago, my six-year-old daughter decided that she no longer liked bananas.

As part of my neverending quest to get fruit and veggies into my child, I made banana muffins tonight. But so that they wouldn’t be completely heinous to her, I chocolated ’em up some. This is adapted from a mocha banana chocolate chip muffin recipe from allrecipes.com.

Banana Chocolate Chip muffin recipe

I think I’m set for yarn for a while. And there’s actually two more large orange cones. I’ll just have to keep an eye on the yellow.

Good. I hate running low.

This is the first year that Emily wasn’t sick on Halloween.
Judging by her expression, her attitude is:
“Come hell or high water, I’m getting candy!”

Got a call from a reporter for the Style section of our local newspaper, The Charlotte Observer today. Looks like in the next few weeks, I’ll be featured in the “five questions with…” feature. They want me to come down on Monday with examples of my stuff so they can take photos. I’m guessing I’ll be sporting a Jayne hat in a photo in the Observer.

And just think, it all started with ‘s hat last Christmas. Amazing.

The morning saw me piddling around a little, playing some on the Zoo Tycoon 2 expansion pack, which I just couldn’t resist picking up while I was out getting long-sleeved pajamas for my daughter.

After playing for just a bit, I went down to County Register’s office and officially registered as a licensed business in Mecklenburg County. Also, I got zoned to operate a business in my home. Price tag $100 for both licenses.

Tonight a police officer knocked on my door. He wanted more info about how my bank card info was stolen. So I got to give my very first police report, and dig out all the financial info I had buried in the rat’s nest that is my desk because I thought it was all over and done with. All in all, an educational experience.

I hope they get the guy who did it. Sounds like they know when, where, and how it was done, they’re just having trouble tying the end guy to the actual crime with anything beyond very circumstancial evidence. I think my info helped a little, so that’s good. Unsettling to think that a place that I go weekly, and STILL go to, was the place this was done.

The moral of the story is: don’t let your bank card out of your sight, even for two minutes.

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