stale gummie worms rule the world (really, they do)

Way to ruin what could have been truly epic. Ben Affleck as Batman? Really? Did Dare Devil not teach you anything? Yes, that was something like a decade ago, but I haven't seen much of an improvement. The man is brilliant behind a camera, but Batman he is not.

Just over an hour before Steve Carlson's StageIt show starts. Yay! Easily one of my favourite websites. Anyone else watching tonight?

My friend Glen got the confirmation yesterday afternoon: he's in remission!!!!!!!!! It's been a long battle, with some added scared along the way, but chemo and radiation worked. I keep bursting into random bouts of happy/relieved/thankful tears. Can't wait to see him on Monday and give him and Kim a monster hug each.

For now I am just relaxing in bed with my puppies and watching it thunder and rain while the sun still shines bright.

Today is a good day.

I'm working on Laura Nelkin's Skywalker shawl, which is gorgeous and relatively easy because I am doing so with the help of her Craftsy class, Mastering Lace Shawls. (If you craft and you haven't been to craftsy.com yet, you're probably gonna like it.) I love this shawl so much that I already have the yarn to make a second one for my best friend's birthday gift.

But.

Planet stitch is eluding me. It seems to be 32 rows of "let's torture Shannon by being off a single stitch and not let her figure out where it happened so she has to pull it out again!" ... After frogging the section back to the start three times, I started putting lifelines in on every purl row. Which turned out to be a fabulous idea given how many times I have pulled it out since. It's not that the section is particularly difficult, it just requires concentration. Hard to concentrate with two puppies vying for my attention every time I sit down to knit. And I learned the hard way when first starting the shawl that this is not a work friendly project.

So I'm sitting here poking around Ravelry for shawl patterns and completely ignoring Skywalker. And Haruni (another shawl which is also not a work friendly project). And the lovely pile of merino fiber sitting next to my spindle waiting to be spun so I can start making my mom's birthday gift out of it.

Oh, and ignoring the pages and pages (and pages) of handwritten J2 big bang that needs to be typed out before May 1.

Avoidance? Me? Never! Anyway.

Thank you for the virtual v-day gifts, apieceofcake and patrese1! :)

Hanging out with cinderella81, got back from dinner not too long ago. Our waiter was Jensen Ackles caliber beautiful. And that is not an exaggeration at all. Now to see if I can stay awake until the ball drops....ha.

Books I've read this year:

49. Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
48. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
47. 10th Anniversary, James Patterson
46. Wolf at the Door, MaryJanice Davidson
45. Night Terror, John Passarella
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Books I've read this year:

47. 10th Anniversary, James Patterson
46. Wolf at the Door, MaryJanice Davidson
45. Night Terror, John Passarella
44. Two for the Dough, Janet Evanovich
43. Four Blind Mice, James Patterson
42. Double Dexter, Jeff Lindsay
41. The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf, Molly Harper
40. My Soul to Take, Rachel Vincent
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Books I've read this year:

38. Dexter is Delicious, Jeff Lindsay
37. Dexter by Design, Jeff Lindsay
36. Dexter in the Dark, Jeff Lindsay
35. Dearly Devoted Dexter, Jeff Lindsay
34. Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay
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I got the e-mail with the volunteer call times today! The con is only a week or so away. I'm so excited! My best friend and I both volunteered. Mostly because neither of us could afford to go. It should be fun, and I definitely need fun these days.

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