Breezy Days

I honestly don’t know where this weekend has gone. I ended up watching several movies, including The Notebook and Lars and the Real Girl. I also watched Sex in the City Season 1 today which sounds like a lot but the first season only has two discs. I have watched the entire series several times but I still laugh every single time and I can’t wait until the movie comes out on DVD. I have finished the Prairie shawl, the blue shawl and I am halfway done with the purple shawl that I started yesterday. It sounds like a lot but it’s a really simple pattern and I can crochet really fast when I am watching a movie or TV shows or if I’m with a big group of crocheters or knitters.
I should have been sewing but I have a small problem. I managed to thread the machine and find a bobbin and then I look down at the machine to thread the needle and I realize that there is NO NEEDLE!!!!!! It was like after lunch and I thought I would practice a little so that I got all the kinks worked out before I started to actually sew the block. So, I am just going to wait until next weekend because I have already been to Jo Ann’s this weekend and for some odd reason I just don’t feel like going out again today. Then I had to call my mother and admit how much of a spaz I am so that she could tell me what kind of sewing machine needles I needed to get because there is like a bazillion different kinds and they are all for different purposes. I think she got a good laugh out of it. Hell, I was laughing too just because it was so typical of something that would happen to me.
I am really excited though because I was reading the new issue of Crochet Today and they had mentioned that Red Heart had a new kind of yarn called Red Heart Eco-Cotton blend which is made up of 75% recycled cotton. I thought that it would be cool to try but I didn’t seriously think that any of the craft stores would have it in. Much to my surprise, AC Moore had some so I picked up a skein in Denim. It’s like 3.39 for 145 yards. There was even a free leaflet for it that has a washcloth, a hand towel and a soap holder. I think I am going to make the soap holder because it looks really cute and I have all this free hotel bar soap.
Yesterday, I had this sudden cleaning kick and I ended up reorganizing my yarn stash and my knitting and crochet books. The yarn has been consolidated more but I still want to buy some cube like shelves so that I can actually see it on display and know what all I have. The books are all on the shelf and group together by category. I am not motivated to organize the magazines, because I just have a ton of magazines in general and most of them are the reference type.
Last night I started reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I still need to finish Breaking Dawn too. I am really bad about having several books going at once and switching back and forth depending on the mood I am in. I haven’t read Jane Eyre in about ten years, so it’s like reading it for the first time all over again.
Musically speaking, it’s marching band season again. YAY! I think I am going to go to a couple of football games this season just to hear what the local marching bands sound like. One of my favorite drum corps, Phantom Regiment won the championship this week and my other favorite drum corp took third place so I was overall happy. I got to watch clips on You Tube so that was cool. I’m seriously thinking about buying the DVDs when they come out so that I can see all the shows in their entirety. I have also been listening to Coldplay, Alanis Morrisette and the Mamma Mia soundtrack. I think Violet Hill is my favorite song off the new Coldplay album so far. As for Alanis’ new cd, I actually enjoy the whole cd and it is in heavy rotation in the Subaru. The Mamma Mia soundtrack is just fun peppy music to listen to and I have always been a fan of ABBA. I was actually listening to it yesterday while I was cleaning and organizing things. I came to the conclusion that I need to hang some artwork on the walls or something because since I spent the entire weekend in my apartment for the most part, I realized how boring the walls are and they are painted that “apartment white” color that just doesn’t inspire me that much.