A Lesson Learned.....

For this story, I believe a little background is called for. Ten months ago, J and I moved into a new apartment. Unfortunately, the person who lived here before us (whom we will refer to as AWR because those are his initials) neglected to change his mailing address with the postmaster (I thought doing this was common knowledge, but apparently not). So for the first few months, I did the nice thing, and had the mail forwarded to him (or back to the sender), but after a while I got tired of doing it, and pissed off that this guy wouldn't take care of his business. At that point, I just started throwing things away. Piles of mail come for this guy, packages (which I didn't open and actually sent those back to the sender) red light camera tickets (which I trashed, because the karma of not changing his address will catch up with him by losing his license for unpaid tickets), and medication (I sent this on as well, although J and I discussed looking.) But in the past month or so we haven't gotten anything for him so I thought maybe he finally took care of the address thing.

So today I go to check the mail and there is an envelope there that appears to have DVD's in it. Not thinking to check who it was addressed to, I just opened it out of habit. I was highly confused when I saw Tales from the Backside and Teen Nurses. Apparently AWR has a thing for barely legal, unqualified nurses, with a penchant for questionable sexual practices. 

So now I have these two pornos hanging around my coffee table (when was the last time you got to say that sentence) and I am wondering what to do with them. Send them back to the company? Save them for some kind of gag gift gone wrong? Several friends have suggested I save them for J, but why? You can get porn for free on the internet, why pay for it?

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I joined a Knit-a-Long for one of the infertility groups I belong to, and have started a pair of A Finer Peace Socks. Though they started out a little shaky (2 socks on 2 circulars at a time) they are whipping out as fast as size 0 needles possibly can. Lets hope the next time I get around to posting, they may actually be finished.

I had to actually crack open knittinghelp.com to figure out how to do a left slanting 2 stitch twist, and use knitty.com for a tutorial on toe-up cast on's. 

Which was weird, since I haven't known how to do something in a long time. I guess, just when you think you may know everything, something comes along and surprises you.

His thought processes must not be working right...

In my household we have our particular chores. J does the laundry, and I do everything else. This has worked out fine for us over the years, mainly because I loathe doing laundry more than anything in the world and J is not bothered by it at all. That being said, my father-in-law will be at our house this evening, so when I left for work this morning, I told J that he should get the giant pile of clean clothes off of the guest bed so that his father has somewhere to sleep tonight. He didn't have to be at work until 2pm, so he had plenty of time to deal with the laundry.  

Fast forward now, to when I walk in the door at 7pm. I look in the guest room, and low and behold, the laundry is gone. I walk back to our bedroom, and this is what I find. Apparently he wants his father to sleep comfortably, but he and I will need to sleep on the floor, since the mountain of clean clothes has migrated to our bed. I just picked everything up and threw it in a laundry basket, the entire time wondering exactly what goes on in his head sometimes.

Do You Ever Have One of Those Days...

I am in a funk today, and I am not super sure why. It hasn't been a bad day, or a good day, just a "meh" kind of day.  My main problem lately is that I am bored. J keeps working the closing shift at work, getting home around 11pm every night, meaning that since I get home sometime between 5-7pm I am just sitting around waiting for him to come home.

On a bright side I have gotten lots and lots knitted. I am on a roll knitting socks. I just finished a pair of ribbed socks for myself, in a cool colorway. And I have one in a pair of Flutter-By Socks, that I am hoping to send to my sister for her birthday on the 25th.

I am working away on this Sean Wrap for the shop, but mainly the only thing getting me through it right now is that I want it to be over with so I can work on stuff I want to work on. I like the Lima yarn that it is knit in, but it is also kind of a pain on my Knit Picks, because the needles keep going into the weird braided yarn and making it fuzzy.

What I should be reading vs. What I am reading

What I Should be Reading....

This month, my bookclub is reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. This is a perfectly good book, well at least it was the last time I read it. I read this one in 2004 in Ukraine; therefore, I feel no guilt about not reading it again for book club, mainly since we will go see the movie anyway, which will be like a refresher course. I kind of remember it, a young teenager gets killed and the whole rest of the book is her watching over her family to see how they move on after her death.
But lets be honest, all I did in Ukraine was read, anything I could get my hands on, even the HUMONGUS Forsythe Saga, and Dracula for the 5th time. I also read every single Sherlock Holmes novel and short story, so I may be a little muddled about the finer details of The Lovely Bones in particular. Oh well...

What I am Actually Reading...
I recently finished Season 4 of Dexter on Showtime, and since there is not other season for me to watch I started in on the books. I may skip over this one since it seems to be just like Season 1 of the series.  But as far as I understand the subsequent books veer off of the tv series, so I may just skip on to the next one, since I already know all about the Ice Truck Killer.

So, someone sent me all six books in this series for the holidays, so I am about 100 pages into the first one Dark Lover. I had heard good things about this series online, and I will admit to having a thing for vampire romance books, but so far this one is kind of out there. I mean, firstly I have a problem with the main male character, a blind king of the vampires, that from all physical descriptions in the book, must be 9 feet tall and have more muscles than Mike Tyson in his prime. Let us not forget all the leather he is covered in. Honestly, if a man like that walked up to me, I would be more inclined to run away screaming than thrust my wanton breasts into his lap. Also, his name is Wrath, it might as well have been Fang. All of the other guys in the book have odd names also, like Rhage, and Torhment. Will I get through this book? Who knows...