Unfurnished Brooklyn

Hark hark, harkened he.

Yay! Back on the Internets! And quoting Ren & Stimpy!

I finally got a new laptop, not that I get to use the damn thing- Cheb hogs it all the time. But this week she's staying in Manhattan with my sister, so it's all mine baby. I miss my kid, but I can actually use my laptop and I can eat cold cereal for dinner so there's the trade-off I guess.

Know what I had for dinner tonight? A glass of wine and a handful of pretzels. Maybe tomorrow night I'll have a stick of gum and a jello shot. Thanks to a week between camp ending and school beginning, I get to cut loose and be rid of all parental duties. R rated movies and poor nutritional choices! Awooooooo!

What's been going on? The usual. Some silliness, some drama, some knitting. Had some weird flu-like thing, but that ended quickly. Some reading: just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy and got very weirded out. Came across a Meg Swansen book at the library and I must knit her Phoenix cardigan but it may drive me insane. In a good way.

Speaking of insane: I can't get the song "Chocolate Rain" (youtube link) out of my head. I'm starting to like it. Yikes.

Breakin' out the mom jeans

I'm not kidding. I need them: I ate waaaaayyy too much on Saturday. Check out Sahara's blog to find out why. I don't even know why I have these fuddy-duddy jeans in my closet but I need them. That, or sweats- but I can't get away with sweats at work (even though my boss is out of the country again).

In other news, I think I've got my knitting mojo back, having been inspired by some amazing knitters over the weekend. I was especially impressed by Kim, the Yarn Hippie, who had three different pairs of socks going (two at a time using magic loop). Every time I looked up she was knitting a different set. Made me want to step up my game.

I may be able to make some actual posts soon- with pictures! Huzzah!

Added: just in case you don't know what mom jeans are.

Batten down the hatches!!

It's a tornader!

Or maybe not. But Brooklyn sure took a beating this morning. I was working on my first cup of coffee this morning when the weather dude mentioned a funnel cloud headed toward my neighborhood. Um, what?!? Funnel cake? Hunh?

It petered out before it got to me, but other parts of Brooklyn took a lickin'. Wait- that sounds a bit saucy. But you know what I mean.

I had a 2.5 hour commute this morning, and watched as some commuters took a train hostage- refusing to leave when the conductor took the train out of service. I was waiting for the torches and pitchforks, but no one thought to bring any.

How was your morning?