Unfurnished Brooklyn

Too legit.

The best part? The woman knitting in the background. Amazing how a knitter can just tune everything out, isn't it?

Movies, movies, movies.

I rented I Am Legend yesterday, and I realized: I think I might just have a crush on Will Smith. Or maybe just the on-screen Will Smith. Either way, back away from Xenu, dude!! Anyway. Good movie. Watched it twice.

From Everybody loves Saturday Night, movie meme!!

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Find a quote from each one.
3. Post the quotes here for people to guess--leave your answers in the comments, please.
4. Strike out the quotes when guessed correctly; name the person who got it right and the movie
5. Guessing rules: one movie per guesser, so everyone has a chance. Please don't cheat with Google or imdb.com! This means you!

1. Go now and die in whatever way seems best to you. Return of the King- Irene got this one. I had to put one of these movies in. I can practically recite them all by heart.

2. The first man who can explain how he can be in love with his wife and another woman is gonna win that prize they're always giving out in Sweden. No one got this one? One of my favorite movies: The Women. Go rent it.

3. You may know him as "Joe the Policeman" from the "What's Going Down?" episode of "That's My Momma." This is from Coming to America- right before Randy Watson and his band Sexual Chocolate butchers the song "The Greatest Love of All."

4. You know, for kids. Hudsucker Proxy. Jenn guessed it. I haven't seen this in ages. Must rent it again.

5. That little whore makes me feel nine feet tall! This is from Valley of The Dolls. I believe it made the top ten of the American Film Institute's Greatest American Films of All Time. Or it should have. I love this trashy movie. It's the reason I shout NEELY O'HARA!!! at random.

6. And I'll tell you why I can't put up with you people: because you're BASTARD PEOPLE!  Waiting for Guffman- Carlarey not only guessed this one, but continued the rant in the comments.

7. This girl not have concerning for us. We not concerning this girl. The Joy Luck Club- Nik guessed right.

8. My God, the dead has arisen. The Color Purple- Nik got this one too.

9. I looked up "fubar" in the German dictionary and there's no fubar in there. Saving Private Ryan. Lori O was close: she guessed a war movie.

10. What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear. All About Eve- Lauren guessed it. I could've used the most famous line ("Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy night."), but that was too easy.

Bonus: He went for her like she's made outta ham. Best in Show- this line cracks me up. Bonus point for Jenn!

Have at it, people.

Unfurnished Brooklyn's The Birds

Such a nice day on Sunday. Cheburashka had her ice skating recital (Aladdin- On Ice!):

And then- innocently enough- we walked over to the pond to feed the ducks. Big mistake.

We were surrounded. Big honking (literally!) geese tried to snatch the bread from us. And yes, I did use my child as a human shield.

Like you wouldn't do the same. 

My reign of terror is over.

Sleep safe in your beds, New Yorkers. My crime spree has ended. I could only evade Johnny Law for so long; I knew my days of criminality could not last forever.

You can now ride the subways safe in the knowledge that I will no longer sip coffee, stretch out my legs, or (perish the thought!) rest my bag on the empty seat next to me. For many years, I've gotten away with such malfeasance. But no more!

And what act of villainy led to my downfall? I walked between the cars of a non-moving train. And it pains me even to type that- I know that in doing so I had gone much too far. I had breached the limits of decency. It was as if I could no longer bear my guilt, and did the most brazen thing I could think of in the hope that I would finally be captured. And so I was.

My punishment? A seventy-five dollar ticket. $75 is far too little, consdering the depth and the breadth and the scope of my crimes against the MTA. I weep in gratitude.

Full.

I think I may have finally achieved a state of yarn nirvana. Or not. But after going over my budget and paying off bills and putting away that tax refund I decided to treat myself to some yarn- I hadn't made a large purchase in some time.

I searched online, looked for sales & specials, went over my Ravelry queue to see what I 'needed' to buy, and came up with nothing. Really, nothing moved me. I did have a Wollmeise moment: there was a shop update on Saturday, and I picked out the lace that I wanted, but by the time I got to the last setion of the checkout it was sold (to someone with faster fingers). I think the inventory sold out in, like, 20 minutes. Wasn't meant to be, and I wasn't bothered at all. In fact, it got me thinking about dyeing the laceweight from Knitpicks that has been sitting in my stash for months.

So the money set aside for yarn? I donated it.

In other news, I finally got that annoying tooth pulled. After weeks of trying to get it taken care of. And I think I have phantom tooth pain (or is it dry socket?). There's a dull ache that feels like the problem tooth, only there's nothing there. Not serious pain, but still. Annoying. I'll swing by the dentist before work tomorrow & check it out.

I took a crappy photo of my latest finished project, but I think I should wait and take a better photo. My swollen face is covered, but the scarf itself is cute. Feh. Here it is. Four skeins of Noro Kureyon, in three colorways. None of which I can recall- I'll look it up later and add it to my Ravelry page. I love it. It is long enough, wide enough, and doggone it, I really like it.

Now I'm working on a solid-color sock. I love variegated sock yarn, but they don't show patterns very well in my opinion. I picked up a tomato red skein of Berrocco (gah! man-made fiber!!) and started the Monkey sock, but I'm not really feeling it. I need to find something else. Maybe something lacy?

Wow. I'm pretty wordy at 3am.