Kiss My Knits!

I have childcare for Saturday night! I can go to Serenity! WOOOOOOO!!!!!

Pictured: me on the right in blue shirt, helping someone with earflaps at last year’s Serenity screening. This year there’ll be a costume contest too. Turtlegirl, it’d be the perfect time to wear that felt thing that looks like a space blanket. I’m just sayin’…

Too, too excited! Yay!

…or “How Hillary Spent Her Summer Vacation.” I’m sorry, Em’s choice of names just amuses me.

“Bill and Chelsea went into Chelsea’s pool. Chelsea’s mom was there to watch.”

Because, you know, safety first. That long thing to the right with legs coming off of it is a water slide. There’s a splash in the pool at the base of the slide. The circles are lights inside the pool, so they can swim at night if they want to. Chelsea’s mom appears to be wearing a dress and heels while lying on a wheeled deck chair. Ah, this is the life.

“4 other kids (two boys and two girls) came. So they played Marco Polo.”

The kids are labeled as Lindsay, Chelsea, Jimmy, Bill, Sarah, and Robert. Looks like little Barack wasn’t invited. The large thing behind them is a ladder so they can climb out of the pool. Or possibly a diving board. On the face of it, it looks like Robert’s the only one in the pool and everybody else has cheated and gotten out, but I may be misinterpreting. At any rate, it looks like everybody’s smiling and happy, so that’s good.

In knitting, no way is this going to be a size 4T legwarmer. Time to rip it out and de-biggen it.

All the Can’t Stop the Serenity Jayne hats should be at their destinations, except for Dallas’s bonus “baby Jayne” and Raleigh’s hat, both of which should arrive tomorrow. There’s a chance I may not be able to make the full Serenity screening here in town – I may know tonight – but if I can’t then Em and I will go to the pre-show festivities and drop off the hat. I think Em would enjoy the costume contest and hearing Cedric the Bard. She enjoyed him when we went to that bar uptown. Yes, I took my daughter to a bar. What? I needed a designated driver.

Here’s a link to a YouTube video of the Bedlam Bards, of which Cedric is one half, singing “Hero of Canton” when they performed in Charlotte at Ri-Ra’s. The sound and video quality aren’t that hot, but you get the gist. They put on a good show. But no, sadly, those aren’t my Jayne hats that they’re wearing. At the very end, a young woman is twirling around one of my boxes, as I donated a hat to the raffle that they’re about to give away.

There are actually fewer than 10 Jayne hats in line, for a wait time of less than a month. It’s a miracle! WOO! See, if you want to order, NOW is the time, because come August it’s going to start shooting back up again as people start to think about Halloween, Christmas, and cooler weather in general.

Time to hang out more clothes – it’s nice and sunny, but not oppressively hot. Looks like a great day for soccer!

Phone: Ring ring!
Me: Hello?
Lady: Okay, I got approval to go ahead and do that, but he has GOT to be empty by tomorrow.
Me: … I have no idea who this is.
Lady: Oh, well, this is ______
Me: I don’t know who that is. I think you have the wrong number.
Lady: Oh. Is this XXX-XXXX?
Me: No, it’s not.
Lady: Oh, well then maybe I do!
Phone: *click*

Wait, what? Who has to be empty by tomorrow? Empty of what? Now I have to know!