Anniversary Gifts

I know I haven't posted for long time (compare to the other bloggers). I had a very busy week, I am going to paid overtime this week hehehe...

Since I got paid overtime, I spoiled myself a bit, well, not really a bit, but a lot. I went to the Famrhouse yarn sale yesterday. I was planning to go with Jenn, but something came up, I couldn't go in the afternoon with her(she couldn't go in the morning). So, I made Andrew go with me in the morning. Surprise, I bought some yarn. I did the fill a bag for $159 with 26 skeins of yarn.

8 skeins of each of the following:





and 2 skeins of these in the bag:


And the following skeins are $11 each:


And I thought that was my anniversary gifts from Andrew, but... After I got hom last night, took out the camera trying to take picutres of the yarn, I dropped the camera on the carpet, and it broke. Yup, it's dead now, I took these yarn pictures with my cellphone. So, I guess my anniversary gifts include a new camera also. *sigh

I haven't touched the MS3 for about 2 weeks I would say. I have been working on the oversized lace top, and I am having a big problem with it. I think the color of the new ball of yarn I am using is different than the old ones. I did check to make sure all the skeins have the same lot number when I bought them, but somehow, this ball of yarn, after I winded it, it doesn't look like the others. I am so frustrated.... I can't take a picture of it since my camera is broken, and the cellphone camera couldn't show the differences. Oh well, come to SnB Thursday, I will show you...

And I want to show you a picture of Jasmine's Wedding that I love the most. Man, I want to be a photographer...P.S. I want to make it clear that I didn't take this wedding picutre, I was the one on the right in red in the picture, I just really like how the photographer captured the moment which showing the back of me and Jasmine, our bustled up dresses...

What kind of sandwich are you?

Me:

You Are a Club Sandwich

You are have a big personality. It's hard for anyone to ignore you! You dream big. You think big. And you eat big. Some people consider you high maintenance, but you just know what you want... and when you want it. Your best friend: The Tuna Fish Sandwich Your mortal enemy: The Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

What Kind of Sandwich Are You?

Andrew:

You Are a Turkey Sandwich

Conservative and a bit shy, you tend to stick with what you know and trust. You are very introverted, and you prefer to blend in whenever possible. Though you may be hard to know well, anyone who does know you considers you a true friend. Your best friend: The Ham Sandwich Your mortal enemy: The Tuna Fish Sandwich

What Kind of Sandwich Are You?

August 9th Thusday night SnB

We had a big group tonight. I have counted, there were 16 of us including baby Katy. Val was trying to use her camera to take a nice picture of us, but her camera battery just die at that moment. Oh well, next week Val, remember to bring your camera again :D So, I used my Sony Ericsson cellphone to take these 2 pictures(thanks to Karen who took the pictures, so that I could be in them). They are not so good, but hopefully, we will take a better one next week. Also, I am so glad that Erin has back tonight, she is in the picture! And good luck to you in the city, best wishes !!

Another exciting thing happened today was I have received my secret knitting pal's package. I have joined this SKP group though facebook. In six months, we have to send our pals 3 packages which worth $20 each. I have been waiting for long time, and here it came today, I was so pleased to see what I got. It's a skein of sock yarn from Fleece Artist(I couldn't wait and brought the yarn with me to show it off in SnB tonight and let my lovely ladies pet it), a set of sz 3 dp bamboo needles, and guess what, Hello Kitty band-aid. yay, my pal knows me well. The color of the yarn is just gorgeous, I can't wait to knit with it.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I also got the yarn that Jasmine got for me from Italy. It doesn't have labels, but it feels pretty nice. I have to bring them with me to next Thursday SnB, maybe some SnBers could tell me what fabric it is. Beside the yarn, she also got me a purse, I love it! And the yarn too of course.

Ok, after seeing the cool visitor counter, which shows the cities of people who visiting your site from, from kelly's blog. I was going to get one like hers also, but my counter has hit 1000 people already, so I don't want to give it up. Tonight I have told Kelly that beside the counter, I also can see some statistics of who has been visiting my website through Google Analytics. Then I take alook at my statistics more, I found out that, Google Analytics also has the same function as Kelly's blog counter, which it tells me where are the people who has been visiting my blog, so cool!!!

I got an award

Octopus Knits has given me an award hehehe....


First, I need to thank my mom who has been always support my blogging career... just kidding. Thanks Octupus Knits for making me a Rockin' Girl Blogger, makes me feeling I am so special. Now I am giving this award to my blogger fellows. ( in no particular order)

Jennsquared
Costumechick
Acambras
Becky
Erin
Kelly
Suikee

I am catching up with the MS3. I wanted to knit faster, I brought it with me to SnB last Thursday night. I should have listen to Jenn that MS3 is not a good project for SnB. I either made mistakes or knitted very slow since I have to chat and listen to the SnBers. So last weekend, I spent lots of time finishing up clue 4(thank goodness), now I am on clue 5, the wing. I am so worried that after I saw some clue 5 pictures in the yahoo group, mine doesn't look like the others' at all... But if you know me well, you would know that I worry too much all the time, yes, that's me :D


I don't think I have shown my "chart reading setup". I am using a cookie sheet with couple long magnets to hold the chart paper. Andrew has made me a cookie sheet stand with a computer case frame... see it as the following picture. It doesn't look so good, but it works!!

Couple days ago I went to Target, and I found these Hello Kitty stuff in the $1 section. (except the band-aid, my mother in law bought it for me). Yay for me...

Speaking of Band-Aid, I have good stuff to recommend to all the lovely ladies.

I have seen this Blister Block, made by Band-Aid, in Jasmine's Wedding. I was wearing a pair of 4in heels thin strap sandals and they were killing my feet. So one of the bridesmaid introduced it to me and asked me to apply some on my feet. It worked!!!! Ladies, if you always get blisters when you wear new shoes or sandals, I highly recommend you buy this!!

MS3 clue 3 done!

Yes, I am catching up. Only clue 4 left, but clue 5 is coming out this Friday.


And I finally got the "bride with the shawlettle" pictures up, Jasmines seemed happy about/like it.
Andrew and I and his friends went to watch The Simpsons movie on Friday night. It's so funny. I usually don't get most of the jokes from the tv episodes, but I laughed very often in the movie. I wasn't sure if I should go, but I am glad I did. After the movie, we saw the tv shows' DVDs were sold in Sam's Club. They came with t-shirts and Simpsons movie vouchers. We bought 2 of them so that we can go watch the movie again.