#6: Arrested Development

I know what you're thinking: Auna! What are you doing? Starting at #6 on your list!! But listen, just listen here. It's my list of loves, and I'll start wherever I damn well please to start.
So...#6: Arrested Development
This is the best damn TV show that has ever been written and aired. Unfortunately, I had to be aired on Fox, which basically meant that it never had a chance to survive in the first place. (And believe me, if I had a list of hates, Fox would be on that list for the sole reason that it canceled this brilliant program).
I didn't start watching Arrested Development until well into the first season. My family started watching it on Sunday nights while I was in college. I normally just watched The Simpsons and then would turn the station over to some VH1 countdown that I had already seen a million times. My mother persisted though, she'd e-mail me every Monday morning and say, "Auna, you should really be watching this television show, it's absolutely hilarious. It's brilliant! You will love it if you just watch it!"
Normally, I listen to my mother because I'm a good daughter like that. I didn't for a long time though. It wasn't until I was visiting them on a Sunday evening for dinner that we all watched it together like the good American family that we are and I immediately fell in love. Like, head over heels, engagement rings and marriage kind of love. This show was the absolute best television show I had ever seen.

When the second season rolled around, I watched it religiously. Now, there are VERY few shows that I watch religiously. When I say religiously, I mean, I will literally ignore anyone that tries to contact me during the time period the show is on. I will actively make plans revolving around the show. It's kind of sad, really, but hey, when I'm hooked, I'm hooked (there were a lot of commas in that sentence).

Then the cancellation rumors started to fly around. I signed every single online petition that I could possibly find. I joined Arrested Development support groups (okay, not really). I could not believe that Fox was actually thinking about canceling the show.
I was elated when it was revealed that the show would indeed come back for a third season. Yes! It's not over yet! But I became so pissed at Fox because they would constantly move the show around in their schedule! The station didn't even give the show a chance!!

I almost missed the very last episodes of the series because they played them on a Friday evening and didn't publicize them at all. But you know what? I watched those last two (or was it three?) episodes. And you better damn well believe that I cried when it was over.

Now I get my Arrested Development fix via G4 when I'm too lazy to put in a DVD. G4, although a pretty crappy channel (in my opinion), is really awesome for picking up the re-runs of this show. You would think that Comedy Central would have or something...
I also have all three seasons on DVD -- which were NOT illegally obtained because I want to show all the support I possibly can to the show. Every once in a while, I hold onto the fleeting hope that they might bring it back like they did Family Guy.

In the meantime, I like to amuse myself by playing, "The Final Countdown" and thinking of GOB. Because honestly? It makes me happy inside ... and I'm a little in love with Will Arnett.


So that's all that I will write for now on my love for Arrested Development. Next up: #1: The Office (US)

And to add to my list of loves:
11. vanilla vodka

'Til then!

Knitting MIA

So I've decided.
Since I have been knitting MIA for the past month or so. I'm going to change this blog around a little bit. I'm going to (until I get back into the swing of knitting again) start a series of posts about "The Things I Love" -- mostly material things. Why do this? Because I feel like it.
What I will do is make an ongoing list, and each post I will focus on ONE of those things from the list. This could really go on and on forever.

So...starting with the list!

Things that Auna Loves

1. The Office (US version)
2. Archaeology
3. France and all of Europe
4. Knitting
5. Food
6. Arrested Development
7. Spinning
8. Underwear
9. Astronomy
10. Sailing

And I'll just start with those 10 first. I might do an in-depth post on #1 later on in the day. Depends on how bored I become. :)

MIA Apparently

So my blog posting skills are quite lacking I see.
I'm very...slow on the knitting these days. Now that I've finally graduated from college, it's like...what else is there to do? There's really not a whole heck of a lot. There's nothing to stress me out (well, the search for a job, but that's just really depressing) so...not a whole lot to inspire me to knit.

I am in the search for a spinning wheel right now though. I'm hoping to find one/decide on one by the end of the summer. :) I have all the money, I just need to make the decision.

In much, much, much sadder news, my kitty died this past week. :'( She would have been 18 years old next week. She's been my kitty since I was 4 years old. So I've been dealing with that over the past few days (leaving me to REALLY not want to do anything). She's somewhere in/around the house, my parents haven't been able to find her at all, which makes the situation even sadder.
But hey, maybe I'll get a new siamese kitten for my birthday next month, that would be a slightly happier affair.

Hope that life you well (to everyone who is reading this)!

No Yarn, Too Much Thinking

So I haven't heard anything from the yarn website where I bought my spur of the moment Lorna's. I thought that they would have shipped by now...I'm concerned.

In the meantime, I'm trying to keep my wits about me. I'm graduating in less than a month, I have a 30 page paper due in 2 (3?) weeks, I have a presentation (15 minutes long) in 2 weeks, a paper to coincide with that presentation in 3-4 weeks, and another paper for another class due next week.
And after that, I'll be 100% unemployed and struggling to get by.

Kids, don't study anthropology. Unless you have a real solid plan. :)

No, I'm kidding. I love my major more than it's worth!

Yarn Obsession

I spent about $30 today on 3 skeins of Lorna's Laces (on SALE!!!!!!) from KnitHappens.com
I really shouldn't have. I couldn't resist. I have a problem.

Teehee!

What am I going to do with just under 600 yards of pink and purple yarn??!?? Worsted no less! It's not enough to make a sweater (by any means), it's too warm to make something summery. Too thick to make socks. Maybe a bag. Maybe matching hat and mittens for next winter. I DON'T KNOW!!!

Why do I do these things? :)

The Cursed Socks Are Finished!

Oh yes! They're done! They're done!!!!!!

I will regale you all with my tale of the cursed socks:

My mother gave me the KnitPicks sock yarn for the socks. I really love pink, and since I don't look so great in pink, I can get away with making lots and lots and lots of pink socks. :) I decided that I might make toeless socks (like Knitty's pedicure socks), it was summer, I love handknit socks, I don't usually wear socks in summer because I tend to get by wearing only sandals, so that was the plan. I started the socks -- using U.S. size 1 needles and the sock yarn. I cast on too few stitches, when I finally got to the heel, they were too small to even go over my entire foot. So I ripped it out and started again. Second try -- still too small. Ripped them out, started again. Third try -- too loose, way too loose. Ripped them out, started again. So I knit them with the amount of stitches I figured would work. At this point in time, I was living at my parent's house, waiting to find an apartment downtown that I would like. Well, when the woman that cleans my parent's house came, the sock and needles disappeared -- completely. I looked everywhere, under furniture, in all the closets, in all the cupboards. They were gone.

I gave up looking, but told my mom that if she ever moved the basement around, or did a thorough cleaning to keep an eye out for them. She never found them ... UNTIL February! She found them, I rejoiced. I got them back! So I received the cursed sock back and to my great dismay...the sock doesn't fit! NOOO!!! So I rip it out again, start over. I cast on doing a long-tail cast on and start knitting with the tail of the cast on! WHAT MORE CAN I DO WRONG???? So I start over one last time. And that was the last time that I restarted them.

Now they're done! And they're beautiful! And they're soft! And they don't really quite match, but who cares?!??? :) I'm happy with them.

Beeeeeeautiful Yarn!

I need to figure out some better layout for these pictures...
Here's the finished product of my lovely Yarn Hollow roving! XD I loooooove it!
I bought some merino/silk roving at Loopy Yarns in Chicago earlier this week while I was there. I'll probably post some pictures of that later. :) For the time being though, I'm working on socks. The cursed socks of doom! Dooooom!!!