Crafty Kitty

Woe is me.  I have such a busy and active social life that I haven't had much time for knitting lately.  I've been slowly but surely working on the boobholder and I bet I'll have it done by the end of the week.  I'm making plans for a few hats for people and then the next project I'm working on is going to be Lelah and I can't wait!

Let’s see – what have I been doing instead of knitting?  Well, my dear friend Chris who I know from Oshkosh has moved to Madison, and has therefore been distracting me from my yarn.  I am so excited to be able to hangout with him again.  We’ve just been chilling like old times and we went to see a show at the High Noon on Thursday night.  So there’s that.  Then the boy brought me back a bottle of excellent red wine from when he was out in LA so we had to cook up a steak dinner (with baked potatoes, of course) which we had on Tuesday night.  We then went to see March of the Penguins, which was so, so cute (even though maybe I was so full and a little tipsy from the wine I might have fallen asleep for the last 10 minutes or so).

And then there was this past weekend.  My friend came down from Oshkosh and we just lived it up old school style.  I took a half day from work on Friday because I had to go downtown to buy my books for the class I’m taking (that starts tomorrow night and has me a little freaked out about being back at school even though I’m the hugest nerd ever and I LOVE school).  Chris joined me while I went downtown and we had lunch at Frida’s.  Oh my god, how I love Frida’s!  I have now turned Chris on to the joys of Frida.  Chris was eyeing up all the tequila they have there and got the bright idea to buy a bottle of really good tequila for the evening.  We stopped at Steve’s Liquor on the way home and he bought like a $40 bottle, I can’t even remember what the name was.  We stocked up on a bunch of beer too.  Then we went to my house and sat outside drinking some beer while we played cribbage and for once I finally beat him at it.  I always get dealt shitty hands when I play with him and he’s skunked me once or twice before (which sucks, because sometimes I can be a sore loser).  Then Deanna arrived and had the bright idea of going to Red Robin for dinner, where I then proceeded to order fried shrimp and scarf it all down to the point where I had a stomachache.  After dinner we stopped by my apartment once more to grab all the beer and the tequila, some pajamas, and pillows and blankets because Deanna and I were going to crash at Chris’s apartment.

When we got to Chris’s, we decided to play some drinking games to get a buzz on.  Chris and I did a few shots of tequila but Deanna wasn’t having any.  Once we were sufficiently buzzed, we called a cab to take us to the Great Dane in Fitchburg so we could play some pool.  We had the freakiest cab driver ever!  Firstly, when we got down to the car, he gave us this lecture about how he had been waiting 6 minutes and if we call for a cab, we better make sure we’re ready for the cab when it comes.  So then we apologized and we were just sitting quietly in the cab, waiting to get to the Dane.  Then out of nowhere he was like, “I had this substitute teacher in high school,” and he continued to tell us all about her and then ended the story with, “and she was driving behind a truck full of sheet metal and it stopped abruptly in front of her and a piece of sheet metal came flying back and decapitated her.”  And since I’m slightly drunk I can’t help but laugh out loud because that is the sickest story ever and why the hell are you telling us this?  The lady who drove us home told us he was the new guy.  We were like, “Watch out for the new guy!”

Chris lives within walking distance of an Adult Video Store, so since we were pretty wasted at this point, we decided to head over.  I coerced Deanna into purchasing a little mini-vibrator and told her that she and her boyfriend would have an excellent time with it and that they should thank me later.  I feel I need to extol the virtue of vibrators to everyone I know.  Then we came back and passed the heck out.

Saturday morning we went down to the Capital Square and went to the farmer’s market.  We purchased all sorts of veggies because we were having a cookout at the boy’s house that night.  Deanna made us stop at Jamba Juice because she loves that shit and I must admit they do make a mean smoothie.  That night, we had beer butt chicken (made with Guinness) at the boy’s house.  It was me, Deanna, Chris, the boy, the boy’s roommate and his girlfriend and then our coworker and his wife.  We had a pretty dang good time, although hosting a dinner party is a lot of freaking work.  I didn’t even get to relax and chat until all the cooking was over.  Chris left early, but then some of us went to the bar at the bowling alley close to the boy’s house to play pool.  The pool tables were all full so we played darts instead and Deanna whipped all of our asses.  She made me buy her a shot and then the bartender proceeded to give us free shots.  I did a shot of Crown (bad idea), and shot of Crown with butterscotch rum (bad idea) and then some shot the bartender mixed up for us (very bad idea).  I ended the night by puking my guts out in the boy’s bathroom.  He was all worried about me and holding my hair back because he’s never seen me like that.  I haven’t drank like that since I lived in Oshkosh and there is a REASON for that.

So yesterday was just a chill and recover from the previous two nights kind of day.  Well, that explains my lack of knitting.  This week should be better!