sj, I know! Aren't they pretty? I love all the patterns from that company, but wow, I bet they are VERY FAR from my skill level with sticks & string.

Pretty enough that I want to learn how to knit now too!

This morning kripkat started PULLING MY HAIR at 6 am. Biting my head, getting a hank of hair, pulling, and making a fart spitting sound with his mouth from the suction. Unbelievable.

Luckily, Loki mostly reserves that for aveda hair products day.

I got a couple hours more sleep, swam, cleaned up some papers and consolidated my tax documents so far. And finally replaced my color ink cartridge. I find it so annoying that if the printer is out of color, it won't just let me use black.

And now Devi is meowing plaintively at me, but whenever I try to pet her, she gets bitey. Confused little bitchkitty.

Laundry is folded (I know y'all were waiting for an update). I just need to drag it in my room and put stuff away. Which I'm much more likely to do now that it is folded.

Homemade guac is ready along with a bowl of chips. I watch one football game a year. Mainly so I'm not clueless at the office on Monday.

there are 3 tv screens at work. 2 showing superbowl pre-stuff. one showing puppybowl. That seems like a reasonable balance. Me? Browsing the internets.

I made blueberry pancakes from scratch this morning, and chili is simmering on the stove for this week. I also cleaned the kitchen and bathroom sinks and took a shower. I've got about 45 minutes before I go to my alt-Super Bowl gathering, so I'm going to work on bills for 15, then fold clothes for 15.

I was going to make chili, but when I got home from the store I realized I had no tomatoes, canned or fresh. And I'm not going back to the store. If we are hungry after the chips with salsa and the shrimp, I'll order a pizza.

Just went and had amazing sushi at a counter in the middle of a fast food place. The chef is a trained sushi chef who wanted to help his father with his struggling burger joint, and plopped a fancy sushi counter in the middle. It was the best sushi I've had in LA.

Teppy makes hot devil girl indeed. That party sounds like a blast and half.

I've been desultorily cleaning the kitchen all day, and also messing it up again by cooking beet greens and finally finishing up my bagels (still need to be boiled and baked, I'm waiting on the oven heating up at this point), so that's still ongoing. Sort of boxed up the worm bin and sent an e-mail to the manufacturer asking if I can buy just the missing parts so I don't ave to return it. Filled the new hummingbird feeder and cleaned up the porch from the ravages of, I assume, raccoons, who made off with a lot of birdseed cake thingies. And have been trying to watch Moon but I keep getting distracted.

I think I'll put the game on when it starts, but I don't know that I'll be actively watching. I wish I had some chips and cheesy dip of some sort.

Did Christina Aguilera just mess up the words to the National Anthem?

Yes, she did.