The Daily Dude! (The Peen Hut Edition)

Today's presentation: Dude's Peen Hut arrives!

Oh lordy. No she didn't! *hides face*

Out of the box, it's more peen-like than previously suspected.

The Dude is concerned. And rightly so.

Out with the old, in with the new. New bedding all purply and lavender scented!

The carrot enticement works...momentarily.

But more incentive is required. Especially with the sheer amount of humiliation involved.

The Le Bon Croissant does the trick, nicely!

Mission accomplished! Peen hut integration complete.

XOXO
Bella

The Dude Continues to Abide.

There's a hole in my yard.

I forgot to mention that the city is doing some sort of road work out in front of the house, and apparently, our lawn became a casualty. I woke up from a dead sleep thinking that someone was about to drive a wrecking ball through the living room, only to discover that they had dug a deep trench in the front yard (INTO THE YARD) into which they were going to put a fire hydrant. The most amusing part about the situation (aside from not even knowing they were planning on doing this) was waking up to look outside and see a man's head floating in my lawn....with a cigarette hanging from his lips. The irony is palpable.

And because I feel the need to inflict more Dude upon you all, the daily Dude-dose:

Dude meets Carrot. Dude apparently loves carrots, like whoa, and will wake from a dead sleep just to partake of one.

Dude is not so impressed with raspberries. Whoever put it in the hammie-wiki is fired.

That's all for now;)

XOXO
~Bella

I feel the earth move under my feet...

The view from my window today.

Foggy, with a touch of Silent Hill.

Apparently, this morning at about 5:25am, Seattle was rocked by a 4.6 earthquake.

Want to know where I was? Crashed out, completely asleep.

I found out from my mother about it when she called me to ask if Dragon and I had had some seriously earth-shattering sex this morning. Queue my puzzlement, which led to the explanation. *laughs* I then find out, from her, that I have a history of sleeping through earthquakes (courtesy of my younger years in Alaska).

Well isn't that nice? It's rather charming to know that the house could literally fall down around me and I'd sleep right through it. I sent a text to Dragon to find out if HE knew about it (since he gets up much earlier than I do) but considering he didn't say anything to me this morning as we were getting ready to run him to work, I'd have to say that he was possibly as oblivious as I was. The cats certainly didn't freak out enough to wake us up. So there you go.

To be honest, I'll take an earthquake over a tornado/hurricane ANY DAY. Which is another reason why I wanted to move to Washington.

*Chuckles* How exciting. And I slept right through it.

And to prove how disinterested the cats were, behold:

Blade, in his tree, looking very non-plussed.

Kratos, watching on with disinterest.

Mumbles, in the window, wondering what the fuss is about.

Shadow, window-bird-hunter extraordinaire.

Habu, just wondering when she's going to get some treats.

XOXO
Bella

Okay. These made me chortle today.

I know, I said it was a small post. I lied.

These about made me pee m'self laughing so hard. I thought I'd share them with you guys too;)





XOXO
Bella

Like a virgin.

I've never tried soymilk before.

In fact, I'm not a milk fan in the slightest. I like dairy foods (cheese, ice cream, yogurt, etc.) but I cannot stand the taste of straight milk. Not even on my cereal. Not even with a TON of chocolate syrup in it. I can handle milk shakes from time to time, but even then, there comes a point where I get annoyed with the milk flavor.

So when my doctor suggested going on a Biocleanse this month (which I haven't done for other, personal reasons, but WILL be doing next month) I was perusing the list of foods we CAN eat, and it mentions soymilk. I'm not even going to go into the list of foods we cannot have because, frankly, it's everything we do eat right now. So it's more than slightly depressing;)

I asked around, various friends, to get suggestions for what is a good soymilk to try and one told me about 8th Continent. I haven't been able to find it here, and we wanted to try something out, so we settled on vanilla Silk.

I'd been sitting here looking at it everytime I open the fridge for the last couple of days, trying, I suppose, to work up the courage to just drink it. Instead, today, I opted to put it on my cereal. Although I have 3 cereal options, I picked plain ol' Life because, I figured, if it tastes bad on Life, there's no hope for it on anything else.

Let me tell you! It actually tastes pretty damned good! I still won't drink it straight, but on cereal? It's definitely a winner. Light, sweet, with none of the milky aftertaste that makes me gag. I really enjoyed it.

So if you're soymilk shy, I'd have to recommend Silk vanilla in the blue carton. Seriously tasty stuff. I wonder if it'll be good to cook with? Anyone know?

XOXO
~Bella

Thought idea....right before bed, go figure.

So I was sitting here flipping through the stitch pattern book and I realized I have a goal.

I don't know if I'll be able to do it, but it's not like I don't have plenty of scrap yarn in my stash with which to try: I'm going to attempt knitting a swatch of each stitch pattern every day. Each new day will be a new stitch pattern, starting with the more basic and moving along to the more difficult ones.

I want to do this to help increase my knitting know-how. I'll post pictures every day of each completed swatch square and perhaps...just perhaps...this might be beneficial to more than just me:)

Comments? Suggestions? I'm open and listening!

Lesson learned.

That's what the sky looked like last night as the snow fell.

It's beautiful, really.

I just learned today that, being un-used to driving on snowy roads, it's really a better idea to stay inside. Seriously.

We decided to venture out to the bank this afternoon figuring, well, it's snowing. So it can't be that bad. People are still driving around.



How wrong we were. We made it to the bank only to end up stuck on an ice patch in the parking lot. If it weren't for the two very nice guys who helped Jack shove the car off the ice and onto the snow, we'd probably still be there. So, we came home. The bank and trip to Fred Meyers can wait for another day.

We definitely need snow tires stat.


In the meantime, yay snow! Boo driving in snow.

XOXO
Bella

Post Zero

I realized today while looking through Ravelry that I didn't have a crafting blog set up. Not that I truly expect anyone to follow along with it, but at least it's out there for my own edification.

(Someone's been using the dictionary again, it seems.)

So here it is. Blog post, ground zero.

I crochet. I knit. I sew. I cross-stitch. I try my hand at other crafts, sometimes successfully, other times, not so much. Hopefully having this journal will help...I don't know...spur me on to greater depths of creative depravity (much to the chagrin of my husband, I'm sure.)

So hold on to your hats...Bella's crafts is on the loose!

XOXO
Bella