Looking for the perfect way to tell that special someone something special? Well, you can find a variety of Valentine’s Day cards for any LOST fan whose claimed your heart. (Some cards may contain spoilers if you haven’t watched past season 3.)
You can view the illustrator’s website here. Thanks for sharing, fellow Twitterer and LOST fan, abbybischoff!
I’ve been crocheting hats like crazy the last couple of weeks. So far, I’ve made two adult hats and 10 baby hats. There’s been a lot of concern about how many babies I’m having. Don’t worry, I’m having just one and only two of those hats are for my baby. The remaining 8 are for babies I know. And I still have a few more on a list to crochet.
The selection for boy colors in baby yarn is quite limited. There are a lot of pastels – and even “boy” colors in pastel still look quite girly. So I bought baby yarn in colors I liked, and then a couple I thought I could deal with for boys. (Turns out one is camo – I was hoping the dye would be in longer segments so it’d be more like shades of green…but it’s most definitely camo.)
I don’t know if any of the hats I made for friends’ babies will fit any of the babies, but I’m hoping they’re close. The parents can always re-gift or save it for a future baby if it’s too small, I guess! Albie helped out by modeling the hats – it sort of gives one a sense of size, too. Though I don’t have much sense of scale when it comes to babies who are 3 months old and babies who are almost a year old…
See the whole set here.
While the rest of the world watches the LOST premiere event, I’m scanning in my questions from every season. If you don’t know why we aren’t also watching, you can refresh your memory from this post.
We wanted to re-watch all the seasons and journal our questions, but we didn’t think of it with enough time and realized we’d have to watch 6.5 episodes a day to accomplish it before the premiere – which just wasn’t feasible. So I went to Lostpedia and read the overview for each episode and developed my questions from there and memory. Each season progressively has more questions I want answers to. Some of these may be important questions, but most have probably passed their time of importance and I am the only one who still wants to know. In any case, you can read through them. It is not at all comprehensive. I know I’m missing major questions here, but they’re mine and you can have your own. I plan to cross them off as they get answered and see what’s left at the end of the series. After the fact, I found this article, which lists many unanswered questions (probably the important ones) and would saved me a little time (and hand cramps) with my list. Oh well. Maybe the island will reward me for my sacrifice.
I also have a page for season six, which will undoubtedly raise questions as it progresses.
We worked on the nursery this weekend. I decided I wanted to paint a wall, based on the colors in our nursery bedding/paintings I did. So we got paint. And I painted the wall.
Then we decided we were going to buy the crib this weekend too. And assemble it.
While we were at Target, we noted that the Pack n Play we were planning to purchase was in stock. So we bought that, too. And figured out how to set it up.
I had purchased a car seat earlier in the week, so we unboxed that.
All while rewatching season five of LOST.
Then last night we hung up the canvases I painted over my Christmas break.
You can see the whole set on Flickr. The only pictures that show the most accurate color for the wall are the ones with the canvases on the wall. The others look really bright. If I were to change anything on the paintings, it would be the triceratops. He looks goofy and has no neck. But, he looks the same on the bedding of which I was basing it off of, and I didn’t want them to not match. I guess we’ll just be teaching our son that even goofy looking people belong.
Well, since the little lady posted about her post-holiday purchasing, I’ll do the same. I made a special Wishlist in Amazon that I used to collect, ruminate over, discard, and, eventually, purchase my items. I finally concocted a collection (nay, plethora) of presents that came, with shipping, to $96.97.
The List:
Most surprising, I think, is the fact that I didn’t purchase any PS3 games. I’m as surprised as you are! There certainly are such games on my list, but I feel like I need to complete a couple more of them before I go purchasing additional ones. Also, time is a factor, as video games can benefit from multiple days’ momentum. Case-in-point, Bryan Johnson was kind enough to lend me, by way of driving to my house and handing to me, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. I have yet to drop the game in and play a level. Now, that might change with Holli’s class schedule, since it’ll give me a fair chunk of down time on Tuesday evenings, but I still can’t feel justify purchasing a whole new game with what I currently have available to me.
Also surprising is the lack of music on the list. There was an mp3 album I had in mind, but the shipping pushed me past the point of purchasing it. However, I’ve been nickel-and-dime-ing (I mean, ninety-nine cent-and-one-dollar-and-ninety-nine-cent-ing) my way into a respectable amount of new music lately. Much of that new music is reflected in I’m the John. It’s more than that, though. I find it harder and harder to buy albums of music. My favorite bands, certainly, will get a full album purchase, but it’s so easy to listen to new music that I don’t need to own it. I can fire up any number of music services, some of which the artists, themselves, may have uploaded to, and play whatever hot new song or band is coming out. This is free. Those songs I can’t live without, get a $.99 purchase from iTunes or Amazon MP3. The rest get forgotten.
Also absent were baby items. That’s because Baby Rausch got his own financial and physical gifts this Christmas, which he has yet to thank anyone for.
What did you guys get for the Holidays?