After finding out that I can get a music movement of the Alfred Hitchcock theme, I have a very strong desire to make a little amigurumi Alfred Hitchcock with the music movement in it.

But I also love Those Were the Days. That's been one of my favorite songs since I was little.

Time for chat. Right now. It usually lasts a couple hours. It's 7:30 am PST.

Well.. my first ever amigurumi was an alien, which my son took when he saw it.
Then I made a few more, and went to thread amigurumi, again, my first was an alien.

While I was cleaning out my purse last week, my son saw my little thread amigurumi and mentioned to me in a very subtle 17 yo boy kind of way.. "I don't have one that small"
So we talked, and he decided rather then just a loose little toy, he'd like a keyring.
( W's little alien keyring )

Yesterday I decided to straighten back out my schedule from being sick, so I was zombie like all day. You know, shuffling my feet, trying to eat brains.. or something like that. Since thinking was just beyond me, I watched Dark Angel and worked on that and on a really simple headband for E.

( an amigurumi radish and you probably don't )
Yesterday E and I took a walk, and it was both lovely and terrifying. The lovely was the waterhole up the street, the one the loud goose lived at a few years ago? No goose this year, but the cattails were gorgeous, and so were the wild roses on one of the undeveloped lots that are all over my neighborhood.
The terrifying? We witnessed a motorcycle accident. I ran to help, but someone with some first aid training considerably more current then mine jumped out of his car too. The rider wasn't wearing a helmet, and it's selfish I know, but I'm glad his brains weren't splattered all over the street. My daughter doesn't need to see that sort of thing.
Please ,please watch for motorcycles, and if you ride, please wear a helmet. In that split second, 2 lives were seriously compromised. The driver of the truck and the motorcyclist. It takes years to recover from either side of that sort of accident.

But that's not really what upset me most.
What upset me most, was that several people (and you know everyone's got a cell phone) couldn't figure out how to call 911, I dug my phone out of my fairly large purse by the time the person holding on figured out how to call 911.. but that's really not even what upset me most.

Wanna know what did it?
The gawkers.
The people who have such pathetic lives, that the excitement of seeing someone nearly killed was worth standing around and staring, talking about what happened, and just generally seeming to get entirely too much glee out of it. It made me sick. When I got home, it took me a while to stop being sick to my stomach over it. I wanted to scream, what is WRONG with you people? He's hurt, and you are all so busy staring and pulling over to stare, that you're creating a traffic hazard yourselves. Some people who couldn't manage to call 911 were on their phones talking to friends.

It's sick. Really seriously sick. Help, or get out of the way of the people who want to help.
Vultures, feeding off other people's pain and misery. American Idol apparently isn't enough.

I'm going back to my happy radish land. Because radishes don't stare at people who are hurt and call their bff to tell them all the gory details.

( we got a really late start.. )
That was my evening. Quiet. Because everything is quiet with ninjas.

( and scanned this instead of getting out my camera )

I'm going to meet my "little" sister later today. I mean, she's not really littler then me. Nobody is except Emily for another couple of months. Then she'll be taller then me too.
I have a brand new nephew.. let's see if I can get his name right.. Xellos I think? Maybe Xellios?
He was born 12 weeks early and is still in ICU, but doing pretty well.
I've never met my sister before, I'm really looking forward to it.
-Shala

( PIG!!! )
Today William, Mike and I did the archery thing, I know I'm going to be sore tomorrow, and I've LOST my ability to aim. WILLIAM outshot me. I keep going a little high. Just by a couple inches, but still.. one of my arrows (for some reason Mike got me green practice arrows. The lawn likes to hide them) wound up nearly completely under the dirt. A result of me trying to aim lower. It built up speed and slide almost to the fletching. I need much practice. I would have taken pictures of William and Mike shooting, but I gave Wm my batteries out of my camera for his cd player.
-Shala

( pictures )
Progress report on the scarf- no progress.
Progress report on her new shawl, 3 more rows before I decided to make the mermaid.
Astounding how inspirational those two boring projects are.
I misplaced my little alien buddy. He's too little. I took him out my purse while considering changing purses and never put him back in. I wonder if the cats got him? I need to find him. At least I'm not illegally smuggling aliens anymore.
-Shala

( Mike's witch, and melted beads )
OOH! I think I need to try a pink devil duck amigurumi. But I also still need to crochet a pink bat.
-Shala

In Progress- Witch amigurumi for Mike. Since I have my alien. She's got black hair though, which is the ONE color I haven't had in all the time we've been together. I couldn't find anything close to my natural shade in the cotton I prefer.

You know how some purses close with sticks? Yeah.. half of you are knitters, you know what I mean. Do they have magnets as well or just sticks for handles? Could dowels with round ends glued on them work? I have an idea in the back of my head trying to come forward.

The witch will be a bit bigger then my little alien. Part of it is the hair. I swear putting it all in took more time then the doll itself will take to make. I told Mike "It would have been easier to crochet hair" but nothing like mine. Which gets everywhere. Also the doll has waist length hair because of the chibi type body. My hair is elbow length.

( now if I could figure out a basic cute bead woven body for mini bead amigurumi type figures.. I'm working on it.. )
Kind of want to finish my fossil necklace. Still unsure where I want to go with it. It will come to me.
-Shala