Friday Fixation: Ibuprofen
Today's Friday Fixations is ibuprofen, brought to you by the pulled muscle in my neck/shoulder. Enjoy your Friday night folks, I'll be back tomorrow.
Dyson Animal
Today's Friday Fixation is a new gadget that makes my life a little easier: the Dyson Animal (DC25).
Since our old Eureka has pretty much given up the ghost we decided that the extra money for the Dyson would be money well spent. We ran around town looking for it last Sunday, but unfortunately we could not find the DC25 Animal in town (the DC25 line are the "Ball" line of vacuums.) I wanted the Ball for a variety of reasons:
1. They weigh less than their traditional counterparts.
2. They maneuver more easily, since they can pivot in any direction.
3. They are fancier and cooler than the non-Ball vacuums.
We did end up finding the vacuum locally, at Best Buy (I actually placed my order on-line for in-store pick-up which was an easy and smooth transaction and I recommend it). We went out in a heavy rain on Monday evening to pick it up. It comes needing a little assembly (you need to snap on the handle and connect the brush to the ball, no tools involved) but by the time it was ready to go, it was too late to run it. Tuesday morning I was finally able to run my test, and joy of joys! This vacuum is amazing. I had run the old vacuum on Saturday and when I vacuumed with the Dyson on Tuesday, I swear you'd have thought there was half a cat in the carpet! It also runs more quietly than the old vacuum so the cat is less afraid of it. All-in-all I am very pleased and think it was an investment well made.
Target Women
Or, Sarah Haskins, I totally have have a girl crush on you.
I've been watching the current.com "Target Women" spots for awhile now. Sarah Haskins is tall, and lovely and never seems to quite know what to do with her arms. Oh, and she's hysterically funny. From Chick Flicks, to Yogurt (food of women!), to skewering women voting for Sarah Palin simply because she has a uterus nothing is safe from her satirical eye. Enjoy:
PiDay FriDay
Happy Pi Day folks!
I'm taking a short break from the Pi Day festivities to share today's fixation: Garfield, two ways.
Number 1: Without Garfield
Number 2: Live, full color, filmed in front of a blue screen, with bonus music videos.
Busy B*
Things have been quite busy here lately. I spend Thursday nights knitting with ViolinJodie and a handful of other folks. This week's topic of conversation turned to Black Sheep Gathering (BSG). This year's BSG is going to be happening at a crazy time in this city, just before the US Olympic Trials [expect a lot of grumbling out of me come late Junly (late June to mid July) as they're predicting 100,000 folks flooding in for that. The population of Eugene is currently 153 thousand and change, with a metro area of nearly 350,000.] Workshop registration begins on March 15th (ah, the ides) so I'm getting together my application and funds to register for some fabulous spinning workshops. There's some talk of a sheep to shawl group, but that is still very much in the planning stages. (For those who are not fiber-y in their hobbies, a sheep to shawl is a spinning/weaving competition where a team of six--5 spinners and a weaver--spins and weaves a shawl from clean, uncarded fiber in a five hour period. The warp is handspun and set up on the loom prior to the event but the weft yarn is carded, spun and woven into a shawl measuring at least 1440 square inches).
Besides planning for Black Sheep, I'm working on another project. It will be revealed as soon as I get the website set up (hopefully no more than one week from now). This project is a big one, one that could hopefully change my life much for the better. It is also the first step in a much larger scale idea, one that likely won't come to fruition until the end of the decade. My husband and I are also planning to spend some time together. Instead of celebrating Valentine's Day, we've decided that we will celebrate Pi Day (3.14). This will encompass several dates we like--when we originally first met face-to-face (March 12th), Pi Day itself, the ides and St. Patrick's Day.
We're also gearing up for physical therapy! TheBoy has a problem with his lower back, he's already had one surgery to attempt to correct a disc that ruptured a few years ago (it ruptured largely due to four years of misdiagnoses.) When he had the surgery he was warned a second surgery to remove more soft tissue might be necessary so we had been preparing for that as we waited for his insurance to cover the pre-existing condition. However, his doctor thinks that with a couple of months of physical therapy TheBoy may be able to avoid undergoing another surgery. This is good news for many reasons, not the least of which is that it is covered by the insurance.
And now for our Friday Fixation: two youtube videos: Dancing Cop and A Sheep in Sheep's Clothing. Enjoy!
*B instead of Bee because my mom has always used "B" as a term of endearment for me.