Experiences and TNT

Adventures with wild horses

 OR 

Adventures with wild dolphins?*

Cross-stitch-wise, Santa is done except for backstitching.  Now on to a snow-covered tree and kittens on the sled.  (Or "sledge," as the English designer calls it.)

The fabric is light blue, though it looks dirty grey in this picture.  Santa has little chicken legs, which is kind of endearing.  There are loads of snowflakes, which I may freestyle rather than strictly following their placement on the pattern.  As long as it's snowing, right?  The fabric is 18-count, the first time I've used it in a while, and I'm having occasional trouble seeing.  I have one of those light sets that goes around your neck, and it's helping.

*Horses for me, due in very large part to the fact that I can't swim.

Bicentennial Men

 Have you seen this film?

Eerily possible these days.  I used to play selected parts in my classes, particularly the breakfast scene where Andrew has been learning about humor and jokes.

Today's question:

Would you rather have a robot to clean your house*

OR

a robot to cook your meals?

I finished my pastel socks:

I'm happy with them.  

*CLEANING ROBOT.  Don't even need to see the other choice.  CLEANING.  ROBOT.

Crop Circles and the Like...

This one's interesting:

Friendly aliens offer to show you the galaxy, but you can never return to Earth

OR

Aliens abduct you for a week of medical experiments, but then you go back to your regular life*

Got some work in on my little Santa this afternoon.  The count stitch is off in a couple of places,but I'm trying not to sweat it.  I'm about to pick up my cashmeres stripes scarf while I watch Sunday Night Football.  I'm also struggling along with my glow-in-the-dark footies.  The yarn is stiff and tough to work with, which I assume is due to the luminous dye.  It hurts my fingers --- dead ones and fine ones ---- to work on it very long.  I still promise to show it to you one day.

Oh.  Yeah.  I'd pick puppies.

  *I, suppose once you see even part of the galaxy, you'd want to see it all.  If you go with the week, you'll never get anybody to believe what happened.   If the aliens' ship is large enough to keep me from being claustrophobic, the choice is easy. 

This One is Crazy Difficult

 Would you rather be in a room full of

puppies

OR

kittens?*

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or

I never promised easy, people.  I just promised choices.

*Nope.  Not gonna give my answer 'til I see some of y'all's.

Saturday in the Chez

My knees have been been giving me no end of trouble lately.  Salonpas patches, ibuprofen, creams and sprays and ointments, ice, heat...  Nothing works for more than than a couple of hours. 

Standing after sitting is the absolute worst.  Once I start walking, things are okay.  Very, very bad knees are a genetic gift from my father's family.

This time of year, Saturdays without a TV are awful.  Radio is a fun throwback, but only for a while.  Oklahoma is in town to play UGA, and traffic out there has been bonkers.

 

Have I mentioned the unfinished roadwork ALL OVER TOWN?

Trippy, Man

Would you rather

hear colors

OR

taste colors?^

Have you ever tie-dyed anything?  I remember dyeing a t-shirt, which may have been for a Girl Scout badge.  My mother would never have let me freely "waste" dyeing on something so "tacky."  

The heels are turned on the pastel socks

...AND the whole thing looks like a uterus. This is, perhaps, an added perk of sock knitting on straight needles.  Check out the pretty stripes that are the heels.  This one should be done tomorrow.

^Hearing them would be so overwhelming, I'll go with tasting them.

Speak

Therapy today, as my therapist has another commitment Friday.  That is making me feel like tomorrow should be Saturday.  So weird how your mind plays tricks on you like that.

 Would you choose 

Being fluent in every language

OR

Having the ability to talk to and be understood by plants and animals*

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I got a couple of new plants yesterday;  this is my favorite:

I've named it Nakatomi.   The little babies at the base even look like frames for a front door.  I considered naming it Hans Gruber, but it doesn't look much like a Hans.

A cloudy, windy day here today.  I got to break out my first pair of boots of the season --- pale blue denim.  I'm about to go make myself some hot chocolate --- from scratch --- and call it an early night.

*A trick question?  If you're fluent in all languages, wouldn't you be able to communicate with plants and animals worldwide?  I'd choose fluency.  I already talk to Tap and my plants.