An Interesting Weekend

Yes, we did have an interesting weekend. Not a lot done on the fiber front, but interesting (in a good way). Friday afternoon Mickael and I went to see the The Dark Knight (Caleb went to play at one of our neighbor's homes ). The movie was great but about 5 minutes in, we realized that not bringing Caleb was really a great parenting choice on our part. I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, I'll just say it's very dark and if you don't have clown issues going into the movie, you will when you come out. I've been creeped out by clowns for years now, so it really just reaffirmed my belief that clowns are bad and not to be trusted.

After the movie, the neighbors brought Caleb to meet us at a Mexican restaurant and we all had a fun dinner. Then we (Mickael and Caleb and I) went to Best Buy to find a game Caleb has been wanting for the PlayStation. We didn't find the game, but we finally found a Wii system! We have been looking for a Wii for months now. The system has been out for over a year and a half and they're still hard to track down. When we saw it sitting on the shelf we must have stared at it for about 5 minutes.
"Is that it?"
"It looks like it."
"Is that the full system or just an add on thingy?"
"I don't know. It has a picture of the system on the box."
"Why would it be sitting here?"
"I don't know. Find someone who works here."

So we did and he said that yes, it was the system and it was left from the shipment they had gotten in that morning. So we got an extra controller and nunchuck thingy and giggled our way to the checkout. (In the interest of preserving Mickael's manhood, I was giggling and yelling "Wiiiiiiii" periodically, Caleb jumped up and down and told me he was going to wipe the floor with me, Mickael just rolled his eyes and told us not to cry when he beat us both. Yeah, we're a sick family.) As you can imagine, there has been much playing of the Wii and talking of the smack at each other. The boxing game is our favorite so far and it really gives you a pretty good aerobic workout if you get up and really get into the game. We're now looking for the WiiFit package, but everyone is sold out of it right now. Oh, and just in case you were wondering, my Mii is named Lemmii.

Since this is a knitting blog, I will show you the tiny bit of knitting I got done this weekend.

I picked it up last night, planning on getting through the 16 rows I have left before I start the saddle shoulders and realized that I had miss-crossed one of the cables about 14 rows previously. I had to drop the stitches and recross the cable correctly and then work the stitches back up. Then I worked two rows and put the whole thing down for the night because I kept making stupid mistakes. This design is definitely one I have to pay attention to - no auto pilot knitting here. Maybe I'll get more done on it later today - after I wipe the floor with Caleb on boxing, that is.

Thanks for all the complements on Oblique by the way!