I’m currently installing OSX Leopard on my MacBook Pro. W00t! I’m so excited! (I am the domestic geek, after all.)

Today is also an exciting day because this evening marks my first trip to a midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show. I’ve been a fan since high school, but my hometown didn’t do the whole midnight show -thing. So tonight, I finally get the opportunity! I’m going with one of my very best friends, Erica. She a huge RHPS fan too, so it’s sure to be a good time.

I even knitted for the occasion!

I mean, why buy a feather boa when you’ve got eyelash yarn? I used Lion Brand Fun Fur and Lion Brand Wool-Ease Chunky to knit this up. Originally I’d meant to make the scarf skinnier, but now I’m happy I didn’t because it’s looking like it’s going to be a cold, rainy night. ::shivers:: I also bought iron-on transfer paper for the ink-jet printer, and I made t-shirts for Erica and I too.

The last few splurge-purchases I made online came in the mail yesterday:

I wanted to include both those photos because honestly I was a little disappointed with the hank when I opened the package. The colors didn’t look as vibrant as they had on The Loopy Ewe website. Or, perhaps not so much as “vibrant” — but there’s white spots in the middle of areas that should be dyed. But after I wound the yarn into a center-pull ball, I perked up — it looks much prettier! This yarn is definitely going to be socks for ME. Hehe.

I also finally broke down and bought some sock blockers (also from The Loopy Ewe).

WOW what a difference they make in the way the socks look. I’m definitely photographing my socks on blockers from now on. And I’m also definitely taking the time to block socks before I give them as gifts. They look SO much better this way. I think I’m going to order a size large in the sock blockers as well because all my friends and family seem to fit into one of those two sizes. The neat part is — the blockers are so cute and beautifully finished that they’re decorative as well! They have little holes at the top to hang (which I intend on doing as soon as I find some nails long enough). Fun!

My knitting hasn’t been especially successful the last couple of days. I think I mentioned that I cast on Cherie Amour twice and frogged it twice. Lace apparently just isn’t my friend.

Then last night I cast on a new pair of socks for my mom. I had planned on making her two pairs for her birthday in two different styles. I’d finished the first sock for the first pair, and I figured I’d start the first sock for the second pair, so I could switch back and forth when I got bored looking at one color/pattern. I got about 20 rows into it and didn’t like the way the yarn was looking in the pattern I’d chosen (a lacy pattern again) so I frogged it too. UGH. I went back to knitting the second sock for the first pair instead. That, thankfully, went well.

I guess maybe I wasn’t meant to have more than one project on my needles at a time.