Jananas

It has been well over a year since the Women Of The PFL fought last in La Belle Province – and they are very excited to be returning! This is a full live event featuring nearly all the stars of the League, including World Champion Killer Bea! #1 Contender Carmen Monoxide! Abbi Roadkill! Guillotina! Olivia Neutron-Bomb! CHAMPAIN and many more! This evening will also see four PFL Pledges fight for the first time in front of an audience, as they try to earn their PFL Certificate Of Courage, and a spot on the PFL roster! PLUS – for the first time ever – your Main Event – A SLUMBERJACK MATCH! Montreal, you won’t believe what’s going to take place in your city! C’est UNE QUERELLE DE NOEL!

PFL 24 – A Christmas Quarrel
PETIT CAMPUS
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
57 Prince Arthur Est
Saturday Dec. 20, 2008

Eight fights, MAIN EVENT – A Slumberjack Match!

Advance tickets $10 at Sound Central and Oblique – or $12 at the door.

Doors 8 pm, fights 9:30 pm!

Instead of doing school work this afternoon, I finished knitting my mom’s Knitmas present. The cowl knit up a little larger using the Misti Alpaca than it did when using Malabrigo (which is what mine is made of), but my mom’s shoulders are broader than mine so it should fit well. I still need to weave in the ends and block it so that the edges don’t curl. This took me five days to knit, although there were a lot of hours spent knitting in those days… Overall I’m very happy with how this has turned out.

In other knitting addict news, I was one of the lucky few who managed to get in on the Black Friday sale that Eat Sleep Knit are having. I’m going down to Columbus for 10 days in December once everything is finished up at school. I had originally planned on finishing up the cowl for my mom while there (and trust me, there’s plenty of knitting time between long road trips and being awake all day while the mister sleeps after his night shifts). Given that I’ve finished it, I need something else to keep me occupied. I ordered a bunch of single hanks of Malabrigo to make fun hats while I’m there. I figure that I should be able to knock off enough hats while there to pay for the yarn I bought – as long as I cover the cost of my addiction I’m fine with it. So expect some Etsy/shop updates in the new year…

I’ve been asked by several friends over the last few weeks to knit gifts for their significant others. I like knitting hats. They knit up fast, are easy to do, and keep my otherwise idle hands out of trouble. This is a fun purple and black one that I mailed down to the States. It was also my first time making tassles, even if they are a little hard to see in the picture below (the I-cord is loooooong so that the ear flaps can be tied down).

I’ve started working on Knitmas gifts. For my birthday this year my mom got me the Balsalm cowl pattern, which is simple to knit up (once you have the hang of the spiral pattern) and adds a pretty touch to any cowl. She comments on the one I knit for myself whenever I wear it, so I thought she’d appreciate getting her very own one. Mine was done in a Lettuce green Malabrigo, but I’m doing hers in a soft gray/lavender Misti Alpaca. This yarn is a little heavier than the Malabrigo, so its knitting up super quickly. Hopefully she likes it!

I’ve picked up a couple of copies of a book of interviews that my friend Shannon has put together and is selling through Lulu.com. Pretty easy process to order, etc., except for one little thing during the checkout process that irks me.

So, when entering your address you type in your name, address, city, etc. Then you get to State/Province field, where your choices are limited based on the Country field. So because the default Country is set to the US, I had to tab from State/Province to the Country field to change my Country to Canada. Then I had to click on the State/Province field again to be able to select my Province. I mean, its nice to not have to scroll through lists of states when I’m trying to enter a province, but if the logic is set up such that the options in the State/Province field are dependent on the Country field then when doing the data entry I should be given the Country option first so that my experience is seamless.

I’m aware that this isn’t a major item, but given the care put into the rest of the process how did they miss something so small?