Crafty Girly

I have been so incredibly swamped with school work that I really can’t believe how much work they’re expecting us to do in such a short amount of time. I haven’t had much time for anything really. I worked a little on crocheting a “granny square” more for practice than anything. I’m going to keep going with it and make a doggie/kitty blanket out of it for charity. I made it out of some Vanna yarn that I got to make my portion of the charity log cabin blanket that the Betties are working on, so I figured I’d keep going with my charity knitting and use up the cheap yarn for a good cause, but I haven’t finished it yet.

I also started cleaning up some raw merino that I had purchased and oh.my.god the portions I got cleaned have come out so incredibly soft and fluffy! I can’t wait to finish it up so I can play with it some more. It will need to be carded and dyed and then it will be up on Deco Handspun. This little lamb was apparently and incredibly dirty little guy because I’ve had to wash it out quite a few times and some parts of it are still a bit grungy, but the lanolin is out so that’s good. It’s not so sticky anymore. It just need to pick through it and get all the VM out of it and that’s really time consuming because, as I said, this guy was really dirty.

So the reason I wanted to blog today was really because I have a really funny story to tell you all that has nothing to do with knitting but is something I really needed to share, and my boyfriend is insisting on it.

We’ve been cat-sitting this really awesome Siamese cat for the past two months. This guy is the coolest cat ever. We’ve been told by the owner that he’s about 20 years old, so he doesn’t really do much of anything. He usually just lays around the house and every now and then he comes and head-butts us for some petting and then he’ll go around and harass our other two cats once a day and that’s his day. Well, yesterday I had lit one of those giant scented candles that come in a glass container and placed it on the coffee table to make the room smell nice. He decided to come up on the table and nap, which is not unusual for him. He usually makes space up there and knocks everything off the table so he can nuzzle up and nap. Yesterday he came up, he napped, and when he was done napping he decided to walk across the coffee table to try and get some love from us but this cat decided to take the short route straddling the candle. I don’t know what happened but all I remember doing is looking up from my studying and screaming, “OH MY GOD, SUKI’S ASS IS ON FIRE!!!” He turned to me with this, “huh?” look on his face and didn’t realize that he had caught the underside of his tail, right were it meet his body on fire. He looked like Michael Jackson with his head on fire only it was the poor cats ass. Thankfully it was just the hair that had caught and it didn’t get the skin. As soon as I screamed that out my boyfriend swept him up and put out his poor butt. It smelled like burnt hair in that room for a good half hour after this happened.

This has honestly got to be the funniest thing I have ever seen because the cat didn’t realize what had happened to him and even after I had screamed that out he looked at me like, “What’s going on?” He had no clue and he never complained. Well, I can’t say never because we gave him a bath afterwards to get all the blackened hair off of him, and he took that with stride (thankfully) but he didn’t enjoy it very much. He was good as new afterwards though.