House Update and Nuclear Fall

We heard back from the realtor...
They're going to put a roof on our house!! (Notice the "our"). She is also going to treat the house for termites and replace the seal on the toilet.
We're actually going to move in.
We're actually going to own a house.
Crazy Town!!

A couple of bloggy things...
K. made Bean a great sweater... There is a picture of it on her blog. Bean loves it!! I think that it looks like you spun chunky yarn from Cookie Monster fur... and wish it came in my size! Thanks, K!
Also, Emy - thanks for the info about needle donations... I'll absolutely check that out. I learned to knit the washcloths where you cast on 4 and then increase once every row until you have between 35 and 45 stitches (depending on needle size) then decrease every row until you have 4. I still knit that type of washcloth when I need a quick FO fix. I think that is where we'll start. If I'm crazy enough to try this. And K? I'm going to hold you to that "I'm there" statement!!

I didn't post yesterday because the whole time I was at work (where the fast internets live) I was reading this book... Mark Haddon is my new favorite author. I'm ordering Spot of Bother. I read the whole book on my shift, which is good and bad - I got to finish it, but I also got more or less no knitting and no actual work done. Which means I need to do a little bit of actual work today. I can't want to.
I am either suffering from the longest cold in the world or my allergies are kicking my ass (well, more accurately my ears and my throat and my nose and my balance). It feels like every five minutes or so the room shifts a little - not a full spin, more like what the Tilt-a-Whirl cars do as the ride is slowing to a stop. It's fun when you're on a Tilt-a-Whirl. Not so fun when you're driving or cooking or in the middle of talking on the radio.

Speaking of cooking - I made soup last night. I've been wanting a good home made soup. I posted a while ago that I was going to go home and make soup... I think we had pizza that night. But last night... I poached two chicken breasts and cut them into bite-sized pieces. I sauteed garlic and onion and mushroom in some olive oil and a little butter and then added 2 cups of chicken broth and a 16 oz can of diced tomatoes (with the liquid) and fresh basil and a bay leaf. Then I chopped up some carrot, zucchini, celery and new potatoes and tossed them in and then added about 16 oz. of canned kidney beans. Except for the fact that I burned my tongue because I couldn't wait to try it I thought it was a success. I think if I made it again I would add more tomato and puree the garlic/onion/mushroom sautee with the tomato.

There is one more TV show I want to mention... Jericho. All I want to say about it is that I should not have watched it last night. I had horrible end-of-days dreams. I seriously am going to have some kind of emergency kit in the new house that includes duct tape and plastic sheeting. (Oh, and water and food and blankets and copies of important documents and knitting and books). Maybe we'll go all 1950's and build a bomb shelter in the back yard. Oh, we'll call it a tornado shelter, but you'll know what we meant. Here's a question - if some other country finally freaks out and launches nukes at our major cities would they stop there? Would the country just be emptied out like some Stephen King novel, or would that country come in and take over?
Yeah, like you've never wondered.
Honestly, Katrina did more to make me want to have an emergency kit than any nuclear war movie. I'm not a total nutcase.
Well...
But the idea that everything that we take for granted could - even temporarily - disappear makes me look for some kind of orderly plan.

So, no more Jericho for me. (Like I needed another show to watch, right?)

Tomorrow is Bean's actual party... I'm buying cupcakes again. Don't tell Martha, ok?