It’s March already, and that means St. Patrick’s day is just around the corner. So I thought I would post a crochet Shamrock pattern that I made up last year since I had a heck of a time finding one I liked. This is my first pattern so be kind and if you find a mistake or if I need to clarify something please post in the comments and I will do my best to fix it.
Pattern PDF <– Click to download
Release Date: 02/23/2010
Series: Rachel Morgan – The Hollows, Book 8
Type: Hardback
This is the 8th book in Kim Harrison’s fantastic Rachel Morgan series which chronicles the adventures of a witch, an living vampire and pixie with on hell of an attitude. I love this series but found this installment a bit on the dense side. Rachel is a feisty witch who has recently found out that she and indeed all witches are the magically stunted descends of demons. After being treated for a deadly childhood illness Rachel finds out that her children will be full demons. I know that would definitely freak me out.
Anyway, the white magic council that polices the ethical practices of the witches finds out her secret and gives her the choice between sterilization or prison time in Alcatraz. Crap…what kind of choice is that.
So now Rachel and her band of not so merry followers must figure out how to get her witchy butt off the councils shit list, keep Trent the drug-dealing sometimes evil elf in hiding from manipulating Rachel into signing her life over into virtual slavery, deal with a major pixie tragedy, placate a seriously freaky demon mentor while trying to stop him from kidnapping and selling anyone who strikes his fancy, and keep Nick the dick ex-boyfriend from making things even worse. Not to mention repelling fairy assassins, Rachel’s issues with men, especially the hot once-upon-a-time ghost first crush Peirce, and resurfacing childhood memories that are causing Rachel all kinds of confusion.
It was a good read but it dragged in some places and several of my favorite characters barely made an appearance or were not there at all.
It’s a sweet tool from Polyvore that lets you put together images from around the web into sets. I can see many hours of mixing and matching in my future.
It’s the day after Christmas and I was reminded yesterday that I needed to post an update to let ya’ll know what’s been going on here a casa Johnson. Let’s see…the Christmas decorations are history, mom had them down and packed before I even stumbled out of bed today. A testimonial to how ambivalent we have been toward the holiday season this year at the casa. It’s just the three of us so we tend to purchase everything we want during the year which leaves nothing on the gift list left to get. So our holiday focus seems to be more on what we are going to be eating rather than what’s under the tree.
This year we decided to start a new tradition of having homemade pizza for Christmas dinner. The boy didn’t want the traditional meal of baked coca cola ham, mashed ‘taters and various other accompaniments. Oh, and pie, can’t forget the pies. Usually pecan or cherry, but this year..nada. Anyway, back to the pizza, we went a little overboard on toppings and cheese and we didn’t get the hamburger completely drained but other than that it was great. The sucker had to have weighed at least 5 lbs., we even bought a new round pan made especially for pizza, its got these nifty holes all around so the crust gets done. I thought it was good, unfortunately, the other two didn’t agree. Oh, well, next year it’s back to our good ole stand-bys.
Still unemployed, still broke, still grateful that we have a roof over our heads and food on the table. Though, I have to confess that I am starting to panic a wee bit about finding a job. I have applied everywhere and have not heard anything, no email, no letters, no nothing. I just think that is so rude, at least acknowledge that I applied, even it is to tell me that I am a pathetic loser that you wouldn’t hire on a bet. Not that I am a pathetic loser, well not usually anyway…lol.
I am definitely looking forward to a new year, hopefully a new city and a new job would be good too. I’m a demanding bitch I know. I blame it on the snow, we had a heck of a storm blow through on Christmas eve, blizzard like conditions that left us with around 3-4 inches on the ground and more expected in the next couple of days. It’s gonna take us forever to dig our way out.
end trans (watched Jumping Jack Flash last night…it was a blast, blast, blast!)
