It Looks Like Ice Cream

Pattern: Waves of Hope Hat by LJM Designs - Yarn: Red Heart Super Saver in Cherry Chip - Needle: US 6

  I decided to make another one, using the right weight of yarn.  I like how the yarn pooled and made it look like there were long runs of the same color.  I now want to make one with beads on the yarn over gaps.

Pattern: Wheat by Tin Can Knits, Yarn: Red Heart Stripes in Icy Pond

  I didn't know how it would turn out with the variegated yarn, but I wanted to try this pattern with this yarn.  This was the yarn I lost before the trip to Glacier.  I was nervous about how the pooling would look, but I had a feeling, and it looks really cool.  It's also very interesting how a slight change in gauge makes the one part have a completely different pattern.  I'm not overly worried about skein changes, I won't be measuring some out to make sure I'm at the exact same point in a color shift, I'm okay with just letting it happen the way it does.  Maybe we will get some new fun color pooling patterns.

  I'm also using a Fisherman's Rib instead of the 1x1 ribbing the pattern calls for.  The garter stitch squishes down on itself, I thought the ribbing would pucker because those rows wouldn't do that.  I know that makes this a bit less of a beginner pattern, but I like how it's turning out and I apparently want more brioche in my life.

  Last Friday/Saturday was the first time I got to yell things at a screen while The Rocky Horror Picture Show played and people I know run around a theater in a long time.  Ryan found a place in Manassas that we could use.  Bill offered the use of his truck to help take the props from the University Mall theater to The Salisbury Center.  This place is really interesting.  They have boxing matches, there is a bar, and they have other shows.  I suggested we eat at The Philadelphia Tavern before the show, since I've been wanting to go there for a bit now.  Everyone who went seemed to really like it.

  The comedy show went long, so then the country music band went long, so we didn't get to start moving things until after we had been promised.  There also weren't stairs to get on and off the stage from the front, but the owner let us use some speakers as stairs.  It wasn't the best, but it worked.  Bill got adopted by the props people and helped on that during the whole show.

  The show was really good.  There were some imperfections, but when no one has really done this in a year and a half, that's to be expected.  They also didn't get to practice the show on the stage beforehand.  When they started to work on blocking, the people who worked at the location started to let the audience in.  The sound on the movie cut out twice, but some people were yelling the movie while others continued to yell callbacks.

  In a very Rocky tradition, we went to IHOP after the show.  Our waiter had recently been in a car accident and had a concussion.  They were also understaffed for as many people as they had, so the waitress who was helping the other table ended up bringing us our drinks, and it was her first day.  It was all just kind of crazy and we had been sat in a very cold corner.  Not the best, but it was nice to keep hanging out with some of the people after.

  I am definitely looking forward to the Transylvanian Concubines getting to be back at University Mall, but it might also be fun to go back to The Salisbury Center again, especially since they now know what to expect and we know what to expect.

Mukbangs

 

  Tank for scale.  I stopped working on it for a while because I now have two projects that are 3 double crochet clusters.  It is currently 75" on long side with short side being 11.5", I figured this would make it easier to figure out when I'm done, I just have to measure the short side.  I'm not sure how wide to make it, possibly another ten inches.

  I've been watching a lot of the mukbang style videos made by tzuyang쯔양.  She eats a lot, but she seems to really enjoy all of it.  She also likes going to small restaurants and some even say that she brings in more business after she puts out the video about them if she goes back.  She donates some of the money she gets from YouTube ads to charities and some of the places insist on not charging her, but she insists on paying because of how much she ate.  One lady kept refusing to accept any money, so Tzuyang went to the market and got her high quality meat to use in her restaurant.

  A few warnings though.  If you don't like seeing people eat, you definitely won't like her videos.  There usually aren't a lot of eating sounds, like some other channels have, but there is some.  She also makes everything look good and there is a good chance you will become very hungry from watching her eat.  It is a lot of fun to see people doubt her when she is ordering and then get really impressed by her.  Some people also recognize her and don't bat an eye if she orders 4-8 servings of food at a time.

  Crumbl changes their flavors every week.  Well, the Milk Chocolate Chip is always there, but the other five change.  This week it's Banana Bread, Waffle, Old Fashioned Doughnut, Cereal Milk Sandwich ft. Pebbles®️ Cereal, Milk Chocolate Chip, and Classic Sugar Cookie.  The cereal was somehow still crispy when I got mine.  I also love how they give you some syrup with the waffle.  I was excited to try the classic doughnut, but they were out when I went.

  I wasn't even going to go this week, but I think I earned them.  Mowing the lawn had been on Bill's to-do list for a while, but things kept happening to distract him from doing it.  I told him I could try it, but I've never done it before.  I don't know if he believed me on if I would actually try it or not.

  Some of the grass shoots were to my waist, so I grabbed some ear protection and gave it a shot.  I wish the handle could me moved lower because it gets to be in awkward angles when trying to push it up bumpy hills.  I ran over a turtle too.  Luckily, he was in a dip and we have the blades up fairly high.  In the end we were both scared and uninjured.