Zombies seem to be the latest “new old thing” — a fad that’s coming around again. I’m not a huge zombie fan, but I like them better than vampires or werewolves. Or fuq’ing pirates. So suggest a good zombie flick…if I haven’t seen it yet, I’ll stick it on my Netflix queue.

Bonus points if you know what movie the subject quote is from (but my trio of Trusted Advisors aren’t eligible for those particular bonus points, since they already know).

Speaking of Netflix, at the top of my queue is a timely documentary: The Haunted History of Halloween. Let’s hope it doesn’t suck. Next are the Stephen King movies that I’ve wanted to watch but haven’t seen yet (only 3 of them — Salem’s Lot, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, and The Tommyknockers). And then I have a handful of scary movies that seem interesting (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Dark Water, Rise: Blood Hunter, and Blessed), and hopefully aren’t awful horror flicks (that would be Geoffrey’s Netflix queue *grin*).

Hopefully by Thanksgiving, I’ll have chewed through all the scary movies and can move on to either the set of Irish dance productions, or the chunk of sci-fi, or the documentaries on a wide variety of subjects, or maybe the handful of flicks about the British royals, all of which are slowly making their way up the list. I have a crazy spectrum of things I find interesting, but I do like to keep something of a theme going and so I tend to group the movies in batches.

And I finally — with extreme prejudice & frustration — gave up on that sweater pattern that I ripped out and re-started FOUR (!!!) fraking times, despite having put well over 20 hours of effort into it. I think the pattern just doesn’t like me or my crocheting style, and after a bit of reflection on the design, I decided it wasn’t particularly flattering for curvy girls anyway and would probably make me look like a water buffalo if I finished it. So I started a different sweater pattern that will look absolutely lovely, with a really nifty raised design. I’m a couple of hours into it and it’s turning out perfectly so far. (*knock wood*)

So anyone who might be hoping I’ll be making them something for the holidays can just get over it. I’m going to beat this particular skein of yarn into submission no matter how long it takes, but I doubt it’ll be finished before December. Unless, of course, a bunch of zombies invade Portland and I have to take time out of my busy crocheting schedule to hack through the walking undead hordes, and that delays me a little while. (What, did you think my battleaxe was for looks ?)