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I hope everyone's had a wonderful christmas! It's been a pretty good one here, spent with great friends. And lots of pie. You won't believe the amount of pie I've eaten in the last 2 days. I should have taken pictures!

Couple of pics to share tonight. Almost every spinner here will recognize this gift...

I got a new golding spindle to add to my collection! This came from my friend Jon.. who I made that Flying Spaghetti Monster for. I'd say he did good!

Tonight we went out to look at Christmas lights. thanks to the internet (isn't it a wonderful thing?) we found out about Decon Daves and had to go see it. Oh my word!

That's just the trees visible from the front of the property. There was a walking tour to see the rest of the lights so we passed on that. But from what we could see it was pretty amazing!

As for the title of this post... yes, I made it posting every single day from Nov 1st to Christmas! I still can't believe I did that since prior to that I think my record was about 3 consecutive days! I won't lie and say it was easy because it wasn't. but at the same time it wasn't a hard as I thought it would be! Will I continue posting every day from now on? Highly unlikely.. but I think I've gotten into the habit of posting at night before bed, and will probably continue to do so regularly!

So.. today's the last day for comments to enter my yarn give away. Tomorrow I'll pick a couple of winners and post who they are! I've had so much fun reading all your comments, so I hope you all will stick around even after the giveaway is over. Besides, you never know when I might decide to give away some more!

yikes... a couple of minutes to midnight and I jsut realized that. I can't break the streak now.. so I'm calling this a post!

BTW.. honey baked ham is all kinds of yummy!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Have YOU been touched by his noodley appendage?

All the parts came together and this guy appeared under the christmas tree tonight while we were out to dinner. The response to it was priceless, I tell you!

(For those of you who aren't in the know.. please visit the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.)

Mmmm.... Eyeballs!

These are yet another part of that THING I was making that I've shown various bits of so far. It got put aside for a bit while I worked on a hat and suddenly I realized.. oh CRAP.. I need to finish this too!

Don't worry, there were also tastier looking things that came out of that same oven later. Pics of those tomorrow. Or day after maybe.

What happens when you fritter the evening away on ravelry? Nothing that was planned to be finished gets done, but I have found myself a new project to be obsessed with. I've been toying with the idea of a Lizard Ridge for a while now.. made in my own stripey yarn of course! But then I saw this one...

Doesn't it look like slices of stones? I think I've been converted to this instead now! I have to hurry up and finish my mermaid jacket so I can start on this next! I need a new blanket for my bed.. though at the rate I knit, I have a feeling it won't be till next winter before I'm done with this!

Came across this on youtube.. it just had to be shared.

(and yay.. I got the youtube embedding thing working! Now when I don't have any real content, there's always SOMETHING entertaining on youtube, right?)

All that's missing in that photo is the kitty perched underneath it LICKING one of the lights. Yup, she likes to do that atleast once each night.

What this means for all you lovely blog readers though, is that time is running out in my free yarn give away! If you're new the the blog and haven't heard about it yet - I pledged on Nov 1st to blog every single day for atleast a month. Longer, if I can manage it. And to make it fun, I'd give away free yarn to one lucky person amongst those who have been leaving comments on my posts. And each comment you leave counts as an additional entry (only one per person per post please.. but comment every day if you like!) And if I made it all the way to christmas without missing a day, I'd double the stakes. We're getting mighty close to the 25th, so if I can just hang in there with the daily posts for another week, TWO people will be getting free yarn from me! So keep those comments coming, I'm having a great time reading them, and that's encouraging me to keep up the daily posts!

PS.. I just reskeined a whole LOT of laceweight yarn today. Look here and in the shop tomorrow for pictures!

Ok, so not tonights dinner, but as I was looking through my memory card for photos for a post today, I realized I never posted about the pizza I had the other night. Now, I'm a big fan of pizza, be it just plain cheese and garlic or fully loaded up. And this one, folks, as truly fully loaded up.

This is the Wombo Combo from a place called Round Table Pizza. What all is on it? According to their website - primo pepperoni, linguica and Italian sausage, crisp bacon, white mushrooms, Roma tomatoes, artichoke hearts and green onions. Baked with a blend of 3 cheeses on our Zesty Red Sauce.

According to me, a whole LOT of yummy.

So I've seen this list make its rounds of many blogs out there and figured I'd take a turn. I consider myself a foodie and having lived in 4 different countries on 3 continents I've eaten quite a variety of foods. There are a number of foods I've seen on this list that few people have tried but due to my being Indian and having grown up in Thailand, have been foods I are regularly. Growing up in a very international community helped a lot too!

The rules are as follows:

• Bold anything I've tried
• Cross out anything I'd never try (bold and crossed out means I have tried it and never again!)
• Italicize anything I want to try

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros - Why have I never eaten this? This must be remedied at once!
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile - Didn't taste like chicken, if I recall.
6. Black pudding - I'm claiming this one - there's a Thai variation
7. Cheese fondue - Melty cheese? Anytime, anywhere!
8. Carp (as in Koi fish? hmmm... not that I'm aware of!)
9. Borscht
10 Baba ghanoush - Love it!
11. Calamari
12. Pho - Can I bold this twice?
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi Love the aloo (potato) but not so much the gobi (cauliflower)
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes - Blackberry wine is delicious drizzled on vanilla ice cream! Good in the glass too.
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepperI'd like to KEEP my tastebuds in working order, thank you!
27. Dulce de leche Mmm.. love the homemade version!
28. Oysters
29. Baklava - just yesterday!
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas - got some right now!
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut Only like it in Grilled Ruben sandwiches!
35. Root beer float - love it made with Hanks Rootbeer!
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat's milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu Anything this poisonous, no thank you!
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer Mmm Saag Paneer.
55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martiniove 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%27mores">S'mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian One of my favorite fruits in the world!
66. Frogs's legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill EWW!
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail - Teeny tiny lil ones that had to be picked out of the shells with toothpicks!
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum Are you kidding me? I've lived off it before!
82. Eggs Benedict Yum. I got hooked on them at Le Peep!
83. Pocky I've eaten more Pocky than MnMs in my life!
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare - does bunny count?
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab - preferably in the middle of a sushi roll!
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Ever since I discovered the various knitting sites and blogs out there I've been hearing about Malabrigo. I've touched it at yarn shops and thought it nice and soft, but never completely understood the obsession many have with it.

Lets just say that I now understand. And why, yes, I am casting on something new. And no, I have not finished any of the many projects that are currently on the needles. But this is a quick hat.. half a skein of malabrigo, just about 100 yards. I can get this done before christmas, right?