1 - Supernatural is back for its 4th season, Dean is fresh outta Hell (no really HELL) and Angels are preparing for a possible Apocalypse.... one word: Awesome!











2 - Trisha Helfer on Burn Notice. I seem to have developed a crush on Michael Weston ex spy from Burn Notice, the fact that No. 6 (from BSG) has joined them (I'd totally turn gay for her) is just awesomeness personified. :D







3 - Terminator: Sarah Conners Chronicles is back! There was some speculation as to whether or not this would get picked up for second season after the writers strike. I for one am glad that it has. I haven't watched any of the new epps but they're bound to be just as good... fingers crossed.










4 - Heroes Villains. Like Terminator there was some doubt that Heroes would be back after the strike. Heroes is a cliffhanger-fest that always leaves me wanting more, its great. Even if the overall plot is always the same.... change the future to save the world.









5 - NCIS, they're breaking up the Gibbs team WHAT? Nooooooooooooo!
This show can do no wrong in my book.














6 - Dexter, the worlds most lovable serial killer.... no seriously. Nothing quite like this show on TV that I'm aware of. Making something so dark that you can still identify and sympathise with would be no easy task, but this show pulls it off. Well I think so at least. Defiantly not for the feint hearted.
Season 3 just started and its another that I've been eagerly awaiting. I only just picked this one up so i was able to watch all two previous seasons back to back. having to wait between epps is going to be hard!

Last week was the Royal Adelaide Show. For the non Aussies its basically the annual fair that travels around every Australian Capital City.... and it sucks. Compared to some American fairs I've seen its just boring.

its a mix of carnival side shows and rides, showbags, lots of animals and a food and crafts area. Basically all of the individual fairs that others might have all mixed into one.

sounds cool right.

WRONG

Basically if you're not the ride going type and you're not going to buy any showbags, you're out of things to do but walk around.

Okay some of it is because we went at night one weekday after work. All the cool stuff like the majority of the animals were shut for the night... so no doggies or kitty's or alpaca's or sheep or camels.

I hunted out the crafts section hoping to find some yarn stalls to peruse....... stalls, no thats wrong - Stall.... one freakin stall. The royal show is one of the only listings in Aussie yarn magazines under fibre Fair's for Adelaide. So one stall counts does it?!

I was disappointed to say the least, hubby was with me and there were a couple of people inside, one was knitting one was spinning. Hubby freaked out and said "look at the people who are in here"... old ladies of course.

Now I know there is nothing wrong with that but you know how people outside of the craft (particularly men) don't get it when younger people take up what is traditionally a "grandmotherly" hobby. He wasn't comfortable which made me uncomfortable, and it wasn't that big of a stall with only two small racks of undyed natural yarn... it may have been Alpaca from the look of it, but i didn't stick around long enough to find out. The majority of the stall was already knitted items for sale.

The poor gals probably got all excited when someone young came up to have a gander but i was expecting more to be around the corner so we moved on quickly. Sadly that was it.

The food was shit too, we paid $17 for two shitty hot dogs and some dim sims. After which we were still hungry so we also paid another $17 for two baked potatoes that we'd seen other people eating. They were much better!

The highlight was that the children's farm was still open. They had lots of barn yard animals, ducks, chickens with chicks, billygoats, swans, birds and these guys:

They were sooooo cute! digging around in the hay while mumma slept.

I'd love so much to go to a fibre festival overseas they must be soooo amazing.... sigh.

okay thats enough /end rant

On a high note, I lashed out and bought 10 hanks of Blue Sky Alpaca's Dyed Cotton yarn. At YarnPixie.com because they were on sale... yay for sale, plus i got a 10% discount for being a new customer. Everywhere else was selling it for 9 or 10 bucks but YarnPixie had it down to 7.50!!! Too good to pass up. All 10 are in their red colour called Tomato.

I shoud be knitting Something Red with it but instead I think i'll do the Feburary Sweater so that it will be good for summer time :)

aah summer time, please God please no heat waves this year..... I think i've got more chances of Hell freazing over than Adelaide not having a heat wave during summer!

sigh

Knitting this certainly was Interesting the lace weight yarn is so fine, going from worsted to this was a major shock to the system! I was always afraid of pulling too hard and making it snap.