Meet fingerpuppet. I knit him up last week while we were watching some tv, and for some reason, Paul is convinced he is pure evil. He has been banned from the bedroom without question. I have plans of parking him in unexpected high up places to scare Paul. Personally, I find him pretty affable
(I love my OSX MAC, it has these pop up applications and one is a thesaurus- that's how I came up with affable) .
He doesn't really seem evil to me, but he did result in a lot of good laughs the night he came in to exisitence.
We looked at this housey house again this morning and I am all stressed out! I guess we are kind of moving forward a bit in the fact that we want to know more about it. Gulp. We also looked at another house, a block south of a strip club ( nice) A ramshackle rambling place with dirty dirty rooms and random people sleeping in rooms -shudder. The backyard was overgrown, full of branches and garbage. I will need therapy to get over that one. In our price range, there is not too much choice! Ahh its an adventure, yes that's what we will call it. Alternatively we could just stay here and live it up. The apartment is awesome and cheap. I have been here for eight years! And someone else pays for the roof and furnace...
i do see the slight evil in finger puppet, although i think he is very cute!
good luck with the house shopping...it's always a bit exhausting and stressful. have a great weekend!
Posted by: joy | January 20, 2006 at 12:51 PM
I agree that there is something dark and devious about Fingerpuppet, I wouldn't say pure evil. But it makes sense that since all you work is so cheerful and fun that there needs to be a secret stash of ugly somewhere within in you. Maybe its the stress of the house-hunting and seeing some rather weird places and spaces. Isn't it nice then to have a creative outlet? Imagine if you had to keep all that inside...! I say, go with and make some more Evil!
Posted by: Karina | January 20, 2006 at 01:14 PM
I think he's adorable...very Gnome-like!
Posted by: joy | January 20, 2006 at 01:20 PM
I have an old childhood softie that my husband feels the same way about. I also think fingerpuppet is very affable. But maybe he needs some fingerpuppet peeps to hang out with? :)
Good luck with the house hunting! I know how stressful that can be.
Posted by: myra | January 20, 2006 at 01:34 PM
ahh house hunting, let me share my horror of hunting houses in our price range
their where a few scary ones and sad ones but the one that really creeped me out was the house that had the angry backyard next door with two pitbulls copulating...bad vibe from that one.
good luck...
breathe...
just curious (well frankly noisy) what area of the city are you looking in?
Posted by: Kim | January 20, 2006 at 02:10 PM
I'm with paul, Fingerpuppet looks slightly evil
Posted by: brit | January 20, 2006 at 02:42 PM
random people sleeping in rooms? hee hee! you were bound to see at least one nightmare. the very 1st house we went to see was like that. we still refer to it as "blake st" (as in, "time to clean up, this place is looking like blake st."). as for fingerpuppet, i think paul needs to find it on his pillow tonight! ;)
Posted by: krissy | January 20, 2006 at 03:11 PM
i love the finger puppet! and i'm so jealous about the house-hunting! my friends just bought a house in leslieville and it's so beautiful and relatively inexpensive compared to vancouver prices. i'm shocked to realize that we could buy a house in toronto for the same price as a 1 bedroom ugly 20 year old condo in vancouver. you are lucky!!
Posted by: jeannette | January 20, 2006 at 03:25 PM
Fingerpuppet doesn't look evil, but he does look a bit smug.
:^)
Posted by: meghan | January 20, 2006 at 03:44 PM
:)heehee,
and thanks for all the house advice!
hm i didnt know vancouver was so expensive!!
and kim this place is at landsowne and dundas. righ near an awesome no frills.
Posted by: tania | January 20, 2006 at 03:50 PM
oh im so sad that the homes haven't been homelike and cozy...but your creativity has never suffered in your current home, the evil puppet was a reminder to hubby that um we aren't moving to scary-non homeville...hehe
Posted by: Tanya | January 20, 2006 at 05:48 PM
I think Fingerpuppet is hilarious, too. Maybe you should tuck him into Paul's coat pocket one morning...
Good luck with the house-hunting. That no frills is the best one in the city, I think. I house-sat in that neighborhood last spring, and totally loved it.
Posted by: ptichka | January 21, 2006 at 05:22 PM
oh yes, i love that no frills too!
Posted by: tania | January 23, 2006 at 11:27 AM
I don't see any evil (and I'm very good at spotting evil finger puppets),
I just see cute.
Posted by: lyn | January 24, 2006 at 03:39 PM