I had to post some picture or other.  These are some of the cookies that my son and I tried to make.  They turned out o.k. but my oven was acting weird.  Usually if there is a suggested temperature range I have to use the longest time and sometimes give it an extra minute or two.  The cookies said 9-11 minutes so I put them in for 10 and even rotated them and they still burned. I think it might have been because I didn't add nuts but that didn't dawn on me till later.  Now that I know that I'll have to try again at a later time.

O.k. so lets go back to Saturday.  I listened to podcasts and worked on the blue shawl.  I caught up on all of them and even listened to a couple of Knit 1 Heart Too episodes.  I was proud of Steve (Dramatic Knits) that he is going to vend at Vogue Live Chicago and that they approached him.  That's impressive.  I wish I could go but I'm not going to be able to. On Sunday I took the red shawl to church because it's mindless and discovered a hole.  At some point I missed a kit stitch then on the next pass worked the knit stitch and the loose yarn that turned into a yarn over.  I tried to drop down and fix it but I have to rip it back down.  I did watch kdrama and finished That Winter... and started on My Love From Another Star.  Yesterday I really did nothing so I don't know why I didn't post.  I think with the kids and my husband home I got distracted.  (That and I have nothing to show you)  I am getting to the end of the blue shawl and need to buy some beads for the beaded bind off.  I'm not sure what color but I'll have to see what's available when I go.

That Winter, The Wind Blows was interesting and different. Oh Soo is a (really good) gambler that really doesn't care about his life at all.  He and his friend Jin Sung run around gambling and getting in fights.  Oddly his house keeper and cook is also named Oh Soo.  Friend Oh Soo (to borrow the term from Dramabeans) lives in a dumpy apartment and dreams of opening an Italian restaurant.  He uses main character Oh Soo's swanky address to write letters to his sister who he has been estranged from since his parents divorce.  He also claims to be the only heir to an important company but no one believes him.  We see that friend Oh Soo's sister is blind and has not received  the letters that he has been sending.  She gets a hold of one and has a cab driver take her to our Oh Soo's apartment since that is the one on the envelope.  She runs into our Oh Soo and he reads her brother's letter to her but must make a quick get away as his gambling has caught up with him.  As he is running friend Oh Soo runs after him to find out what the problem is and gets hit by a car and dies.  It is a bit of art and irony that friend Oh Soo is dying in the street as his sister comes up to the cub frantically trying to hail a cab but because she can't see she had no idea.  It turns out our Oh Soo's phyco girlfriend has stolen a lot of money from her gangster boss and framed Oh Soo because in her twisted mind if he is in jail for a year wile she is in the U.S. filming he can't cheat on her.  Oh Soo serves his year and finds himself black balled from all his former haunts.  He also has a run in with my favorite character Moo Chul.  Moo Chul is a bad guy who has been sent by the gangster boss to get the money back but has a past with Oh Soo.  There is now a deadline of 100 day to pay back the money or Moo Chul will kill Oh Soo.  In a desperate moment, where Oh Soo is trying to figure out how to get the money and live, a lawyer come looking for dead friend Oh Soo and our Oh Soo has a brilliant idea. His plan is that he will pass himself off as his dead friend and scam the rich family out of the money so he won't be killed.  So he goes about trying to prove this to every one in the family which is full of shady characters.  He has some hints of things from friend Oh Soo's possessions and he also finds a secret room full of memories from Oh Young (friend Oh Sos's sister) so he can piece things together.  He starts out trying to run a scam but ends up slowly falling in love with Oh Young which complicates things since he is pretending to be her brother.  Of course it's a drama so it ends well but it has ups and downs with gangster boss and Moo Chul after him and everyone threatening to spill his secret including his phyco ex-girlfriend and there are even secrets in the family.

The show has a dream like quality especially in the last episode.  There is a lot of art in it were the people look like they are blending into the wall paper with the colors they are wearing for example.  I liked it in general but it is a little weird with the kind of almost incest thing going on.  Apparently it is based on a Japanese story and there are many remakes of it.  I think the dramabeans recaps were a little harsh, there are things you just have to overlook when you are watching dramas.  My Love From Another Star is very different and I'll talk about that in a different post.

The pictures from my sister's wedding have come out and it made me feel kind of depressed.  I know I'm big but seeing it in pictures hurts.  I was kind of down yesterday because of it.  I'm feeling better now but it brings to my attention that I have more work to do.  We are doing pretty well getting things done with the kids and some of the things we are planning this week are sewing, going swimming and going to the park.  I guess that's it for now.  I'll try and remember to write tomorrow.  See you then.