I can’t fraking wait until Friday.

If you have no idea what the blog heading or this first sentence mean, you have been missing out on the best television series ever produced. Oh yeah, I’m talking about Battlestar Galactica.

I’ve openly shared that my perfect Friday night involves knitting while watching Battlestar Galactica, and I’ve admitted that I am a sci-fi geek. But Battlestar Galactica goes so far beyond just being a sci-fi show. Really, it does. I’m not sure how the writers manage it, but a show set in space in the future somehow tackles the political and moral discussions of today.

I was all set to watch this Friday night, but after a quick peek at the BSG web site, I know what I’ll be doing during lunch this Friday. They’re having an early viewing of the season premiere on the site at noon. I’ll have to wait until then to discover the identity of the final Cylon. This should hold me over:

Check out this artist’s Simpsonized cast of BSG.

I also like these pot holders by LeahZ on Flickr.

If you belong to Ravelry.com, there's a BSG-watching knitting group. It's nice to know I'm not alone. 

My youngest son has been "booking" for more than a year now. He doesn't set aside time to scrapbook, or have anything in mind when he starts, he just enjoys having supplies around to make something. Most of his pages have consisted of stamps and stickers so far, but he really impressed me this year for Valentine's Day. He decided to create his own cards to give to his classmates. I thought he came up with a very cool, hand-drawn design that encompassed both the theme of Valentine's Day and his personal style.

On the back he wrote: Have a Rockin Valentine's Day!  

He adhered the paper-punched heart to a piece of copy paper, then drew the guitarist around the heart. He then adhered the copy paper to cardstock in pinks and reds.

 Dad helped with the glue.

It was definitely the coolest valentine that I saw from the fifth grade class. Now if he could just decide to do these projects a little earlier than the night before a holiday....