I bet you all are going to be excited when I stop spinning brown yarn, huh?
I know I am.
That’s not to belittle the fiber. The fiber is glorious. Luscious, soft, well prepared, with that wonderful slightly-sheepy, slightly-soapy smell. But the brown…well, I could stand for some color. Luckily, once I’m finished [...]
No blog Monday: Holiday.
No blog Tuesday: Concert.
Crappy blog Wednesday: Recovering from concert.
Seriously, I’m on about three hours of sleep. Bradon and I went to see The Dresden Dolls (link has music) last night at the Ogden. They were wonderful, though not quite as good as last time; mostly because much of what they [...]
…handknit socks.*
The Nuptial Socks (link to Ravelry project page)
Yarn: Hand-dyed by Chris of Stumbling Over Chaos
Pattern: an amalgam of the “Five-Stitch Pattern Sock” from Sensational Knitted Socks and the slip-stitch ribbing pattern from Sundara’s Bird of Paradise socks.
Needles: Knitpicks Harmony 2.25 mm dpns
Thoughts: This still isn’t the pattern I would have knit with this yarn, [...]
So, as I mentioned on Tuesday, I had to attend a company outing to watch the Rockies lose to the San Francisco Giants. We’ve established that I don’t like sports, and I find baseball particularly inane, but whatever. It’s a team-building thing, and since I actually like my job and my coworkers I [...]
(I couldn’t post last night because the server was down, and now I’m all discombobulated. When is it? Where am I? What was I talking about again?)
Once again, my plan of spinning on Wednesday isn’t going to work out (where did I get the idea that Wednesdays would work?) so this week’s [...]
He’s very cute, but I think if I knit one I’ll make mine alive.
I’d love to stay and chat, but I have some drinking to do. (I’ll try not to hurt myself this time.) Have a wonderful weekend, all.
If you’re looking for substance, you’ll have to look elsewhere. I got nothing.
I’m so drained. I had a review today at work. I’ve been stressing about it all week, and I got myself so worked up being anxious about it this morning that I was on the verge of a migraine. [...]
I knew that I’d be busy tonight (Girls’ Night Out, where I finally, finally get to talk about my husband instead of my boyfriend) so the first installment of the Weekly Spinning took place last night while Bradon and I watched Pan’s Labyrinth (link has music). A wonderful, fantastic, beloved movie, but I’m glad [...]
Sigh.
My computer at work is still making that face at me. They thought they could fix it, then they thought the hard drive was bad, then they thought they could fix it again…the latest theory is that it’s the motherboard. In the meantime, I’m using our part-time accountant’s computer…which is great except that [...]
When trying to extract a cork from a bottle of mead, do not use your thumb to balance against the central rod (worm) of a wing corkscrew as you push down the wings. Your thumb will get drawn up in the gears, and the pinching will be excruciating. By the time you get your thumb [...]
