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Three more days! (kinda.)
May. 22nd, 2005 09:48 pmIt has been beyond good to have a weekend at home. As I told M yesterday, I have been sorely neglecting my introvert lately. Although, when I put it that way it sounds like I have a pet bookworm locked away in the closet. Anyway. I really am not a big fan of people and need quite a lot of time to do nothing other than be by myself, and I have been busy busy lately, trying to get stuff done before we leave. Obviously I'm not going to get everything on my list done (some of this has been there for months--stuff like "find Across a Wire CD, take to car" and "put pictures in frame" (our car only plays purchased CDs, so I can't just burn a copy, and the picture frame in question has twelve slots and was given to me for Christmas.) But seriously, I've been extremely, extremely good lately. (44 on the list, 11 remaining.) But, I've almost finished everything that HAS to be done.
I am really excited about my new knitting project. I need to get really excited about a new tatting project because that's what I'm taking on the plane and I don't have anything started right now. Anyway, I have seen several mentions online of a learn-to-knit afghan book made up of different squares, with each square being a new technique/pattern. You see that all the time for crochet but not so much knitted, apparently. Anyway, I had thought, and talked about, possibly finding it at some point, but had kind of put it out of my mind. I think someone said it was out of print, for one thing. In any case, I was putting the books from the library book sale (yeah, yeah, a full week later) away yesterday and came across the two knitting books I found. I hadn't looked at them when I bought them, but (oh, goodness, I set this one up so far that even someone from Bath county could figure it out. It's that book! What are the odds! So I'm working on one of the squares now and enjoying it immensely. I bought more yarn at WalMart tonight.. unless I change my mind, I'm doing this thing in two colors instead of four. I don't much like the look of busy afghans. Cream and blue. I might have picked something else but I wanted to use a certain type that seems to come mostly in variegated. I'm worried about it a little because I only had size 7 needles instead of 6, so I'm using it. Maybe I should really wait and start over when I find yarn that's exactly what I want. I don't know.
My parents came down today and we ate out (same place we ate on Friday night.. Johnny Carino's is rolling in our money this weekend. We did a little shopping (WalMart and Dollar Zone) and played Rook and ate strawberry pie. (My mommy loves me.) I don't know if I have ever fully expressed my love for strawberry pie. It has been my lifelong companion and friend. I adore it. It is so much more than the sum of all its parts. It is creamy and tart and sweet and divinity in a pieshell. Well. Divinity in the divine-ity sense, not in the "we put divinity in strawberry pie" way. Although I think maybe divinity is relatively local.. it's a type of candy made from.. uh.. I don't know. Sugar, and eggs, and.. corn syrup? I don't know, I'm not a fan. Quick google search leads to southernfoods.about.com. No idea where that came from. Oh, right! Pie. I like pie. My Mamaw made the bestest strawberry pies and she would always make them just for me, and she would slice the strawberries just so because hello, whole-strawberry people are lame. Until the last year or so, though, I hadn't really had it all that much in recent years, but we got back into it during the produce-market phase. Actually, what we got into right then was strawberry shortcake, but that led us back to pie. I really would like to go eat some more pie because I am terrified that it will go bad by tomorrow (bad experience in the past) and I will not get to fully appreciate the leftovers, but I am so full that it hurts to even think about it.
We opened the suitcases up tonight, awaiting gradual packing over the next few days, and that feels a little stressful. I always hate the last few days before something like this.. if we're going to go, I want to get ON WITH IT!
My husband is playing Hanson. Oi.
I guess that I should defend his character before all of you defriend the poor boy. He's actually listening to--![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
big_bubba, do you really think you can live without this?--the 50-100 top songs in Sweden from each year between 1984-2003 for a total of 1,802 songs. He's been playing bits and pieces of a bunch of the songs, but I couldn't resist the chance to heckle him when I realized it was Hanson.
Who am I kidding? I have a Hootie and the Blowfish CD. And it's in my car right now.
Why do I tell you people these things? It's really embarrassing. I must have some sort of disorder. And right now, that disorder is telling me that it's time to wrap this up and read knitting blogs for a while. Nightie night!
I am really excited about my new knitting project. I need to get really excited about a new tatting project because that's what I'm taking on the plane and I don't have anything started right now. Anyway, I have seen several mentions online of a learn-to-knit afghan book made up of different squares, with each square being a new technique/pattern. You see that all the time for crochet but not so much knitted, apparently. Anyway, I had thought, and talked about, possibly finding it at some point, but had kind of put it out of my mind. I think someone said it was out of print, for one thing. In any case, I was putting the books from the library book sale (yeah, yeah, a full week later) away yesterday and came across the two knitting books I found. I hadn't looked at them when I bought them, but (oh, goodness, I set this one up so far that even someone from Bath county could figure it out. It's that book! What are the odds! So I'm working on one of the squares now and enjoying it immensely. I bought more yarn at WalMart tonight.. unless I change my mind, I'm doing this thing in two colors instead of four. I don't much like the look of busy afghans. Cream and blue. I might have picked something else but I wanted to use a certain type that seems to come mostly in variegated. I'm worried about it a little because I only had size 7 needles instead of 6, so I'm using it. Maybe I should really wait and start over when I find yarn that's exactly what I want. I don't know.
My parents came down today and we ate out (same place we ate on Friday night.. Johnny Carino's is rolling in our money this weekend. We did a little shopping (WalMart and Dollar Zone) and played Rook and ate strawberry pie. (My mommy loves me.) I don't know if I have ever fully expressed my love for strawberry pie. It has been my lifelong companion and friend. I adore it. It is so much more than the sum of all its parts. It is creamy and tart and sweet and divinity in a pieshell. Well. Divinity in the divine-ity sense, not in the "we put divinity in strawberry pie" way. Although I think maybe divinity is relatively local.. it's a type of candy made from.. uh.. I don't know. Sugar, and eggs, and.. corn syrup? I don't know, I'm not a fan. Quick google search leads to southernfoods.about.com. No idea where that came from. Oh, right! Pie. I like pie. My Mamaw made the bestest strawberry pies and she would always make them just for me, and she would slice the strawberries just so because hello, whole-strawberry people are lame. Until the last year or so, though, I hadn't really had it all that much in recent years, but we got back into it during the produce-market phase. Actually, what we got into right then was strawberry shortcake, but that led us back to pie. I really would like to go eat some more pie because I am terrified that it will go bad by tomorrow (bad experience in the past) and I will not get to fully appreciate the leftovers, but I am so full that it hurts to even think about it.
We opened the suitcases up tonight, awaiting gradual packing over the next few days, and that feels a little stressful. I always hate the last few days before something like this.. if we're going to go, I want to get ON WITH IT!
My husband is playing Hanson. Oi.
I guess that I should defend his character before all of you defriend the poor boy. He's actually listening to--
big_bubba, do you really think you can live without this?--the 50-100 top songs in Sweden from each year between 1984-2003 for a total of 1,802 songs. He's been playing bits and pieces of a bunch of the songs, but I couldn't resist the chance to heckle him when I realized it was Hanson.Who am I kidding? I have a Hootie and the Blowfish CD. And it's in my car right now.
Why do I tell you people these things? It's really embarrassing. I must have some sort of disorder. And right now, that disorder is telling me that it's time to wrap this up and read knitting blogs for a while. Nightie night!
