Twists of Fate

Well, I like ordering things BY mail. I rarely get actual mail these days. I’m bad with hardcopy anything, really. Sometimes I think my life would be much more organized if I had a port in my head I could either plug into (ala Data from TNG) or you know, beam stuff to a receptor and keep track of shit that way. Me and hard copy are non-mixey things.

Online shopping, on the other hand, is awesome. Especially the book buying. I love me some Powell’s, amazon, abebooks and alibris. Good stuff there, yo.

And even ravelry. I’m not too much with the interaction, and heavens know that while I like the idea of the notebook features and all, I usually just casually browse the site for the destash groups. Which is stupid but. Someone had a fairly reasonably priced copy of La Starmore’s Tudor Roses for sale, so I got it. And Knitting from the British Isles.

HowEVAH, it was early and pre-coffee, and I ended up tooling around abebooks, and in the span between clicks completely forgot I had already bought a copy of the second book. And I ordered another one. So now I have two. I think I like the copy I got from abebooks better though. It came with a handwritten note thanking me for my exuberant YAY! message I included to the seller. “You made me feel as if my job is beneficial after all. When I first picked up this book I knew someone would really like this book.” Sweet huh? It’s in perfect condition, though without the dust jacket.

It’s ironic. I spent a good portion of cash online to get a hard copy book. I guess books (and DVDs) are my exceptions to the hard copy rule. There’s always room for an exception, right? At least, in matters relating to knitting?

Elaine and Cathy wonder about the wheel. Heh. Let me get it before I go all YAY about it. And I’m glad Cathy wrote, because I forgot about the mystery box? However, I also have a splitting headache and still want to save it as a treat for later, so I’ll have to check in on it tomorrow once I’m home from work. I’m not trying to torture you, I swear. I just know if I open it now, I won’t head to bed. Which I really need to do, given that I have gotten nine hours of sleep in three days and got up at 5am to go into work early for meeting prep. Feh.

Stay tuned….