In the craziness of this past week, I forgot pitchers and catchers reported, and spring training is gaining momentum.
Yes. Momentum. Uh huh.
Clicky for bigger. It’s worth it. A different kind of eye candy than I would normally post to a knitting blog, but.
I fucking love baseball right now.
Crossposted from my LJ.
There are a ton of folks in Australia or New Zealand who are accepting donations of quilted squares, quilts, knitted items, and other things to help rebuild lives turned to ashes by the bush fires. Take a look at the site and if you’re moved to help, please do so.
Also know that the Red Cross is always taking donations, and Wildlife Victoria could use assistance dealing with all the animals injured or displaced by the same fires.
Spread the word if you haven’t already?
OK, I cannot remember who in the list of blogs I read linked to the International Stashbusting Giveaway Day for those who are interested in knitting and sewing, but dammit. Now I want to organize something similar for those of us who use Ze Yarn in our crafting. Seriously. Imagingermonkey is so incredibly fabulous for doing such a mindblowingly simple, yet totally fantastic thing.
I’ve been pondering whether or not it would be possible to do something similar for us yarn (and spinning fiber?) folk. Something along the lines of “All Things Being Equal” on the day of the Equinox that’s coming up here in a few weeks? Wouldn’t that be completely full of awesome? I know I’ve got a few skeins of some pretty groovy stuff in my stash that I’d put up for something like this. I’d even organize and do the links for folks who might be interested. What do you think? Would you be interested in something like this?
OK. For those who don’t actually know me all that well, I am a Star Trek fan. I adore Trek.
I wanted to have Picard’s highly intellectual and terribly sexy babies for a while there when The Next Generation was in the full throes of it’s run, or at the very least find out if Data really was fully functional.
I got lost, for a while, and had to abandon Deep Space 9, but I came back to it later when I could rent the entire series from Netflix and was utterly enraptured for weeks. Best plotty series of the bunch by far, with the subplots and story arcs and uberthemes…seriously smashing tv.
I won a trip, once upon a time, to visit the set of Voyager, and got to sit in Janeway’s chair and ponder why such an amazing universe couldn’t write a female captain to save their lives. I have a tattoo that’s Trek related, and I did my part to support the Paramount juggernaut that was the Trek “enterprise”.
By the time Enterprise rolled around, even this die hard fan was “meh” about it all. And believe you me, my pre-teeny crush on Dr. Sam Beckett burned with a white hot intensity that I thought I’d never get over when they canceled Quantum Leap. If that couldn’t break through the ennui about Trek at that point, could anything?
Enter JJ Abrams. I adored Alias. For the first two seasons. After that, I think Lost started up and the show began drifting and there was this sense of…no one minding the helm? It was a show without direction, done in by it’s own cleverness (did no one learn from The X-Files?), and honestly, every ep I saw of Lost managed to cement that impression.
So you can, perhaps, understand why I am concerned that they turned the cash cow over to JJ to milk for a while. I have no doubt that the effects will be amazing. The action scorching and breathtaking. But JJ tends to, well, over-complicate his story lines. All his shows have had a trademark of seriously twisty plot turns and “never saw that coming” moments. He can’t do that in a two hour movie, so what can he really do?
Don’t talk to me about Mission Impossible 3, please.
So. Kirk. Spock. Going back to where it all began and doing it over again? I know we get a lot of those “reset” button eps throughout the various series, but…it’s Kirk. And Spock. And JJ Abrams.
*skeptical Vulcan eyebrow* I find this highly illogical.
What about you? Will your bum be warming a chair in the theater come May?
OK. I’m about three quarters of the way through my first mitten, which is full of awesome and I’m enjoying knitting with the lovely Elemental Affects Shetland yarn. It’s just lovely, the colors are a gentle pastel that makes me think of Sweettarts, so these are officially the Sweettart Mittens in my head. I’ll post a photo when I’m done with the first one, which may be as soon as tomorrow. I’m not 100% sure about that, given that my forearms are feeling pretty tight, but I’m taking frequent breaks and will be doing some self-massage on those muscles tonight.
But after that? I’m going to take a time out from doing stuff for other people. I’ve joined the Kauni Shawl KAL on ravelry, and am pondering my color choices. The pattern for the KAL is the beautiful, and I think you can find it here as well as on ravelry. The design name is “Revontuli”, and it’s beautiful.
I am doing my best to knit from stash, and I have more than enough of both EQ (rainbow) and EF (rust, blue, grey, green). I think I’d wear the EF shawl a lot at home, especially in the wintertime. But I’d like to actually wear something I knit out in public now and again, which has me leaning toward the EF, especially for work (should I ever be employed again). Those are a lot of the colors I wear to work, so I’m pretty much guaranteed to be wearing something that’ll go with that shawl.
I think the pattern looks simple and lovely enough to be a repeat knit, especially given the quantities of Kauni in my stash (oh hai VYT, it’s so easy to pick up a 150g ball and plop it in my basket as I doot around the store). But we’ll see.
Which color do you think I should use?
In other news, I met up with the lovely Knitting Kitty (of DragonFibers fame) today for breakfast. She was a lovely companion, as always, and I really enjoyed the two hours we chatted. I think we could’ve gone on for longer, but I had to get to my sister’s place and head out to find some pants for interviews.
I’m recovering from my now two week old cold. Slowly. I’m utterly exhausted after my little outings today, and the week promises to be a full one with my mother visiting from Colorado (she’s staying with my sister, thank. Gods.), and my brother returning to the area to look for work on the big ass container ships as his usual bridge crew gig. All I have to say is “viva la NyQuil!” Off to knit a bit more and head to bed early!
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