I hope to go to Trader Joes later, because I’m really pretty much out of edible food. And I don’t really do all my shopping there, but it’ll be enough to get me through for a couple of days. I hope. And there’s always nummies at TJs!
Also, found via a friend: Everybody DANCE! *happydances!*
ETA: Ohmigosh! I won some awesome Japanese fabric over at Finding Jimmy! Now THAT is also happy making. Great timing, and thanks! *beams!*
Inaugural Edition.
It is Wednesday, right? With this mind numbingly boring job, I can’t be sure. I’m really tempted to actually work on my WIP at my desk, since officemate insists on keeping the door shut and the blinds closed. She’s not here, but everyone is used to that mode of action so I could probably do it.
Alas, I shall fart around on the intarwebs instead.
Anyway, back to the actual content, I have a crappy cell phone pic of a real live WIP!
Socks from Ann Budd’s book, at 8spi. I should probably add more info to my project page on ravelry. Maybe later. For now, I’m enjoying working with the yarn, and my favorite JKL DPNs. These needles are stainless steel, so they’re heavier than most, but they also have little to no copper or nickel on the surface, which makes my allergic-to-those-metals fingers happier too. My other needles of choice for DPN sock knitting (really, the only kind I’ve tried to date), are Inox. The teflon coating makes them a little stickier, but again, my fingers appreciate the relief from icky.
By the by, the CD you see poking out from under the ball of Seaweed Latte is called Hemi-Sync Lightfall
Happy Wednesday everyone! Oh! And YAY GO RED SOX! Nice job Beckett. Pedroia? You da man. Jacoby & Lowell, keep lookin’ hot. *nods firmly*
I always think hummingbirds speak in !!!s. Everything moves so very quickly for them, that they must need to emphasize their sentences with !!!s.
This morning was a great example. I’m sitting at my desk, trying to wake up while dialing in to work, and cleaning my glasses when this smudge darts up to the window and *hovers*. I quickly put my glasses back on, and peered at the small shape zooming back and forth just on the other side of the glass, trying to get my attention.
We made eye contact, I smiled (because how can you NOT smile when faced with a hummingbird who’s trying to get your attention?) and I swear it nodded with satisfaction that the message, “HI! We’re back!!!” was received and zzzzzoomed off again.
I hadn’t seen any others in the past few days, though of course it was really only this past weekend that it started warming up. And my not-yet-had-coffee brain can’t tell you what kind of hummer this was. I haven’t seen any back in my yard yet either, though w/out any flowering things, that’s not surprising.
Must get to the bird store this weekend and buy another hummer feeder. The one I had out last year mysteriously disappeared when the landlady chopped off the tree limb I had been using to hang it on. I’ll have to find a new place to hang it this year, but I’m so glad the little buggers are back and ready to spread more joy and giggles with their antics.
Boston Red Sox opening day postponed due to anticipated deluge this afternoon. I’m so annoyed! How am I supposed to get the first of many delicious days of Jacoby and Lowell buttwatch perving in? I’m already behind (er, so to speak) for the season!
Le sigh.
I’m still pondering theme days for days I may post that are other than Friday. WIP Wednesday seems like a likely candidate. Other than that, I’m coming up blank. Perhaps it’s time for more coffee. Coffee makes everything better.
I can at least report that I got nearly all of the foot done on the first sock for my friend in Rhode Island. In between I worked on a Mirabilia cross stitch project, and started plotting which transfers to use for my first non-cross stitch embroidery project in years and years and years. I bought some teatowels, a book and some other assorted things from Sublime Stitching. Great product, ridiculous shipping and I probably won’t buy direct again. But they have teatowels that I haven’t seen while oot and aboot on the intarwebs and even in the craft stores. I don’t regret the purchase, and would recommend them as a resource, but jesus pete the shipping was nearly 25% of the total, and for a flat rate priority box? WAY overpriced.
So many crafts. So little time.
I’m going to try to do something regularly, because I want to get in the habit of posting more regularly. Perhaps themes for a couple of days a week will help me get to that goal. So, let’s talk about things that make you happy this Friday.
A couple of music items are making me do a little bit of seat dancing here at work. I have a very…challenging…office mate, so I’ve dug out the little-used iPod, bought a new pair of behind-the-head earphones, and have been using them whenever she deigns to make an appearance. Oddly enough, this hasn’t exactly discouraged her from talking at me for 45 minutes straight.
I’d started with the two new-to-me albums from Kellianna today. I love this woman’s songs. They’re definitely more on the folk end of things, but her gorgeously strong voice, unadorned, naked and just so damn real takes my breath away. A little too much actually – there’s something very sacred to these songs, and I feel like they’re better served by enjoying and singing along with them at home, rather than using them do just drown out the annoying bits I can’t avoid.
Enter Taylor Swift. Refreshingly upbeat, with a country flavor but definitely of the new country variety, I’m enjoying both her albums. I am impressed by her talent, would kill for her hair (I always wanted hair like that), and find that it’s a good listen while here in the office. The fact that it would horrify said officemate is merely a bonus.
I have to say that I’d really rather prefer to be reading one of the books I found last night. I say “found”, but really it was a random box that I’d piled a bunch of newly arrived books into and promptly forgot about. It’s like going shopping in the giant disaster that’s my living room, but without spending any money! I love that.
Anyway, the book is Cottage Witchery: Natural Magick for Hearth and Home
I am…an indifferent housekeeper. I’m pretty much indifferent to the asthetic in my overall surroundings. I haven’t hung anything on a wall that wasn’t a moth catcher or a calendar in over ten years. I think this is likely a legacy of years of living in rental homes as a kid, and trying to avoid causing any problems that would result in a diminshed damage deposit. I’m still a renter, and well, I think I haven’t quite gotten out of that mentality.
It’s time for a change though. Whether I stay at the place I’m in now, or find a new one, I think it’ll be time to start making my living space a better one. And I’d really like to begin incorporating more symbolism, more thought, more …just more ME into the space I inhabit. I think this book will be a good tool to start thinking about how I can make my space truly mine, be it rented or permanent or whatever.
Dugan’s got a very readable style – most of what she relates is what worked for her, interspersed with some information about the how and why of the symbols she’s using. I would personally encourage a bit more research into the historical accuracy of some of the commonly accepted associations and “facts”, and adapt as needed to your own frame of reference and belief system.
I’m only about 30 pages in but look forward to finishing the book this weekend, and perhaps putting some of what I learn into practice as I survey the wreckage of my home and start thinking of doing some very very deep spring cleaning.
So there you go. Happy thoughts on a Friday soon-to-be-afternoon. I hope there’s something in your realms that’s providing some good vibes and happy thoughts as the weekend rolls around!
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