You know that annoying stopwatch sound? That’s time slipping away.
Or maybe it’s a Bangles song. “Hazy Shade of Winter” seems appropriate now that Samhain has passed.
Samhain this year was super low key. Just me, a candle, a few moments of contemplation. I started to do a tarot reading and got distracted by Tom Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan)
and never did get back to my reading. Of the cards, not the book.
Today at my desk I resolved to actually do some knitting and started a pair of Susie’s Reading Mitts (rav link) because I have a couple of skeins of Frog Tree Merino that’s just staring at me. I have a feeling these are going to pill like a bitch, but they’ll keep me warm in my meat locker of an office.
Life remains strange. I’m still processing a ton of stuff emotionally (emo-ly?) and am feeling fairly subdued, yet more vibrant at the same time. Life is all about juxtapositions right now, and I find myself very pensive.
Not much else to say right at this very second, except this:
Dear Phillies,
Please to be kicking some Yankee’s ass.
Much love,
A Red Sox Fan
Since I’m not going to be “Shipping Up to Boston“. Way to blow it in the ninth, Papelbon. And to the Angels? Lord.
For those who don’t speak Baseball, my beloved Red Sox totally tanked in the playoffs this year. I’m actually sort of surprised they made it to the playoffs, so I’m not sure why I’m so sad that they dropped the ball (sometimes literally) and didn’t make it any further. So now I’m rooting for the Angels, who beat the Sox, to kick some Skankee ass.
I had a feeling they weren’t going to get past yesterday’s game, and perhaps knowing I was going to need something cheerful to help console me, I bought the yarn for the Polska mittens (ravelry link) and got started on them yesterday while rooting for my team. The yarn is from Dancing Ewe Yarn & Tea in Ellensburg. I was out there on Saturday to deliver my Susie Alpaca wheel to it’s new owner Susan, who is entirely full of awesome and if I hadn’t been trying to expel my lungs via my throat (stupid cough), I would’ve hung out longer to chat and talk yarn and fiber with them. As it was, I barely made it home before crashing. Ellensburg isn’t that far, but I’m still getting over this ebil crud and driving out and back really wiped me out.
Um, yes. Rambling here. Anyway, sold wheel to a lovely person who will enjoy the hell out of it. Spent small portion of wheel funds on mitten yarn. Started mittens yesterday. Will continue to knit mittens as consolation for losing team and end of baseball season. It’s four months to Truck Day in Boston.
I wonder how many mittens I can knit between now and Truck Day? I’ll start with this pair (I’m past the colorwork band on the first one) and see how it goes. :)
Does the potential for multiple orgasms really outweigh this awful disgusting feeling of my cycle every month (not to mention the corresponding wear and tear on the body) for what appears to be years and years and years?
Discuss.
Secondly, can all this tree sexxin’ (my car was absolutely *coated* in pollen this morning) affect human reproductive cycles? Because I swear mine is like four days early.
Fuckin’ Mondays. The only good thing was the SWEEEEEEEP! of the Skankees by the Boston Red Sox AND my boy Jacoby stole home and it was awesome. I’m also lookin’ at you, Mike Lowell and Jason Bay and Youk for that home stand. *nods sagely* You da MEN!
I gotta say, I haven’t made much progress on the socks as I’ve been fighting off a low level something for about forever. My energy levels are lower than they’ve been in a long time, and for some reason I never get around to kntting on the socks.
But! I did do a little something when over at my sister’s last Sunday.
Clicky to embiggen, as always.
Not much else going on. Doing notes for two days in a big ass meeting, and my hands are killing me. I hope everyone is having a marvelous week thus far. :D
PS – RedSox? WTF?
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
. I really like the Hemi-Sync products, and have a number of them in a box somewhere, as well as on my computer-tower-that-is-not-plugged-in. I find the meditation and relaxation ones astonishingly effective, especially if I use them as I’m going to sleep. Sadly, I tend to drop off about halfway through, but I guess it’s a kind of endorsement for the relaxation part of the process. :D
Happy Wednesday everyone! Oh! And YAY GO RED SOX! Nice job Beckett. Pedroia? You da man. Jacoby & Lowell, keep lookin’ hot. *nods firmly*
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.
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.
