It’s hard for those of us NOT going to the Sock Summit. Nearly all of the blogs I read are full of squee by those who are attending. It makes me not want to read, visit ravelry, or knit at all.
This totally blows.
Sockless and summitless in Seattle,
me
It’s going to be a gorgeous day out there. Beltane is usually observed on May 1st, though technically it’s at 15 degrees of Taurus, which should happen in a few days. I didn’t get up early enough to wash my face with dew, but did add an extra glorp of half and half to my coffee with sincere thanks for the day.
I’m also working from home today, because frankly, my feminine energies don’t feel like getting out of my jammies today.
I’ve been pretty down – my brother got on another one of his “you need counseling because of your stash” things, as well as “you’re too fat and you embarrass us when we’re seen with you” conversational tangents, which of course all translates to “we’d love you more if you were what we feel you should be, rather than what you are” moments in my life. An endless stream of these things goes back probably to before my birth, but it doesn’t make it any less sucky in the here and now.
Thus no WIP Wednesday this week, as I’ve been too sad to knit and have been binging visually on Star Trek: Voyager episodes instead. Lalalala I can’t hear you – Seven’s Borg implants and the natural topigraphical fluctionations to her anatomy is causing a spacial disruption in auditory frequencies normally associated with asshattery and “it’s for your own good”edness. Or something. There are many, many days when I wish I could get lost in the DQ, away from my damn family in the Alpha Quadrant.
Anyway, along these lines I came across a fully awesome website today that had somehow escaped my notice before. kateharding.net is sincerely full of fucking awesome, and is definitely going into my bloglines. I am having issues texturally rendering just how fabulous I find this site this morning, so just go and take a look.
But I can definitely tell you I feel better about just being me this morning. Perhaps enough to continue to knit…I started something last night in the Viridescent Aran Silky Merino from Sundara, just to feel something good and growing in glorious green (yay alliteration) in my hands.
So perhaps I should change the title to “Fuck Yeah I’m Fat!” Friday and just on with gettin’ on. Or perhaps I’ll go have a s’more for breakfast in celebration of one of my holidays and the lush, beautiful, amazingness that is the first day of summer to me.
I’m just freakin’ glad it’s Friday. Totally exhausted, and more than ready to head home for some time on the sock and an early bedtime tonight.
My life, it is so exciting.
However, this is making me giggle today. Head on over to My First Dictionary for a bit of eyebrow raising learnin’. Heh.
I’ve belonged to Sundara’s Seasons yarn club for a while, and today I got the final shipment for this incarnation. She’s made changes to the structure in an effort to allow her more creativity when it comes to dyeing, so while many folks are mourning the loss, I feel very lucky to have been able to participate for as long as I did. She has some amazing product, and this shipment was no exception.
These are in her Aran Silky Merino yarn base, and I will probably happily spend some time puttering around figuring out what to make with these. Something special, certainly, but simple. Hat and cowl sets seem perhaps like a bit of a waste, but the yarn is so gorgeous it should be something that people would wear often. Suggestions would be most appreciated, though ones that consist of “send it to me!” will result in much giggling and “AHAHAAHA, no.” Clicky to embiggen below.
Black Cherry:
Viridescent:
Oo la la! And happy Friday!
Protect people from “adult content” my ass. Lit porn is totally still available. Books about Playboy centerfolds are still totally available. If it’s het, it’s there and in your face.
Doing the search on “homosexuality” brings up absolutely horrifying results.
I just signed up as an amazon partner, but I gotta tell you, right now? Not so happy. “Glitch” my ass. Do they think we’re stupid?
I buy a metric f-ton of crap from amazon every month, but am definitely going to have to rethink whether or not I’d support a business, “local” or not, who might willingly perform such an appalling act of anal-cranial inversion.
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*
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