Twists of Fate

Monday, 2 November, 2009

I hear that 60 Minutes ticking in my head

Filed under: baseball, personal — moiraeknittoo @ 4:17 PM

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

Monday, 20 July, 2009

One year older

Filed under: brain_dump, personal — moiraeknittoo @ 10:26 AM

Saturday was my birthday, and it was good. I had a cupcake (sans candle). At dinner my niece was so cute that I think she scored us a warm azuke bean with coconut milk pudding at the vegan Thai place (with candle). I had an awesome sushi lunch courtesy of a good friend. I got sewing and quilting books, and I got the last in the Barbara Walker series from the same friend that got me the rest of the books. Awesome.

Oh, and I got this. First of about six that are planned.

My Sun

Next one is planned in about three weeks time.

Feeling very pensive here in the run up to the second of the eclipse cycle. It’s been a very odd couple of months. Lots of thinking, lots of brooding pondering. Not a lot of knitting, and practically no knitting meet ups. I feel more out of touch than ever with the fiber community, which, while not unusual, is more extreme than it’s been for a while.

I feel very disconnected from everything right now, and yet more plugged into my own stuff than ever. I get rather squirrely around this time of year, so here’s to hoping I can bring my head up in early August. And maybe get back to knitting/weaving/dyeing.

Monday, 11 May, 2009

Monday mayhem

Filed under: personal — Tags: — moiraeknittoo @ 5:23 PM

Alas, not Mayhem of Chaos and Mayhem fame. I don’t have mews that adorable, though Troublecat looks like he could be their cousin. Trouble is my sister’s cat, and I think he should be a part of the “Aptly Named Mew” club.

No, Monday Mayhem is the title because last week, CompanyX laid off half the FTEs in my group, and now we’re struggling to shift workloads with the three active folks left. Two, really, for the next two months as one is on parental leave. Good times! I will be picking up a LOT more work, and trying to brief the boss I have left (they let the other one go WAH!) is a struggle, as he’s being inundated with questions, emails and his head is spinning.

I’m pooped. Thus the no posting last week. Nor today, really, but I wanted to get something up.

I’m gonna go be all zen or something, and watch the suddenly very strong wind blow the dandelion fluff around.

Monday, 27 April, 2009

Monday musings

Filed under: baseball, brain_dump, personal — moiraeknittoo @ 4:15 PM

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!

Monday, 19 January, 2009

Today is a good day

Filed under: personal — moiraeknittoo @ 3:56 PM

Tonight, I am opening a bottle of red and celebrating the fact that today? Was the last day of the Bush Presidency.

I’ll drink to that for sure.

Tuesday, 9 December, 2008

Numb.

Filed under: personal — moiraeknittoo @ 1:00 PM

Not comfortably either.

UI benefits denied again. Will have to appeal, which means I’d have to get a lawyer and that thought alone makes me want to break down into tears. Previous employer won’t add on the five hours I’m positive I worked but didn’t report as they asked me not to, which is probably a case to go to Labor & Industry with, but again, lawyer.

So. No money. Food stamps for a bit. Eviction is looking more likely every day. Can’t move in with anyone I know, as they all have animals I’m deathly allergic to. Can’t go home, because they too have animals I’m allergic to. Want to curl up in small ball and weep for a while.

Have some spinning things I can sell. If anyone is interested in a Strauch Doublewide Finest Motorized and is in the Seattle area let me know. I also, if I can find the parts, have a Schacht Matchless single treadle I can let go of, a metric f-ton of fiber, a slightly wonky Ashford Traveler and some dyeing equipment. I also have a lot of sock skeins of a Louet base yarn, if anyone is interested in that.

I think my dream of being a fiber artist with the dyeing is likely to have arrived DOA, killed dead by the reality of my life. Such as it is.

I need to go mail some of the yarn I sold that I unfortunately did not dye, and then curl up and be glad I don’t own a gun.

Absolutely miserable,
me

Thursday, 4 December, 2008

Our entitlement, let me show you it.

Filed under: brain_dump, personal — moiraeknittoo @ 10:57 AM

So there’s this big bru-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha in the Washington state capitol again, because along with a Christmas tree, they’ve displayed non-Christmas items. Same thing, different year, blah blah yawncakes blah.

I’m a bit slow off the mark this morning, so I saw the article in Teyani’s blog. I commented there:

My uncle and I got into a discussion a couple of years ago about this. He, a fundamental Christian, was completely flabbergasted when I said I prefer that the government honor that idea of separation of church and state and to let folks celebrate whatever they want in their *private* spaces.

“But there’s a WAR on Christmas!” he exclaimed. “Next thing you know, you’ll be telling me you’re pagan or something.”

To which I said, “This really isn’t your night now is it.”

I find it sadly amusing that the inclusion of a number of other religions or points of view for this time of the year means that those with a different belief are out to ruin Christmas and “this holy time of the year”. Shouldn’t every day be holy in one way or another? Shouldn’t displays of piety and grace happen in the everyday, ordinary moments?

Yes there is a war on Christmas. There’s a war going on somewhere in the world the other 364 days of the year as well. There’s a war on poverty, on hunger, on freedom of speech, on my right to choose what I do with my own body and for the right of every other woman to do the same. The war to find a cure for AIDS, for cancer, for horrible diseases that disfigure children and ruin lives no matter what age group it strikes.

I could go on and on, but the point is…people are fighting every day for far more than the right to proselytize from the lobby of our government’s main building. Put your damn big boy and girl pants on and make that tree in your living room the most glorious monument to commercialism on your block, or go to church or temple or sit naked in a sacred grove with a gaily decorated altar and enjoy your spirituality.

Just please stop demanding the right to do it all over our public, paid for with taxpayer dollar spaces.

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