Twists of Fate

Tuesday, 7 April, 2009

Hi! We’re back!!

Filed under: pagan, random — moiraeknittoo @ 8:04 AM

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.

Sunday, 29 March, 2009

Not just for microwave jousting anymore

Filed under: random — moiraeknittoo @ 11:58 AM

THIS is the best use for Peeps that I think anyone can come up with.

I should do something today. It’s fairly sunny for the first time in a few days. The birds are singing. Somewhere out there is a pizza that’s calling my name. And yet? Here I sit. I may work on a sock and ponder possibilities later. Yes.

Hope you all have had a marvelous weekend.

Thursday, 11 December, 2008

Random contest link

Filed under: knitting-fo, random — moiraeknittoo @ 7:44 PM

I can’t recall how I got to this contest/site now, but it’s full of awesome! You can win up to four colors of Fiestaware here! I just think that’s totally a groovy idea. *G*

Finished my hat project. Will take pics soon. Wrist is killing me. Apparently short sentences key today.

Have a great Friday tomorrow!

Wednesday, 10 December, 2008

*blink*

Filed under: knitting-wip, random — moiraeknittoo @ 1:20 AM

On a whim last month, I called Ms. Brenda Dayne’s drop.io number, fairly late in the evening, and never in a million years though that she would include it in Episode 71. I saved the episode for one of those days where everything just feels like it’s gone to shit, and today was the day to listen. Right before I go to bed, because this way my dreams will be filled with all kinds of lovely knitting stuff, and maybe I’ll get a real night’s sleep for the first time in a while.

Whoa. Weeeird. Also, I need to possibly invest in a better Bluetooth headset if that’s how I come across to other people.

Anyway, I mentioned Bohus Stickening, which I took a class in this summer (because you know you want to work with a 50% angora yarn when it’s 100 degrees outside), and really enjoyed taking the class with Susanna Hansson. Please do visit her website if you’re interested, because there’s info on the Bohus Stickening exhibit next month at the American Swedish Institute.

How groovy.

To wrap up this post, I’ve spent a couple of nights now working on “Hermione’s Hat”, a free pattern found on ravelry that I’m doing for my older niece. This is a reconstruction of the hat Hermione is wearing in the upcoming Half Blood Prince film, the one that I wish they’d stop tormenting us with previews for when the release is over SEVEN FREAKIN’ MONTHS away. Anyway, this is proving a fast knit, as I didn’t work on it all that long tonight, but am already at Row 40 of the patterning. I hope to finish this tomorrow night, and get to work on a hat for my nephew (the recipient’s brother). Big kudos to Jackie L for recreating the hat and making the pattern available!

Time for a hot shower and bed. I’ve come to the conclusion that, “Oh. Right. That PMS thing has reared it’s giant fucking ugly head again and I am not fit to live with AT ALL!” so it’s a) a good thing I live alone and b) I still don’t own a gun. If only chemical regulation worked for my cycle without sending me completely round the bend…I’d love to be on birth control all the damn time so this wasn’t even a freakin’ issue. Alas, I am not, can’t without being even MORE emo (note the CAPSLOCK OF EMPHASIS has made an appearance again), so I’ll simply have to slog on through it. And get a freakin’ planner for next year and block out these days in huge swaths of red or neon orange or something so it’ll highlight the fact that I should plan ahead for massive mood swings, raging bitch behavior and crushing doom, gloom and despair all around.

Good times!

Tomor…today is another day, and I hope, when I wake, that it’s a better one.

Friday, 14 November, 2008

You can be a winner!

Filed under: random — moiraeknittoo @ 4:15 PM

Sadly, not of anything I’ve made (the dye studio is essentially unheated and it’s way too cold to spend much time in a north facing room with a ton of windows and no heat).

A new to me blog, Old Red Barn Co has some lovely quilts they’ll be giving away to three lucky winners. See?

Isn’t that full of awesome? One day I’ll be able to indulge my curiosity in quilting, but for now, I enter. Because even though it’s south facing with a ton of windows, the heat in my apartment is not controlled by me and they’ve been turning it off during the day. When they’re gone. But I’m home. And freezing my ass off. I would dearly love to be bundled into one of these three while I’m at the computer!

Go. Look. Enter if you’d like. Thanks to Stumbling Over Chaos for the link!

Tuesday, 11 November, 2008

Do you like perfume?

Filed under: personal, random — moiraeknittoo @ 7:02 PM

I have a fairly big sale over in my other (fannish) blog if so. Lots of bottles of Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab (BPAL) for sale over there. If you know of anyone interested in BPAL, point them that way please?

I find it interesting that I can let go of the perfume easier than I can the fiber. It’s getting to the point though. *sigh*

Anyway, baby steps. BPAL on sale if you’d like to go look. :)

Monday, 10 November, 2008

You GO Keith Olbermann!

Filed under: personal, random — moiraeknittoo @ 10:38 PM

Holy shit y’all. I mean, seriously. I think I may love this man. More than a little.

WOW!

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