Because why have truth in advertising? It’s not really bamboo, y’all. Do you think this affects the yarns too?
Thursday, 20 August, 2009
Wednesday, 5 August, 2009
Depressed
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
Monday, 20 July, 2009
One year older
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.
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
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.
Friday, 1 May, 2009
Blessed Beltane!
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.
Monday, 27 April, 2009
Monday musings
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!
Friday, 24 April, 2009
Friday happiness!
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.