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Friday, April 29, 2005
DMV II and ATTN: All MSW FOLKS
Okay, first off, I'm thinking that SOMEONE has to MODEL the bevin tank for my pattern album thingy. Alotta folks are like "Hmmm, I think that I really like that BEVIN tank that that boozehag chick made, but alas, I can't SEE what it looks like, so I'm really up in the air about it!"
(The reason it wasn't modeled was most likely due to the infamous DHL mishap, where they actually sent it to Texas, rather than TORONTO, AFTER the deadline, so it literally got into the issue by the skin of it's teeth)
Who wants the jobby job?
I'm super excited to go to Baltimore! But I'm getting the impending feeling that it's going to be literally a whirlwind and fuzzy blur of faces and names! EVERYONE is going!
Check in with us if you are going! Kaitlyn has set up an evite for y'all! Click here to join!!!
Anyways, ladies, ladies... put your hands together and give me a round of applause if you will... (drumroll please)
I, Christine Jane Buhagiar, domestic dutchess and former problem child, went and got a LEARNING PERMIT this very afternoon!!
WHOOOOOOOOOO! And it only cost me 5 bucks. Legally one has to obtain and posess a drivers permit for a period of 30 days, so I have my driving test MAY 31st!!!! That's right, you on the sidewalks heard me! So watch out!
I feel 15, retardedly so...
But alas, Rhode Island, I STILL hate your guts! You can't rope me back in that easily, my old nemesis.
Oh, and my little "DMV CONSPIRICY THEORY"??? I think I posted that on Sarah's blog and maybe not here, but I had this theory that there was a black, evil, elitist division of the R.I. dmv that's sole purpose was to infuriate, exasperate, frustrate and generally break good people's will to live.... After chit chatting to a few employees today (I will not name names or branch locations for their protection, of course... we need more folks like these in our corner, man!) I WAS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!! There's 2 ancient, crochety, evil, sadistic, plotting, sceming, devious withered up old hags who are the driving force behind it! There's been meetings and hearings and everything! One of them just got the boot, so the other is still in there, hopefully she'll die or something and a kinder, more understanding, NICER, younger, un-bitter replacement will come in and straighten that joint out..
That's right, though, I'm like 3/4 legal beagle, upstanding and law abiding pillar of society! (okay, okay, that's pushing it)
No matter how responsible or grown up I ever become 3 things/mottos will ALWAYS apply to my DEATH!!
1) FUCK THE MAN!
2) ANTI-AUTHORITY
3) COUP D'ETAT!!!
That's right! I'll be an eccentic old hag with my knitting out on my sovereign 2000 acre piece of land in some remote mountain top and be living off the land, or some other equally inane scenario involving moonshine and guns.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
DMV
Thanks everyone for the kind bday wishes! (Joy and Sarah, I'm going to email you later, I am pooped right now!)
Just thought I'd tell the world that I'm ALMOST a legal beagle!!! (opposed to the regal beagle, I suppose....3's company anyone? After today I could use a stiff one at a bar, lemme tell you!)
I paid 250 to narragansett, 250 to providence, 475 to the state of r.i., 150 to the town of pawtucket, 75 re-instatement, I just paid..............$1, 200 us dollars!
But that's not the best part, oh no, it gets way better... I CAN'T GET MY LICENSE BACK FOR ANOTHER 2 WHOLE MONTHS (unless I can schedule a drivers test sooner, unlikely!) So I get to shell out ANOTHER 60 bucks, plus registration, PLUS WHATEVER THEY ARE GOING TO WHACK ME FOR THE TEST!!!!!!!!!!!
It's official.... I HATE YOU RHODE ISLAND! I really, truly do! WHat other state makes you run around the entire state to accomplish ONE thing? And who is the brainiac who has operator control and ritt 20 minutes away from each other?? How are people (other than me who has the luxury of having a good friend lawyer and chauffer) who don't have a license supposed to get to all these places? It's meant to drive folk's mad! Like they have a panel of assholes who come up with more ways to make everything THAT much more harder and THAT much more expensive and THAT much more exasperating!
I SIGNED the paper, the chick ALMOST gave me the license and BOOM the guy from operator control uploads this test b.s. into the computer! GRRRRRRRRRRRR!
I know, I know, it's my fault for pretending I'm Shirley Muldowney but I think after forking out so much cash, I deserve a LITTLE break here (other than my proverbial balls, that is)
I'm frustrated, broke and tired, off to knit the stress out..
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Monday, April 25, 2005
My husband rules!
An early birthday present, along with 2 sets of clover circulars! Okay, okay, I had to send him to the lys with a handwritten note to them, but I would venture to say that sending your husband to the lys is not very much unlike asking him to go to the store for tampons!
Speaking of birthdays, cough, gasp, wheeze.. Mine falls on this wednesday. Zoinks! But the real reason I am mentioning it is that Lucia shares the same birthday as me! Weird! Interesting! Neat!
In other news, I must be slowly coming out of my funk. Perhaps it's because there is sun outside? (Not that I can go anywhere, brakes!) Not that I am happy-go-lucky again, YET. But I do feel that I can at least laugh at myself again. This past week was just too weird. Complete Murphy's Law. (not the band) It was very frustrating.
I was excited to see that my good friend Donna is in today's paper, and it's NOT POLICE BEAT! (haha, kidding Donner!) No, remember how I said I might join a roller derby team? Guess what was in today's lifebeat section? Along with a qoute from Donna (aka Betty Blackeyes)!
Can I just inform you that the providence journal's webpage is the worst thing to navigate, and I had to fill out a zillion fields all so I can't link it? Anyways, I'll insert the quote here MYSELF!!! arrrgh. (see murphy's law applies still)
"you wanna play, you gotta pay!" Said Betty Blackeyes, a statuesque 29-year old from portsmouth who was nursing a sore back after several eye-popping spills on the rink. "It's all good". (How terribly RI of you, Donner, you should have just said "it's WICKET AWESOME!"
That's all for now. Sigh.
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Sunday, April 24, 2005
Bad blogging
I know, I have been such a bad blogger lately! I really don't have any excuses either! My car has NO BRAKES right now, and it seems that I have started, ripped out, discarded or abandoned a million projects. I'm going through this whole weirdo knitting phase where nothing is coming out right. My hands are seriously killing me which I think is a main contribution to all that. Plus I have been obsessively bullheaded over this stupid, horrid wildflowers dk cotton that is driving me to the brink of insanity. I should just throw it away, it's the worst yarn I have EVER had the misfortune to buy/work with!!!!!! If you look at these 2 pics, you can see that on the strands, the yarn is just split and atrocious looking..
Also, it's really 50/50 on whether I will be going to Maryland. My greasy lawyer pal Joey just informed me that it is going to cost me about double the original estimate to get my license back!!!!! $1,110 dollars to be exact. Which means that even if I do the irresponsible thing and go to Maryland, I will literally go home empty-handed (or maybe not, but either way is bad news). So I may not even have an i.d. to go with. You would think being (almost) 32 I wouldn't need to show an i.d., but I get carded every damn time!! So I am really stressing over the decision, which is why I haven't gotten back to Sarah. I am torturing myself with the pros and cons!
One bit of good news is that I finally recieved my yarn! Mary-Margaret, no, no... YOU are the sadist! This is going to take a loooooong time to knit and on small needles, I have no option but to use alot of "zostrix".
Speaking of Zostrix, I swiped this from my dad. It's for arthritis. I think it's infused with cayenne pepper, I swear to god, while it's been a savior to me, if you rub your eyes, 2 seconds later it feels like little pygmies are camping out on your eyeballs and stabbing them with burning hot spears of fire! OUCH! And naturally, right after every application, I space and rub my eyes, as if on cue.
What else? It's totally ugly gray weather. I'm incredibly bored and I am literally stuck in the house. Anthony's new car for some reason or the other, doesn't have any seatbelts in the back, so switching car seats is not an option. God, I wish I had better things to report but all in all this week really sucks!
I'll be putting a few pics in later on, but I'm in the middle of swatching my new yarn, which is a tedious task, but a neccessary evil nonetheless.
Don't you just hate days like these?
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
I'm a bit miffed
Even though I KNOW better, I totally spaced and forgot to save my post! They REALLY NEED TO REMOVE THAT STUPID THING! Argh!
I got tagged by Sarah (here we go with they re-typing)
This will be an embarrassing variable cornucopia of my "tastes" I'm not remembering how I read all of those "smart" books in my youth, ones that made you ponder life's great infinite void or purpose here!
So here goes.
Total number of books in your house:
Okay, I'm looking at about 60 - 70 right now, there are more in boxes somewhere though.
The last book you bought was:
"Knitting on the Edge" by nicky epstein (a must have)
What was the last book you read before reading this?
Aside from the obvious, THE DAVINCI CODE by dan brown
Write down 5 (or 6) books you often read or that mean a lot to you.
Welllllllll, they might not mean anything per se, but I remember enjoying quite a bit....
1) Motley Crue's "the dirt" (jam packed with l.a. sleaze) This makes me feel VERY.... click here to find out
2) I went through a tortured quasi feminist stage in my early teens and my only hope, salvation, and encouragement came in the form of THIS WOMAN and in particular THIS BOOK I can still remember a line about how she was looking forward to her menopause and how she'd celebrate by burning her tampons in effigy! I still think she's one of the coolest gals around.
3) Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Stephen King, yadda yadda, lot's of horror and crime/mysteries
4) The obvious, my ever growing library of any and all things knitting related.
5) Lot's of fruity meta-physical, numerology, astrology, and pagan based stuff.
6) I remember in my early 20's really digging "the modern girl's guide to life" Very informative. I still have it somewhere. In fact most of the books I own and the majority that I read are fairly instructional based, I'm a can-do how-to kinda gal. Think Bob Villa and Martha Stewart but on speed. (Yes, that means I actually LIKE to work on cars, sew, knit, lay down a new floor, fix my plumbing, cook, etc.. Everything except electricity after having a bad introduction to it and getting blown off a metal - i know DUMB - step stool while trying to fix a light in an old apartment, not realizing that it was connected to everyone else's power and yes, ensuing in a black out for all 3 floors)
Who are you going to pass the stick to (three people) and why?
Well, I just sent one to Miss Mary-Margaret! (Because I think she is super smart and interesting and will have the most impressive answers, so I can feel like I dun gone and grat-you-ated jr. high! hahah kidding)
Morgan - because for one, she hasn't posted in way too long and I think she'll also provide very interesting answers as well that will make me wish "I SAID THAT!"
And finally, I think I'll tag Lucia and fully initiate her into our evil ladies of leisure clan, muwahahahaha quizzes for Loooooo-ceee-ah! Muwahahahaha *maniacal laughing and wringing of hands*
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
It's Spring!
It is so gorgeous outside, which is precisely why I am going to try and not write a mini-novella and get outside! But here's what's happening..
Yesterday we went to Kathryn's house, Helena ate finding nemo fruit chews, ensuing result=bright green poo. Ensuing result=freaked out me, untill I realized it was the candy,]
Went to the beach! Helena got soaked, went home and she used her potty for the FIRST TIME! (ensuing result=a very ENTHRALLED me!)
Went to my first knitting group, late, got lost, and one of the ladies was a friend of my mom's who says "Oh you're the 'problem' child! How nice to meet you!" Hahahahahaha! Apparantly my wild days are STILL catching up with me. I came back and told my mom and we both laughed because the title of my blog would suggest that I am a 'problem' adult! (For those who don't know, my teens and early 20's were most certainly all about rebellion in any and all forms possible, but it was destined with my mother being as super-conservative as she is, we still can't figure out if she's become more open minded or if I have finally "grown-up") But it was really fun nevertheless, everyone was super nice, Kristin took some photo's...
Lucia has added a bunch of new tools on her site, which I will post links to later and I'm also adding a new lelah to the gallery from Janin!
So more details later!
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Friday, April 15, 2005
Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival!
Okay, Sarah from STITCH! invited me to go with her and co.! SO I am going! Even though it means that I am going to be mildly freaked out because it will be the FIRST night I have EVER been apart from my lil' Helena! (Somehow I think this will be much more traumatic on me than on her)
The plan is to leave friday, spend the night and festival saturday, home saturday night! (Sunday will be my second official"mother's day! teehee!)
So I was reading Kaitlyn's blog and it looks as if she and JOY are gonna go too!
WHO ELSE? Natasha, maybe???? The beauty about the east coast is that everything is such a short trip! Hell, I can drive to florida in under 24 hours! (Okay, that's a longer trip and I kinda have no use for florida, I find it repulsively geriatric and bland, miami although not as geriatric, I have no use for either, I really have no use for the entire state and screw them anyways with the election bullshit.. sorry to anyone who resides there, i do not mean to offend you personally)
It's a beautiful day out and I have a hammering migraine.. But I am going to try to enjoy it anyways! That's all for now!
Oh except for an open note to Heide.... Everytime your blog finishes loading, I get an error message (you know the kind with the !) and my computer shuts off, which is why I haven't been visiting lately! I can't leave you a message!
My friend Adrian, one of the coolest and nicest guys around actually locates weirdo knitted stuff on the net and sends me links! Here is the latest, it's knitted super-hero costumes! Wacky!!!
Oh and I may be joining a roller derby team, yes, I am serious~
More sheep and wool info HERE
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Japanese soy yarn, and what happens when you are lazy and don't swatch.
This is going to be an excellent example of what not to do when designing and WHY you shouldn't be lazy and do swatches. And how certain yarn sucks.
But first, here's the goodies my mom got me while in chicago. Japanese soy yarn! All 2930 yards of it, which is meant to be double-stranded. While I appreciate the delicate beauty of this yarn, it'll be a while before I actually WANT to knit with it. This is where I need a winder. She also got me a couple of needle cases and stitch holders. The new fangled ones. I haven't tried them yet, call me archaic but I like the metal susan bates ones, even though I KNOW, I KNOW, these make it possible to open on either end. Whoohoo.
And here is the weirdest shirt ever! My mom said that they were selling like hotcakes. She had to get it, it was only 8 bucks. AND she said if I didn't like it for Helena, that I can wear it! That's right, it is a one size only shirt, and it DOES fit me! CRAZINESS! Here is the shirt (with my hand for ratio and the shirt on Helena........
And now, a short lesson in how NOT to go about designing.
HOW TO: Designing Disaster..
1) Buy at least 1-2 skeins less than you actually need
2) Search for size 6 circulars, find 7's and say "whatever, I do what I want!"
3) DON'T bother doing a tiresome swatch, live dangerously and WING it.
4) Know the entire time that you really needed a swatch, but say "whatever, I do what I want!"
5) Don't chart out anything, so you can realize later that decreasing a bit would be best, after you have knit too much.
6) Use yarn that is unpleasant to work with, in this case grey dk weight cotton that literally falls apart.
7) Knit about 6 inches and realize because you didn't swatch, it's too big (although it wouldn't have been if you could have just waited untill you found the 6's)
8) After all the above, realize that you hate the yarn and it was totally wrong for the idea anyways. You should have just gone out and bought different yarn, but you really really wanted to use that crap up.
9) When you figure out the piece has too much uh, girth to it, show your husband so he can sigh and tsk at you, then listen to him try and talk you out of frogging it because it's ludicrous to spend so much time on something to rip it all out.
This is what I call lazy boredom knitting. And I am not mad because I knew from the moment I started that it wasn't going to work out. But what to do with that cotton?
The Rogaine, my friend Candy who is a beauty school chick, used it and she swears it works and will make your hair fuller and thicker! And apparantly, the color will come in (later)... I have to say I only tried it twice so far, but I have noticed a difference, but I also haven't been conditioning.........
There is a really nice gal Lucia and you have to check out her blog. It is by far one of the most informative, I have on many occasions, stumbled upon it when searching for answers to something! Today she has a lesson on shaping sleeves. I am telling you, she should get an award for her blog! There is a variable wealth of useful info in there, and she's so great to share it publically, with all of us!
I am so linking her. I actually had her linked a while ago, but when I tried to go there it said "this page does not exist" so I am glad to know that it was probably a typing error on my part, rather than the demise of such a great site..
Well, that's all for now. I'm really excited to see Joy's finished Lelah...
Sarah finished the shrug she designed! It's great!
It's official, we'll all be in san francisco June 14 thru 24.... I plan on hanging with Jess and Lily! That should be SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Thanks!
Hey thanks everyone for the compliments! I'm on knitting hiatus for a couple days, I'm burned out. I am working on a new top, but I can only muster about 16 rows a day... I think I am sick, I feel ill.
Anyways, I'm just checking in with you all. I have been meaning to write to alot of you, so anyone who hasn't heard from me, I'll get around to it soon!
My mom was in chicago at a textiles convention this past weekend and got me some soy yarn that resembles thread, and not the heavy duty kind either. Although it's beautiful, it has to be knitted on teeny tiny needles, will take forever and really give my hands the once (or even twice!) over. Which is exactly why I am taking a break now! My hands are killing me from the #2 and 3's I've been knitting with lately.
Tomorrow, I hope to be alot more enthusiastic and happy go lucky, but for now, I need a nap and maybe some sudafed.
Natasha, I can't get into your blog, or rather the side bar appears and the polka dots, but NO POSTS!
Oh, and I bought some rogaine for women because I want thicker fuller supermodel hair! If you read the bottle, it says that at first the new hair growth will be COLORLESS!!!!!!! WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm off like a dirty shirt.
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Friday, April 08, 2005
Designing (for Joy) and ramblings
Q. How do I lose a knitting needle sitting at the computer?? I can't find it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I STILL have a migraine, maybe it's the weather change, but it is excruciating nonetheless. I couldn't sleep last night. So I continued knitting Helena's dress (not crumpets, which is my next project for her) I'm doing the Debbie Bliss "dress with lace edging" and it's been a royal pain, literally, mostly in 2 fingers. The pattern itself is easy but once I switched to the #2 circulars, my hands are tormented and with all of the stockinette, it's taken forever and is tedious. I changed the band from 6 rows garter to 3 rows garter, 4 rows moss st, and then another 3 rows of garter. I'm going to run out of yarn, I'll make short sleeves instead and carry the band to the sleeves when casting on... It's taking forever!
Last night I had the windows wide open and all I could hear was the sounds of spring! It's official! It's HERE! I heard CRICKETS chirping, birds and rain! It was GREAT! I loved it!
I'm amazed at all the Lelah's popping up! There will be more in the gallery this week! I guess it's "officially" a HIT! I'm so happy and proud!
I'm mad that Sandra didnt get the Chibi needles and case I sent her! It's also official that EVERY time I send something, I get SCREWED! So I am going to go and pick her up some more stuff to send her and this time HAND PACKAGE IT, send it out myself and from now on ONLY the U.S. POST OFFICE will have my business!!!!!! I'm sick of paying out my ass so they can harass me with things being broken, going astray, or not getting there or getting there a month later! Sorry Sandra!
Joy emailed me and asked how I go about designing so I thought I would share my methods with everyone.
Yes, I do just dive into it.
Here is what I do.
I start with an idea in my head which I then sketch out. Once I am happy with the sketch I figure out my yarn and gauges. Then you measure yourself, here is a great article from knitty describing how and where to measure here, then I chart out my pattern. I usually start from the bottom up and I go to this site, type in my gauge and print out graph paper to use.
This is where it gets chaotic. Once I have my measurements and design laid out, I start knitting. As I am knitting, many things transpire. And the design will change as I go. Either I think of something better to do or I figure out something isn't going to work or that my gauge has changed, any little or major thing can alter the process. So once that happens, I just knit and knit and write down everything row by row.
I try to have a pattern before I knit, but it never works out that way. I end up winging it as I go!
My biggest piece of advice is (especially if you are knitting with delicate or expensive yarn) is to get a bunch of cheap "practice" yarn in a similar gauge and work with that first. That way it's okay to frog it and you get a basic idea of what your finished design will look like, and if it doesn't work out, it's painless to rip it and re-knit it. I knit every design at least 2 times to get it right, and even then, once I am done I torment myself with thoughts of "I could have done this, I should have added that, I should have made it tighter, looser, etc"
Alot of times as I am knitting, I'll get more and more ideas. I keep them all in a binder for future reference.
I don't think you have to be super anal about getting the schematics JUST RIGHT, I think that once you have begun, alot of things just fall into place as you go.
I know alot of you are starting to design yourselves or want to start, so I am going to take detailed notes on the process with my next design so you can see how it's done. It's challenging, but it is so much fun. If you can read a pattern, you can design one.
Start paying attention to every pattern you knit, notice decreases and increases and the intervals. Pay attention to how the armholes and necks are shaped. There are so many possibilities. What way do you like to knit things best? From the top to bottom, bottom to top, in one piece, do you like to include a "built-in" neckline or do you like going back and picking up stitches?
Take a piece of clothing that fits you really well, measure it! Use it as a basis for a design. ANYTHING can be knitted providing you choose the correct yarn with the correct needles. By that I mean you can knit a skirt, but a chunky yarn with medium needles is going to make you look like a padded linebacker. A light weight yarn with good drape will be flattering. This does not apply to everything though. Lelah was made with worsted wool for instance, not a likely candidate for a lacy baby-doll tube top, but it CAN work.
Instead of looking at knitted items, I look at sewn clothing and then try to duplicate the look but with yarn. Look at the shape of an item and incorporate that into your design.
There are a few good books out there on designing. Go to the library and pick up ones from the 70's. They are so simplistic and give a bare bones primer. Knitting back then was nowhere near as complicated! Yarns were more interchangeable..There weren't 300 different ways to decrease with 600 different names for a decrease. I think one of the major reasons people have problems with patterns and are scared to knit has to do with all of the super lingo and lack of cohesive directions. Sometimes I feel like only a Rhodes Scholar can translate some of them. So many patterns I have knitted were in actuality SUPER SIMPLE but worded so wonky, it was frustrating to make. And then once you figured it out, you get angry. "Why couldn't they just say decrease every row? or something retarded like that.
Check out this book from Deborah Newton, it's my BIBLE.
I know that this rambling probably didn't clear things up all that much, but it's a start. Like I said, I will record my next design and share the "how I did it" which is easier for me to explain
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Thursday, April 07, 2005
The new Knitty is UP!
Helllllllllooooo, KNITTY! Neat layout this edition! I love the banner! Hellllloooo, Cambio! It's ANOTHER Libby Baker! This chick is CARRRRRAAAZZZZY nuts on the needles! She's like BAM! Here's another! BAM! And another design! And BAM! I'm gonna keep bangin' them out! She is swiftly becoming my all time favorite designer!~ I didn't know immediately that it was one of hers, either. It's different from what I'd expect, but I think it is one of her best yet!
A round up of what caught my eyes:
There is another cute top from Jackie Wong! It's darling, darling!
It looks like Soleil has a fishtail lace edging!
I do by Jody prival is so vintage-y, it's on my must knit list.
All of the patterns were great though, and that is just my condensed list!
That'll tide me over untill the new Spun comes out on Monday!
Kaitlyn has finished her Lalah! It came out super-hot! You can see it here and here
And Joy's is also in there too, (see mb problem solved)
They both came o0ut sooo amazing!
Speaking of Joy, her new blog ROCKS! It is so cool (and much more festive!) Check it out HERE.
Aside from that, thank you for the comments on my last post! I meant what I said!
I have a terricle migraine today, and I have to get dressed and drive my gimp husband up to his work so we can pick up his paycheck, but it is GORGEOUS out! So maybe a trip to the park for miss Helena. I am 3'4 done with her dress, then I don't know what to do next. I'm bombarded with new things to knit. I want to try Crumpets, but with the coming arrival of my new yarn from MMJ, it's just going to be put on the back burner. I can't WAIT for this yarn! I can't wait to work with it! Let's just hope and pray that it'll work with my idea.
Okay, I am off to partake of some tylenol, comb my hair, wash my face, get dressed, get Helena ready, get milk, get in the car, and when I return, write back a couple of folks and read the rest of Knitty!
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
MB prob solved.
So I FINALLY reached my limit (I didn't want to say anything before, but I think they were letting me slide for a while because I was about 7 mb's over the limit for a while)
Another reason I love blog spirit? I upgraded for 3 months for just 11.56!!!! CHEAP! I LOVE these guys. Plus they are nice AND french, go figure.
Someday maybe I'll get a dot.com but untill then I am safe here for a while.
So while I was borrowing my mother's credit card I also picked up Libby Baker's (creazitivity) pattern for Crumpets off of Chiagu. I can't wait to knit this up! I hope I can find the time.
Mary-Margaret of Spun emailed and asked if I can do another piece for them, which I gleefully accepted! I have a neat idea, I can't divulge it though, but I'll know for sure once she sends out the yarn. This monday (the 9th) will be the unveiling of the Sprung edition, so check it out. And check out my top that'll be in there too! I have to say, the more I get to know her, the more I really really love being a part of Spun. I'm truly behind them and everything they stand for. They have given me so much encouragement, motivation and loyalty! So I am going to really really work hard on this next piece.
I do feel so incredibly lucky to have so many supporters, you all have really inspired me and given me the confidence to continue doing this! I love all of you! It's so weird that we are all so connected through knitting and blogging! And I am using alot of exclamation points again!!! But seriously, I thank you all for everything!
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It's spring!!!!
EDIT: Joy has passed on the blog curse and I can't put any more photos up, even thoguh I deleted A BUNCH OF THEM!!!!!!! Arrrrrrrrrggghhhh, I'll keep working on this, but note that there will be less pics in the archives. Unless someone can tell me how much 9,00 euro's are! I should just give them some money. What does 9,00 euro's = in american?????
Maybe I'll have to move my beloved blog!
OPEN NOTE TO BLOG SPIRIT: Is 9,00 euros 12 american? If so I'll sign up, but how in the hell are you supposed to pay? Don't make me move!
I've got my window open in front of the computer! It's suposed to be like 60 degrees out today! I have no idea what I am going to do, but taking Helena to the park is certainly on the list! Maybe I'll clean out my car since my husband has PHILTHY-IZED it! Does bissell make a portable steam cleaner?
Yesterday I sent the Sarah top to my cusin Mandy for her b-day, and I also sent Sandra a couple books on soapmaking and a small surprise gift, I wanted to get her a bunch of fun knitting stuff, but fabric place just doesn't offer that and the mail place was closing! How do you gals send stuff to each other? I was like "Clover needles? Does she like them? I don't want to get her doubles. Yarn? I don't want to get the wrong color or one skein short of something! Books? Magazines? Does she already have them?" Accck! I had a mental melt-down!
Sandra, I did get you something that even if you aready have, it's always good to have more of! I thought shopping for my husband was hard!
I did buy some small circulars, sizes 2, 3, and 4. Of course I forgot my card. Of course I already had the 4's at home, and of course I forgot to get the 11's I've lost somewhere! I didn't buy any yarn, although I almost got some forest green lamb's pride for another boobholder, then decided against it.
I ate 6 pieces of pizza last night AND a half bottle of acidic white vinegar, I mean wine. I feel gross. I'm trying to do the low-carb thing, sigh. I need to drop 15 pounds! I'm stuck! Maybe if I 'exercised' ewwww.
Spun will be up on the 11th!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSS! I can't wait!
I also added a NEW photo of Illanna's lelah in the readers gallery! I love the yarn she chose! So check that out.
I'm currently making a periwinkle blue dress for helena, size 3 needles, if I continue knitting this without other projects on larger needles, I feel my hands and joints will get all gnarly and my hand will permanently curled into something resembling and eagle's claw.. The beginnings of arthritis, I fear. My hands feel all hot and swollen today. I should get some "you bet your sweet.......aspercreme" (that commercial cracks me up).
I was reading Libby Baker's blog the other day and one of her blog budies has died. What is it about beginning of April? Every year, a notable amount of people die. I've been reading about it on other blogs, hearing it in the news and I just got this email 2 days ago;
Guitar Wolf Bassist Hideaki Sekiguchi Dead at 38
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>Jason Toon reports:
>Guitar Wolf bassist Hideaki Sekiguchi, known to fans as Billy, died Wednesday of heart failure at age 38. Sekiguchi's heart had stopped in his sleep at home the previous night, and he later died in a Tokyo hospital, said publicist Billy Nord of Narnack Records. Sekiguchi had no prior history of heart problems. He leaves behind his wife Naoko and two children; his funeral is scheduled for April 6 in Tokyo.
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>The band had just returned Sunday from a monthlong North American tour, and were slated to play an April 9 show in Tokyo before touring Australia. All future dates have been cancelled, and the band's continued existence is uncertain. In an odd coincidence, Narnack was already preparing an expanded U.S. release of I Love Guitar Wolf Very Much, a tribute album featuring the Coachwhips, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lightning Bolt, J. Mascis and the Fog, and Puffy AmiYumi, among others. The album came out last year in Japan and will be issued in the U.S. soon, Nord said.
I guess also it makes me think of my own mortality, now that I have a daugter, I can not imagine either Anthony or I not being a part of her life, shudder, I need to change the subject, I'm creeping myself out.
Since my blog link list is getting terribly long, I am going to be breaking it off into 2 sections.. Those of you who post alot and that I read religiously every day, and those of you who post like once a year. Sorry, but you gotta be more on the ball if you wanna arrive to the top section! Hahahaa, blog heirarchy, brilliant!
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Sunday, April 03, 2005
Rambling woMan
Apparantly, as pointed out to me via craftster, my blog is being weird! I have NO idea why or even what (something to do with it being cut off) It is coming up fine on my 2 comps.. sooooo, I hope it is fixed, whatever it was!
I was just visiting Kaitlyn's blog, who got interviewed by Sarah! I had to tell her to whip out Lelah soon, which made me think of Devo.
Let's talk about Devo for a second. Aside from being forever connected with a touch of Devo via Mark Mothersbaugh doing 90% of nickelodean show's music, see mojo from power puff girls, I really miss the days of Devo! Devo ruled! Feel good happy to be a nerd music! With a bit of a punk rock edge! All these people who argue who was the original punks (I say MC motherf***in 5!!!!!!!!!!) and everyone overlooks Devo, saying that they were "new wave" Au contraire, me babies! back in them days Devo and Blondie and Ramones were like the beginnings of that whole movement! But whatever, I've had too much red wine to really put up a cohesive argument, all I am saying is that DEVO RULED!! LONG LIVE DEVO!
My friend Candy called me crying the other day because she had lent me a book called the artist's way and I had underlined the hell out of it. She was crying not because I trashed her book, but because she went and read all of the underlines and it was like a revelation that she really needed. The underlining happened so long ago that I don't remember it at all, but it's nice to know that I was of service to a friend in need! So the deal is that you buy the book and pass it on to friends. She's buying a copy for me, I will read it and pass it on myself!
What else? Oh yes, not that any of you are interested but I HAVE to do this so I won't forget tomorrow!
ERRANDS!
1) Mail out Sandra's books and Mandy's top
2) I need more circular needles, in SMALL, tiny sizes, bring my card with me this time! I have too too many same size issues going on as it is!
3) I desperately need a full length mirror, crest super duper whitey smile tooth paste, new shampoo and conditioner, a new loofah, make sure I spend ALOT of time in the beauty products aisle and buy more stuff I don't need and won't use more than twice..
4) I'm bored, dye my hair DARKITY ash brown so I can look even paler than I do now.
5) Borrow my dad's sandblaster and give my talons a trim.
6) Get to the dmv and die of heart failure when I finally find out how much money those leeches want so I can be legal again, then furiously slam wads of cash down with an angry scowl/grimacing look tha "means business" and or plea bargain the fines down by bringing my greasy lawyer Joey with me.
7) I will finally apply for a credit card and appear as if I am not the eccentric anti-establishment gal I truly am so I can buy a house and pretend like I care about "keeping up with the jones' " and so I can do some on-ine shopping, even though I think credit cards are the basis of all things satanical.
And while I am sure there is more, that's a good enough start for me.
And so my dear readers, I must go and brush my pink wine stained teeth-esis and dye my thinning hair. What do you all think about Rogaine for women? My hair has lost all of it's volume! I'm getting old!
And a final note to Sylvia, my friend who just had a hysterectomy, HANG IN THERE AND KEEP YOUR CHIN UP! I LOVE YOU LIKE A SISTER (as opposed to what? a lesbian/ is that why people say that? because they are homophobes?)
More ridiculous rants later.
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Boobholder
It's a little big around the rib cage and I ran out of yarn so the sleeves are shorter and I couldn't do the last decrease round! I'm not sure about the trim, I'll have to block it I suppose~!
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Friday, April 01, 2005
Furrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriday!
Ahso, is friday! What am I doing? You happen to be looking at it, Wheeeeee! My life is SUPER DUPER exciting!
Good news though, it seems as if DHL has finally not only found, but delivered Bevin to MMJ! OH thank you thank you thank you! I suppose that teaches me for embracing the "I'm doomed, it'll never make it" mentality.. The issue was actually supposed to be out like, today, but by a miraculous delay (not because of me, but certainly beneficial to me!) won't be up untill friday or monday. That was CLOSE!
I got suckered into making the boob-holder/mini-sweater from Glampyre. I kept seeing so many neat ones here and there, like sandra, guessica and trebuchet's.... I'm using that wonderful wool I got in orange.. I had to up my needle size to 10's. So far, so good. But I haven't gotten to the part where you have to transfer ALL the stitches off onto a piece of scrap yarn to try on.. Can't I just calculate st per inch and do it that way? whiny whiny. But really, that is a pain in the ass. I'm going to rebel and keep 'em on the circ's baby!! It IS a really fun knit though! The continual increasing and garter rib keep me from getting too bored! It's perfect for attention span, as of now at least.
So Anthony came home early from work yesterday, wearing this mammoth black velcro and plastic contraption on his left leg. Don't ask, he chipped a bone in his ankle or something.. so he's home for 2 weeks. I've broken it down like this:
Pro's:
1) I can actually have some time to do some "ME" things, go and hang out with some friends even!
2) They gave him a humongus prescription of 750 magnum vicodin's! I'll take a couple for fun!
3) We can spend more quality time!
4) We can take care of all the dmv and banking stuff that we never had the (day)time to before!
5) He's still getting paid 80% of his pay!
6) I can have fun asking him to get up to do something and then say "oh, forget it!" (muwahahaha, only if cons #1 is being applied)
6) I do really miss getting to spend time with him, he's always tired when he comes home!
Cons:
1) Vicodins make him bitchy and tired, and I get irritated with that easily!
2) I can't take him shopping, so if I want a companion he's out of the loop.
3) He's one of those people who get awfully grouchy and cry-baby-like when stuck at home with the kid..
So we can see, the pro's outweigh the cons..
He's a good man, even if he spent more money on his GUITAR than he did on the CAR....
I am off, I've had a headache all the day long. Perhaps it's because I have my hair all piled up and tightly held together with a couple of my clover dpn's... I wonder if I should post that on that thread "knitting tips and tricks" on craftster... Hahaha..
Oh yes, there's 2 photo's of Keridiana's Lelah in the album section!
Everyone have a great weekend!
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