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2004-07-29
Well, now I went and did it. I think I've found other knitters. Close to my house -- within walking distance, which is good. PLUS a knit-a-long. I have to make more baby booties for CnC at any rate, so it will (hopefully) be fabulous for one and all. Or at least for me. <grin>
Fried brain, anyone? Because that's about all I have to offer at this point. One fried brain.
Get this: went to physical therapy and to the nurse practitioner today. They're amazed at my recovery rate, which apparently ROCKS. I told my PT that I had been knitting all along, and that may have affected my dexterity. He totally agreed. Go figure! Knitting was good for my recovery!!
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2004-07-28
One more post before bed.
Here's the baby blanket as-is:
And here's some detail on the cardigan, though it looks really bad here. It's just a simple stockinette stitch, but what the hell...
Comments:I showed the picture to JR & told him how much work you put in to it. His repsonse?Post a Comment
"Wow, it will become a sacred relic that you take out when the kid turns 21 & show it to him. Kind of like my silver spoon. I got a silver spoon when I was a baby, & didn't even see the damn thing til I was in my thirties. To me this is normal. This is the way things are supposed to be handled."
LOL...
I'm not sure why it seems so damn cold tonight, but it certainly does. My good friend WeatherPop says it's 63 degrees, but that just doesn't seem right. It's a chilly wind out there, folks. Welcome to July in the East Bay, and pack a sweater.
Speaking (writing?) of which, I took a break from the baby blanket tonight. The border is mind-numbingly boring. So it's on hiatus for a little bit. I picked my cardigan back up and started a sleeve. So now I have about 20% of one sleeve plus the back completed. Not much, but knitting seems to go much faster than crochet. I'm confident I can finish it by the Fall... just in time for things to warm up around here!
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Oh, the horror! There's no way we can go to JR's graduation in December. It's a week earlier than we originally thought, and we can't be gone for an EXTRA week like that. I'm very very disappointed. Now, whether or not we come home for Xmas is back up in the air...
Hey, Mol! Wanna come out to the Bay Area for Xmas? I promise to be more organized this time. <nudge> I'm going to ask MoMo, too.
Comments:It IS a lot earlier than I thought it would be. Weren't y'all planning to visit Shirley? hmmmm. We'll come up with something. I'd like to take JR on a little vacay for graduating, maybe we could meet up somewhere....course it would have to be el cheapo! =) It's something we can think about.Post a Comment
2004-07-27
Busted. I was talking with MoMo the other night about some of my WIP, and if I made something for her it would DEFINITELY be "spew-cycle" worthy, not some delicate thing. It's just her personality. MoMo is not someone who babies her things... ANY of them. I also added, "But if I made you a sweater, would you take care of it?"
MoMo: "Well, what kind of sweater?"
<silence>
MoMo: "I mean... Yes."
Damn, I was laughing about that for hours. I guess you just have to know her to think it's funny, though.
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I think I'm in love.
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2004-07-23
I love bubblewrap. I admit it.
Also, I have a headache.
Also also, I bought some opal earrings. Extravagant, but beautiful.
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Working on the baby blanket last night. I showed it to Stevie... "What do you think?"
"I think that some day, a small person will love that blanket so much that they'll carry it everywhere until it's filthy and falling to pieces."
Sometimes, he knows just the sweetest things to say.
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2004-07-22
Lost the Fiddler Crab claw this morning... but now my wrist stings a bit in its new, sleeker splint. Like it's cold on the inside. I can't really concentrate, either, so I'm probably going to take a half-day today.
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2004-07-21
Two things. One: PLEASE ${DEITY} do not let my mother magically show up on my doorstep. I just keep having recurring visions of that happening. Two: Though I do some project management, I am NOT your personal Project Manager. Actually, I'm not a Project Manager at all. Stop calling me a Project Manager! I've known a few really good PM's, and you're tearing them down by calling me that. PLUS, it's not really descriptive of my job, just one part of it.
Okay, rant off.
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DAMN! Franz Ferdinand is catchy. Find me in the matinee... the dark of the matinee...
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2004-07-19
Remember that movie The Bourne Identity? There's a part where Julia Stiles character says, "I'm not staffed for this!" as the demands on her become increasingly more difficult.
I feel like that at work sometimes.
As a side note, hottie Karl Urban is in the new Bourne movie. Yummy! Total hottie. Franka Potente is no slouch, either.
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No idea why I just thought of this, but... Back @ the big p-V, there was a department devoted to billing and arranging telecom installations -- our WorldCom connection. And WorldCom sent over a manual with everything you'd ever need to know about pricing, scheduling, blah blah... Except it said it was a "pricing Manuel". For some reason, I just thought of that and it set me to giggling.
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2004-07-18
We just picked a bunch of apples from the tree outside. The problem? We have no idea what kind they are. The tree does something like five kinds of apples (some fancy grafting thing) and so it will make them for the rest of the summer and into the fall.
Any chance you can identify them? I think there's two kinds in the picture.
Comments:uhmm, I'll guess, but $deity only knows if I'm right!Post a Comment
The pinky green ones remind me of gala apple or pink lady apples (though I think they might not be *pink* enough for that).
Maybe the other is granny smith, though that green I'm seeing in the picture could be more yellow, which might be golden delicious. Take a bite, you'll know the difference!
2004-07-17
Another sore throat confession... it still stings a bit after they shoved that breathing tube down my throat in surgery yesterday. But my wrist is recovering okay. A bit sore, but not too bad. Typing one-handed sucks, though, so no more updates here for the moment. Just know I'm fine. Fine enough that -- more than 24 hours later -- I still haven't had to take any pain meds. Woo-hoo!
Comments:Glad to hear you're doing well enough to avoid the meds. Take it easy the next couple days & I'll call in check on you soon! :)Post a Comment
2004-07-14
Because I don't usually say anything interesting here, I spend time reading way more interesting stuff elsewhere. And besides Molly's Blog, here's some other good reading.
Diary of The Food Whore
Life at TJ's Place
The Skinny Daily Post
And some knitting-oriented blogs that I don't get to as often:
QueerJoe's Knitting Blog
The Knitting Curmudgeon
Wendy Knits
That's all that's I gots tonight!
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2004-07-12
If you Google for "Ignacio Gallegos", his Amazon list comes up first. And then a bunch of Spanish Historical guys. AND that he donated to public radio in NM... that comes up, too. That's about it for Googling mi cerdito, though.
Comments:Okay, Iggy's list is freaking hilarious! Have you talked to him lately now that he's on Friendster? How's his world?
Actually, Mol, until I got his friendster invite, Seņor Cerdito was just about nowhere to be found...Post a Comment
Arise, Chicken! Chicken, Arise!
Okay, enough of that. Since I was last here I've been very very sick and then a bit puny but now I'm all better. Save some wee allergy problems, which are nothing compared to the puniness I was suffering.
Iggy is now my friendster, to boot!
Comments:tee hee, thanks for the props there bee, this drone ended up starting up my own blog. its called "slimbuddha's daily smackdown" in case you want to do a google search on that. Thanks be to b! IggyPost a Comment
2004-07-01
I'll tell you a secret. I have a sore throat. Not a strep-throat kind of sore, but a sinus-drainage kind of sore. And I sincerely hope that does not mean I've caught what Stevie has/had.
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