Because I Need Another Stash Like I Need a Hole in My Head

i was going to write a "things i like monday" post monday because over the weekend i came up with several things that i liked but then monday came along and  then passed and then tuesday came along and then passed and then today started and it's no longer monday so a post listing the things i like would be ok but then it would be "things i like wednesday" and not "things i like monday."  and i hardly have the energy to write a post about "things  i like" anyway.  why is it that it's so much easier  to write a post about things i don't like?  what does that say about me?

but enough with the whining...

1.  i like that i'm close enough to going away on vacation to actually start counting down the days until i go on vacation.  i don't like to get excited way in advance (one of my nieces has been counting down the days until vacation since january!)  because there's potentially so much unpleasantness to get through until that first day of vacation.  but i can start counting down now.  9  MORE DAYS!!!  and think about packing.

2.  i like shopping for fabric.  last thursday, stitchy  (dude, update the blog will you?) and i met at The Fabric Place for some notion shopping.  (is there anything more gratifying than shopping for notions?  remember when you could buy notions at woolworths?  remember when there WERE woolworths?)  i got there early.  walked right by the yarn department (if you've seen my yarn stash on ravelry you know i had no business being there anyway) and attacked the 50 cent  (no, not the rapper) fabric scrap table.   by the time stitchy had found me, i had dug  a hole in the huge pile and was practically crawling into it to get the good stuff at the bottom.  it was madness.

i found toile and fabric with chickens.  i like chickens.  and plaids and cute fabric with little flowers.  all for 50 cents a piece!  and no, i don't really sew.  well not beyond what i learned in 7th grade home ec.  this discrepancy (is this the word i want here?) will need to be dealt with.

3.  did i mention i liked chickens? 

4.  and last night i got to knit with ben and her adorable daughter ... well her daughter didn't knit but she did her best to gross us out by showing us pictures of sharks.  i don't like sharks.  but i do like little girls who like shark books.