Ten More Days

halfway there!

this weekend, in addition to shopping, i also made more funfur trees.  (you know, instead of studying.  i have a lab final on wednesday and then a final final the following wednesday -- fuckers).

these guys are little, no more than 6 inches tall.  and what i like about my version of the funfur tree (pattern in the side bar over there ----> ) is that because it's started at the top and you knit down toward the base, you can stop knitting whenever you feel like it without having to plan ahead.  ran out of yarn?  you can stop.  sick of knitting with the funfur?  you can stop.  bought 3 tons of funfur at a sale 3 years ago when you were all about the funfur and you want to use up the stuff?  make a much bigger tree.  you are only limited by the size of your house. 

i didn't use lion brand funfur for these trees, but some green trendsetter aura that i got at graceful stitches for 50% off.  it looks and feels like easter basket grass.  yes, it's lovely stuff.  makes a nice loofah too.

and the garland i  made by stringing a bunch of those giant sequin thingies (they're called paillettes) onto metallic sewing thread and with a tiny crochet hook i made 15 chains, crocheted in a paillette, crocheted 15 more chains, etc. until i had a chain of paillettes long enough to wrap around each tree.  then i secured the garland with a small stitch or two.  ta-da! 

and now to the 10th thing about me:

10.  sometimes stupid, insignificant stuff can really irritate me and i'll obsess about it, getting all riled up and outraged.  and then feel kind of dumb because in the grand scheme of things, who cares?  for example, this is my current pet peeve.

i was listening to very smart people talk on NPR this morning and this one very smart, journalist person who writes for a living and expresses her opinion in publications that people spend good money on used three little words when used on their own do not annoy me.  but when strung together as a transitional phrase make me want to set something on fire:  "THAT BEING SAID."  (or it's equally annoying cousin "THAT SAID.")

god, i hate that little phrase.  because these days, every one uses it.  i read in newspapers, magazines (god you  magazine people need to mix it up a little).  i hear it on news shows on tv and the radio.  i hear it all of the time.   bloggers use it a lot, and that's fine.  i can live with it, because most bloggers, don't blog for a living.  i don't use caps in my blog posts and i'm sure that annoys people but hey, i'm not getting paid to type.

but if a professional writer or speaker uses it, ugh!!! it annoys me so much.  know why?  because it's sheer laziness on their part.   they should know better. and they should be able to transition from one thought to the next without using "that being said."    in my line of work, it would be as if  instead of collecting data from actual data sources, i decided to make the data up.   ok, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration but you get my point.  maybe.

ok.  see how stupid and insignificant that is?  and now i'm all riled up just at the thought.  want to set my teeth on edge a little more?  use the phrase "the fact of the matter is" over and over again.  yeah.  annoying.

alrighty then.  that being said, i'm out of here for today.

heh heh.