bag 'n' trash -- home of monster yarn

WIP Wednesday

i've been having internet problems all evening so i'm getting this in before my connection disappears again.  just a couple of things that i've been working on.

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day 14 -- almost didn't happen.

In Case I Forget ... Or Drink too Much

today's been kind of busy and in a few minutes i'm running out to pick up some prints and my car before meeting the girls for a little knitting.

so this is all i've got.

 

you are teal #008080

Your dominant hues are green and blue. You're smart and you know it, and want to use your power to help people and relate to others. Even though you tend to battle with yourself, you solve other people's conflicts well. Your saturation level is very high - you are all about getting things done. The world may think you work too hard but you have a lot to show for it, and it keeps you going. You shouldn't be afraid to lead people, because if you're doing it, it'll be done right. Your outlook on life can be bright or dark, depending on the situation. You are flexible and see things objectively.

the spacefem.com html color quiz

really?  well i do like teal.


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day 13 -- quizzes are good in a pinch.

Conference Calls Suck

at 5pm earlier today:  at this very moment ... right this second ... i'm sitting in my office "participating" in a bi-weekly conference call that more often than not makes me want to kill myself.  or someone else.

i say "participating" because in actuality i just sit and listen for my name to be mentioned should someone want to assign to me an asininely simple task that a monkey could do rather than ask their own staff to do it for them.  sometimes i, along with the other managers on this project, are insulted because you know, not having Ph.Ds or MDs we're clearly idiots. 

this conference call is probably one of the reasons why i hate mondays.

this monday is no different. right this second, one of the most annoying members of this group is droning on about his/her research.  s/he will no doubt monopolize the remainder of the call and oh there s/he goes ... mispronouncing my name again!  because it's not like we haven't been working together for ALMOST SEVEN YEARS!!!!  asshat.

at 8:35pm:  i'm home now.  i'm eating ice cream and i have new yarn to snorgle.

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day 12 -- yarn good.  mondays bad.

I'm Such a Rebel

i'm pooped.

i just got home from an awesome day with kellee, melanie who came up from CT, stitchy, caro and her fabulously stylish mum (listen to me, i hang out with candians and i start speaking "canadian"), cheryl and jess.  we were all in northampton to see the harlot and do some shopping at webs.

i have one question though.  while listening to stephanie at the calvin theater, i was  crocheting beer cans.  i can't help but think that perhaps i might have crossed a line.

what do you think?

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day 11 -- i did not take a single picture

Kitty Photo Shoot

when there are no knitting or spinning pictures to post...

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post pictures of cats.

if they bother to stop moving long enough to actually get a photo even moderately in focus.
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day 10 -- cats -- the lazy knit blogger's best friend

Eye Candy Friday

just when i'm stumped for something to blog about, Eye Candy Friday comes along.  yay!

first of all, let's just get this out in the open.  i am not a gardener.  in fact, one might say that i'm so not a gardener that i suck any gardening tendencies from those around me ... kind of like a black hole of gardening.  i have indoor houseplants that supposedly no one is able to kill that i have killed.  i'm not proud.

but somehow, these tulips have survived.  they survived the great excavation of 2004.  they've survived being covered in plastic and gravel.  they've survived bunnies and they've survived me.  i'm tempted to plant a whole bunch more in the Fall.  chances are, those won't make it.

i've put more cards in the shop, including googlies. 

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day 9 -- TGIF

 

Shop Update

i'm sure you've all been waiting with anticipation.  but your wait is no longer.  i've updated the shop.  heh.

if you recall, i donated a set of 10 cards as a ravelraiser prize.  not everyone can win though, so i've put some of these cards up for sale.  i'll put more up tomorrow.  AND IF PEOPLE WOULD BUY SOME I MIGHT EVEN MAKE MORE!!  not that i'm begging or anything.

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day 8 -- good for shameless self-promotion

WIP Wednesday

starting today i'm going to have a regular wednesday feature called WIP Wednesday where i'll post about a project that i'm working on that week.  this may degenerate to WTF Wednesday or Whatever the Hell I Want Wednesday but today i plan on playing it straight. 

a few days ago i started another version of my gathered scarf.  this one is for me and knit from berroco ultra alpaca in pea soup.  this time, because the yarn is thicker than the yarn used for the original, i only cast on 40 stitches on size 8 needles (going down to size 5 for the garter stitch sections). 

by the way, it's been so cool for me to see all of the different variations of this scarf knit by so many people.  who knew that you all would like it so much.  not me anyway.

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day 7 -- here's to more WIPs than WTFs.   

Happy Earth Day!

like many of you, i try to do my best to save the environment.

1.  i've given up plastic when grocery shopping and now bring my own bags.  i still haven't gotten it in my head to avoid plastic when shopping for things other than groceries but i'm working on it. 

2.  i'm replacing all of our lightbulbs with CFwhatevers as they burn out.  (i can't figure out if it's more environmentally aware to just get rid of perfectly good bulbs before they've burnt out or not.  but it's certainly more maryse-miserly aware to do it that way).

3.  i do not water my lawn nor do i use artificial fertilizers.  mostly because our lawn is crap.  and to fertilize and water would only encourage the dandelions to grow even taller.  plus, norma says dandelions are good for eating so i'm killing three birds with one stone.  saving water, using only organic fertilizer (ie. wild bunny, bird and squirrel poop) and eating locally.

4. .  i try to recycle but i have yet to decipher the double-secret code of proper recyclable preparation and only manage to have my recyclables taken away 50% of the time.  i think the recycle truck driver guy is a control freak AND a megalomaniac, deciding at the beginning of his route whether or not he'll be emptying our blue recycling box or not that day.  too many cans?  NO!  not today! five inches from the curb?  NO!  not today!   our regular garbage guy on the other hand is a gem.  i love him (and i reward him handsomely during the holidays with a dunkin donuts giftcard delivered by me in my gnome pajamas.)  if he were in charge of the recyclable pick-up, i'm convinced that my town's carbon footprint would be reduced by half.

and finally,

5.  i reuse yarn.  yep.  i do.  a little over a year ago, i knit these toe-up green lace socks.  i was pretty happy with them, being that they were my first toe-up and my first lace socks.  unfortunately though, they never fit right and one day when i tried to slip one on, it ripped at the cuff.   

so, i frogged them.

and knit a pair of twinkleberries instead. 

still a little lacy but a better fit, these were a super fast knit with an easily memorized pattern.  i knit a heal flap instead of the short-row heel.  you know, because of the giant peds.   i've raveled the details.

so happy earth day to all of you.  go out and enjoy the day.

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day 6 -- a reminder that this is sometimes a knitting blog and good for the environment

 

Monday Sucks Even If I Have the Day Off

i'm feeling out of sorts these days.  eating too much (due to anxiety and nerves more than anything else) and just generally in a funk.   lots of sighing going on.

i don't even have a decent rant in me.

so this is going to seem like a cop-out but i'm just going to post a mosaic of some of my favorite flickr images of the past week.  for details go here. 

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day 5 -- thank god for flickr.