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Could Summer Be Here?

i'm really old, so it's been decades since i've had a summer off.  you know what i'm talking about.  days of no job, getting up whenever i want, reading books, hanging with friends, the beach. DECADES.  and yet, i'm still cranky about having to get up and go to work every day.  i mean, really.  if i can't have at least 1 month of loafing over the summer, then what is the point of having a summer?  do you hear what i'm saying? 

j and i do have a two week vacation planned for august -- we're going to visit the 'rents in france -- and i'm glad it's planned for august because at least i have something to look forward to, but still... 2 weeks?  WTF is that?  bah!  and then before you know it, it'll be christmas!

aren't you glad i blogged today?

heh.

i'm still busy working on secret projects.  if i weren't on a deadline, i'd be perfectly happy working on them.  but because i have a deadline, my ravelry queue is getting longer and longer because i keep adding things that i want to DO RIGHT THIS SECOND!!!  i want to do some embroidery for christ's sake!  i'm spinning again!

i spun this worsted (i think) and very thinly.  intentionally.  ha!  it wasn't just an accident.  the fiber is a mix of scraps from poppy flower fiber and it reminded me that i should really stop saving all of the good stuff for when i get better.  because dudes, i'm better when i spin the good stuff.  who knew?  i'd like to leave this as singles and make something simple with it.  i was thinking of making a Lavalette (it's free but kirsten asks that you make a donation to Alzheimer's and dementia research -- she's got a little button in her left hand sidebar so it's super easy) but i don't think i'll have enough.  before i decide, i'll have to see how balanced the whole mess is. 

that's all i've got for today.  happy friday.

Hi!

i have a work "to do" list, a home "to do" list and now a blog "to do" list.

1. award prizes to those who played along in my contest  almost 3 MONTHS AGO!
2. make my potholder pattern available (it's been tested.  now i just need to clean it up a bit).
3. post about the socks i finished a month ago.

let me at least get item 3 taken off of the list.  it's the least interesting of course, but it's all i can manage for now.  see, my day job has been kind of sucking the life out of me, so when i get home, i end doing crazy things like going to bed at 8:30.  or maybe it's just the incessant rain that we've been having that makes me want to cozy up in my bed with my cats and read a trashy novel (i'm on book 4 of the sookie stackhouse series.)

i've also been working on a secret project.  i would tell you about it except that then it wouldn't be a secret.  now would it.

so, enough with the blah blah.

i call these my troubadour socks because that's the name off the colorway.  i love these colors.  the yarn is sundara sock which i bought before sundara became super crazy famous and when she was still dyeing varigated yarns.  how i love varigated yarns like this. 

the pattern is my basic 2x2 rib pattern, top-down, heel-flapped.  i love the 2x2 rib.

i've raveled the details here.

have a good weekend everyone.  happy  and healthy july 4th.

Eye Candy Friday

so one of the reasons why i haven't been blogging so much lately is because i've been a little more obsessed with flickr and by extension with photography. 

more specifically with a technique called Through the Viewfinder.   i'm having a lot of fun with it.

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don't forget about the blogiversary contest.  i'm going to close it sometime tonight.   leave a comment on the blogiversary post and you'll be eligible for a prize. 

Eye Candy Friday

one of my pet peeves, and i've been called on this because i seem to let it annoy me way more than it should, is when people who live here in New England, of their own free choice, complain about the winter.  and how long it is.  and how cold it is.  and how snowy.  and who wonder out loud if a couple of 60 degree days in february are signs that spring is right around the corner.  as if spring has ever started in february ... ever.  and then are angrily disappointed when we get 6 inches of snow the next day.   yes, our winters are long and it can get old come mid-march when the rest of the country seems to be blooming all over the place and we're still standing there in our old grey wool pea coats and mittens and scarves freezing our asses off.  but it's New England.  and that's how things roll in New England.

but eventually, if you're patient, spring does finally get here. 

Eye Candy Friday

hi!  i'm back.

and i'm a bit of a loser.  and a quitter.  yep, i quit on day 295, a mere 70 days before making it to 365.  but i'm ok with it.  first of all, i was feeling a lot of pressure every day to write something.  second of all, since november and then the first of january, i committed to two 365 photo projects, so having to also write a blog post was weighing heavily on me.

finally, and most importantly, i didn't want jenn's story to be so quickly forgotten under a stack of asinine blog posts about nothing.  so i thought it was ok to quit. 

and now, when i really feel like blogging, i'm back! 

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no more counting!

Eye Candy Friday

check it out.  this shot was taken at 4:50 pm yesterday.  i was out of work and the sun was still out!  how awesome is that?

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day 293 -- dear friday, please hurry up.

Eye Candy Friday

the building where i work a couple days a week forms these crazy looking shadows on the building next to it. to me they look like chromosomes.   most of the building houses laboratory space so i thought it was a very cool design feature.  but apparently it's just a coincidence.  i find that pretty hard to believe.

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day 286 -- i've asked people and i've googled.  and i haven't found anything about these shadows.  weird, huh.

Eye Candy Friday

never two without three, my mother likes to say.  and here's  my third pair of socks for 2009.

the yarn is trekking in a fun yet subtle (for me) purple/blue color. 

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day 280 -- have a good weekend!

Eye Candy Friday

meeting my knitting peeps for a little dinner before going to see Clara Parkes at the Common Cod Guild Meeting tonight so i'm just throwing a quick post up here.  (as if any of them have been particularly long since i started this blog a day project.  and don't tell me i can quit any time because I CAN'T!!!!  i started a 365 photo project in 2007 and quit around day 245 and it's still pissing me off.)

have a good night!

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day 266 -- i'm home (i ran out of time earlier before i could post)

A Day of Ick

my original plan for today was to take my 13 year old twin nieces to target so that they could spend the gift cards they received yesterday.  and then we would go to friendly's because that's what they like to do.  but luckily, i didn't promise anything because i woke up this morning feeling worse than ever.  so i did nothing.  and it's beginning to bore me. 

tomorrow i had better feel more like myself.  that's all i'm saying. 

and this photo doesn't have anything to do with anything, it just makes me kind of smile.

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day 252 -- i almost quit the daily posting today.  too tired to care.