finally!
mom's poncho is done. it's the largest thing i've ever made. hooray!
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mom's poncho is done. it's the largest thing i've ever made. hooray!
fridayfive is kinda boring today.. go here to fill your friday mid-day. link via new web manager guy at work.
i found a dry erase board here at work, just a little one. smaller than 8.5" x 11". it's been sitting blank for almost 2 months. on tuesday of this week, i decided to make it the word-of-the-day board.
i'm thrilled at the progress i've made with mom's poncho. i finally had to put it down last night because my hands wanted to move faster than my brain. the second rectangle is roughly 18" long, so i have 12" to go and then the assembly starts.
i was trying to make it longer, but i just got tired of it.. plus i have to get back to mom's poncho. pardon the darkness of the image, but the hat is accurate. i need a new digicam.
almost forever, the wisconsinized moen family has met in barneveld for their annual lutefisk dinner. that day is almost upon us once again. most people are scared of the notion. if you've ever had the chance to try it, you'll either hate it immediately, or be forced to come to appreciate it. basically, it's cod soaked in lye for preservation reasons. then there's a lengthy "de-soaking" process that takes a week, if my memory serves. they do get all the lye out before it's cooked, you know. then it's served with mashed potatoes, lefse, and melted butter. mom and i eat it like a little lutefisk burrito. whatever, don't make that face, i think "fish taco" sounds gross.
only it's an okay lie. saturday will not involve going to ikea. it's lutefisk saturday, once again. i'll tell you all about it later.
i've never been... we're going on saturday. i think it's roughly 2.5 hours in the car (once we get in the car). i need a rocking chair, with no arms, to knit in. the couch is messing with my back. i would gladly order the wanted chair online, but i really need to sit in it first, to make sure that knitting won't be interrupted. so, it's a toss-up between this and this.
desktop image, one of my ferrets: it reminds me of an illustrator's style, but i can't think of which one.
an awful lot of groaning going on here today. *edited to get waaay less work-specific.
kurt needs to win powerball, or we need to move somewhere where my skills are paid for appropriately and where i can grow and learn in an environment that knows it's purpose.
knitted, breakfasted, knitted, pooled, taco sunday'd, knitted. good day.
i finished 4 beer cozies and decided not to go back to mom's poncho today. so i cast on another hat. just your average roll-brim, stockinette hat.. with stripes.
i'm submitting some knitted goods to morningcraft and the person coordinating the efforts has taken a liking to the beer cozy idea.
since i've joined the knitting bloggers webring, i ought to take more in-progress pics of my work instead of just yapping about it. since my digicam sucks at night, this is a stitch sample. it's knit in two 15"x30" pieces and then sewn together. i'm done with one of the pieces.
fridayfive is taking the day off today, so i guess i'll have to make up my own.
1. Using one adjective, describe your current living space.
big.
2. Using two adjectives, describe your current income supplier.
popular, huge.
3. Using three adjectives, describe your favorite hobby/pasttime.
soothing, creative, gratifying.
4. Using four adjectives, describe your typical day.
routined, regular, mostly unexciting, long.
5. Using five adjectives, describe your ideal life.
relaxing, active, hilarious, intelligent, useful.
my new thursday activity, it seems, is to shop on elann for more yarns. the poncho for mom will use up a hefty chunk of my stash.. i do need to start knitting some more smaller things, because i have a habit of getting just enough for one cellphone cozy, or one small hat, or one small bag. it's a darn good thing i like to knit.
The Saz has crappy falafel.
i talked to her this a.m. and she sounded more chipper than i had expected. the powerful wrist protection went to a very deserving recipient. we talked about my viral marketing. friends get one, not too hard to do, knitted good for free. and then they keep coming back for more. see? i'm not the only one who gets addicted. i'm skipping over some of my holiday orders and started working on a poncho for mom. it's at least something that doesn't have arm holes, so she won't have to stretch to get it on, and she probably won't need a whole lot of help getting it over her head. it's being worked as two 15"x30" rectangles which will be folded and sewn together. one of the many great patterns from knitting pretty; my first-ever knitting pattern book, and one which i have used over 20 times for various references and stitch patterns. yay for the knit!
tooo busy at work. mom went into surgery at 11:45 and will probably be done by 1:45 so i'm leaving work around 2 to go to the hospital. therefore, i'm trying to get a buncha stuff done at work in order to make sure everything's taken care of. gah!
two new items in the boutique. they're the first two. the blue and white hat was a pain because i knitted it with 4 strands held together and the yarn wasn't very slippery.. i just started a cellphone cozy from a new book that i got, stitch 'n bitch, and then will start on the powerful wrist warmers. i don't know yet what yarn i want to use, but i sure have plenty to choose from.
i'm attempting to make fantastic foods' version of falafels. wish me luck! *update at 5:46pm: it didn't turn out nearly as i had hoped.
it's been /hard/ not being able to blog. i hate when i break stuff and i have to start all over with it. anyhow, it's friday again.
1. Name five things in your refrigerator.
corn tortillas, salsa, monterey jack cheese, 2 eggs (technically that's five things), and a lot of those little cans of v8.
2. Name five things in your freezer.
more corn tortillas (we buy them in bulk), veggie burgers, film, frozen dill that was once fresh, vodka.
3. Name five things under your kitchen sink.
409, glass cleaner, a bucket, a sponge, lighter fluid.
4. Name five things around your computer.
coconut, a scanner, my crappydigicam, knitting books, list of yarns to buy.
5. Name five things in your medicine cabinet.
dental floss, hydrocortizone, antibacterial ointment, tums, aspirin.
yay! i'm back!
wanted a hard-boiled egg for breakfast but, once again, i was sorely dissapointed by the marketplace café. apparently i will never learn.
i'm really working very absently today.. like everything is second-nature and i don't have to think about it. though, i'm not mentally preoccupied with anything else, i just don't have the capacity to have to think today.
successful taco sunday. not to be confused with my previously mentioned taco sundae. you see, football sundays require "working around" football. i don't necessarily like this, but it's a fact of life. so, if the game is at noon and we go out for our usual breakfast, no one will eat taco sundae because we're all still full. therefore, we have taco sunday. if the game is at 3, then breakfast is pretty well on its way out by the time halftime rolls around, so taco sundae is served. if it's a monday night game, or the packers' byweek, then we just stick with the old standby, taco sunday. it seems complicated, but it's not; really.
my "organic" blue corn tostitos turned pink when they got cheese melted onto them? maybe it's too much red no. 5
i think i've shared this site with you's all before... but it's worth looking at again; four singing horses. if this doesn't at least make the corners of your mouth move, there's something seriously wrong with you. or, with the corners of your mouth.
this week went amazingly fast. i hope that's a forward-moving trend; cuz it's friday!
1. Do you watch sports? If so, which ones?
refusing to be a football widow, i had to embrace it.
2. What/who are your favorite sports teams and/or favorite athletes?
these things are meaningless to me. what matters most is the 3 hours that i get to sit on the couch with kurt and knit.
3. Are there any sports you hate dislike?
i'm not fond of watching cars driving around in circles, or basketball. or golf. or bowling.
4. Have you ever been to a sports event?
i saw the packers play the bears at soldier's field in december '01 or '00? i can't remember now.
5. Do/did you play any sports (in school or other)? How long did you play?
nope.
i'm on elann.com searching for yarns. this isn't good for my stash-shrinking goal.
this is a reminder to me, mostly, but there is an article in this week's isthmus about last week's friendster meetup showcasing the eastside mad bloggers (me, martin, bob and amy are purported to be featured).
posts per day. Today is my blog's one year anniversary.
for your Monday morning boredom: the world's smallest pacman game
catch the flies with your chopsticks
map of regional dialects
all links via #!/usr/bin/girl
i want to celebrate an occasion at ed debevic's.
because it's friday. also, i got to talk to a reporter from the isthmus at the madison friendster meetup last night.
back to business:
1. What vehicle do you drive?
2001 Mazda Protege
2. How long have you had it?
since April of this year
3. What is the coolest feature on your vehicle?
i guess the air conditioner is pretty cool
4. What is the most annoying thing about your vehicle?
it needs gas to run
5. If money were no object, what vehicle would you be driving right now?
if money were no object, i wouldn't need to work and i wouldn't need a car to get there.
i took a sick day yesterday. strangely enough, i started getting sick. i slept til around noon and went to bed around 9. i knew it was time to get off the couch and get into bed when i couldn't even keep my hands up to knit! what a sad state. i should let everyone know that i've been slightly successful in getting my yarn stash to a smaller, more manageable size, but my bag of FO's (finished objects) is becoming large! pretty soon i'll need one rubbermaid container for yarn and another for knitted goods. so, if you want to help, and need some nice homemade gifts for family members, go to the boutique and buy something. if you live close enough to me, or see me often enough, you don't need to pay shipping. see? i'm nice.