weird
i think my years and years of phone jobs have given me this strange, what i call, a "phone voice". it's an alternate me. i don't sound anything like it in person. especially at work. i sound all girly and nice and i say thank you too much.
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January 31, 2006
:/
been feeling kinda zombie-ish lately.. i think kurt is, too. he doesn't work sun-tues and is getting cabin fever from it being too cold to bike ride during the day and too boring inside the house.
i gave mom a booga j bag for her bday, so i started another one.. got the kureyon off ebay for cheap. it's just knitting in the round, so it's nothing especially challenging. i think i'd like to do some lace work, but i'm not a shawl person, nor do i have a need for doilies.
January 26, 2006
sorry
i haven't been very bloggy lately. i've been busy at work until now, and my home internets are going slow for some unknown reason so i haven't been using the computer. i seem to ponder this every january, but sometimes i wonder why i even have a computer and internet at home because i hardly use it. and then i daydream of the idea that i unplug and start a yarn store. then i come back to reality.
January 23, 2006
fair isle done
wow. it took ~3 hours to weave in the ends. i carried three colors that it made sense to, but there were four other colors that were only used for six rows every 18 rows, so it didn't work out to carry those. anyhow, i guess i know how to fair isle now... i don't wear hats, really, so i'm not sure who's going to be the lucky recipient of the hat, but i'll take pics soon. i also started on some bittens with the classic elite marl la and didn't realize that it was 4 2-ply strands spun together. that's too thick for bittens, so i had to unply them into two and two. that was fun.
January 19, 2006
bathroom habits
i don't like it when i'm the only one in a five-stall bathroom and someone comes in and uses the one right next to me.
January 15, 2006
neato
well, it's going. the continental knitting style is hard to get used to, but it does seem like it would be faster than english. i'm halfway through the charted pattern, so you can see the blue/red combo. 10 rows took the duration of the hitchhiker's guide so that gives you an idea of how long it takes to fair isle.
January 12, 2006
yes!
TChem was right. two-handed makes way more sense with two colors. it was a little awkward since i tried it on a row that i was to purl, wrapping the yarn around the bottom, but it still went faster. dare i say twice as fast? anyhow, this should certainly speed the progress. pics when i get to the charted pattern.
January 11, 2006
hm
i think i want a klein bottle.
p.s., thanks TChem! i forgot that i had found knittinghelp.com in which there is a video of how to do two-handed fair isle. i'll check it out before going any further!
January 10, 2006
omg
fair isle is s-l-o-w! i can't hold the yarn over my pointer finger *and* my thumb! so i pick up the yarn every other stitch. two-color cast-on, 1 k row, and 1 p row on 128 sts took me a little over an hour. [phew] but it looks kinda cool.
January 9, 2006
uh oh
when boredom happens, i buy yarn. i just got three skeins of kureyon off ebay for $25 with shipping, and three hanks of classic elite marL la from elann for 1/2 the retail price. omg.
*excited*
on friday, i placed an order for this fair isle hat. it'll be my first attempt at fair isle.. i didn't want to dive right into a sweater, since yarn cost can be a little intimidating. if i like this particular style of knitting, i think i can make up plenty of small projects to use up my little bits of yarn. i hope it comes soon.
January 6, 2006
:/
i have the new years' grumps. this happened last year when we got back from vacation and my boss read my blog and had a meeting with me to make sure i wasn't going to quit.
here's the unfortunate part; i love what i do here, but right now i'm not doing much of anything, and i h8 being sedentary (at work). i can't stand having nothing to do, i don't like making up projects to work on because it's not conducive to productivity, i just want to code a website. that said, we have 100 new projects this year that will need my expertise. i just wish the people in charge would tell me what they expect me to do, and tell me when they expect it done.
January 4, 2006
louis braille
it woulda been his bday today. google is celebrating with their logo, which still says Google.
i should dig out my braille manuscript and see if i can find those last two errors that i was never able to find. i took a braille class over 5 years ago because i worked with a blind woman and it was costing the non-profit too much to get instruction manuals, etc, brailled.. so i volunteered. it was really neat. it's probably the most noteworthy thing i've done. which kinda makes me feel bad. maybe i should take it up again.. it was only once a week.
neat!
click on animals, then insects. i want snail 3. Fork-Art
$2.35 and 9/10ths
what with gas skyrocketing 6 cents overnight, i started thinking about how i'm uncarpooling and what affect that might have on my pocketbook. you might think i would have taken that into consideration before stopping, but i stopped for other reasons; i'm not rich. i've calculated that at $2.36 a gallon, and an average of 25 mpg (i know my car gets more, but i'm accounting for error), i'd save only $11.80 a month. you might be saying to yourself, but that's almost $150 over a year's time! well you, i do a lot of other things that i could stop doing that could save me more than that per month; like incessant eating out. therefore, i drive solo.
EDIT: i did that way wrong. i was only going one-way with my calc, so double everything (except gas and mpg).
January 3, 2006
well...
it hasn't been too bad being back today.
January 2, 2006
:/
i have been knitting.. i want to do something more challenging though, like a lace scarf, or *gasp* intarsia, but i don't know if i have the patience!
so
a while ago, i blogged about placing an amazon order before christmas, but stuck with the free super-saver shipping because i figured i'd just get it in the middle of last week...
well, they said i would get it by december 31. guess what? i didn't. this means since today is a federal holiday, i won't get it til tomorrow at the earliest, which sucks because it's a sims 2 expansion pack and i wanted to play it over my vacation. two thumbs down to amazon.
January 1, 2006
ugh!
in true new year's fashion, i woke up at noon, tried to eat something, and went back to bed til 3:30. :) i'm running at about 80% now, but we just ordered an nyc-style pizza from pizza di roma with grease that'll kick me back in gear. i will say one thing, i'm damn glad i don't have to work tomorrow.