Dear Cable Stitch,
My deepest and most sincere apologies. I fear that my declaring dislike for you may have been a tad premature. You have been a delight to knit on my Stornoway socks and I have quite enjoyed you. Thank you for being so nice to me.
love,
me
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Random Crap About Me...
~ I think it's funny how people think I'm "together" when really I'm a walking disaster.
~ I do not like mushrooms - but I will eat them as long as I can't taste them.
~ I have strange food 'rules', like sushi is summer time food & chicken tortilla soup is only yummy on cold rainy days in November.
~ I talk to my cats. I sometimes think they understand me.
~ Still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
~ I spell phonetically and therefore wrong, I blame my 2nd grade teacher who always told me to sound my words out.
~ Love Bollywood.
~ I live at home and miss having my own place
~ I have to force myself to use capital letters when typing. it’s nothing but laziness on my part
~ I love coffee
~ I’m a cynic, but very romantic at heart
~ I rarely show my emotions and I don’t talk about my problems to anyone, because honestly it’s none of your damn business
~ I love hot cocoa with marshmallow or fluff.
~ I want to be like the girl I was in H.S. oddly, I was more confident back then than I am now.
~ I would love to run away to Ireland
~ I love high heels, but feel more confident in a ratty pair of combat boots.
~ Dressing up make me feel like fraud.
~ If I could I would still wear babydoll dresses and fishnets.
~ I do not like mushrooms - but I will eat them as long as I can't taste them.
~ I have strange food 'rules', like sushi is summer time food & chicken tortilla soup is only yummy on cold rainy days in November.
~ I talk to my cats. I sometimes think they understand me.
~ Still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
~ I spell phonetically and therefore wrong, I blame my 2nd grade teacher who always told me to sound my words out.
~ Love Bollywood.
~ I live at home and miss having my own place
~ I have to force myself to use capital letters when typing. it’s nothing but laziness on my part
~ I love coffee
~ I’m a cynic, but very romantic at heart
~ I rarely show my emotions and I don’t talk about my problems to anyone, because honestly it’s none of your damn business
~ I love hot cocoa with marshmallow or fluff.
~ I want to be like the girl I was in H.S. oddly, I was more confident back then than I am now.
~ I would love to run away to Ireland
~ I love high heels, but feel more confident in a ratty pair of combat boots.
~ Dressing up make me feel like fraud.
~ If I could I would still wear babydoll dresses and fishnets.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
3 Days
Went to Maine on Christmas visit with my brother, SiL and the kiddlets. I'm sorry to say the sweater didn't fit him. It was a tad snug. He was promptly told by others that he had to drop some weight. He felt horrid about it. He appreciated the effort that i put into it. Such is life.
It snowed Sunday into Monday, which was nice, the first real snow of the year. i quite enjoyed it. We got the day off from work, i sat quietly on my bed, blinds open knitting, watching the snow fall.
I am knitting a pair of socks, Stornoway Socks, I like the thought behind them. I am using some gifted intentions yarn ~ family, in a lovely bluey-purple. i'm trying to have a positive outlook for the new year.
It snowed Sunday into Monday, which was nice, the first real snow of the year. i quite enjoyed it. We got the day off from work, i sat quietly on my bed, blinds open knitting, watching the snow fall.
I am knitting a pair of socks, Stornoway Socks, I like the thought behind them. I am using some gifted intentions yarn ~ family, in a lovely bluey-purple. i'm trying to have a positive outlook for the new year.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Yes Virginia...
DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong.
They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.
Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Merry Christmas!
115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong.
They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.
Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Merry Christmas!
Monday, December 20, 2010
11 More Days
Why yes, I am still counting the days until the end of this year, thank you for noticing!
Anywho-how. I am nearly done with Todd's sweater, this pleases me, mostly because I want to start back up with my socks, my hearts & get my supplies bagged and tagged for the 12-in-2011 but until the sweater is done, I can do neither. I am a little nervous that the sweater will not fit Todd, fingers crossed that blocking helps, because i will seriously cry if it does not fit him.
Anywho-how. I am nearly done with Todd's sweater, this pleases me, mostly because I want to start back up with my socks, my hearts & get my supplies bagged and tagged for the 12-in-2011 but until the sweater is done, I can do neither. I am a little nervous that the sweater will not fit Todd, fingers crossed that blocking helps, because i will seriously cry if it does not fit him.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Ten on Tuesday
Which I stole from Carole Knits.
10 Things On Your To-Do List
1. Watch It's a Wonderful Life: It's been years since I've watched it. I cry during it, and therefor no one will watch it with me. :(
2. Finish Christmas shopping for the newly added members of the family
thank god for the internets
3. Wrap above mentioned Christmas prezzies
4. Bake a shit-ton of cookies by Sunday.
5. Go to storage to get my super cool Kitchen Aid mixer, some baking sheets, a cookie recipe and silplat sheet things.
6. Knit mindlessly on my Log Cabin blanket while watching Shrek 3 & 4
7. Sleep
8. Add a button to Sharon's scarf
9. Finish Toddlets sweater
10. Block above mentioned knitted items and wrap for Christmas
what are yours?
10 Things On Your To-Do List
1. Watch It's a Wonderful Life: It's been years since I've watched it. I cry during it, and therefor no one will watch it with me. :(
2. Finish Christmas shopping for the newly added members of the family
thank god for the internets
3. Wrap above mentioned Christmas prezzies
4. Bake a shit-ton of cookies by Sunday.
5. Go to storage to get my super cool Kitchen Aid mixer, some baking sheets, a cookie recipe and silplat sheet things.
6. Knit mindlessly on my Log Cabin blanket while watching Shrek 3 & 4
7. Sleep
8. Add a button to Sharon's scarf
9. Finish Toddlets sweater
10. Block above mentioned knitted items and wrap for Christmas
what are yours?
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