Here it is, the four meme that Marlena tagged m…

Here it is, the four meme that Marlena tagged me with:

4 jobs you’ve had in your life:
1. Waitress
2. Pizza maker
3. File Clerk
4. Accounting Clerk

4 movies you could watch over and over:
1. Love Actually
2. Resident Evil
3. Four Weddings and a Funeral
4. Trainspotting

4 places you have lived
1. Surrey, BC
2. Coal Harbour, BC
3. Fort Nelson, BC
4. Houston, BC

4 TV shows you love to watch

1. Rome
2. The 4400
3. Carnivale
4. Dead Like Me

You’ll notice that most everything I like, gets cancelled. My patronage is the death knell for any series! Look out Rome, you may be next!

4 places you have been on vacation
1. Las Vegas, NV
2. Victoria, BC
3.
4.

That’s just sad. I’ve got to go on a vacation.

4 websites you visit daily
1. The Blue Blog
2. Chicknits
3. My local homepage/News Page
4. Elann

4 of your favorite foods
1. Spaghetti
2. Corned Beef Hash
3. Chinese/Szechuan
4. chocolate

4 places you would rather be right now
1. Wales
2. Knitopia (LYS)
3. Bookstore
4. in bed with my box o’ kleenex!

And the four I will tag are:

1. Linda (I’m her secret pal so I will send this via the anonymous email)
2. Tululah Kumquat (My secret pal)
3.
4.

I’m drawing a total blank. I think my cold is really starting to effect my brain. I’m gonna go lay down for a bit. I have 3 hours of testing this afternoon for a job in the passport office. Of course it’s when I’m feeling my absolute least bright. Oh well, do what you can right?

Who would have thought it?

It would appear that some UFO’s can come back out of the knitting basket and actually be completed. As proof, I submit to you two, count them, two completed socks!
The first on, (on the right) was cast on and worked to the heel flap then abandoned to the knitting basket (more than two years ago!), for other, newer, more novel projects. This week while I was sick and needed some extra duh type knitting the little sock came out and was completed and I actually cast on and completed it’s mate. I’m so proud. Not crazy about the colours now mind you. I’m pretty sure I thought they were the cat’s ass 2 years ago though! Bahahahahah. Oh well, they are warm and fit well and that’s all I can ask for in my current Nyquil and Neo Citran addled state. That’s the Neo Citran in the mug on the right!

Now I need to find some more little projects that are in need of completing. Something fluffy (intelligence wise), something light. Perhaps a simple scarf of a Dulaan hat. Yes, that’s it, a Dulaan hat. That will totally work with my current intelligence level.

I don’t want to start anything big right now, I’m saving my game for the Knitting Olympics. Apparently there are over 1800 participants now. Amazing. Okay, that’s it for my spurt of energy. I’m going back to my couch now with my blankie and a simple hat to knit.

Oh, and Marlena tagged me with the Four Meme. I love Shallow Hal and Shaun of the Dead too! Brilliant. I will do mine up tonight and post soon. Oh, and go see her Rogue. It’s coming along beautifully!

I’m feeling spoiled!

Look what Mr. Postman brought me yesterday! Three things I’ve been a hankerin’ for. Six balls of the Elann Peruvian wool in the chunky weight, (and it’s even in the colour I was lusting after!), Felted Knits by Bev Galeskas, and the 2006 Dale Torino sweater pattern! Riches I tell you, riches!

I’m thinking a cabled scarf and hat for the wool, the colour looks like maple leaves in the fall. I love it. But…I could also make a felted bag from the book. Hmmmm, what a delicious predicament.

The Torino sweater if gorgeous too. I think I would do the darker colourway, black dogs in the house, you know.

And apparently my Secret Pal has a sense of humour, check out the return address! LOL.
It was a wonderful package and it made my week. I’m home with a cold too, so it was doubly appreciated. I’m going to go curl up on the couch now and read my book and maybe swatch my yarn a bit.

Thank you Secret Pal! You rule!

Ah shit….

Prime Minister Harper? Ack, I’m going to go have a hot bath and some wine. Wake me when it’s over.

Fibre & 1/2 an fo!

Here is the Fleece Artist yarns together. I quite like how matte the purple is and how very shiny and smooth the mohair/silk one is.

The seem to compliment each other nicely and will be very tasty together in a shawl/wrap. I found the stitch pattern in one of my books,yet another version of the feather & fan. This one uses k4tog and p4tog for the decrease though so that’s different.

I went with a 5mm needle but I still want to give the swatch a quick damp block to ensure that I’m happy with my stitch definition. I’m hoping the 5mm is all good as I have a very long Addi turbo in that size and the k4tog and p4tog will be much nicer on that than on a bamboo 6mm!

In other news, I finished sock #1. Why yes, that is the sock I cast on more than two years ago! Isn’t it cute? I cast the second on on immediately after weaving in the ends to avoid second sock syndrome.

If fits very nicely and I can’t wait to have an actual pair to wear! Another think I want to learn this year is how to do a short row heel. They look interesting and I’m curious. Sockapaloooza sign up is Monday night and I’m very excited. Got my feet all measured up and I’m ready to go!

Okay, time for some homework now!

I think I might be a bit too old for this

In the mid 80′s I owned acid wash denim, jelly shoes, big hair, and a metric tonne of 12″ vinyl remixes. I also listened to a LOT of Canadian music. Not sure if it was because of Canadian content laws on the radio, or just because I really liked it. I’ll probably never know, let’s go with I really liked it. In honour of all that hairspray and overly tight denim some friends and I went to see Honeymoon Suite and Glass Tiger last night at the Commodore Ballroom, (only the absolute best place to see any band). What a hoot.

There were some things I had forgotten about music in the 80′s and it was interesting to be reminded of them.

1. There was a very high dependance on guitar solos. In every single song. Even the ballads.
2. The spinning of a microphone stand over the lead singer’s head was considered beyond cool!
3. Keyboard players may just have had the most boring job in the band.
4. Lead guitarists are fixated on using their guitars as a phallic symbol. Was probably sexy when I was 17, oddly disturbing at 36! LOL

We had a really good time. Oh, and I may have drank just a bit too much. What was nice though was that I didn’t drink so much that I was sick and my best friend had to hold my hair out of my face while I threw up. That would have been much too much of a flashback thank you very much!

On the Knitting Olympics front. I have done some training (ie: a gauge swatch). Loving this yarn with deep meaningful feeling. I have about 600 metres though and I want a fair sized comfy couch type wrap/shawl so I don’t think that will be enough. Back to the stash and lo and behold, another skein of Fleece Artist that I bought with lust in my heart about 3 years ago. It’s a lighter weight but a luscious 70% mohair 30% silk blend. Smooth, shiny, supersaturated colours and feels so soft. Added some of it to the gauge swatch (more training, feeling buffed now!) and they contrast and complement each other very nicely. I’ll try to get a picture today if there is actually a break in the rain and I can get some decent light.

I found a stitch pattern I like and now I’m off to the races. I’m thinking a long, wide rectangle with the yarns striping horizontally. No fringe, the cat just chews it off. I was thinking of maybe finishing it off with a big tassle on each corner but we’ll have to see how the yarn situation goes.

Okay, I’m off to the library. The philosophy books I ordered are in and I have to pick them up. Then my sad little hung over self will be hitting Mr. Chesterfield for some R&R with my iPod and some knitting podcasts.

OH! And I almost forgot. I found the coolest podcast from BBC4 called In Our Time. It’s brilliant. So interesting and intelligent. The programme about prime numbers was amazing. Okay, wow, that statement may just have secured my position as the biggest nerd I know. Feh, who cares. There is some amazing stuff to be had here. I’m going to listen to last weeks show about relativism today. Fits right in with my current philosophy coursework.

I’m off!

Better, Faster, Stronger…or something like that…

This is very cool. I’m in. I’m gonna knit a shawl using my new Fleece Artist yarn that I posted a couple of days ago. Still trying to find a pattern mind you, but hey, details. Right?

Fleece Artist

Look at this——————>

That is 8 oz or 600 metres of dk weight loveliness from Fleece Artist. 92% wool, 8% viscose. The viscose is those little flecks of colour in gold and white and sort of a silvery colour. Fabulous. It looks like a star filled sky. I am in like/love/lust with this yarn. And not to sound too creepy, but… it smells yummy too! I’m going to go now and fondle it some more and then read through my Folk Shawls to find something that it wants to be. Something simple, something that will show it all off. I almost think I just want to do feather and fan, you know? Okay, must go knit. Oh, yeah, and do some homework!

Wow! You’re hair looks great!

Okay. For the most part I’m not a person who believes in Universal Truths (caps on purpose), with a few exceptions. This is one of them. You cannot be pretty and smart all at the same time. One gift must give way to the other, back and forth, in a seesaw sort of way. It’s a Yin and Yang thing, I’m sure of it.

So, having said that, my standard comment when a friend or even me (perish the thought) is not having a bright day is “Wow, you’re hair looks GREAT!”, thus informing them that they are having a pretty day and should not be trying to overreach themselves with any physics problems or trying to solve that whole tricky world peace thing.

SO, having said that, you can see that my hair was PERFECT when I cast on my Pirate hat, and continued to be perfect on two more separate occasions when I worked on it. So very perfect in fact that I did not notice that I had reversed the colours. It’s literally black and white….how much easier could this have been? Apparently it needed to be a lot easier.

I did contemplate just finishing it out like this but it is for hubby and a white hat is just begging for all kinds of dirt and nastiness to rain down upon it. So, tonight, I will be a froggin’.

But hey, if anyone was wondering what it would look like reversed, here it is, in all it’s glory! Snort!

I’m going to go have a cocktail.

Contact has been initiated!

My secret pal has contacted me and I have contacted mine, and so the wheels begin to turn!

I quite like your nom de plume secret pal! Talulah Kumquat, that must be a family name! I’m so excited I could just plotz!

Went and saw “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” today. I quite liked it. The girl who played Lucy was perfect. The look of wonder and all that. I remember wishing and dreaming so much as a kid that I would find a secret world. My great aunt had this huge Victorian house and when we would visit her I would sneak off and try to walk through the back of all her wardrobes. It must have been very embarassing for my mom!

Oh well. I’m off, gotta do some homework tonight and do a little plotting and planning for my first secret pal package. Tee hee! I love this, it’s brilliant. Like a really long Christmas.