I just have nothing to talk about these days. But before I forget, I have a public service announcement to make on behalf of my cousin who lives in Denver. She has a new copy of Favorite Socks: 25 Timeless Designs from IK that she'd like to swap for purple or purplish sock yarn; no preference as to brand. Surely these must be one or two knitters out there who do not yet own this book. Surely. And I'm sure if you wanted to swap something else she'd be open to that as well.
So if you're interested, just zap me a comment.
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Now I'm going to show photos that I took today of random stuff around the house, because really I cannot think of a single thing to talk about. Not that there hasn't been much to talk about, but the manner in which those things would be talked about would be very low-quality, considering how my brain has lost all of its writing/blogging mojo. These days I've been sitting around alternately between Why Do I Blog? and Do You Really Care? so much that my CPU crashes and it takes a lot of coaxing to restart. So annoying, all this teen-angst stuff. So let's not talk about it anymore.
Let's talk about what's on the needles. Lots of random stuff.
There are thick socks, one plain, one ribbed, in Silk Garden Lite, hopefully to be finished in time for xmas. There is a brown lump which is the start of Forecast. I think I might be allergic to the wool I'm using, and if it is an allergy it's a weird one. Everytime I put down the knitting, random parts of my body start to itch like crazy. The hairline, behind the ear, soles of the feet, back of the knees, shoulder blades, that meaty area of the thumb. The yarn is Peruvian wool that I got years ago from elann.com. I'm still performing tests to see if this really is an allergy or if it's all in my head.
It's 11 am and I'm still in my Yummy Sushi Pajamas. In case you're wondering, it is1:45 pm now and I've switched out of the top, put on some eye shadow and lip gloss, but am still wearing the pj pants. And they're called Yummy Sushi Pajamas because that's what Buffy called them in a season 5 episode of Buffy the VampireSlayer several years back. She wore these exact pj's which I loved so much that Duck secretly tracked them down and I received them for Christmas. It was the best gift EVER.
This is Underdog. He's about 30 years old, and belonged to Duck. He's a superhero, piggy bank and bouncer all rolled into one. Fun AND functional! These days he's mostly a bouncer, or a doorstop for the bathroom where the litterbox is. We had an incident several months back when we were out of the house all day, the heavy door closed by itself and Veebs waited as long as he could before he made a huge, steaming pile of an accident in the corner of the kitchen. It is still unclear who was unhappier about the situation, me or the cat. So now we use Underdog to make sure that doesn't happen again.
My first orchids. My mom used to keep dozens of them and even though she has the greenest of all thumbs, she never had much luck with orchids. How she would try. So I approach them with a little trepidation. But now with a warmer place (unlike our old house) that also gets a decent amount of light (unlike our old house), I'm hoping I will kill these later rather than sooner.
And now, my MANTLE!
The mantle is an original detail in the house (over a hundred years old!) and is made of marble. We will probably not use the fireplace because if the entire street were to burn the guilt would never leave me, but how I love the mantle! How I love to put stuff on it! In front of it! Next to it! This weekend we went to the garden center and I went a little crazy, and so did Duck because he so did not want to be there. I got a pretty garland of fake little berries, paperwhite bulbs to force, amaryllis bulbs to force, poinsettas and those orchids. The ferns I bought in May when we were selling the house. I'm surprised they're still alive. It could be because for once our condo is always at a nice and toasty 72 F, which is nearly a whole 20 degrees more than what we kept our thermostat at our old house. I love having the heat included in our condo fee. I love having heat.
THE END.
Don't forget to let me know if you'd like to swap for the Favorite Socks book! Til next time...
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