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Saturday rambles, or, how to avoid your chores

I appear to be in an updating kinda mood, so I figured I’d update here too. I’ve already updated my writing blog and my knitting blog, can’t leave the nonexistent readers of my polgara blog out of the loop. Not that there’s a loop. There’s just me, avoiding my to do list. I wish I could apply the motivation I’m using for avoiding, to the tasks I’m supposed to be doing, like laundry, dishes, groceries, balancing my checkbook, etc. And once the Red Sox game starts in forty minutes, well, that’s three and a half hours more that I won’t be doing my chores. I really suck at being an adult.

I have a conference coming up in San Francisco. I need clean clothes for that. And hopefully, when I balance my checkbook, fingers are crossed that I’ll find a few extra dollars to pick up a new shirt or two for the trip. New shoes would be nice, too.

Trouble is curled up on the chair sleeping, with her paws wrapped around the fuzzy balls of my purse–yes, my purse has fuzzy balls. Sadly, there’s no other way to describe them that isn’t pornographic. The balls drive most of the pets I know to distraction–when I go to PT, Marley (and Maggie, if she’s there) usually make a play for the purse; last week Marley tried to eat the balls. Too cute.

Jack has apparently, finally, realized that he was cranky because he was supposed to be napping, and has disappeared into the bedroom. Weekends always confuse him.

Hmm. Yeah, I’ve really got nothing else. Just the whole avoidance thing. Oh, but if you, my nonexistent reader, have a hankering to purchase a present for someone who may or may not resemble yours truly, might I suggest something like this? Perhaps 15 or so of them, in cedar green? I have a snazzy green tank top in my head that refuses to go away, and it’s screaming for that yarn. 😀

Have a good weekend, and don’t miss the orientation!

Cotton at Elann

I’ve always wanted to knit more garments than I do–I tend to be all about the scarves and blankets and handbags, mostly because they don’t require much yarn.  If I have three skeins of Cascade 220, I know it’s enough to make a felted bag; two skeins of novelty yarn will get me a decent scarf; four skeins of Plymouth Encore makes a great Big Bad Baby Blanket.  I don’t usually purchase yarn in greater numbers than that.  Plus, when I buy yarn because I just can’t resist it, it’s usually an alpaca or other wool blend.  Sure, I sometimes buy enough of it to make a tank, but really, who needs a tank made of wool or alpaca?  Tanks should be cotton, and I very very rarely buy cotton.

But two Christmasses ago, JoAnn’s was having their post-Christmas sale, and I picked up ten balls of Lion ribbon yarn (among other stuff), and as I mentioned in a previous post, I’m now making a tank out of it.  Dunno how it’ll turn out, but it’ll be my first adult garment, so yay!  I’m excited about making something new and cool and that I might actually be able to wear.

And then, Elann.com sends out their monthly newsletter of sales, and omigod, the cotton!  Such beautiful colors, and at only $1.98 for over 100 yards! Omigod I want this yarn soooo much!  Gah!  I’m starting to feel the cotton love, ’cause I want to be making more clothing, dammit, and fewer scarves!

But how can I justify buying more yarn of any type, when I have about three tons of yarn scattered all about the house, waiting to be used?  Not to mention the ginormous garbage bag of yarn in the trunk of my car waiting to go to a good charity.

Want!  Dammit!

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Miscellaneous

More about Drive!

If you’ve missed any of the three aired episodes of Drive, it’s not too late to catch up! Fox has posted all eps on their Myspace page at myspace.com/driveonfox. You can watch all three at your leisure! And tell all your friends! It’s important to increase the ratings so they’ll hopefully pick it up for next season.

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TV’s Hit “Drive” premieres tonight at 8pm!

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Tonight is the premiere of TV’s hit Drive, on FOX at 8pm! I mention this because one of my dearest friends is one of the writers of the show, so I’m all about the pimping. There’ll be lots of action and car chases, unexpected plot twists, and great dialogue to savor. I don’t know if you’re familiar with show-runner Tim Minear’s work, but if you were a fan of Angel, Wonderfalls, The Inside, or Firefly, then you already know the type of complex characters and devilish storytelling to expect in Drive.

So plan to watch Drive tonight! And if you enjoy it, as I’m sure you will, don’t forget to tune in during its regular timeslot, Mondays at 8pm, starting tomorrow night!

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Knitting and Crochet

New project

The blankets are finished!  Well, sort of–the yarn has been bound off, but I still have to finish weaving all the ends in.  Blech.  Not a big fan of the weaving, not at all.

Once I finished the knitting part, I immediately started thinking of my next project.  It was originally going to be more blankets for the twins, but once I saw how many blankets their grandmother had already knitted for them, well…. mebbe they don’t need more blankets just now.  And besides, I need a break from the baby stuff, I think.  And the blankets.  So, after much thinking and flipping through some books, and the current issues of Vogue Knitting and KnitSimple, I decided it was time to make my first ever tank top–woo!  I chose the yellow tank on page 36 of KnitSimple, except mine’s going to look nothing like that, since I’m doing it in ribbon yarn.  It was the only thing I had on hand that a) isn’t wool, and b) I already have enough of on hand.  I upped the needles to 10, since that’s the recommended needle for the ribbon, and because let’s face it, an XL on a pattern is rarely *really* an XL, and I’d rather it be a smidge big than a smidge small.  (Swatch it? Me?  Yeah, not so much.)

So that’s my latest project.  Hopefully it won’t be a total disaster, but even disasters are useful, and really, truth be told, I knit for the process.  I have so many scarves I rarely use, but that’s ok, ’cause it was made for the making, and not for the end product. 🙂