Here are the mittens and scarf that I recently completed for a birthday present. They don't look really good where the thumb meets the palm, but otherwise I am quite pleased with them.
Turns out my cousin is majoring in economics, not political science. She emailed me with some pictures - she is cute like button. I hope we don't scare her too much.
Last week I found out a friend's husband has cancer. I'm not sure what the details are (The word "cancer" tends to blur the details) but he is scheduled for surgery next week. If you could spare a prayer or a positive thought for him, it would sure be appreciated.
Last week at work I experienced an unusual concurrence of events in my appearance - good hair, cute outfit, shaved legs - all wasted on the people I work with. If for no other reason than that I need a new job.
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Donna, your knitting is fabulous. I wish I had that kind of talent. So far, I've progressed to "knit a straight row and don't drop any stitches."
Also, glad you brought up that weird commercial. My biggest beef with that stupid commercial is: how do they manage to paint the whole house in one afternoon? Because it's still daylight when they plop onto the (uncovered) couch. They must be really talented.
Thanks hon! You just have to keep at it - my early days of knitting were largely cussing and throwing yarn and needles across the room. It's funny, my friends who love to scrapbook look at my knitting and say they don't have the patience, and I look at their scrapbooks and say I don't have the patience - it just depends on what you like to do.
And duh - they get the house painted in one afternoon because of all their kicky flirty painty energy. And Scotch Blue Painter's Tape, of course.
I love painting - but I have to agree that that commercial is just plain stupid. They got the whole house done in one day because while they were flirting with eachother, Jose was painting the other rooms. Duh.
I don't understand the desire to paint ANY room pink.
I suppose if I took up knitting I'd maybe stop biting my nails whil watching tv and have something handy to throw at the cats when they misbehave.
Look, Zombie, I'll have you know that such a convergence of events that results in my being cute is about as common as Halley's Comet. And the people I work with are too old/married/otherwise unsuitable to appreciate it. I could morph into Elle MacPherson tomorrow and it'd still be wasted on that lot. My job has also no other redeeming characteristics so is it asking too much to have something in the eye candy arena? Pbbbbbttttt.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH HORNS ON FOREHEADS??? DON'T MAKE ME FEEL BAD ABOUT MY HORN!!! *runs away sobbing*
*sniffles* My eyebrows are plucked quite nicely. They have to be, to make room for the horn.
You have given me yet another reason to never get cable again. What a bizzar-o commercial.
And I adore that mitten scarf set.
I agree with --r, I wish I had that type of patience/talent. Mine is more of a "organize anything into submission" type of talent. Now all I have to do is figure out how to make a living at it before I turn into a southern whale, eating grits, pork rinds, and develop hair that doesn't move in catagory 5 hurricanes. I miss being in civilization on days like this!
Hey steph - I could use "organize everything into submission" talent - my mom has that and in reaction I developed "let everything fall where it may" talent. We all have our thing.
Hey, I forgot to ask -- English or Continental?
I'm about the only person I know who knits Continental.
Continental is the one they recommend for lefties, isn't it? Where you hold the ball end of the yarn in your left hand and not your right? No, I can't do Continental - except for I used to play the violin, my left hand is useless, it's basically just decoration.
Actually, I don't know (about the leftiness-rightiness)... I think that I may have heard that at some point. Yes, you do hold the yarn in your left hand, but since you're moving the needles, it's sort of like knitting with both hands. To me, the difference between English and Continental is with English, you move the yarn; and for Continental, you move the needles.
y'all lost me at "needles" and "yarn"
R - I see what you mean. Yes I think Continental is supposed to look cooler than English. I just learned English because that's what Stitch n Bitch recommended. I forgot which is "pick" and which is "throw", it sounds like Continental is picking? At any rate we should get together and knit sometime! Maybe at Laura's so we can freak her out with all that "needle" and "yarn" mumbojumbo
Not gunna tell you 'bout knittin', man, tell you 'bout myself woowee turn ons ladies and back seats man sunsets fast cars man, yup love that CK1 like catnip, turn-offs uhuh women golfers man love that Bob Dylan like a rolling stone what'd he say, brief man myself yup dang ol' internet man. Go www.click click click naked chicks yup that's all me uhuh
C, what ARE you going on about? One of the beautiful things about being a well rounded feminst is that I can talk about my great love for Obama, and talk about my great love of knitting -- with the same damn person.
Visually, I think that English would be "throw" and Contintental would be "pick", because, well, that's what you do.
Having said that though, I think that seeing the two of us knitting might scar Laura for life.
R - let's do it! Let's land on her doorstep with needles and yarn in one hand, and a baby in the other! She won't know which part of her body to let detonate first!!!
P.S. cillic - you need to lay off the pain meds. Unless this is payback for pornjelly, in which case it's pretty farking funny.
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