Archives: February2010

• look, a comic that i could have drawn myself

  no, seriously – i’ve had this conversation. but usually when the first line delivered by the other person is said in a totally snarky manner.
  i’m not sure why some people begrudge when you can actually do something well. i’ve had people say, ‘i thought you just knit scarves’ when they see i’ve done something complex and nice, and others say, ‘couldn’t you just have bought that’? i can do few things reasonably well, and one of them is knitting. people [...]

• where i was going to bitch completely about my braces

  now i will only bitch slightly. the adjustment? SUCKED ASS. my front left tooth was SO sensitive changing out the elastics was like pulling it out sans novocaine. then the ortho looked in my mouth and said, ‘oh, we haven’t been aggressive enough’ – that really might be one of the last things you want to hear at that moment in time. he then proceeded to put five (5!!!) sets of powerchains (see this picture, not linked for those that [...]

• SnooOOoOOOoOw

  yes we got a lot of it. more coming tonight but oh so thankfully it will not be anything significant. in total we had over 35″ here over the two storms total. probably closer to 40 but i didn’t measure so i don’t want to make such grandiose claims. husband bought a snowblower prior to the storm – he’d wanted to do so for a while, and we’d been using our neighbors (and getting his driveway too as a payback [...]

• knitting like a madwoman

  so ravelry, which i think i need to go to a 12 step program to address my addiction to, has an event during the olympics called the ‘ravelympics’ — basically they have ‘events’ where you can enter projects in, things like
  lace, works in progress, socks, etc. so since i have SO MUCH i want to get done and because i love to overcommit, i’ve entered 6 projects.
  the good news is, there’s a category for frogging. so one is already done. [...]

• knitting and assorted other stuff

  so i’ve been working on a modified version of this sweater for almost two years now. i’ve made it way longer (because I have an ass i don’t really care to show in a sweater like this) which has all but doubled the surface area of it. i’ve constantly put it down to do other things like spin, knit gifts for others, socks – you name it, if i could put this sweater down i would. but this meant i [...]