I love this guy’s dance: http://homepage.mac.com/evanbaumgardner/iMovieTheater24.html
And this song is hard to look away from, like a wreck on the highway. http://homepage.mac.com/evanbaumgardner/iMovieTheater6.html
So I’m pretty friendly with the folks at the local bagel shop, but lately the old guy in the back (every place has an old guy in the back) has gotten friendlier, too. So here’s an actual conversation from today:
Him: “Hi, sweetheart!”
Me: “Hi! How are you? You look worn out today!”
Him: “I am! I was up late abusing myself.”
Me: “Uh… heh heh. Well, sometimes…”
Him: “Too much red wine, staying up too late…”
Me: “Well, you have to live a litt..”
Him: “Sometimes, you know, you just gotta let the badger loose!”
Me: (nervous laugh) “See ya!”
Okay, so was it just my smutty mind that linked “abusing myself” and “let the badger loose” in a masturbatory way? Because if that’s what he meant, it’s TMI! And if it’s NOT what he meant, what the hell is the badger? What the heck is old bagel guy getting drunk and doing late at night?
…so I expect I should update my LJ too!
I decided to take a knitting class called “Beyond Beginners” to brush up on some skills. The class started tonight. So far, I’ve learned zippo. I think I’m a little beyond “Beyond Beginners,” but I’m hopeful that by the end of the course some new techniques may come to light. They better. I’m payin’ $45 bucks for this and missing my daughter’s bedtime one night a week.
It’s an interesting class because it’s taught by my 8th grade English teacher. We always had a great relationship, both of us being fairly free spirits. Of course, I keep slipping up and calling her Ms. Prater instead of her first name. Old habits die hard!
All three of my yarn auctions sold on eBay. Not at much above the minimum, but they sold, and that’s good enough for me. So I’ll be getting back a little bit of scratch. Which is good, because I bid on a swift. It’ll about balance out, if I win that auction.
With extra work in DR and many projects lined up for family members, I’m not sure that I’ll have enough bags to put on a respectable table at Simucon. I’ll evaluate again in a week or so. The current bag is going pretty quickly. However, I do think it’d be a great idea to have a stitch ‘n’ bitch at Simucon! I’m thinking about bringing extra needles and old skeins of acrylic yarn to teach anyone who wants to learn and give them supplies to take home. It’d be fairly informal, not like an official seminar. I’m not sure if folks would be interested, though.
And because I want to post something for the non-knitters, here’s a little slice of roleplaying humor.
I went into the yarn store to get a row counter, since I keep losing mine (this makes three, thank goodness they’re cheap) and I made the mistake of browsing the discount bin.
They had two balls of Crystal Palace Deco-Ribbon in color 117, blue and white on sale for 20% off.
I could probably have resisted if I didn’t already know about a handbag pattern that called for exactly two balls of Deco-Ribbon. So then I was able to visualize exactly what I could make with it (assuming I didn’t go the scarf route and pair it with something flashy). Next thing you know, I’m at the counter being rung up.
Moral of the story: If you’re a yarn addict, just don’t go into the yarn store, idjit! Jeez!
I know some of you DR people auction off your wedding stuff – but this is one of the best wedding auctions I’ve ever seen. You MUST read the text.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343&category=6#ebayphotohosting
I bid on yarn. If I win it but the auction doesn’t close until after the 1st, do I stil get credit?
No, I didn’t think so.
Weak, weak, weak.
My local yarn store has gotten in a bunch of Kureyon, including at least ten skeins in color 40! If you haven’t already placed an order with yarnmarket, I’d be glad to buy you a few skeins (they’re 8.50 per) and send them along. You could paypal me. Like I say, I don’t know if you’ve already ordered, since I remember they were out of stock before. Holler if you want to do it!
As for why I was in there, I lost my size 11 16″ circular, and I needed a new one to remake that stupid messed up bag project. So it wasn’t for yarn! Honest!
Soap volunteers, I’m sorry, I’m going to need to cancel the soap. Tessima was my table buddy for Simucon, so I need to step back and think about what I want to do on that front.
It seems like every GM I wanted to see at Simucon won’t be there, for one reason or another.
I already miss the recent off-staff people. Sigh.
So I stopped by my local yarn store to return something (see? see how good I’m being?) and they were putting out TONS of new stuff from Noro. They had some Big Kureyon, some Kochoran, and gobs of Iro. Beeeeeaaaautiful stuff. Expensive, but beautiful. Did I sway in my yarn diet? I did not! Although I was sorely tempted when I saw they had a few skeins of the same yarn I used in the hip-hop Pope hat, but in black and white (or, as they call it, “All for One”) and Be Bop (kind of autumny).
This week, I’ll actually be putting some of my extra yarn up on eBay. I got good results last time, and I try to put up enough that you can actually DO something with it. Two balls of good scarf yarn going up this time. It really is good stuff, it just wasn’t quite to my taste.
Plus, I got outbid on my ongoing eBay auctions, so I now have no yarn purchases pending.
See? See? I’m being good.
-Tvini, with the shakes.
Okay, everybody who’s saying “make me something!” It’s time to put your money where your mouth is.
I need volunteers to test something. I’m making – and this is not a joke – felted soap. No, I am not insane.
What’s felted soap? Well, it’s a little bar of soap covered in wool roving which is then felted around the bar, thereby encasing the soap in a little scrubber. I’ve made some for me and some for my mom and I just love it. The covering makes the soap suds up really well, and it foams through the casing like shower gel on one of those plastic scrubber things. But it’s got enough nap to it that it’s also exfoliates some. Nifty!
Right now I’m experimenting with different kinds of soap, different designs, and different thicknesses of covering. Here’s an example of what it looks like before (covered but not yet felted) and after (felted and drying.)
What I need is a few volunteers to let me mail this stuff to them and have them try it out. Now, you know I’m a GM, so I’m used to taking blunt criticism from my peers. So you’d need to let me know what you like and don’t like about it. Too rough? Design coming off? Soap coming out? Feels great? Suckiest soap ever? You get the idea. If I can get the kinks worked out, it’ll be one more thing to put on the table at Simucon.
If you’re interested, let me know. Also let me know if you’d prefer rose, jasmine, sandalwood, or Emerald Mist. I might do some regular old Ivory, just to see, so you can specify that too. 🙂 I’ll mail you a sample. Try not to let it sit in water – we don’t want it melting too fast, or God forbid, mildewing!
Thanks!