I’ve got a long to-do list today, and more than half of it involves getting packages ready to mail out. Non-Jayne packages, too, although I’m really excited that the http://www.wearwithstyle.com waiting list is very close to coming down under 20, which would mean the wait would be more like 4-5 weeks. I like having a little breathing room.
I’d like to use that breathing room do work on other things, like figuring out WordPress. I have a new and catchy little domain name that I’d like to move my blog over to, but I don’t feel like I can publicize it until it looks better. Part of the reason for the move is that I have a few simple free patterns I’d like to put up on a sidebar. I can’t do that easily on LiveJournal. just got her knitblog set up over at JetsyKnits and it looks spiffy. I, meanwhile, can’t even upload a two-column theme. I need some time. And possibly a “For Dummies” book. And maybe a screwdriver. The kind with orange juice or the kind you take things apart with, take your pick.
But before I launch into boxing things up and running all over town, here’s the progress on the Rainbow Socks. Normally I’d link to the MagKnits pattern there, but MagKnits is no more and I don’t know if the author has put up another copy somewhere. Thank goodness I printed the pattern out before I started.
There’s visible laddering on the front, but I find it kind of interesting since it shows the meandering path that the stitches take as the short rows are knit. Turtlegirl, I know you can’t see Flickr pictures, so I stuck an extra pic here.
Some who have seen the sock in person say that it looks better than it did in that poll with the post and have switched their votes from “Meh” to liking it. I didn’t show them this fishing net gap at the heel. Serves me right for not paying attention. I’ll have to go back and reinforce it, since the heels are always the first thing to go in my handmade socks (did I mention the striped socks got their heel caught on a nail sticking up from our floor last week?) and I don’t want these to suffer that fate. Note to self: buy darning egg.
Next time, we’ll talk about the weird medical mystery involving my mouth. Insert your own joke here.
Later!
So today was a big event, but my husband and I both forgot until he was already at work. It led to this exchange via online chat:
Him: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Me: WHAT? What??
Me: I actually for… I mean, I can’t believe it took you this long to tell me. Yeah, that’s it.
Me: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Me: Sooo… what are we doing? Takeout at home with TV?
Me: We could play some Zombies or something. God, we’re boring.
Him: I guess, we don’t really have any other plans, and really, if we had someone come over, we’d do what, go out and drive around thinking about the shows we’re missing? heh. We’re old.
Yes, the gift for 14 years of marriage is apparently “inertia.” We are now bodies at rest, and we intend to stay at rest.
Love you, man o’ mine!
And now, a mellow antidote to the Deep Hurting of taxtime.
The video from that Geico Caveman song in the airport.
Message thread with lovely pics of all 50 states
Pretty much all of http://eternallycool.net/
The House of Emperor Augustus. Discovered in 1961 and only now open to the public (More pics).
Underwater sculptures
The secret caves of Arras
And, for giggles, Where On Earth Is Waldo? Find a blank roof and play along!
WHAT THE —- DO YOU MEAN “THE APPLICATION TURBOTAX QUIT UNEXPECTEDLY??” I WAS ALMOST DONE! I WAS ALMOST DONE! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
It’s been a long week of Spring Break. The last couple of days in particular have been a repeating chorus of “watch me!” “Look at this!” “Follow me!”
Today I found myself groaning as I got out of my chair to follow her again. Then I realized that as recently as last year, she wasn’t sharing things with us like this. She was doing her own thing, and she never brought her pictures in for us to see, or asked us to listen to the music she made. So yeah, maybe a million requests for attention a day feels like a burden sometimes, but it’s really a tremendous gift. My daughter wants to share her life with me. And I’m grateful.
According to the latest Serenity comic, Jayne’s mother’s name was “Radiant.”
Just call me Radiant Cobb.
On a related note, anybody want to test-knit my new free baby Jayne hat pattern? I think it’s ready for release, but I’d like to have someone else actually knit it before I put it out there. I can pay you in nice yarn.
ETA: I have a taker. Thanks!
