Kiss My Knits!

So I made this hat out of Noro Silk Garden. I think it looks pretty darn good, and I’m proud because I didn’t follow a pattern, I just made it up myself. But now I have a problem.

See, the yarn store has two skeins of the Silk Garden in slightly different colors that they never marked up the extra buck when the price rose. So now I really want to knit two more hats. Problem is, even without the markup, the yarn is $9.98 a skein! I’ve only got one head; there are only so many hats I need! So unless one of you wants to pony up ten bucks plus shipping for a hat, the yarn will languish on the shelf.

Well, I’ve still got plenty in my stash, anyway. There are worse problems to have. 🙂

P.S. – is it just me, or does this picture make the hat look like a breast? To quote GM Tessima upon seeing the picture: “Wow. I want to give that hat a mammogram.”

I love that Outkast Hey Ya song. I have no clue why, I just do. And I also love Charlie Brown. And someone had the amazing idea to put them together. This video is frickin’ hilarious and made me dance around the room like a total spaz. Wheeeee!!!

http://www.ifilm.com/viralvideo?ifilmid=2534802

We lost cable last night during Angel, right after Wes shot Knox.

Why, God, why?

(As a side note, blue-hair Fred looks totally hot.)

Via Tessima, via pambunny. Set your MP3 player to random and list off the first 20 songs it picks, no exceptions.

‘Heroes’ – David Bowie
Alice Blue Gown – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl – Nina Simone
Kisses Sweeter than Wine – Peter, Paul, and Mary
We’re All Gonna Die Someday – Kasey Chambers
I Kissed a Girl – Jill Sobule
My Favorite Plum – Suzanne Vega
When You Wish Upon a Star – Leon Redbone
Of These, Hope (Reprise) – Peter Gabriel
Cracking – Suzanne Vega
Mambo Italiano – Rosemary Clooney
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Judy Garland
Lady Marmalade – Patti Labelle
Foggy Mountain Breakdown – Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
R.S.V.P – Boney James/Rick Braun
Hunted – Cowboy Junkies
Since I Fell For You – the Vince Guaraldi Trio
Cold Tea Blues – Cowboy Junkies
You Can’t Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd – Roger Miller
Which Will – Lucinda Williams

God bless Tessima!

I got a care package in the mail from her today, containing “Diva in the Bath” stuff, and also “Mind and Body PM Moisturizer”.

Possible messages:

A) You deserve to pamper yourself!

B) Even though I only see you once a year, I think you are scaly and smelly and need to do something about it.

I’m pretty sure she means A. Either way, I’m totally psyched! Thank you, Tessima!

Those who know me know that I’m terrible with names. If you were hired as a GM more recently than five years ago, don’t expect me to know who you are. So players, please, please. When you IM me with a wedding question, tell me who you are. Even if your IM name is “I AM FLINDA” don’t expect me to know that you’re Flinda. I honestly won’t, and I’ll have to wrack my brains trying to remember what we might have already talked about, and what this discussion is about.

I’m an old fogey. Don’t make me think. Thank you.

Okay, I followed this pattern pretty closely, and the hat still wound up too small. Its like I’m wearing some kind of stretched out yarmulke in rainbow fish colors. (By the way, it was early in the morning when that picture was taken, so forgive the glazed look.)

So now I get to frog the hat (rip it! rip it!) and re-knit. The only question is: since I have to re-knit anyway, should I go ahead and add some Plume FX and make it glitzy, too? Or will I regret it in the morning? I should mention that I have enough yarn for a matching scarf.

Y’all got an opinion?

Dear Mr. Atmosphere,

Thank you so much for the lovely gift! I appreciate you responding to my traditional offerings of hot chocolate, homemade chocolate chip cookies, and knit goods by producing an amazing quantity of snow. 18 inches was more than I would have dared hope for.

Also, let me please apologize for the unkind words that my husband may have had for you when he was tempting his first heart attack by trying to shovel out his car. Sending that SUV sliding sideways across the road in front of our house was all the warning he needed, though, and now he’s on board with the program.

I don’t know what others in other parts of the country might have done to tick you off, but rest assured, we here in the Carolinas love you and appreciate all the snow you give us. Thanks again!

Sincerely,
Tvini

Just when I begin to think that it’s time to move on to summer stuff comes a reminder that it is February. And so, to those who say I knit a lot, I say, at least the people I love are warm!

Question: How come you’re knitting all these damn scarves instead of working on my damn wedding?

Answer: Okay, nobody actually asks me this, but I was worried it seemed that way so I’m answering it anyway. I’m doing both the knitting and the weddings. Some of you know this, some of you don’t, but my daughter has PDD. That’s pervasive developmental disorder, also known as an autistic spectrum disorder. In other words, she’s autistic, but not autistic enough to be labeled autistic nor ‘normal’ enough to be labeled ‘normal.’ Smart as a whip, but it’s hard for her to express herself.

This means that I spend a lot of time in waiting rooms, like at the speech therapist’s, etc., and I ain’t got a laptop. So I’m working on the knitting a lot during that time.

I work on weddings more in the evening, but sometimes I do take a break and chill out. Like tonight, when it’s Enterprise/Angel night. Woot! I’ll probably wander through the computer room during commercials and see who’s IMing me, check my mail, be sure nothing’s totally busted, etc., but sometimes I do need a break.

In a nutshell, I’m not ignoring my wedding couples for more frivolous pursuits, but if you’re worried, you’re always welcome to e-mail me.

(By the way, I’m always glad to talk to anybody about PDD and my kid, since the more people that know somebody with PDD, the fewer people automatically think “Rainman.”)