My daughter: “Today, a new girl came to class in the cafeteria! But we had to be very quiet in the cafeteria so she would appear. And she did! Her name was Elizabeth. She went to my class. And then a backpack appeared on her back!”
Further questioning reveals that her new classmate Elizabeth has black hair, a red shirt, and green pants. Hmm… where have I heard that before…
I’m so thrilled that she loves her doll enough to turn it into a new imaginary classmate. It makes all the trouble worthwhile.
Although I wonder if this means I’ll have to knit her a backpack.
Just when I needed a little lift, I got one!
You may recall that I knitted a scarf for the Red Scarf Project. Well, by so doing, I was also entered into a drawing for a prize. And I won! The prize arrived today.
It’s a beautiful skein of handpainted yarn from http://www.scoutsswag.com . 400 yards of worsted merino goodness, in colors that I think are very festive and valentiney. With 400 yards, if I paired it with some of the leftover Cascade 220 in my stash, I’d definitely have enough to knit a sweater for Emily. Wasn’t
Scout generous to donate this? I’m definitely thinking of her site next time I need a gift for a knitter.
I do something nice, and lo and behold, I get something nice in return. Yay, karma!
SNOW DAY!!
Emily had to run around to all the windows to make sure it was actually snowing on all four sides of the house. And no school today! I’m not feeling that great today, but you know what? It’s all okay, because it’s SNOWING! Snow is magic; it makes everything better! YAAAAAAY!!
As time went on last night, the hair got more and more rounded at the sides, until I resembled a Powerpuff Girl. Specifically Buttercup.
I showered and blew it dry today, and it just wasn’t getting any better, so I have an appointment tomorrow for them to fix it. I thought maybe I could salvage it, or learn to like it… but no. If I had to pick one word for this haircut, aside from “bad,” it would be “dowdy.” Yesterday’s decade-old picture aside, I currently have a round body and a round head, I do not need a round haircut to complete the set.
And speaking of hair, check out the stylin’ newly discovered lobster! People in various fiber communities were speculating as to whether you could spin up the fur. Me, I just think it’s cool.
And speaking of fiber… okay, that was a weak segue, but just go with it… a local yarn store just started carrying Rowan Calmer. Usually I’m a big snob when it comes to acrylic, but this is such a soft, springy cotton/acrylic blend that I couldn’t pass it up. I’ve been wanting to knit Knitty’s Shedir anyway, and it only takes one ball. So in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I’m working on a khaki green cabled cap.
For some of it I’ve cabled without a cable needle, but those bits have tended to be sloppier-looking. I’m trying to decide whether to plow on through and potentially pick up a handy new technique, or to make it look nicer with a needle. In the long run, perfecting up a new technique would be good. We’ll see how it goes.
Someone posted this link in . Why they posted it there, I don’t know, since it has nothing to do with yarn or knitting.
This may be one of those things everybody already knows about, but I didn’t, and man is it cool.
http://www.owlsprings.com/chalk/ChalkIndex.html
Some of y’all know that I occasionally send care packages to guys and gals overseas through http://www.boooksforsoldiers.com (Politically, if I leaned any further left, I’d fall down, but I absolutely want to support these individual men and women who are far from home, working on behalf of our country.) Well, one guy in particular has been super about writing back. Which, happily, works to his benefit because then I want to send him and his buddies more stuff. “This Is Spinal Tap” is next up to go out. Sidetracking, if you haven’t seen the DVD of this, you really, really should. The commentary is done by the cast members as if they were in the band. So it’s Nigel and the rest doing the commentary, and it is freakin’ hilarious! I highly recommend it.
Aaaanyway, getting back on track. I had mentioned in a recent mail that my daughter had been sick on Halloween and hadn’t been able to go out. Well, apparently the guys in my soldier’s tent had gotten about 75 lbs of candy for Christmas from various organizations back home who wanted to be extra nice to the troops at the holidays.
Seventy five pounds. Five guys in the tent. That’s a lotta candy. So they sent a care package to my daughter consisting of four pounds of candy and a stuffed camel. The box is deeper than it looks in that pic, by the way. It was very unexpected, and so nice!
I’m going to have to hide the box, though. My daughter has already burned through at least five lollipops since yesterday afternoon.
I’m just really impressed with the thoughtfulness of these guys, to take the time and money to pack and ship a big box of candy to a five-year-old girl they’ve never met. It really reaffirms my faith in the basic goodness of people.
