Shut Up & Knit!

How all y'all doin'?

Thank goodness Typepad remembered me because I truly have no idea what my password to get here is, and yes, I know that's sad.  It's okay because I am friendly with the lady driving Typepad's tweeter account... just in case.  ;^)

It's been crazy busy here and I've been clocking some serious phone time lately, too.  Great combo, btw.  o.O

This is all I can offer up to explain why I have come to have a southern accent. 

Yeah, no, I'm not kidding.

I blame our Squishy and it's so bad that I may need a blog button because, honey, it's bad.  PinkyD, who now knows for a fact that I'm crazy, came to town the other day and lemme just say there are people at my Panera who believe I'm not from around here.

I may need an intervention, y'all.  Oh, wait... they got cancelled, didn't they? 

Oh well...

In other news, I'm adjusting to a new haircut.  It's like the last one but shorter.  I think I look like someone's mom.  :?  This may take a while to feel okay about.  Although, I keep getting ladies telling me how much they like my hair and wanting to know if the white streaks are fake.  Ummmm.. what now?  You're not alone in wondering, J!

I'm also trying to deal with a semi-allergic reaction to sunblock.  FFS!  I wore it Tuesday and did not shower before bed but did Wednesday morning... like you do.  Thursday morning work up all pink and itchy ONLY where the sunblock had touched me.  How does this happen to me?  I know I'm a terrible person now, but WTFF was I like in my last one to land here?! 

Still itching as I type, btw.  /sigh

The car issues and the fish?  With luck and fingers crossed, they may have actually fixed it.  It was a bumpy road (Ha!) but I have high hopes. 

High hopes of never having to see that fish again for a long while...

How's you?!

Dave, The Fish & Me

She is called Mrs. Nono and she lives/works/whatever at the auto repair place that is becoming my second home.  My Honda POS had the fellas stumped for a while but it looks like they have figured out what's going on.  This is a good thing because that fish likes to float right behind my head while I try to knit in a truly not at all comfy chair.

Occasionally her tank will make a noise and I turn to see if she's coming to eat my spicy brains.  That's when I realize that she is right behind me.  I look left and can't see her.  Look right and can't see her.  It's a bit disconcerting, frankly.

Did I mention she has pointy little teeth?

While waiting, I started a sock that I later ripped because I realized that I did not have enough yarn to make a pair of socks, which would sort of defeat the purpose of socks for someone with two feet.  Am also working on a mostly mindless sock that is so ugly it actually hurts me.  I am hoping this pair goes quickly so I can move onto something pretty and pleasing.

Yes, I really am that shallow. 

What?  Are you new?!

In other news, there is no other news.

Unless you want to know about the remodeled MickyD's that reopened across from Mrs. Nono and the fellas, and their non-functioning debit card reader thingy.  Or about Kevin at the post office, who after knowing me for the better part of ten years was SHOCKED to learn my name isn't really Cookie.  /sigh  Or how it's hotter every day and I don't have time for me, you or the garden. 

Oh, and I hate more or less everyone, everything, and their dog.  Did I mention the big neighborhood dog that likes to have a lie-down in the middle of the street and refuses to get up when you try to drive-by?

Yeah...

Socks & News & What-Not

Hotlinked from our Joan

Charade socks in the Hot Flash colorway of STR but don't.  Shorty length.  Knit toe-up with CCSRs for toes and heels.  Magic looped with a sewn bind-off.  Fabulous mindless knitting.

Yes, again...

Charade ribbed.  Again with the Cookie Cuter Short Row toes and heels.  Still with the magic loopage, knitting toe-up and that sewn bind-off.

Don't those photos look like she's taking a photo break from doing some kind of abs workout on the floor?  Or is that just how my mind works these days?

Yeah, don't answer that...

I've been told it's Mega May.

Don't get me wrong.  I appreciate it when someone I know I can trust comes along and tells me what we're doing.  I so really know anymore...

Not only am I busy with my Mega May wedding lace project, but I'm also busy writing things that won't get posted here.  Blog posts for someone who is moving this week.  Rules and what-not for the Summer of Socks people.  I'm hoping to give a timeline this week but we'll see...

Also running another thing this month that's taking more brain-power than I thought it would when I started.  Isn't that always the way?  Still... we're almost to the halfway point, so it's too late to quit (plus I'm not a quitter) and it's too late to flake out.  I'm a bit flaky but some high quality exfoliating would fix that.  ;^)

Dealing with a case of wanting what I can't have.  I knit lace while lusting after socks.  By the time I am done with the lace and expected to be knitting socks, I will be in love with my spinning wheel again.  At least, I know and understand what's happening, right?

Right?!

Top That, Paleface!

I was emailing the other day with a dear friend and the topic of us being pale came up.   I sent the above photo because really who's more pale than that and still alive?  *L*

 

The yarn is Cherry Tree Hill and the colorway is something from the PINK! family.  I knit them for our Joan with the usual CCSRs while magic looping toe-up.  The pattern is mine but it's not like it would be hard to figure out.  Our Ruth said flounce, and, honey, that's what I did!

Thinking about faking my own death because wedding lace knitting is going very slowly right now, and got me thinking about these socks.  Since it's Sunday and I have a pair to show you, here we are!

Also remember that Summer is coming and we're going it again this year over at The Summer of Socks group on the Ravelry machine.  Heaven help me...

Ready Or Not!

Tree full of bees.

Songbirds singing at 4 am.

Head full of snot.

Springing into Summer is just as much fun this year as every other year.  /falls over

Busy working on wedding lace for a dear darling friend while hating people, blocking people and wondering why I even bother.  Yeah, business as usual...

hotlinked from our Joan

Eishexe is the pattern.  STR but don't is the yarn.  This is the pair where the yarn fuzzed up while I was knitting the heel.  I know how they stay in business but it still amazes me...

The pattern!  It's in German but is fully charted and easy enough to figure out.  Hello!  I did it!  The pattern is knit cuff down with a great treatment of the cable toward the toes.  Being a slacker, I did them toe up with my usual CCSRs for toes and heels.  I know you can't see it in the photo, but there is a cable on both sides of the foot and one running up the middle of the back.  Love the pattern and will knit them again.

(Project page)

If you click through to Joan's blog post, you'll see the two cables on the top of the foot and a pair of socks I do not remember knitting.  That will not surprise anyone who knows me.

Pet Peeve Moment: In the comments for that wonderful pattern, there are a lot of lazy English speakers who whinge on about how they wish the pattern was in English.  They are a wonderful representation of one of the things that is wrong with our culture/nation/hobby.  It would never dawn on them to download the pattern and see if they would figure it out.  They are spoiled and stupid and unwilling to put out an effort.  Even though, by making the effort, they would be benefiting themselves.  Honestly?  They are the sort of people that keep me from ever mentioning that I knit when I talk to people.  I NEVER want anyone to think I'm like that.  I do not read or speak German but I've managed a few German only patterns  with more to come.  It's a shame that so many Ravelry people are unwilling to move out of their comfy little box and challenge themselves.

Don't even get me started on the people who need everything written out for them.  If you want to be a lazy knitter, knit garter stitch dishcloths and shut the fuck up.  Just like in life, if you work hard, you learn shit, get better at things, and get ahead in whatever it is you're trying to do.  Be it knitting, career or weight loss.  Quit your bitching and move on!

/ahem