In The Time of Singing, Yellow Jackets, & Confusion

Yeah, no clue what time it is, what day it is or what's going on.  This is manifesting is charming ways in my personal life, btw.  Oh, and it's aggressively SPRING! out there.  Today was in the high 70s.  There's dirty talk about tomorrow being 80 F.  Windows open all day.  Kitchen window still open.  There would be more windows open but my little neighbor likes to sit in his backyard and smoke pot.  I really don't need a secondhand smoke high, thanks.  The yellow jackets are all awake and looking for new housing.  I've got 2 boxes of steel scrubby things to stop them.  Going to be a long summer.

Keep thinking about where I was a year ago.  How things have changed for the better and worse.  No more jr high dramaz or needy wannabes.  For those things alone, I am truly grateful. 

Of course, there is far more to be grateful for and I am.  Daily.  Lately, one of those things is the returning light.  Quiet, Margene!  The quality of the light.  Not so much more light because I will always be a vampire child at heart.  Even if I don't get to keep those hours anymore.  The light, however, has brought the return of me wandering through my days singing.  As Jai will tell if he wasn't so damn shy, spring means singing (and me being sun-burnt & angry).  Since I can actually sing fairly well, I figure it's not the worse thing in the world.  Plus it's a nice little reminder that no matter how much I lose, there is still that part of me around somewhere...

Good thing wall washing is already on my list.  Ack!

Purchase of the week!

I may have had to fight my tiny mother for this one.  The lining is rather yucky but I can live with that because I'm the only one who will ever see it.  I did have the crazy thought of changing the lining for about 5 seconds but realized even I am not that crazy.

Picking up lunch today, one of those complicated white ladies you see everywhere complimented the bag.  First day out and it's already a win.  You may not have noticed but those ladies are a hard sell.

Blast from the past, right?

A off-shoot project from CMMDI is the return of the bags.  Remember the 'personal sock club' thingy we all tried to do a few years ago?  Yeah, like that but not just socks.  I pulled enough yarn for 5 different projects and wrote the name of the pattern on each bag.  I don't print out patterns anymore, and I know there will be some mind changing taking place.

Hello!  It's me!

Either I will get to each bag sooner or later.  Or I won't.  I make no promises and I tell you no lies.  Please notice there will be no fiber version of this.  See above mention of crazy but not that crazy.  Thank you.

I'm still working on a cabled sock.  I am either totally over cabled socks or I'm going to start looking for new cables to play with.  I can't decide.  I was looking at my project page thingy on Ravelry today and realized that I really have been on a tear with cables lately.  Okay... for months.  I'm okay with that but having to make 2 of something is starting to make me tired.

Or maybe it's all that singing...

Comments

[CindyCindy]

You sing? Good for you! I lovelovelove your new bag. Is it orange or more of a golden color? I can't tell on my monitor. I'm working away on my slipper, but you are so right, holding two strands on size 9 needles is hard on the hands. Hugs, girlie!

[Karen]

Singing is the sign of a good mood:)
Your bag is lovely and the lining unexpected which I think is a good thing.
I love the projects all prepped and ready to go. If I did that I'd cast them on all at once and then leave them for something else...

[Marilyn]

You really do have spring! 70s and 80s? Nice. I know you aren't fond of it but it sounds good to me. It's -11 here this morning...
Sing for us too!
Love the purse.
There's some pretty yarn in those little bags...what is being hidden by the tissue paper?
xoxo

[margene]

Can't wait to open my windows and let in the clear air and warmth. Thank you for sending your spring our way! Keep singing, grrl, it suits you.

[Stacey]

Want the bag!!! That would be right up there with my aqua ipad cover. So, the paper bag project thing is going to be an ongoing, rest of the year CMMDI? Because that would work for me. And give me a reason to leave the house and mail a package.

[gayle]

I sing when I'm alone. Never when I'm with people, since my singing is so bad that it causes heads to explode and I try to use my powers for good...

[Patty]

Oh that bag...beautiful. I've got a real lean toward orange these days. Singing - so good for the soul. I sound fabulous in my kitchen. Alone. :-)

[Cheryl S.]

Awesome bag!
I wish I could sing. I'm so awful, I don't even sing when I'm alone. It scares me.

[Datagoddess]

It's snowing today :-p

In a week we head out to PA for Dan's interviews. I'm hopeful!!!

[Helen]

Shut up!!! Some of us are still having weather you know!
You are a girl after my heart because I have been seriously thinking of getting an orange leather purse. Yours looks perfect except if I don't have a zipper to close it the contents would be all over the place all the time. :)

[kitten]

I was looking for a new orange purse! Orange was the most negotiable of its requirements, though, so I went with The Yellow One With Enough Pockets.

[kmkat]

Gawjus bag! And I like the lining a lot, too. I'm jealous of your spring but not your yellow jackets. I sat on one once -- they nested in the walls of the million-year-old shack we lived in when I was in high school. Ouch. Lucky I am not allergic. Oh, and I made a nest of them angry when I was clipping grass around the base of a fence post. The one that got me was VERY angry. I tried any number of things -- baking soda, vinegar, ice, calling the nurse hotline -- but the only thing that made it stop hurting was two stiff Jack Daniels & soda applied directly to my gullet.

[Kelly]

Oh, I wish I could sing! My voice is especially bad with a cold today, helpfully supplied by hubby. Grr. I have had the flu twice this season, I'm SO OVER being sick. Send some of that sunshine up here! I have mint-blue-green painted toes that need exposure! Seriously, 1.99 makeup never made me so happy!

[Silvia]

I love that you're singing! How about some opera when the pot head next door is sparking one up? Can't he sit in his garage like everyone else? Is it a Sacto thing to be so free and open, maybe?

I LOVE LOVE LOVE that bag and if you don't tell me immediately from where it came I shall die. Perish! I've got a tank of gas and time off sister, I'm hunting it down.

P.s. I bought sunblock today (spf 30) and thought of you! x0x0

[Carrie#K]

It is 80 today. At least. Oh well.

I love your new purse!!

[Ruth]

The bag is gorgeous. I change my mind a lot, one of the reasons my Ravelry queue is over 1100 items long (that is not a typo)...

[donna lee]

The bag is fabulous. I need a new one for Spring. I am tired of my red one. We are having none of this Spring thing. Don't tell the bulbs but we're expecting snow showers again this weekend. The poor things will be so confused after the warm temps we have been having.

I did the brown bag sock club-for about 3 months and then gave up and looked inside the bags and chose what I wanted anyway. No willpower.

[Melissa]

Envious of the temp. It snowed on me today. Not envious of the yellow jackets. (How does the wire work?) Loved the cables on Joan's most recent socks. Tres cool. But then so is your purse. LOVE the shape. Though orange isn't really my color so I won't try to fight you or your Mom for it. Anyway, I'd probably just ask nicely "Where did you find it?". Can't wait to see what the bags bring. I should probably engage in something similar since several time in the last few months I've found something perfect for X with at a LYS, then I'll buy it, take it home and two days later be utterly unable to tell you, me, or the man in the moon what X was. Once. Oh well. It's really nice yarn I'll find something to do, but I'm not going to go and count the number of skeins floating on the kitchen table currently that I know have a perfect project if only I could remember what it was. (I keep hope that leaving them out in the 'open' will spark a brilliant insight of some sort. Though this may convince my husband that I've gone stark raving yarn happy but I hope not. After all he's started knitting again. (2 potholders at 7.) My biggest risk maybe that he finds a skein he can't resist.

[Gwen]

I tried my own version of the Personal Sock Club this year...and I opted for Not Just Socks, too.

and that would be why I have four beach totes (!!) filled with bagged yarn-and-pattern combos. 42 ready-to-go projects, at last count...

uh oh. I only (ha) wanted to get a few grab-and-go options for unexpected out-of-town trips, not that I'm thinking there will be any of those in the near future. (out of my mind, yes. out of town, maybe notsomuch.) I may need to completely give up sleeping.

[Big Alice]

I'm also enjoying the return of the light. I have a thing for long evenings I guess.
Happy spring. The crows are ripping down branches to build nests and yesterday I ran across 2 ladybugs getting it on. While eating aphids. Hoorah for multitasking.

[Angie]

The returning light is lovely, especially if you sing with it. I love the orange and it looks like it will be useful for life-stuff.