socks!

These are them! Socks, I mean... hard to photograph well, especially because my legs are so covered with scrapes and bruises it is ridiculous. Really.

Sometimes I really love where I live.

So I just finished listening to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me in the car on my way home from (the fiber store) dropping Zoë off at a swimming birthday party, lucky girl – and I swear I almost had to pull over so many times because I was laughing so hard I couldn’t see. Did you know that if one thousand Night Ranger fans held up their lighters all through the song Sister Christian, it would not add to global warming? Turns out… but now I have that song stuck in my head. Nice.

By the way, I finished my socks - first pair ever - and they are so freaking cute. I’m psyched. I swear I would post a picture, but goddamn it Blogger will not let me. Or maybe it’s me?

too busy.

I have been so freakin' busy - this work thing really gets in the way and makes me really tired, you know? But I finished one sock! And I''m almost done with the other one!


And I actually spun up the roving I bought several weeks ago as well (it was weeks, I think... eesh, it all runs together.) and it is really nice - the tencel makes it super shiny and silky.


I have been knitting at work, on my lunch break, which is the only time I've had, so I decided to buy a drop spindle that I can bring to work with me to spin instead, post-socks. We'll see how that goes, it should come in the mail early next week. I love things in the mail! And this came - it's a sock kit, but I'm not sure if it will be socks or not. It's beautiful yarn though, and the bag and needles are pretty terrific too. I had a little magpie moment on etsy... Ooh, and I set up some photos on Flickr - see, over on the right? Go ahead, click it. It's my handspun yarn, mostly.

The painters are supposed to come back on Monday after an unexpected(WTF?!) two week hiatus to finish painting the house (it's funny - strange, not ha-ha - how many people we have hired to do work on the house that have fucked up in some way - almost everyone, really. It is so disappointing to me the lack of work ethic and honesty among contractors. We have such horror stories... Is this problem specific to L.A.? Or more prevalent here? Just thinking out loud.). The finished part looks beautiful, but the whole thing looks pretty funny, the addition is painted but the old part is still the old colors - not sure why they did it that way, but whatever. We've been joking that the old house is Scotts and the new part is mine, so I suggested that we leave it as is to avoid confusion.

Well for some reason, I can't upload any of my fabulous pictures right now - I'll try again later.