How lame am I?

First post in weeks, and the only reason I'm adding it is to put this silly little meme thing on here. Though, I'm doing so because the acronym is surprisingly accurate.

Anyway. Things have settled down into a fairly stable routine. Tick's a cute kid, and from what everyone else says, very NOT fussy. I'm inclined to agree. You have to let him get REALLY upset before he starts doing more than little unhappy noises. Like giving him a bath. He HATES that....but I said that way back when, didn't I? He's getting more and more expressive. I need to get some photos of him doing his BIG smile that Ceci calls his "capital D grin"...you know, like the smiley. :D Except that he's started crinkling his eyes with the grin, so it's more like ... uh... I can't find a symbol on my keyboard that portrays scrunched up eyes to go with the D grin. Oh well. I know y'all would rather see photos of the real thing anyway. Check out Ceci's gallery for photos of the little man.

I know everyone else has long since read the new Harry Potter book, but I just barely started it last night. Not a good idea. I was so tired I barely got three pages into it before I fell asleep...and woke up with a NASTY crick in my neck. Sigh. I have even less reading time than I do knitting time, because I can get away with knitting while in the car waiting at traffic lights.

Knitting: On the cap shaping for sleeve #2 of the Vebjorg cardigan for mom, then on to the fun cabling-every-other-row part. Got the yarn to start knitting swatches for the Master Kitter's thing from TKGA that Renee got me for my birthday. She and I are going to cast on at the same time. One of these Sundays. Really. Speaking of Sundays, our posse is growing! Ceci has been able to make it to the last two Sundays that I made it to (once with Tick, once without). Renee's friend Christi drops in pretty often too. And from the Knitty board, the awesome sciencegrrl, kellis_cott, and robincat have started hanging out with us. It gets better every week! (Yes, sciencegrrl, I still have the photos of Chicken wearing her sweater, I need to upload them off of my camera. Soon. I promise. Soon.) Woohoo! And, there's a chance that Hauteknits herself might start trying to join us once in a while. Her husband's been reassigned to Ft. Hood in Killeen, which puts her not close, but within reasonable driving distance from us. How awesome is that??

Spinning: Finished a bag of natural roving (generic wool, don't know the breed it came from). First spindleful was sacrificed to my first attempt at navajo plying. Emphasis on the word 'attempt'. I'll need to try again eventually. It was...less than perfect. Photos of this attempt forthcoming. Started spinning the 'ruby' (aka, rosy pink) 19 micron merino from NZ. Remembering why I love this stuff so much. SMOOOTH and soft and ZERO vm (that's vegetable matter, bits of grass and stuff still in the wool from processing). Only drawback is how compressed the roving is from the dyeing process. I have to pre-draft the heck out of it. Ceci's already claimed it for her own, not surprisingly. I'm spinning it to approximately sport weight, as she said she likes knitting with the thinner stuff. Oh, and awesome part two: robincat is a spinner too! I've finally met another spinner in Austin!

entrelac at 1:17 AM :: |

Thursday, August 11, 2005