Tuesday Has No Phones

Yesterday I got attacked by a burst of productivity and did a pretty good housecleaning. Not that my place is a sty normally, just that I went above and beyond. The difference between vacuuming and vacuuming under the couches too. (Not that I did that, but you get the idea.)

I also did knitting. SnB is tomorrow and I hope to make it since I missed the last two weeks.

For those who knit: how dumb would it be for me to start my own afghan project using leftover yarn from projects? I thought that might be a fun way to have a keepsake from each project, plus be a way to use up the yarn. But I didn't know if that would be dumb if all the yarns are of different thicknesses and types. Any thoughts? (Assuming I'd even get around to putting them all together anyway... and how would you put them all together if they were different thicknesses?)

Tonight is Heroes and S60. I've seen the pilot for Heroes already but after a typical Monday at work I'm looking forward to getting comfy on my couch, watching TV, and then going the heck to bed.

Leaving work early is of the good. Especially when you're fighting off a cold, as I currently am. Between that, this weekend, and med side effects my asleep to wakefulness ratio is getting decidedly tilted. On the other hand it makes my cats very happy to snuggle up next to me and give me purr therapy as I nap on the couch, and who am I to deny them that bliss?

I'm going to do my best to relax and recharge while the boss is away. I've got some doctor visits lined up, plus I do have to go into the office to get work done, but beyond that I can really try to give myself a break.

My desire? Lots of knitting.

My guess of what will actually happen? Yet more napping.

Though I can report with confidence that I absolutely did not buy two skein's worth of Noro Silk Garden at the LYS today.

Ahem.

It's getting cooler here in the land of Siam. I approve, though this speaks poorly for the odds of my tomatoes reaching their tomato destiny. Which isn't surprising considering how late I planted them.

Still, cool! I love fall, and cool weather, and wearing snuggly clothes and cooking stick to your ribs kinds of meals. Granted this assumes having energy enough to cook, but with my crockpot I'm slowly creeping back to that.

(Speaking of energy to do stuff, rinue did you get the thing I emailed you?)

This weekend, however, while it can be cool it cannot rain. Because I have tickets for the US Open on Saturday night for good seats that I did not have to pay for and I want to be able to sit there with a perfect view of hot female tennis players wriggling their asses as though they were doing it for my personal benefit and I am not going to be thwarted from that by something as silly as RAIN!

So there.

In other news I still want a dog, my co-op still doesn't allow them, and it is very dangerous to put the KnitPicks catalogue into my hands when I already have four knitting projects that I still need to do.

Waking up to find myself not quite zombie-like today, I set out to get out of the house and do some errands. First up? Fixing that patch of dirt. I headed over to the local nursery, where as you can imagine the flower pickings were slim but on the upside they were also 40% off. This late in the season all I cared about was color, so I picked things based on getting the most variety of color in there, plus things that were pretty spread out already in the hopes that they'd cover more of the dirt.

Happily the dirt itself wasn't too hard to dig into, and it was but the work of moments to get the plants planted and watered and fertilized. In spite of my lifelong difficulty with estimating things, I actually managed to get the right amount of plants for just this situation.

While I was there I surveyed the land - all mere feet of it - and started to make plans for later. There's a brick border that could use some adjusting. The former owner of my apt. left bricks in our storage unit, which makes me wonder if they were the first to take care of this spot and my neighbor took over when they moved out. Either way the bricks currently there are loose enough that fixing the border should be easy. I'll do that come fall when I plant some bulbs for spring. As I rather enjoy the whole process, or at least the idea of it, I may ask if I can claim some more of the space near my porch for my own and have some fun with it. I like the aspect of what basically amounts to weetiny gardening. Especially if I have time to plan and prepare.

After that I treated myself to a pedicure, then it was laundry during which I napped on the couch. I awoke to find Mac curled up on me like a furry discus. He's rather determined to make sure I get my daily dose of purr therapy. It's part of the healing process, donchaknow.

Then it was dinner, which had the benefit of being easy enough to prepare I could've done it even if I was zombified. The tomatoes I got from the farmer's market were, ZOMG, so good. And luckily there's plenty of leftovers!

Shower and knitting in the evening, and now here I am, relaxing like a good girl.

Stitch n Bitch actually went off yesterday. Color me shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.

It was a weetiny group, but the girls were nice. We're going to try to do something every Tuesday. I got some more work done on my hat, which I shall eventually blog about over in the craft journal.

(Get me using blog as a verb, oooooooooo)

Also voted yesterday. You're welcome. BTW, can somebody tell Joe to stop calling the attack on his website "Roveian tactics"? Because Roveian tactics would be taking down the website yourself and accusing your opponant of being the one to do it, NOT THAT I MADE ANY ASSUMPTIONS AS SOON AS I SAW THE NEWS STORY, JOE, OH NO.

BTW, y'all should head on over to Stoney's LJ to find out about the homophobic gardening company. Because everybody knows only straight people buy flowers.

After owning my food processor for who knows how many years, I just noticed today that above the buttons to operate it it says "CAUTION: Read instructions before using."

I get how this is good advice in general, but I can't help but wonder if some literal minded soul actually reads the instruction manual each and every time before pushing the on button.

Things here are pretty much neutral. I'm trying to do my best and remind myself that I can't do everything. I'm putting a lot of knitting projects on my lap because those give me the satisfaction of feeling like I'm doing something without being as strenuous to my system as, say, cleaning out my storage closet.

In a happy bit of serendipity, my belly dance classes have been called off for this month. Not that I don't love them, and I can exercise if I'm feeling up to it, but given the month ahead I'm actually kind of relieved to have the option taken away from me. Keeps me from pushing myself to go if I shouldn't, or feeling guilty for not going if I don't. Hopefully once September rolls around things will be better.

I've recently become addicted to Project Runway. I heard about the ep with the dogs and figured it would make for cute, mindless TV watching while I knit. Not only was it that, but now I want to see the first two seasons too. You've no idea how tempted I am to get the DVDs.

Now to try to spend the rest of today being a good girl and finding a right balance of taking it easy and doing things I want to do.

*twitch*

Hi. I'm told I sort of vanished and I didn't mean to. Most of my free time this week has been taken up with ZOMGDRAMA about the performance. I'm feeling very Saffy and "I mean, for God's sake, 500,000 were mobilized in the Gulf and a war fought and won in less time without everyone included having a nervous breakdown and being sent flowers!" about it all. Though it's ironic now that that's a reference that doesn't so much work given the current Gulf war.

Finished my ribbed scarf and will post about it on the craft blog at some point. Have a hat and a thing to make still on my non-BGAL stuff, and I've also got my BGAL project to work on. It's not TV knitting, though, hence the hat and the thing.

Next week I'll have family in town and if you think the performance on Saturday has been causing ZOMGDRAMA uh... yeah. Family. 'nuff said.

We've been getting the pouring rain here which personally I have loved even if my head has not. It does make me wonder if we're going to get rained on Saturday, which would be funny in its way.

And... yeah. That's all I've got. Hi!

Turns out the rain we got this weekend was record-breaking. In one weekend we got all the rain that we're supposed to get for the entire month of April. It was in this weather that I said to myself, Self, let's go splashing through ponds to get your laundry done!

Fortitude. I'm telling you, the word is fortitude.

Tonight I don't care what anybody says. I am parking my ass on the couch. I'm eating Mexican. I'm watching Tivo. And I'm knitting. I may never stop. I may call in sick to work tomorrow, so dire is my couch-Mexican-Tivo-knit need.

Speaking of catching up on stuff, I've got a question for anyone who's seen all of Deadwood s1. ( Cut in case this is a spoiler. It's just an s1 question though )

It's raining out. Thus making it a perfect day for staying home on the couch with a proper cuppa, some DVDs, and knitting.

Naturally I'm actually at work, but that doesn't really change the perfectness of the day for staying home.

This morning I got an idea for a knitted project for BGAL that might possibly be nuts or the Best. Thing. EVER. It'd involve a bit of design on my part, which again does not tip the scale in best thing vs. nuts debate.

...

Can I go home now?

So, you know, it's not enough for me to think about joining a knitalong. Ohhhhhhhh no. I gotta think about starting one.

*headdesk*

So, ahem. If any of you crafty folks (knit, crochet, whatever) might be interested in a blue and gold (FH folks - yes that) along, could you check in here and lemme know?

Or tell me horror stories about running KALs to talk me out of this?

ETA for those who don't know: A knitalong is basically a group of online folks who are all working on the same type of project at the same time, and posting about their progress to a blog. So it's sort of like an online stitch n bitch, only with a theme. Very often it's people all working on a single pattern (so they can answer each other's questions and offer moral support) othertimes it's folks using the KAL for inspiration on what to make.

Here's a listing of other knitalongs going on right now to give you an idea.

So a blue and gold KAL would be one where people could knit (or crochet or whatever) projects that involve the colors blue and gold in some way.