I have been busy so, so busy.
We are STILL unpacking, we where getting close, but then we started emptying our storage units and you couldn’t tell we’d been here almost 2 months. Continue reading
If you can’t say something nice…
Something I haven’t included in this blog and most people would have is that me and my fiance bought a house…
almost 2 months ago…
This is big news right?
I should super super excited right?
She’s 111 years old and still has her figure. It’s not fair I know, the bitch.
Plus I have a craft room for the first time ever in my whole life. We just moved in last week, so it’s still a mess and full of boxes, so those pictures to come soon.
But needless to say my yarn is all in the same room for the first time in years.
But the moving process has been stressful to say the least.
I know, moving is almost always is stressful, but I’m really afraid things have been permanently stressed.
On my relationship with my fiance mainly.
A parent already has a fair amount of stress to deal with, a single one even more so. Now add a trying to coach their partner through being a parent. A kid with multiple prescriptions, and problems keeping up at school. My tiny tiny wages keeping me from really contributing financially. Etc, etc…
So I wanted to be overjoyed about the house, but very slowly things have been adding up and adding up.
And what may have been tiny things turn into bigger things.
Now in my mind so much about this house is associated with with those things.
And it’s been near impossible to be really happy about it all.
So I haven’t said anything, because if I can’t say anything nice- specially about my own home,
well should I say anything at all?
I need to make this…
This is lovely,
I really absolutely need to have this.
This is a completely rational need. Continue reading
what I did last night
I spent a couple of hours on photoshop last night editing a tiny picture of myself. Continue reading
with love
Colonel Meow passed away a couple of days ago.
He was a facebook star and scotch drinking overlord of all humans.
He looked grumpy, but probably wasn’t really, like Grumpy cat. Continue reading
what to post when you haven’t been
So it’s almost two… yep two months since I last posted, and the longer I put it off, the harder it is to just sit down and write something. To write anything. Anything at all.
Part of the truth is I haven’t wanted to be any where near my computers. I haven’t been coding, I haven’t been designing or drawing, or painting… just knitting.
Remember the booties, the ambitious goal me and the fiancé had? Well I worked and worked on them, when I really wanted to be lace knitting, or working on my entrelac cowl or on the custom bike mittens someone asked for. But I spent november and december knitting booties. And that fine, but I like my knitting to engage me, and that why I do complicated projects. Unless I’m bored or tired or burnt out or all of those things and then I knit a rib stitch scarf or maybe even a bootie. Continue reading
un-spun love
I was reading through a book I got from the library last week called Icelandic Handknits, by Hélène Magnússon.
And so far I like it, though now I want more on this the Icelandic Lace. I’ve been enjoying anything with the history of knitting / fiber arts in it. Somehow the idea of knitting something that was knit 100 years ago just appeals to me. But as I don’t have a pressing need for shoe liners for my fish skin shoes, not always very useful.
While reading through the book I read about unspun Lopi yarn, (just like the stuff I found in Grand Marais from Canada). So I looked it up and now I want it, I want it soooooooooooo bad.
What am I going to use it for you ask?
………
That’s a good question.
But I still want it .
So very very much.
some ups & downs
I’ve haven’t been spending much time at my computer,
I’ve been either knitting furiously on the my couch till the wee hours of the morning or at the gym and lifting club.
And it was been a bag of mixed results from the gym.
Last week, a low point – had a work out that left me for the first time not only gasping for breath on the floor but crying. I felt so defeated from it I just lost it. Usually I’m to stubborn t o start to cry or give up. I may slow down, but not stop. Part of it may be a case of sports induced asthma, which I can’t rule out for sure until I have health care and can afford a doctor visit. Not being able to breath is a tough thing to just work through.
High point last week, I have been doing a training routine at the gym called Smolov Jr for about 4 weeks. That’s meant to increase your push press and back squat numbers. So last week we retested and I got 2 new PR’s! My push press increased 15 lb. to 125 and my back squat went up 20 lb. to 205. I didn’t fail any of my attempts either, so given more time I may be able to improve those yet. My fiancee hit his lifetime goal for his back squat too, 405 pounds!
We were both flying high that day. The next we were pretty sore.
Then high point again on last Sunday, at lifting club, I made my goal for my dead lift, I lifted 205.
And yesterday major low point again, I woke up with a sore neck/shoulder on my left side. I went to the gym any way thinking I would work it out.
Nope.
I completed 6 push-ups and the pain doubled, I could barely move my neck, my arm started going numb. So I left early, by the time I’d gotten home it was worse. It hurts so much, I can barely knit.
I hate just lying around, I like to be doing something always, and injuries like this or when I’m really sick make me unable to do anything else. You just lay there suffering. Maybe watching some horrible TV show or something.
Maybe the universe is trying to tell me to take it easy more, that I need to find peace in just sitting there.
Or maybe it’s a challenge from the universe to see if I’ll ever finish all our x-mas gifts.
forever a work in progress #1
So here goes,
My first F-WIP. 
It’s the Pirate’s Cutie – Sweater from and oooollllldddd issue of Vogue’s Knit.1 from winter 2006/07.
I started this adorable little sweater ( only my 2nd and last attempt and at a sweater since I started knitting ) at least five years ago, probably closer to 6. It was before I started school, part of the reason I never finished is because homework turned out taking a huge chunk out of my knitting time.
The second reason is sad, I think about it every time I look at the thing. I had a really bazar and sudden falling out with the friend who was having the baby that it would go to. So I even if I had finished it I probably wouldn’t have been able to give it to her. And now the little boy is starting kindergarten, and it wouldn’t really fit now.
I want to turn this bad memory around and find and other cute little person to give this to. I want to look at this sweater and smile again. But first I have to knit the 2nd sleeve.
Yep thats right, beside the collar thats all that needs to be done.
ONE. SLEEVE.
At this rate I’m guessing another 2 years at least.
I’m very very good at starting things
Last night as I was cleaning up a little and deciding which project I would take to bed with me I was reminded of my tendency to start new knitting projects. Without any regard to what I may have recently or not-so-recently have started and may or may-not probably really don’t have time to finish. I cast on at least 4 things this last week. Continue reading