This is the best birthday card I could think of.
Hesh's Birthday Rap
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Happy birthday, baby sister! It's weird that you're 21, and like old enough to drink, but whatever. Anyway, you're the coolest person I know (which is why all of my friends like you better), so go do something awesome...but still legal. Stay above that influence, girl.
And call me later if you want to play celebratory warcraft or something. You know I'm down.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
FO: Cable Twist SOCKS for my MOM 1
Guess these mean....
....that I can cross something else off my Sock Queue!
Yarn - 2 skeins of Knitpicks Swish DK (123 yards, 100% superwash merino) in hollyberry. I actually used two full skeins and about 4 yards of the 3rd. Oh well, I'll make a hat or something. Also, let it be known that I used this yarn because my mom washes handknitted socks in the washing machine regardless of the effect it may have on them - these got unintentionally felted.
Needles - size 3 addi turbos
Pattern - Hello Yarn's Cable Twist Socks essentially from memory. I made them toe up, with a fabulous short row heel (seriously, though, short row heels kick major ass), and tweaked the pattern a little. I made them with 60 sts instead of 56, and to accommodate that, I switched to a reapeat that was 6 sts wide. So, there were 4 knit sts instead of 5.
There's another FO I need to introduce while I've sequestered myself away, but sadly, it doesn't help me scratch anything off that damned queue.
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1This is actually a sneaky reference to an inside joke. See, awhile back, my friend Tamar was working on this huge shawl as a gift for her mother. Since the shawl was tedious, and gigantic, she naturally took it everywhere with here and got kind of annoyed with it. But, she got way more annoyed with everybody asking about it. So, whenever anyone innocently said, "Hey that looks cool! Whatcha working on?" Tamar would respond, "a SHAWL for my MOM!"
I thought this was the funniest thing ever and would ask her that just to hear it.
....that I can cross something else off my Sock Queue!
Charade socks for Brian- River Rapid socks for Jennie
- Vinnland socks for Van
- Millicent socks for Sam
- Rhiannon socks for Mandy
- Spiral boots socks for Leila
Socks for Mom- Socks for Stepdad
- Something sockish for Dani
- Indestructible socks for Jon
Yarn - 2 skeins of Knitpicks Swish DK (123 yards, 100% superwash merino) in hollyberry. I actually used two full skeins and about 4 yards of the 3rd. Oh well, I'll make a hat or something. Also, let it be known that I used this yarn because my mom washes handknitted socks in the washing machine regardless of the effect it may have on them - these got unintentionally felted.
Needles - size 3 addi turbos
Pattern - Hello Yarn's Cable Twist Socks essentially from memory. I made them toe up, with a fabulous short row heel (seriously, though, short row heels kick major ass), and tweaked the pattern a little. I made them with 60 sts instead of 56, and to accommodate that, I switched to a reapeat that was 6 sts wide. So, there were 4 knit sts instead of 5.
There's another FO I need to introduce while I've sequestered myself away, but sadly, it doesn't help me scratch anything off that damned queue.
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1This is actually a sneaky reference to an inside joke. See, awhile back, my friend Tamar was working on this huge shawl as a gift for her mother. Since the shawl was tedious, and gigantic, she naturally took it everywhere with here and got kind of annoyed with it. But, she got way more annoyed with everybody asking about it. So, whenever anyone innocently said, "Hey that looks cool! Whatcha working on?" Tamar would respond, "a SHAWL for my MOM!"
I thought this was the funniest thing ever and would ask her that just to hear it.
Friday, December 21, 2007
The Adventures of a Christmas Hermit, pt 1
Sorry for the month-long vacuum of silence. This semester was just ridiculously brutal - between research, classes, and teaching (which totally consumed all of my time), and some messy personal issues that kind of sucked but seem to be working themselves out, there was really no time to sleep. Or eat properly. Or (shockingly enough) knit.
But all that's behind me now, because it's Christmas break! And I'm spending it here in Ann Arbor, alone but for the cats. Whenever I tell people that, they tend to gasp in horror and tell me that it's sad/not healthy/bad for me to spend the holidays alone, which I find amusing because all I really need right now is to catch up on sleep and veg out with the TV and some knitting. And Warcraft, which I just started playing and am now crazily addicted to. I don't really need to travel all the way to Texas to go see my very nice, if somewhat overwhelming, family nearly as much as I need to sleep in everyday and not change out of my pajamas all day. It's cool, they've given their blessing.
Deep down inside, I think what I really want to be when I grow up is a mad scientist. But not an evil one bent on world domination, just one out in the boonies fiddling with shit and periodically sending an assistant out for provisions and supplies. So, less evil genius in the song "Skullcrusher Mountain"1 and more tiny dude at the Southern Oracle in The Neverending Story. Yeah, I want to be him, but marginally taller, a woman, and with all my teeth.
Taking the Mad Scientist as a model for my week as a Christmas Hermit obviously means I'll be keeping myself busy. I mean, any decent mad scientist is highly productive, right? Always a new death ray of transportation pod or something. Just look at Dr. Weird. So, expect some knitting to be accomplished (though there is a hiatus from the Sock Queue...a gift from me to myself), great leaps to be made regarding Jarthen, many a marathon of bad TV to be watched, and my 4 (and counting) Warcraft charatcers2 to level up all over the place. I may also construct a fort out of sheets, which would be only fitting because every mad scientist has a secret mountain stronghold.
the beginnings of a herringbone vest and copious notes about Jarthen
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1 Appropriately enough, someone's already made a video to this particularly awesome song using Warcraft. The heavens have aligned.
2In case you're interested, my four characters are Wholahay (a draenei shaman, level 11), Svava (a night elf druid, level 11), Madge Bobbins (a troll hunter, level 10), and Elcrona (a blood elf warlock, level 6). It should be noted that the first name is a reference to Dionne from ANTM cycle 8's nickname for herself, and all other names are in some way Jarthen related. Because I'm apparently competing with the guy that made that video for the title of Biggest Dork in the Universe.
But all that's behind me now, because it's Christmas break! And I'm spending it here in Ann Arbor, alone but for the cats. Whenever I tell people that, they tend to gasp in horror and tell me that it's sad/not healthy/bad for me to spend the holidays alone, which I find amusing because all I really need right now is to catch up on sleep and veg out with the TV and some knitting. And Warcraft, which I just started playing and am now crazily addicted to. I don't really need to travel all the way to Texas to go see my very nice, if somewhat overwhelming, family nearly as much as I need to sleep in everyday and not change out of my pajamas all day. It's cool, they've given their blessing.
Deep down inside, I think what I really want to be when I grow up is a mad scientist. But not an evil one bent on world domination, just one out in the boonies fiddling with shit and periodically sending an assistant out for provisions and supplies. So, less evil genius in the song "Skullcrusher Mountain"1 and more tiny dude at the Southern Oracle in The Neverending Story. Yeah, I want to be him, but marginally taller, a woman, and with all my teeth.
Taking the Mad Scientist as a model for my week as a Christmas Hermit obviously means I'll be keeping myself busy. I mean, any decent mad scientist is highly productive, right? Always a new death ray of transportation pod or something. Just look at Dr. Weird. So, expect some knitting to be accomplished (though there is a hiatus from the Sock Queue...a gift from me to myself), great leaps to be made regarding Jarthen, many a marathon of bad TV to be watched, and my 4 (and counting) Warcraft charatcers2 to level up all over the place. I may also construct a fort out of sheets, which would be only fitting because every mad scientist has a secret mountain stronghold.
the beginnings of a herringbone vest and copious notes about Jarthen
1 Appropriately enough, someone's already made a video to this particularly awesome song using Warcraft. The heavens have aligned.
2In case you're interested, my four characters are Wholahay (a draenei shaman, level 11), Svava (a night elf druid, level 11), Madge Bobbins (a troll hunter, level 10), and Elcrona (a blood elf warlock, level 6). It should be noted that the first name is a reference to Dionne from ANTM cycle 8's nickname for herself, and all other names are in some way Jarthen related. Because I'm apparently competing with the guy that made that video for the title of Biggest Dork in the Universe.
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