14
April 2008
Aslan Trends Top down Raglan Cardi - Fini!;
Cascade EcoWool Top down Raglan Cardi - Fini!;
Lacy Hug-Me-Tight
from Knit 2 Together - 90% Done; Socks That Rock Toe-Up Socks- Tofutsie
Socks Pair #3-Started; Trendsetter Mitred Square Capelet (98% done); Tonalita
Clapotis; Sensual Knits Ramona - 80%;
...and the crazy on-going Workshirt Embroidery Project
Wow. Where
the frell have I been?!
If I could take a decent picture with my digi-cam, I'd show the swell
little stitch markers I threw together this past weekend.
But I SUCK at taking pictures! I need to practice, but I can't take my
camera to work.
The only time I get to mess around taking pictures when when I get home
in the evenings. Yeah, that's when I want to be taking pictures.
Anyway, I'm knitting cardis like a fiend because it's now Air Conditioning
time of year at the office.
I also knitted a sweet little scarf out of 2 skeins of Prism Dover. It's
wonderful! Like a piece of fabric.
There are a ton of projects flying around my house.
If you're on Ravelry, check out TallGrrl.
I'll post pictures here soon. Gotta practice.
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08
March 2008
Aslan Trends Top down Raglan Cardi - Fini!;
Cascade EcoWool Top down Raglan Cardi - 80% Done;
Lacy Hug-Me-Tight
from Knit 2 Together - 90% Done; Socks That Rock Toe-Up Socks- Tofutsie
Socks Pair #3-Started; Trendsetter Mitred Square Capelet (98% done); Tonalita
Clapotis; Sensual Knits Ramona - 80%;
...and the crazy on-going Workshirt Embroidery Project
Yes, this is kind of late, but since it is International Women's MONTH...
Since 1908
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The
iPod Meme (Thanks, Danii!)
á la Hobby Whore
My pod: (product)RED
4GB 2nd Gen Nano
Instructions: Open up your iTunes and fill out this survey, no matter how embarrassing the responses might be.
How many
songs total: 409
How many hours or days of music: 1.3 Days
Podcasts: 12 Shows (26 episodes) on iPod / 26 Shows (320 episodes) in Tunes Library
Most recently
played: Cream by Prince
Most played: "Like A Stone" by Audioslave (It's in my
Workout Playlist is why.)
2nd Most Played: "Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance"
by Prince from "Musicology"
Most recently added: CD "Basement Bhangra Compilation"
by DJ Rekha &
"Across The Universe" movie soundtrack
Sort by
song title:
First Song: "Aaja Nachiye Boliyan Paiye" - Basement Bhangra
Compilation
Last Song: "7" by Moby - "Play"
Sort by
time:
Shortest Song: "7" by Moby - "Play" (1:02)
Longest Song: "X-Files Theme" by The Dust Brothers - The X-Files:
The Album (14:13)
Sort by album:
First album: Across
The Universe - Movie Soundtrack
Last album: 100 Days, 100 Nights - Sharon
Jones & The Dap Kings
First song that comes up on Shuffle: "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap
Do a Search
for the following words and state how many songs come up:
Death - 0 / Dead - 1
Life - 13
Love - 16
Hate – 0
You - 34
Sex – 6
Audiobooks:
1 presently on iPod / 9 in iTunes Library
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson (presently reading)
The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman (still reading)
Dune - Frank Herbert (still reading)
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken
Democracy Matters - Dr. Cornell West
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
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I rotate
music and podcasts in and out of my iPod like crazy. When I purchase music
and download it, I always make a backup copy so if I want to take it out
of my iTunes library and put it back in later, I can.
My pod is a 4GB and has never been filled.
I might get the new Nano, but if I had to re-purchase TVs and movies I
already have through iTunes? Forgetaboutit. If I already have "Firefly",
I'm not buying it again just so I can have it on my iPod. That,
dear reader, is Bullshit. Pure and simple. I'd rather just get one of
those little portable DVD players. Which I don't really want.
Apparently there is some software that will convert pre-existing DVDs
to whatever it is that Apple uses for the iPod. We'll see...
On the knitting
front: I finished a cardi made from Aslan Trends Artesanal. It's a really
nice blend of cotton and alpaca. The alpaca makes the cotton lofty. It's
a deep charcoal grey, no buttons and will be something that I'll wear
a lot even into the summer when I need protection from wayward A/C.
I'm also almost finished with the same sweater in Cascade EcoWool that's
been in my stash for a couple of years.
The pattern is by Laura Chau of Cosmicpluto
Knits and it's given me inspiration to make my own designs because
top-down knitting is so so very customizable.
If you're on Ravelry...and who isn't these days...I'm TallGrrl (o'course)
and there you'll see a picture of the cardi in my Projects. (Squeeee!
I hate to shop, but I love having new things to wear.)
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10
February 2008
Lacy Hug-Me-Tight from Knit 2 Together 90% Done; Socks That Rock Toe-Up
Socks; Tofutsie Socks Pair #3-Started; Trendsetter Mitred Square Capelet
(98% done); Tonalita Clapotis; Sensual Knits Ramona - 70%...and the crazy
on-going Workshirt Embroidery Project
As
much as I really like Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black, I am so so
so very happy that Album of the Year went to Herbie Hancock's album River:
The Joni Letters.
I just know that the voters in the academy listened to all the albums
and decided that musically, production-wise, performance-wise, River is
the better album.
I have both of them and as much as I like Rehab and the title cut, the
song on River done by Tina Turner as well as the one sung by Joni
Mitchell herself (these young kids singing today need to listen to these
two women and take a lesson on how to interpret a song) are better than
all the songs on Winehouse's album combined.
Oh, and the album also won Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
Yay! Foo Fighters won a Grammy! (I love them. I saw them on my birthday
not long after I moved here. Great show!)
Also, what the hell is CBS doing trying to do showing Dexter?
They're gonna cut the guts out of the show.
As many times as they're going to have to show a 'caveat' and put that
ratings bug before the show, the first time one of those right-wing so-called
Christian 'advocacy' groups starts bitching about the content and 'protecting
the children' (against seeing something on a show that's on way past a
child's bedtime far as I'm concerned), they're gonna yank it.
One last thing: My iPod? Just fine, thank you. There's a lot of static
and I think I gave it a jolt when I got out of the car Thursday morning.
Took it to the Apple store (have you seen the Air??
Oh.My.GOD(DESS).) and they brought it back to life.
While I was there I looked around and played and...I think I'm going to
start saving for an iMac
(I had to keep myself from licking them) before my computer has to be
replaced.
This is the time when a Sugar Daddy would come in handly. *sigh*
More to come.
This week is gonna be a bear at work...but next Monday is a holiday so
it's a FOUR day weekend! Yeeeee-Haaaaw!!!!
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08
February 2008
Lacy Hug-Me-Tight from Knit 2 Together 90% Done; Socks That Rock Toe-Up
Socks; Tofutsie Socks Pair #3-Started; Trendsetter Mitred Square Capelet
(98% done); Tonalita Clapotis; Sensual Knits Ramona - 70%...and the crazy
on-going Workshirt Embroidery Project
~Also~
V-Day.org
Happy 10th Anniversary
V-Day
V to the 10th in New Orleans
SUPERLOVE
April 11-12, Louisiana Superdome
Rabbit,
Rabbit y'all! R-to the A-to the...well, you know.
I'm running out the door to the Apple Store because my iPod has bit the
dust. It's probably time to get a new battery.
I, fortunately, bought AppleCare so if it is totally dead I can get a
replacement. Which wouldn't be too bad because the new Nano is fierce.
But I'm really loving my 2nd Gen Nano. I don't care that it's not a video
player. If I have to get it replaced, I think I might actually puddle
up and shed a tear.
Lately I've been putting stuff on my iPod that I have on LP.
One of the things I got was Pat Metheney's wonderful Grammy-winning "The
First Circle". (The 30 sec clip at Amazon doesn't even begin
to hit stride before it's over.)
I LOVE this album. I bought it because one of my favourite dance teachers
(Hi Joe!) used the title song for a combination.
When I hear it, my body feels like how it did when I danced to this song.
I can't help but smile when I hear "The First Circle" because
it makes me feel like...I feel...
The only way I can describe listening to this song is like this:
Imagine, if you will, remembering what it felt like...when you once could
fly.
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13
January 2008
Lacy Hug-Me-Tight from Knit 2 Together 90% Done; Socks That Rock Toe-Up
Socks-100% Done!!; Tofutsie SocksPair #2: 1 - Done!;Tofutsie Socks
Pair #3-Started; Clapotis 2 - 75%...and then FROGGED! Made Jitterbug Vest
instead-100% done; Trendsetter Mitred Square Capelet (97% done)...and
the crazy on-going Workshirt Embroidery Project
Happy New
Year!!!!
Here I am, 2 weeks in and finally taking down my little geeky holiday
tree.
Down come the twinkly lights....
...down come all the ships...
...down come
the shuttles and Borg Cubes...
I wish there was a way I could have them all up year-round, but I have
yet to figure out how. Maybe I can get a large corkboard, cover it loosely
with black velvet and mount it ove my bed as a headboard, and string a
set of twinkle-lights. Then I could plug in the ships and stuff that light
up?
Hmmmmm........
This year, my dear sis got me the ornament that's a scene from "ST:WoK"
where the captain and Khan are doing that submarine chase thing in the
clouds.
You plug it into one of the twinkle-light sockets and press a button and
it says 4 or so different lines from that scene, and the viewing screen
shows the ship being fired upon.
Cool!!!!
She also gave me the ornament called "Future Enterprise" and
it lights up. Sweeet!!
As if that weren't enough, she gave me a Fruity Oaty Bar t-shirt...and
the Gold Edition (David Lynch approved) box set of TWIN
PEAKS!!!
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
I got some knitting presents as well, including the lovely book Sensual
Knits, from which I've already started knitting the Ramona Sweater.
This is a really wonderful book and there are more than a couple of things
in it that I'd really like to have.
Camisoles, sweaters, wraps...mmmmmmmmmm.
In the past 3 days I've started 2 projects. Damn.
The Ramona is the priority.
The Beatrice
Ribbed Coat (out of Aslan Trends Artesenal) is 2nd in line.
These are finishing 2 pairs of ChristmaHanuKwanza socks are presently
in the knitting queue.
Rabbit-rabbit, y'all!!!
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