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03/07/2006
You know you missed me
As you may have noticed, I've been completely MIA lately. Allow me to make excuses. After the xmas hell of trying to knit up ALL the xmas gifts I assigned myself (which I didn't finish all of, btw), I became COMPLETELY and utterly disgusted with knitting for two whole months. I needed the break though, I think. When a hobby becomes an obligation you really lose sight of why you enjoyed that hobby in the first place. So my stash, needles, and WIP's collected dust until this week.
Now I've been having massive bouts of guilt for neglecting my projects. At least once a day I'd glance over at my knitting trunk and hate myself for a few moments, but it never got me to pick it up. Last weekend, we had a 2.5 hour drive to Chicopee, MA to see Green Carnation. In a rare moment I felt the urge to bring the lacey mohair scarf I've knit and ripped out thrice now. I got a ton of it done, on a new pair of 17's (handmade birch!) that I got for xmas, and I felt a lot better. Trying to finish it a few nights later I ended up dropping a stitch somewhere, leaving me with a huge hole, no life line, and the overwhelming urge to kill myself.
After a gym trip yesterday, Allison and I headed over to Eva's (our LYS, fuckin' fabulous place!) and walking around I got the charge back. We went back to my house, crashed in front of the TV in Grey's Anatomy heaven (Season one DVD on loan from our awesome Yoga instructor) and knit our little hearts out. Allison, being the bestest person in the world, managed to salvage my mohair from hell scarf, and I finished that as well as a mini-scarf that I'm now on a mission for a cute scarf pin for. Here they are:
Allison is also the bestest person in the world because she got and fixed this amazing, amazing, Sears-Kenmore sewing machine for me. It's so fucking pretty, I'm completely in love. I'm naming her Stella. However I can't find any info about her!! I've exhausted myself looking for her model number for a year, a manual, ANYTHING and I can't find anything. I emailed someone earlier who runs a HUGE site for vintage manuals, hopefully she can help me. I don't care how old she is, baby, just look at her:
I also have aquired Isabelle...my dress form that came by me for 40 bucks via Craigslist. She's smaller than me so I'm drafting ideas for a stuffed, maybe velcro, waist add-on. If it works out I'll be thrilled, the bust and shoulders are pretty much the same, but I gotta accommadate my liquid grain storage facility. I'm working on a quickie T-shirt mod and skirt to get me back in my sewing groove. (It's been about 6 or 7 months since my newer model broke.)
I've been struggling with this beautiful skein of Sari Silk I got for xmas (also from Allison, this blog is in total praise of her) and I have come to the inevitable conclusion that I should never try to wind a ball from a skien of expensive and/or fragile yarn again. This is what I'm looking at right now (and yes I am using a bottle of lube to wind balls, shut up):
The yarn is BEAUTIFUL. It's hand made out of recycled sari's and the proceeds benefit battered women in Nepal. It was the first thing I drooled on my first trip out to Eva's. (Anyone in Mass or RI, Eva's it worth the trip!) I was planning to make a shawl/poncho type thing out of it but from the tangles it's breaking apart pretty easily, I think it might be safer in scarf form. It's so beautiful I know it will become my favorite whatever I make out of it. I also picked up a ball of Yoga yarn to match my new hair color. I'm going to make a pretty neck decoration and maybe some wrist decorations with it:
Since Shagrath never came home (he ran away in early January) I've been pretty miserable without a cat around here. Sure I have my obnoxious licky pees-on-everything little lovebug Chihuahua, but I really, REALLY, miss my cat. I've had cats my whole life, it's weird not having one around. I've got a grey tiger kitten on his way hopefully this week. Just waiting on the woman to call me back. She NEVER answers her cell phone and has been going a week in between emails telling me to call her. She's getting married soon I think, so I won't blame her at all. (Been there, ugh) HOPEFULLY we'll hear from her tomorrow. I can't wait!! Will post pictures until you all vomit on the preciousness as soon as possible.
Got a new digital for xmas, by the way!
School is going GREAT this semester. My math class ended up being the wrong one and I had to switch to an American Civilization class (basically Sociology, which I'm into), erradicating the only drag class I had lined up. ALL my professors turned out to be GREAT. I like every one of them! Love my classes and I'm pulling a strong A in all of them. I'm hoping for Dean's list this semester, which will pull my GPA up from good to awesome. Feelin' good about it. Money issues are no better, Jon still has no job and the bills are just piling up. But I'm in a good mood and I'm not going to think about it. Been keeping up with the gym as best I can, been a hectic couple of weeks but we're still pulling off a minimum of 3x per week. Ideally I'd like 3 days involving some cardio, plus our yoga class. I haven't lost a pound but I look better and I feel great, so I'm not really minding that. I'd rather be healthy than skinny, it's just more important to me.
The band is going GREAT! We played a lot of great gigs the last two months. To check out pictures from the last show (this past Saturday) visit Return To The Pit- Smite The Righteous Gallery (Marshall's Pub Show) This is my favorite:
That's about it for tonight. I can pretty much promise a return to regular posting. I'm coming in and out of a weird funk lately but my itch to write and record is back in full force. I'm off to catch up on all the bad-ass knitter blogs now. I leave you with a cute picture sequence from a couple hours ago of my husband and Abbath. Awww-factor is high:
End note: Updated everything, lists, links, albums, whole 9. I'm tired now, but I feel SO much better.
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Comments
yay! you're back! sounds like you found your mojo in more ways than one. congrats on kicking school's ass :) And I am jealous of your sewing machine! That piece of machinery is next on my list to conquer. Good luck!
Posted by: kaitlyn | 03/07/2006
Not funny.
Posted by: your husband | 03/07/2006
yay! i'm glad to see you've been doing well :) I will have to make a trip out to Eva's next time I come home, which will probably be in August. I want to go to Webs in Northampton, too. I love that part of the state... I went to school at UMass, so I have a lot of fond memories out there. We'll have to meet up FOR REAL this time. I'll have to schedule a longer trip so I can do evrything I want to do. Anyway... I put you in my bloglines feed so I'll never miss a post!
Posted by: Melissa | 03/07/2006