140. Raise a Glass

First off, last dinner with the mister who is going to Ottawa for his job was tonight. It was good. He will be missed, but life goes on. Have fun Adam!

We stopped by the NSLC on the way back to his (partially unfurnished due to moving) place. While I was waiting for him to pay for his beer, I stood near the door. There was a table with some hats, t-shirts, a few glasses and some license plates. After a little bit of investigation I realized that they were all for sale, cheap. I’m talking $3 for hats or t-shirts, and (get this) One Dollar for the beer glasses. One Dollar. The Mister was going to get 4 glasses, but didn’t have any cash, so I bought 5, and gave him 4. I’m only one person, I don’t need many glasses. It’s such a thick glass, with a heavy bottom. I love it.

What’s better than beer in a beer glass? Anything.

-Cheers folks!

139. An Abundance of Change

I changed wallets this evening because the bag that I use (my Namaste Messenger) has two large pockets on the front, one I use for my wallet and the other I use for my notebooks. I have a nice wallet that I spent a pretty penny on a couple years ago that is a half fold. It’s black with really bright flowers on it, I really do like it. Except it gets lost in that big pocket on the front of my bag. I also have a nice bill fold that I got from the Burton outlet down in the states even longer ago. The only problem with it is that I ripped the ID slot a while ago. I was not impressed. Nor am I able to fix it because of the type of tear. MY ID still fits in it and doesn’t fall out, it just bugs me that it’s ripped. The plus with this wallet and bag combo, is that the wallet doesn’t get lost in the pocket. It’s the perfect size. Absolutely perfect.

While I was changing wallets I poured out all my change, and I went to take the pennies, nickles and dimes to put them in my bottles for change. Only one problem. I kept seeing the back of nickles and thought they were quarters. I swear they changed the size of nickles on me, and that’s not cool. Not cool guys, not cool.

In other news, I have half a sock, or about one quarter of a pair.

Apparently I rock at doing needle-less cables on the bus. It was insanity. I even managed to fix a wrong cable on the row below the one I was working on. Insanity I say, insanity. The gusset increases by the way, are utter genius. Yarnissima is a genius. The pattern is Kiila (Rav link), and I’m using BFL Sock from Fleece Artist. The combo is great. But yea, I got a whole lot done, and also a fair bit while I watched Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement. For those who didn’t know, Chris Pine (Kirk from the new Star Trek) was in this movie. I didn’t realize until he laughed and I saw his smile. Also in this movie is John Rhys-Davies, Gimli from Lord of the Rings. I swear, I had forgotten about both of them when I got the movie to watch it. I wanted more Julie Andrews, and she sings in this movie. I love Julie Andrews.

And Audrey Hepburn.

And Fred Astaire.

And Dick Van Dyke.

And a whole whack of other classic actors. Nothing is better than the classics.

-Cheers folks!

138. Dear Pillow

See that? That’s my pillow. We haven’t been on the best speaking terms for the last week or so. It has nearly made me late some days with it’s “But you never see me” whines. It wont let me sleep with it’s “Let’s talk until 3am, I don’t care that you have to get up early".” My pillow has become extremely annoying, and although I think about leaving it, the repercussions would be too numerous to make it worth it. Tonight, I will try to make peace with my pillow. Hopefully I’ll be asleep within a decent amount of time from when my head meets said pillow. A girl can hope, right?

-Cheers folks!

137. Oops Vol. II

So, on Thursday I bought a big skein of yarn that I shouldn’t have bought. But I am knitting from it right now, so that makes it kind of okay. It’s not just going into the stash. Today I was perusing Ravelry and what did I find, a new sock pattern from Yarnissima. I’m a sucker for her designs. I currently have a pair of Firestarters and a pair of Brainless. I also have half a pair of Brainless done as well, I just haven’t gotten around to doing the second sock. This new sock called Kiila has some really neat gusset increases with the cables going up around and through them. It’s really neat. I’m done a few inches already, I wonder how quickly these will fly off the needles.

I separated the body and the arms for my shrug. I haven’t tried it on yet, but it looks like it’ll fit. I don’t think the Swatch lied that much. Hopefully.

-Cheers folks!

136. So this is Ambition?

I told you I spent most of today working on that shrug. Well it’s true. I have progress, and a shrug that is too heavy for the needles I’m using, and also getting very close to being too big for them too. My Knitting Note Book has been in about 5 different rooms in this house, and considering that I’ve been wandering around in my yoga pants and an oversized Varsity sweater, it doesn’t look too out of place. Neither does the pencil that just fell out of my pony tail. At least it wasn’t a DPN, eh? The need for circular needles is becoming more real with every increase row, but I’ve got two more increase rows before I separate for the arms/body, so I’ll be okay once I do that.

So far the Eco+ isn’t the softest yarn I’ve ever felt, but if it’s anything like Cascade 220, it’ll soften up with a wash.

Oh Gods. I never checked to see if the Eco+ blooms. I hope my swatch doesn’t lie or hide secrets.

-Cheers folks!