one of the most popular books for detainees in Gitmo is Harry Potter VI.
hot lava oh oh oh oh oh
i kept thinking of the song hot lava by the b-52s when i was knitting it.
but it's finished.
and i should go back and finish it some more, but it will suffice for now!
pictures later.
magic loop is fun and saves you from the agony of dpns, especially if you're thinking of making a pinwheel blankie!
hurrah for babies!
a big congratulations and sloppy kisses to my cousins monica and tim on the birth of their healthy baby girl, megan maureen on saturday morning.
and a healthy toast to monica for delivering a 10lb 7 oz baby.
[gulp]
i knew she was cool.
does anyone remember...
...what blog has the game where you stack things (not heavy things just many things) on your cat? the name of the game sounds like a cowboy name.
because i know folks who would be very good at that game:
i have an ache
i ache in my head from the, well, headache.
but even more difficult is how much i ache in my heart without my guitar. even though i hadn't played much before leaving denver, i would usually at least pick up the guitar for 5 minutes a day or so...
and i'm still stuck on "center of your heart" by matthew lee, and all i want to do is play that song and make it my own (google around until you find the post on how much i suck at songwriting), and adopt "the one thing i know" by christine kane again, to take command of "kathy's song" as well as hijack "laughter in your head" by danielle howle and "the shining" by badly drawn boy.
i want to hear the words that build up inside me that have no english correspondent and are only found in the resonance of the strings, that are only whispered in a harmonic.
i just want to talk through song instead of trying to find my own "words that tear and strain to rhyme..."
but instead i sit in the 90 degree heat of my room at night with piles of wool on my lap. i can't advise against being covered in wool in 90 degree heat enough. i try to get pedicures and haircuts and yoga mats to take the place of my guitar.
but i'm left empty handed waiting for a chance to actually communicate again instead of being rendered mute in the white noise that spills from my face...
i beg your pardon?
perhaps this is aggravating me more than other people, but BOY is it making me upset (and not in the weepy way):
(link via global security newswire)
my favorite quote from (DU alum) SecState Rice: "Today, protecting America from weapons of mass destruction requires more than deterrence and arms control treaties."
i love hands from uruguay...
so, i decided to start ANOTHER PROJECT FOR MYSELF!!! because i'm kind and generous to me. anyhow, i was out this weekend with the lovely and charming jess and we went yarn trawling. she called me an enabler because i enabled. and i'd gladly do it again. anyhow, i bought my some manos del uruguay in greyishgreenishbrown (okay, they call it "loden") with which to make my hot lava cardigan (no seaming!):
and here's what i've done knitted so far:
actually, that's not true - since then, it's grown to double its size, but i didn't take a picture of that part. i might not take pictures until part 1 is finished. anyhow, since i've been here, i've also finished branching out (yaymee, close your eyes if you don't want to see!):
and a horrible flash-laden picture which captures the color better (i don't have any natural light to speak of in my room - and all of these have my institutional sheets as a background):
i've also made half of a scarf (i need more yarn) for ME out of rowan polar from the stitch as broadcast on sheep in the city's site:
and a close-up of the yarn/detail:
now, as is somewhat on-hold (why is it cables are fun to do, but when you have to motivate yourself to do them, you never think they're fun?) as cables don't do well on the subway, is what i have for my first sleeve of mariah (moi, make a mistake in the cables of the center panel? NEVER!):
i need a good way to organize my fo's and wip's and whatnot... i'll think about that later, though...
that's what i've been doing with the needles, anyway...
