An hour ago I was full of big F bombs in my head though… Kiddo not where he said he’d be, but he is now. Oh the joys of teenagers! (I do hear my mother snickering someplace).
New eyeglasses (first pair of progressives) are on… little wtf’s going on in my head along with the dizziness… Pics soon.
So I guess it’s a good thing you see what I write and not what I think, eh?
I have yet to get this fully back onto the needle.
The pattern is clearly written, but I think I had trouble with the right side of the section being on one sheet, the middle on another, and the left side on yet another. So I did a little cut and paste. Should make things easier.
Forced!
More scurvy prevention
Grapefruit-avocado salad (2 pink grapefruits, no membranes and 1 avocado), V-8 and fresh lime juice bloody mary, and what the Moosewood Cookbook (the original one not the “new” one) calls one of the richest cakes in the world (Cardamom Coffee Cake)… nom nom, what a great Sunday lunch!
I resurrected the Maplewing shawl for knitting during the Olympics. It has sat since last summer. I was worried I left it in a confusing state and with some mistakes, but no. Partway through the first of four repeats of the B section, and easy to pick up where I left off, in the middle of a row!
Anyhow, section B is done (that one YO is consistently larger… I’m hoping it will block out). And I put in a lifeline. Started the next section, but things weren’t right, so I tinked back… It should be OK, the numbers are right, but I was probably distracted by those games or something.
Which over the weekend included hockey. I haven’t watched hockey since, oh, I don’t know, 1970-something, when Bobby Orr (he never looked like THAT on the ice that we saw!) and Phil Esposito (this IS how I remember HIM) were in their heyday with the Boston Bruins.
It was because of these two that my family got a color television. I wondered about why my parents needed a color television to view bunch of guys in black and white (with a tad of gold, but really) skate around with white leggings and black skates on white ice. To this day I’m convinced it was the blood. Blood on the ice is just so much more thrilling when it’s red.
I watched that Russian-Czech game over the weekend, and it was a lot of fun. Maybe I was delusional from the lace. Or maybe it was that bloody lip.
Lately I’ve been obsessed with limes, so I figure I’m on a scurvy prevention kick. Recent favorites include:
Thai salmon with fish sauce/garlic/cilantro/lime/chili/sugar/salt marinade
Thai shrimp salad, similar sauce, but more fish sauce, no garlic or cilantro and yes on the scallions.
Kumquat mojito. Need I say more?
I got a little carried away trimming the matty bits on Zuzu’s tummy. Next thing you know, full trimmings. All. Over. The. Carpet. I only noticed when I loaded the pics to the computer that it looks like a boneless dog skin laying there.
But she’s just fine, see,
Gracie just got a chin and face trim. She’s less patient and really needs to be up on a table. Plus, her fur is softer… I’m thinking if I let grow another month or two, maybe when I trim her I’ll collect it for some spinning project. But she’ll have to be shorn prior to mud season.
I’ve had a prescription for bifocals since October, but when I went to choose some frames, they had just finished a sale and had a paltry selection, and I wasn’t really noticing the need. But over this last week or so? This has been the scene while watching tv and knitting something less than mindless,
Freaks out the boyo a bit… but isn’t that a good thing? He’s not sure if he should call me 6 eyes or 8 eyes or 16 eyes…
This one is still blocking,
I blathered about them on my Ravelry projects pages: scarf and pullover.
Does anybody know the sort order for finished projects on our Ravelry pages? Things I just finished get buried down below, in no seeming order…
I was looking at a three day work week this week (Monday holiday, Tuesday shut down day), but now it’s a two day week…. home sick with stomach bug. I thought I might do some work, but really I just want to go crash.
…mostly just a diversion, since we’re actually supposed to get some snow…
I love that the “actors” are named at the end!
I joined the Ravelympics, but was overwhelmed by all the rules, so maybe I’m just pretending to participate. Finished the noro scarf, nearly done w/ the papa bear pullover, plan to resurrect the maple wing shawl…
We’ve watched a bit of the Olympics. Mostly these days I’m obsessed with this,
I love him as The Doctor! A little sexy in a Daniel Craig kind of way, with a big does of silly… who wouldn’t like that? Mostly I remember Tom Baker, and those shows as simply campy, but maybe they’re worth a revisit…