I have started on a pair of fingerless gloves for myself for the office - Serpentine Mitts in some lovely spring-colored Blue Moon Fiber Arts "Seduction", which is half wool and half tencel, and very soft. I'm magic-looping them and enjoying the cables, which I haven't done since my tank top last summer. I'm partway through the first of them, and am figuring how to make the second symmetric - they're identical except for the thumbs, but I want them to mirror. Oh, and I also want to add partial fingers - have to figure out how to do that. It is too cold sometimes in the morning at work not to at least cover up to the knuckles :)
Here's a pic on the sticks - the colors are not true to life, it's more vibrant in person. All ribbed and tiny looking:
And a pic on my hand (gosh, I love how easy magic loop makes it to try things on). Here they're stretched out and show the cables much better. Love those cables!
Now, as to the randomness part of my post, KT tagged me a while back with the 7 random things meme (here's as good a definition of a meme (technically blog meme) that I could find, Mom!). So without further ado, here are 7 random things about me!
1. I have all of my wisdom teeth, but am missing 4 other teeth. 3 are adjacent and date back to me falling off my bike when I was about 8 (?). I have a denture on those, so it's not too noticeable, and the denture is more comfy than you'd think. The worst part about this is that one of them is a front tooth and that means I can't eat apples out of hand or really crusty sandwiches any more. But corn-on-the-cob is actually better cut into a bowl and mixed with butter. mmm!
2. Every night, Sasha (our portly brown tabby) jumps onto my pillow as I'm getting to sleep and kneads the back of my neck while purring in my ear for several minutes. As long as her claws are kept clipped (and believe me, I know when they need clipping), this is actually kind of soothing. Kind of like a mini-massage. She's been doing it as long as we've had her, so 9 years or so now!
3. Every weekday morning I go into work, put on a gore-tex "bunny suit", and head into the cleanroom. It's kind of like this, but less eyeshadow and implied angst. Oh, and we wear simple face hoods, not helmets.
4. Sometime in middle school, my best friend and I memorized the "McDonald's menu song" (Wikipedia link, I've spared you the YouTube, though you can find it if you really want to hear it), and it's still taking up valuable neuron space. ...fillet'o'fish a hamburger a cheeseburger a happy meal...
5. Apparently I start running out of steam about 5/7 of the way through a meme :)
6. I can't raise one eyebrow or wiggle my ears. I can curl my tongue and cross my eyes, but these are pretty boring, relatively.
7. Of course I love the Decemberists, but lately I've been on a Saw Doctors kick. Authentic Irish classic rock! I just ordered 3 more albums (I love half.com and Amazon marketplace) and I can't wait for them to arrive.
7.5 I was right in my second guess, above. It's now bedtime. And a workday tomorrow; the 3-day weekend is over, alas. Good night all!
PS - to pass on this "7 random things" meme, I'll tag Andy (who hasn't blogged in almost a year - techie things about you count, dear), and SIL Falathwen, when she has time.
4 comments:
Last year, I won some tickets to go and see the Saw Doctors, Barry and I hadn't heard of them before then, now we are hooked! Barry has one of their tunes as his ring tone and we are also going to have one of their songs for our last dance at our wedding in April. 'I Say Goodnight'....we sing along to their music in our car too!
Ooh, I haven't heard "I'll Say Goodnight" but it's on one of the albums that's on its way. I can't wait to hear it! Our last dance song (let's see, 5.5 years ago!) was Fields of Gold by Sting.
We were singing along to Saw Doctors in the car just this weekend! "Oh the green and red of Mayo..."
We just love them! Now I want to listen to them again, just talking about
the music makes me want to hear it! How did you hear about them?
Michael D rocking in the Dail......get that wasp off my sandwich!
Marianne
I found them listening to Pandora.com - it streams music that it thinks you will like, based on preferences you give it. You can rate songs (thumbs up or thumbs down) as it plays. I think I got it in a rut, though - it got so that it seemed to be playing me the same bunch of songs - but it did play a Saw Doctors song which piqued my interest in the band.
"Michael D lectured me in sociology, i was in UCG for the degree..."
I really want to see them live, but their US tours always seem to be on the East Coast!
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