Archive for December, 2007

everything sucks louder than anything else

This year I am outlawing christmas– why not–my birthday already sucked pretty hard (despite friendly efforts from a few friends)
anyhow. Every day for the last three and a half months I have been eyeing my mailbox with hopeful eyeballs just like the rest of the people in the secret pal 11. hahahaha
fuck that
why? because my [...]

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

aaaaaaalvin!

I forgot: we took the kidlets to see Alvin and The Chipmunks today. It was adorable. I was afraid it wouldn’t be, and for a little while I just felt old, sitting next to my 7 year old thinking… “you know, I remember watching the Chipmunk movie on the weird color tv out on the [...]

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

*squeak*

I have lost my yarn baller thingy. winder. That’s it.
This wouldn’t be a huge problem except that… I strung the beads too far apart on the 2 skeins I strung for the J4M sweater… which means I need to do something about it. I don’t know. I wasn’t soo taken with having the beads be [...]

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

I dreamed of cobblestones

I had a bizarre twisty turny night of dreams last night. I dreamed of cobblestones and of London, searching the twisty  streets of the City and East End, never reaching my objective. It was a frustrating dream. At one point I came around a corner and found what I was searching for the last time [...]

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Ten on Tuesday: Christmas edition

Happy blogiversary to me! I have been blogging on this site for 3 years now. The archives for my wordpress blog don’t go back that far, but the rest can be found here: http://theknittingdiva.com/blog to December 8, 2004. Since  then, not including posts I have deleted… I have made 408 *this will be 409* posts, [...]

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

….. no good title ……

First, the J4M sweater, I am officially ready to take the sleeves off and stick them on holders– finally!! Yeah! Pretty soon I will be joining the sweater in the round, which will be awesome.
That was my sole good news for this post.**** except for something about Jennifer from  yarnpie*** I am no longer riding [...]

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Sweaters & Zombies & Penguins! OH MY!!

I’ve been lax in my computer time, it’s actually quite nice. I am trying hard to enjoy my time away from school, especially now that I have looked at the academic calendar and figured out that there’s only a week between winter quarter and spring quarter. That is just horrific. Oh– that week happens to [...]

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Give me a B!

Grades are in– almost all of them!
For “What to do with a BA in English?” I received a CR, and since it was a CR/NC (credit no credit) course, I am thrilled.
For “How To Completely Mystify People You Know With Random Knowledge” otherwise knownt as “Critical Approaches to Literature” I got a B. Sheesh. I [...]

Monday, December 3rd, 2007