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First FO of 2009

Malvina's Christmas Socks

Well, I finished Malvina’s socks with only a couple hours to spare – literally, finished them up around 11 a.m., and gave them to her around 3 p.m. later that afternoon. She seemed to like them, so that was nice (and blatant flattery post-gifting encourages more product).

Anyway, I have been packing and stuff and I don’t have internets hooked up at the new place yet. I’m getting my uber-cable hooked up on Sunday, but I’m waiting for Robyn to give me their old AT&T modem before I call to hook up internet. I’m getting uber-internets too.

Seriously, I decided to get Direct TV, which is my first experience with satellite, and I hope it is good – don’t tell me if it’s not, I would rather have my spirits crushed on my own time 😛 – and I totally got a year free of Showtime which means: DEXTER DEXTER DEXTER! Also, my three months free of HBO conveniently coincides with the airing of Big Love, everybody’s favorite show about polygamy.

Anyway, so I also ordered some of the new Felici colorways from Knitpicks, which means I will have eight tons of Felici and still haven’t finished the one pair I started. OH WELL. That is my last yarn order until STITCHES I SWEAR IT ON MY DEAD FISH SPARKEY’S GRAVE.

(Did we bury Sparkey or flush him? I can’t remember, it was 16 years ago. I think we buried him in an elaborate fish funeral complete with saluting.)

Uh, yeah, so anyway, I have to go pack 8,234,678 books now.

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The Year That Was

I made a bunch of stuff this year!

2008 FOs

Made with fd’s flickr toys.

1. Crochet scarf close-up, 2. New scarf, 3. Finished Kaffe Socks!, 4. New Hat, 5. Monkey Socks – Finished!, 6. Crochet Scarf #3, 7. Waving Lace Socks, Complete!, 8. Waving Lace Socks, 9. Swallowtail Shawl – Finished, 10. Woven Scarf, 11. Spey Valley, 12. Malvina’s Embossed Leaves, 13. Lizzy Socks – Finished, 14. GANOMY FAIL, 15. Mini Socks, 16. Rita Mitts – complete!, 17. Roadhouse Mitts, 18. Silk Garden Scarf, 19. Abby’s Mitts, 20. DSC02384

My favorites are the Roadhouse Mitts, the woven orange Silk Garden Sock scarf, and the Lizzy socks.

The most favorite thing though, I didn’t make. My favorite thing is buying the house and getting the new flooring in the bathrooms, which means there are no carpets in the bathrooms anymore! Take a peek:

housemosaic

(and soon I will actually MOVE IN there, hahaha!)

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!

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Post Holiday Pass Out

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. We had various celebrations and all were great. My favorite meal was, of course, the deviled eggs, cheese zombies, potato soup, and egg nog that we scarfed at Jason’s house on Christmas Eve. (“Best. Christmas. Ever!”)

Abby's Mitts

I made my sister a pair of fingerless mitts as a last minute Christmas gift, and they went over really well! So that was nice. Abby is an excellent person to give handknits to.

Today we went to Ikea so I could buy some stuff for the house, and I got a Poang chair and an Expedit bookshelf (this is the square 4×4 shelf – for yarn storage in the craft room!). And several injuries because apparently I am a klutz, or I was today anyway.

I was in the bathroom in one of the stalls and there wasn’t a purse hanger thing on the door, so I hung my purse* over the corner of the door, then realized there was no toilet paper so I went to find another stall and I grabbed my purse, but gouged my thumb on the extruding metal where the purse hanger should have been.

I started bleeding like a stuck pig and went to the sink where I bled all over. I finally got it slowed and wrapped in a paper towel.

Outside the bathroom, Abby nursed me back to health with magical liquid bandage and bandaids she randomly had in her purse. I don’t know how she does it! But I was more-or-less back in action thanks to her emergency supplies (and her purse isn’t that big!).

Anyway, so after that we ate lunch and went downstairs to the marketplace and I dinged my middle finger on the cart, then lost control of the cart and ran into something and bruised my stomach on the cart handle, then I dropped part of the Expedit on my foot (though that didn’t hurt so much).

We managed to get everything in the car using the power of physics and went to the house where we unloaded all my other stuff. Besides the chair and bookshelf I got a couple of cheap rugs, some wine glasses, some bag clips, a lampshade, and a big picture of a deer for the wall. (Heh.)

I only went $11 over my $500 budget, which I think is doing pretty well. And was probably all tax anyway.

We’re painting the craft room on Sunday, then on Monday my contractor is coming to rip the bathrooms and lay down linoleum, and then next Saturday we’re moving my storage unit shizzle into the place, which will be awesome!

I still need to buy three sets of curtains and one curtain rod between now and then. And get the cable and internet hooked up.

Anyway, things are moving along on that front.

*Tote Bag

^My mom made that cool purse for me for Christmas.