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Beads and Yarn… it’s always beads and yarn.

DUDES!

At Joann’s they are having a mighty mighty clearance! On some of the stranded beads that hang on the wall! I mentioned this previously, but now I must show you the bounty that I purchased for a mere MERE $7.56:

Sale Beads

Um, hello $50 worth of beads? Hellooooo. I do like a good clearance. You can find this rack up by the magazines in the front. From left to right is pink resin, red resin, turquoise resin, black painted wood, green resin, wood, and glass.

What will I make with this? I do not know! But I have been wanting a lot of the black wood for months. I didn’t know they were going to clearance it. I used all my other ones for a Christmas present (sob).

Also at the Beverly’s they have the new Lion Brand sock yarn, Sock Ease:

Lion Brand Sock Ease

I know, I know, I don’t need more sock yarn. But so what. I liked all the other colors too and I refrained from buying them, so that shows some small semblance of restraint, yes? Yes?

They do not have the Sock Ease at Joann’s or Michael’s. I know this because I looked. I do these things for you.

Okay, I don’t, I do them for me.

And finally, fun with Photoshop!:

In Vitro

I amuse myself in many ways.

Tomorrow: Thai Food! The Big Ross in San Francisco! And! DSW!

The fun never stops around here. Oh by the way, I am two weeks off carbs and I officially do not miss them.

Say it with me now:

WTF.

I KNOW, right? I personally never thought I would see the day. But I have been feeling a lot better and I don’t even WANT bread or tortillas or noodles or whatever… I just want half a spaghetti squash and chicken.

Let me say it again: WTF.

While bizarre, this is a good thing! I’ve been looking forward to having carbs again, only to realize that I don’t really want them. Was my two weeks of cleansing successful? Could very well be! Now I am afraid of rice, nice.

Remind me not to post when I am all tired because it is like drunk posting apparently. No cabazáns here! (they have carbs.)

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In One Ear

Lately, I’ve been noticing that a lot of people are posting about the books they are reading for the summer, for pleasure, for whatever. I have noticed one consistent similarity throughout all these posts and that is this: I will probably never read those books. I am not a Grapes of Wrath sort of girl.

I am a romance/zombies/Templars/fantasy/dinosaurs kind of girl:

Current TBR

Okay, there are no dinosaur books in that TBR pile, but only because I can’t find Tyrannosaur Canyon at the moment. As soon as I dig it out from under my bed, there it will go!

What are you reading?

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I have completed my first week of Atkins. It has kind of sucked, but not too hard. I am not crazy-hungry like the last time I did this. I feel healthier, like my system is restarting itself and has purged most of the junk out of it. Next weekend I’ll be done with Atkins and start Phase 2 of South Beach, which includes fruits and whole grains. I am not really missing bread or noodles or rice or whatever, but I’d like to have some fruits again, especially some Brooks cherries.

I have been eating a lot of brussel sprouts.

Two weeks till Texas!

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All This All At Once

So, last week, I had nothing, but this week, I have got something.

First of all, I put in for vacation, and it was approved, so the first week of June I am hying off to TEXAS for some much needed R&R with my college girlfriends Julie, Tara, and Cindy! I’ll be gone for an entire week, and I’ll be staying with Julie, and oh I am just looking forward to it like you would not believe. There is a new yarn store in San Antonio that I am looking forward to checking out, along with all my favorite bead stores like Nomadic Notions, and Hill Country Weavers in Austin, and the outlets in San Marcos, etc.! It has been almost two years since I have set foot in Texas, and I am really looking forward to it! Mostly, though, I am looking forward to spending time with my friends.

On Thursday I went to the doctor and had some blood tests done. I was checked for diabetes and thyroid conditions, and am thankfully in the clear for both of those. Unfortunately, my blood pressure was kind of high, and I’ve gained some weight over the winter, so the nurse practioner put me on the South Beach diet. Today was my first day doing it, and the first two weeks are actually Atkins, so I have been pretty much carb free all day, and I would really like to eat a sandwich and possibly every noodle in the land. The most disappointing thing about this is that I can’t have fruit for two weeks and my dad and I went to the Nut Creek Farmer’s Market yesterday and they had some Brooks Cherries, which are soooo delicious. Instead I contented myself with artichokes, patty pans, and some delicious organic greens.

So, I am being forced to be healthy basically, which is not a bad thing, and well overdue.

On Saturday I went over to the Yarn Boutique in Lafayette and got my mom a gift certificate for Mother’s Day. Last weekend when I was visiting my sister we cooked up a mother’s day present, and we thought, what can be better than the gift of yarn? (WELL THE GIFT OF CARBS, ACTUALLY.) So Abby sent me some money and I got the gift certificate. While I was there, I perused the Dream in Color and may have made a few side purchases for myself.

New Yarn

Well, I bought the Vesper Sock on the left a couple weeks ago online, but I never showed it. Next to that is some Dream in Color Smooshy in “Some Summer Sky” and “Cold Fire”, and the green at the end is some Dream in Color Classy in “Spring Tickle”, which matches the very first Dream in Color Smooshy I bought at Stitches. Since Classy is a worsted weight yarn, I thought it would be fun to have a matching hat for socks that do not exist yet.

I have been knitting a little bit and have some pretty good progress to show on the Waving Lace Socks:

Sock Progress

I actually have less than one repeat to go before the toe. If I were so inclined I could finish this sock this week, but I’ve been bitten by the beading bug, so I’m gonna roll with that while the going is good. I did start the second Spey Valley, though – and hope I can finish that before I go to Texas (I am a dreamer. A carbless dreamer).

Anyway, that is it from me. I have to go take a shower and put some self tanner on my pale nerd legs because I bought some shorts for Texas and my legs give off kind of a radio active glow.