Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts

Monday, February 23, 2009

Coffee of Doom

coffee of doom
Coffee.  Sweet, life-giving coffee.  I needed it nownownownow, so I put ice in it.  Naturally, since we are those kind of people, it's a skull ice cube.  Fitting, I think.

I have several projects on the needles, and I'm feeling fairly meh about at least half of them.  I can't help but wonder about my lack of commitment to the yarny goodness.  Is it because I'm a weener or is it because I have trouble committing to anything?  Possibly both.  Anyway, I might feel better if I rip out the Noro scarf I have going.  I'm even contemplating ripping out a sock (!!!) because the yarn is so, so cute and it's some I dyed myself, and it looks like it should be made into something adorable for a baby.  

I have a huge lace scarf going, and at this point it has become a matter of endurance to knit it.  I think I'm going to have to commit myself to completing one pattern repeat a day, every day, in order to finish it.  It will be beautiful, but I'm over it.  

So, here's the game plan for today:  rip out Noro scarf, rip out sock, rewind yarn, do one repeat of endless *&%$@ lace pattern, make dinner, do essential tasks,  take Nyquil*, go back to bed.

*I'm getting sick.  Glands are swolen, throat is icky.  My answer to getting sick is taking vitamin C and going back to bed for 12 hours or so.  (Hello, Nyquil!)  You would not believe how well this works.  I seldomly get past the oh, I'm starting to feel ooky stage.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

So, it's Valentine's Day...again.

And we're ignoring it.  Again.  

My husband and I loathe this particular holiday.  The only good thing about V.D. (heh)  is that tomorrow, if we were so inclined, we could run to the Big Box Store and purchase flowers and candy for half price.  No guilt, no foul.

Caveat:  For the non-sentimental Deadwood fans:  Deadwood Valentines, NSFW


We did pass a lovely afternoon hanging out in our favorite coffee shop, Durango Joe's.  I started a fingerless mitt in Big Noro Kureyon there.  I'm adapting it from the mitten pattern in Teach Yourself Visually Knitting.  


Valentines Knitting

Love those Noro colorways.