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Entrelac Scarf & The Time Warp

I finished my Entrelac Scarf last month or so. Due to the time warp I keep finding myself in who knows. It may have been December. o.0

Anyhoo I finally finished it. The holdup on this project was caused by bad yarn management. I had 4 balls of the Trendsetter Tonalita #2349. Somehow one of my balls got away from me. Heh.

When I was cleaning up the yarn cabinet last month or so I found it so I could finally finish my scarf. Wheeeee!! I really liked knitting this up. I sure hope so considering I went so far as to make a Tutorial for it. ;^)

I've worn it several times and like it very much, although the colors don't so much match anything. It's very dreamcoaty that way. Which is fine because unless it's a Cookie Creation I rarely wear matching knits... because I've yet to get around to knitting a matching item.

I do like this scarf lots though. George looks Faboo in it as well. :D Clickty Biggety!

The actual knitting time wasn't much for this project. My inability to stay monogamous to a single project and bad yarn management is the real time suck here.

I think I want another one of these in more sedate colors. I really liked the way the greys flow in the scarf Cookie made a while back. Not sure about Grey... a few weeks ago or so this asshat of a woman told me, as I was wearing my just finished and proudly completed Duckie Hat, "I Hate to tell you this, but grey isn't your color". If I'd had any sense I'd have asked her why she felt the need to give out her unasked for opinion if she hated doing it so much. Feh. I very adultly ignored her... I think. I may have beaten her to death and blocked it out of my memory. You never know these days. I blinked and we went from the 4th to the 13th. o.0

This time warp shit has got to stop. I know life is happening in the blackout areas. I have knitting proof that I was awake during the missing time. But damn, how the fuck is it the middle of February already.

Last month Florrie mentioned a Leftover Sock Yarn Knit Along she was going to start on February 14th. It's here tomorrow and I still need to get my yarn leftovers together. There is also a contest with the Knit Along. It's a Crazy Socks Contest! :D If you like the idea of using your sock yarn leftovers to knit up a fun pair of socks and the possibility of winning some super nifty knitting swag why don'tcha give it a check out and knit yourself some Crazy Ass Socks. :D

I think I'm going to try to finish the socks I'm knitting on now before I start my Crazy Leftover Socks. I just started the feet on both socks yesterday when TKK and I were sitting outside enjoying the warm weather and sunshine. I was even wearing Shorts and a Tank Top. Today it's raining and it might snow later. That's okay too. ;^)

Happy Happy and the Scarf from 2007

I am Happy.

Happy Happy. *GRIN*

This weekend was absolutely fantastic. FANTASTIC. Actually the last several months or so (like the last 6 months) with the honey have been super fantastic. Sometimes you just have to let go of control and just enjoy life. Prior to that I had some doubts about some things and whatnot and that confusion and whatnot made things a bit tense off and on. Looking back it was just me making waves and being silly over shit that really makes no damn sense at all. The two of us not being around people or a situation that pissed us both off has been HUGE. Funny how taking out the thing that caused the arguments and disruptions can lead to greater happiness.

NTS: Never ask the honey go someplace he doesn't want to be, do things he doesn't care for or be around people he can't stand. The same goes for me. Don't do shit for other people because you feel guilty or whatever BS reason they try to push on you.

If I had to cover any of the resolutions from last year over again. It would be the ones about avoiding stupid people. Last year I kinda sucked at that. I got better. But still I didn't say no as often as I should have.

So this year, not so much a resolution, but a declaration I will SAY NO TO STUPID PEOPLE.

That and I need to stay in contact more often with those people who matter a great deal to me. I have been super sucky about that in the last several months or so.

Feeling like life is swallowing me whole is no excuse to not be there for the people who give that life meaning.

Now it's not just the glow of a lovely weekend with the honey making me feel/say these things. Just something I've had on my mind for a while. That and the relief and gratefulness for not being a complete ass earlier this year when I was contemplating my future choices.

So anyway I feel like I have back some of that whack I thought I'd lost. I fear I'm still somewhat out of whack and later this month I'll have my whack all out of sorts again, but it will hopefully be a temporary out-of-whackedness. Heh.

Speaking of Resolutions, Resolution #10 is the only one I'm renewing. Otherwise I'll just fly by the seat of my pants and do the things I need to do to be a happy person.

I knit a Fabulous Baby Alpaca Scarf for myself back in early December. It might have been November. Who can tell at this point, that was ages ago! o.0

The yarn is Baby Chunky Alpaca from Misti Alpaca. It was fun and fast to knit up. SO SOFT. A joy to work with... but after wearing it just a few times I'm not so sure about it. This is the most pilly yarn I've ever seen. It sheds like a bitch too. :/ Still soft as hell, but damn if I wanted to have fur bits all over my clothes I'd hug the cat after getting dressed. There is also some Claudia Handpainted held with it in there. Chocolate Cherry sock yarn. It adds a bit of color and makes it kinda tweedy. I just did a simple 3x3 rib for the pattern.

The other knits of 2007 will have to fall into 2008 since I still need to photograph them. One of them will have to wait until it's owner gets it and takes it's picture. Here's hoping I get my ass over to the post office soon! Though I still don't trust them. Bastards.

Anyway after having a great weekend I'm prepared to have a great week. Wheeeeeee!!!!

MIA: The life that eats you may be your own...

Help, Aliens have abducted me and are making me torture small puppies.

That's the working theory anyway. *sigh*

Lots of stuff has been going on that has kept me from blogging, returning emails/phone calls, being a generally social person whatsoever or any other normal things a person would like to do.

Most of it I can't really discuss anyway, so I'm not going to bother trying. (work/family shit) Bleh.

It's not honey related drama at all though. We is good. Other than the honey having a cold followed by the flu and my inability to deal with sick people, especially a sick man type all is good on the intimate home front. In fact we are celebrating ten years together. Later this afternoon we are going to check into a nice hotel room suite with a jacuzzi and later have reservations to a fancy schmancy restaurant at the hotel.  I guess it's a hotel/Casino, but since I don't like to waste my money it's just a hotel to me. Although it has 11 bars and lounges so I imagine we'll look around and have a few drinkies. :P The actual anniversary date was a few days ago, but with work and life you can't really get away. 

Unfortunately I didn't realize it was some Footballs version of the Oscars thing going on. Do they make the players walk down a red carpet while some old bag with way too much work done to her face tells them they look like vomit?

I don't know much about football, but I do know it brings all kinds of loud drunk people out in masses. Feh. I didn't realize it was StupidBowl weekend when we made the reservations a month ago. We should be fine though.

Speaking of fine, did any of y'all go see that Cloverfield movie? How did you feel during it? I sadly did not feel fine at all. o.0 The honey took me to see it yesterday.

I thought the reports of people getting sickie were all promo crap. During the first part of the movie I was fine. It was no worse than a video posted on Vimeo or YouTube. But then... it got worse. We were the only two people there, which was great because I spent much of the second half of the movie looking anywhere but at the screen. I felt nausea but thankfully nothing came of it. It was a neat movie overall. *L*

In other news since this is in fact a knitting blog I have finished a few of my long overdue Unfinished Projects. Now I just need a day with a sunny sky so I can photograph them.

Here's a Chunky Baby Alpaca scarf I finished last month. (Clickety Biggety)

It's just a moss stitch scarf, but it was oh so relaxing to knit. The yarn is Cascade Chunky Baby Alpaca. So soft and squishy!! :D Oh and it's doubled over in the photo. It's 5.5 feet long and 5 inches wide.

I'm currently knitting on a new pair of socks and trying to finish up the other UFO's I have.

So that's my news. I'm alive and kicking. Hoping life calms the fuck down soon.

Oh and I hate people, but we knew that. ;^)