Text message exchange of the day

Me: Larry Burkhead is here at Macy's. Weird.
Paul: Get the baby's autograph.

I sent the same message to Ashley. "AWESOME!" she replied. I am truly uncertain whether or not that was intended to be sarcastic.

Anyway, something even better than spotting Anna Nicole's baby-daddy at the mall happened today (did you even think such a thing was possible?) -- I finished all of my Christmas shopping in one day. Hot damn!

One of these days I'll make a big knitting update, I promise. Scarves and socks and penis cozies, oh my!

Back to your regularly-scheduled big honkin' music countdown.

"Everything's so much faster! I can do five times as much!"

So I got a new computer, y'all. I am astounded by its speed, but that's not saying much seeing as though my last one was purchased in late 2001. (Also, here's a hot tip for you: buy a Dell, call them up to complain about how something wasn't to your liking, and then watch your credit card statement for the $100 bribe credit they'll give you in exchange for leaving them alone and not returning anything. Worked for me!)

Paul and I have come up with a really cool Halloween costume idea, but I'm not sure how we'll dress the cats... Oh, wait -- here we go! Can't go wrong with any of these. I can't wait to give Harriet even more reasons to claw our eyes out as we sleep!

I'm so ridiculously excited to have a laptop that weighs less than ten pounds and is capable of playing videos. I'm also completely exhausted, and it's hard to decide whether to go to bed or watch YouTube videos until I pass out.

Yay, Loving Day!

Happy Loving Day, everybody! Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court decision legalizing interracial marriage. Before 1967, my marriage to Paul would've been illegal in sixteen states, including our own. So here's to Mildred and Richard Loving, and here's to the hope that someday soon, everyone will be able to legally marry the person they love.

"If you were into ceramics, you'd be my Hairy Potter"

Seeing as this is the first post, I should probably write some sort of short introduction or note of welcome or the like. However, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to write about particularly nerdy things, either (though I suppose knitting can be nerdy... knerdy?) because I made a lot of things over the past couple of weeks and I'd rather discuss those than talk about research proposals and leaf litter decomposition experiments.

Here is the scarf I made for the National World War II Museum's Knit Your Bit campaign. It's a simple 3x3 rib in Lamb's Pride Worsted.

I had enough yarn left over to make Paul one of his own (though slightly different: it's narrower, is knit in 2x2 rib, and has wider stripes). Though he is not a World War II veteran, Paul does possess a shirt indicating that he is an "All-American Grandpa".


Here's a pair of Fetching fingerless gloves in Mission Falls 1824 Wool (merino superwash, yay!) I altered the pattern slightly -- I made them smaller (eight pattern repeats instead of nine) and skipped the picot edging. I think they turned out really well, especially considering this was my first time trying cables and only my second time using double-pointed needles. Plus, I learned a new cast on method.


Because I wanted to try short rows, I also made myself one of these Calorimetry hats. It turned out a bit bigger than I'd like, so I thought I might felt it, but it's ribbed, so I'm not sure if that'd work very well. The yarn (Patons Soy Wool Stripes) is really nice but would be a pain in the ass to frog, so the hat's just going to sit there for now, unphotographed.

Have a happy and healthy new year, everyone.