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January 17, 2006
You're a Mean One
Here are my Grinch roving and yarns. Dyeing the roving turned out to be rather an ordeal. I never seem to have enough koolaid. Had to overdye it the morning after my little midnight dyeing party. Oh well. It makes the stuff a bitch to predraft, which is a necessity for me. I think that next time I will be
1. dyeing the yarn
2. using actual dyestuffs
I have been eyeing the Oneshot dyes at ProChemical. Key lime and Kiwi look pretty snazzy as do Blueberry and Persimmon. After I spin up some more of the roving I have, I will be investing.
I bought some yarn for Tubey chez KnitPicks. Alpaca silk in sangria and lettuce. I keep saying to myself that I need some more black things, but then I go and buy color. I suppose I am not as severe as I used to be.
Tomorrow, however, the world shall see me severe again. It is the first day of skool/teaching for me and I want to come across as, if not a badass, then at least a Very Stern Librarian. Not that librarians aren't badasses, of course. It's going to be something vaguely suit-like with pearls and a briefcase for this Villain. Fear me, oh freshmen.
Yarn looks pretty good and was easy to spin after the grueling predraft. It's a little rough for my tastes, however.
Here is the motel where J and I stayed whilst skiing. So so so glad that we did not have to sleep in the same crowded, utterly cramped (and did I mention neurotic and crazified?) room that J's parents had. Phew. It was rather "rustic". And by rustic, I mean that it smelled like week-old broccoli when we got there. Some 1/2 price travel candles from the shop cleared that up. I must admit that I am more of a Marriot girl. The joint was billed as a "resort". Now, to me, resort means sleek ski bunnies (such as myself) having cocktails in the lounge. I mean, I brought makeup. And jewelry. What the hell was I thinking? I had a good time and the skiing itself was certainly marvelous. Not quite what I was fantasizing about. More like camping and while I enjoy camping, I also enjoy room service. A lot.
J is reading the strange little memory books they had going back more than 20 years. Some of the entries were interesting and some were just plain weird (I mean, do I really need to know about your wife's "performance" in this very bed in 1992??!), but most simply gushed in Hallmarkian fashion about how moving it was to be in the Great Outdoors. Right-o. The other pix we took (still waiting on the film) were with a point and shoot that I wasn't afraid to kill. J landed on it about a million times, so I'm not sure how they will come out. How quaint to use actual film! The scenery was breathtaking, and when I say breathtaking I mean that if I had thought too much about the precariousness of the gondola, I would have been a little freaked. As it was, I avoided thinking as much as possible. I'll have enough of that to do starting tomorrow. Damn.
Also, here is a coral and turquoise necklace that I made and have been wearing incessantly with the matching earrings.
Posted by loyd0008 at January 17, 2006 04:25 PM