bullets with a point, we hope

[minxy]

1. I think we should name our first band "Mutant Love Child". The Boy I Left Behind favors "Oxy and the Morons". Does he win for oblique science reference?

2. I am knitting the most ridiculously wonderful colorwork socks ever, and I'm 80% done. I have sarah and synecdochic to thank for giving me the Knit Picks Palette sock yarn. If I didn't have so many single balls of color, I wouldn't have taken this one, and I LOVE THESE SOCKS.

You can see the pattern sample on the cover of this magazine.

2b. Next week, I am touring Schaefer Yarns in the Fingerlakes! OMG!

3. I get to go pick up new glasses tomorrow, and I got two frames this time: one is a tortoise-shell/sexy librarian kind of look (or, one hopes, sexy professora) and the other is a deceptively mild-mannered looking wire frame from the front, but it has lime-green temple pieces. It made me happy. My current pair has served me well for five years, but now they're permanently askew on my face. I really don't thing the 'permanently quizzical' look is the kind of professoral look I'm going for.

4. The lake was especially lovely this evening, wish you were here.

Comments

[sid]

*waves* My mother was from New York State (Batavia, near Buffalo), and the other day in Dad's bedroom I found... I suppose maybe it's meant to be a gigantic ashtray, anyway it's a glass THINGY map of the Finger Lakes.

Sid, with the permanently askew glasses, which is what you get after cataract surgery on only one eye ;-)

[minxy]

My Mom is also from Western New York! She's so chuffed that I'm here that she's planning a reunion at my house. I think it's partly to do with Nana passing two years ago now, and now none of them have a reason to return to the area.

And, it's a wonder that they don't give all of us glass thingys on arrival!

(the new frames sit so much better! It was worth the savings)

[geeksdoitbetter]

wow!

those are some serious socks

i've been flirting with the idea of starting a simple two color stranded project on dpns - i've only ever done colorwork on circs with a larger circumference before (i made a small knitting bag out of the endpaper mitts pattern)

(stalked over from domtheknight's journal, btw)

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

Socks look totally awesome. I love those bright color/patterned ones, but am too knit-tardic to be able to make them. You have my admiration.

I think the boy's name for the band is the winner.

I don't think we've seen any pics of the lake yet, have we?