Vibrant.(Still) Unrepentant. Badass. Old. Queer

The knittens are done! Huzzah! They are actually a nice dark blue color, not mud-gray as they look in the photo. My cellphone camera does not do a great job with color accuracy. Anyway, I am planning on giving them to Y for Valentine's Day. Blue is his favorite color. Aren't I the most thoughtful person EVER? In other news, I *may* not be able to watch PR4 tonight. Tomokito has some sort of work dinner thing and won't be home until late. If I can manage to stay awake, we can watch the 11PM rerun. I don't think that will be happening ... especially since I want to go to bed now. I guess I will knit on the Never-Ending Cardigan of Doom tonight ...

Behold! The mostly finished Left Knitten (see knitten yesterday ). I have to do the thumb, but I can't remember how to pick up stitches, and I'm too lazy to check the intarnetz. I'll do it when I get home tonight... I'm also a bit knorked out. In other knitting news, I worked a bit on the Never-Ending Cardigan of DOOM last night. However, I had to tink the last row. And, then the final tinked stitch was totally forked. I figure that since it's on the end of the row, it won't matter though. Here's a question for you knitterly types: When making a sweater, should you block the individual pieces before seaming them all together? Or should you not bother and then block when the seaming is all done? Does it matter?

Knitting at work. Knorking? Knirking? Kno matter ... I'm making knittens! I cast this one on yesterday because (a) I was bored, (b) I didn't want to work on the cable scarf that's been in my bag for ages, (c) DUN was making mittens while watching the Super Bowl and I felt inspired, and (d) I didn't want to cart the Never-Ending Cardigan of Doom to and from work. Knittens are fun and easy! I like this color (although it's a bit darker than it looks in the photo.

Last night, I made a pitcher! It seems tall. Of course, things always seem taller in my memory than in actuality. Especially after it dries and shrinks in the kiln. Next week, I will pull the handle (and take a picture of my pitcher *heh*). Kiln is an odd word. The other students all seem friendly. I think it will be a good class. I might start going to open studio on Sundays to get a little more practice. Speaking of knitting, I cast on a knitten yesterday at work. Not sure why. Guess I was bored. I'm not quite sure how it's going to turn out. The yarn isn't quite as thick as I thought, so they knittens may be a bit ... holey. Oh well ... they aren't for me. Finally, I've been working on a Global Blogger Meet-Up schedule of events ... this is all tentative, but here goes: March 15 (Saturday): Dinner at Mandalay in Silver Spring followed by VUBOQ's All Star Dessert and Vodka Birthday Party! March 16 (Sunday): Sight-seeing in beautiful Washington, DC. Sangria...

Class. It ran late. I didn't get home 'til late. Then, I wanted to make a few edits to my story. I didn't get to bed until after midnight. I. Am. Ti-RED. Class was good. We critiqued two stories. Next week, we have to critique three. *geh* I think if I decide to take another course at the Writer's Center , I will look for one that has a bit more structure to it. I'm not saying this course is bad. I enjoy reading other people's work, but it's not getting me writing as much as I want. I think I need more direction ... at least at first. I have ideas which I think are pretty good story starters, but I don't really know where to go with them. And when I "free write," carrying the characters I've created across the page, they tend towards sappy, melodramatic, cliche moments. Y'know: Boy meets Boy. Boy loses Boy. Boy gets Boy back, kinda things. Meanwhile, how about some more people take the poll in the previous entry? Hmmm? I'm a little ...

Yesterday and this morning, I painstakingly typed up this knitting pattern. You kittens owe me! EASY MITTENS (from Knit Simple) KNITTED MEASUREMENTS Length from wrist to fingertips 7 (10, 11)”/ 18 (25.5, 28)cm Wrist circumference 5.25 (6.5, 7.5)”/ 13.5 (16.5, 19)cm MATERIALS TLC Essentials by Coats & Clark, 5oz/140g skeins, each approx 326yd/ 298m (acrylic) [I used wool I bought in Glasgow – Jamieson’s Soft Shetland]. You need two skeins. Five size 6 (4mm) dp needles, or size to obtain gauge. Safety pin or small stitch holder GAUGE 20 sts and 28 rows to 4”/10cm over St st using size 6 (4mm) needles. LEFT MITTEN Cast on 8 (10, 12) sts on first dpn, 8 (10, 12) sts on 2nd dpn, 8 (10, 12) sts on 3rd dpn and 8 (10, 12) sts on 4th dpn – 32 (40, 48) sts. Pm to mark beg of rnd and join. Work in k1, p1 rib for 2 (3, 3)”/ 5 (75. 7.5)cm. Change to St st and work even for 3 rows. BASE OF THUMB SHAPING Rnd 1 k12 (16, 20), M1, k2, M1, k rem sts to end – 34 (42, 50) sts. Rnds 2 and 3 knit. Rn...

As promised, here are my completed knittens: Behold my knitterly goodness! You may all worship me silently from afar. *smooches*

Before I get into my weekend adventures and insecurities, a few tidbits: It snowed. See photo. I finished my knittens. Photo forthcoming (hopefully). I have apparently been banned for life from Scott-o-Rama . *sniff* So, the weekend ... pab picked me up from Union Station a little after 10AM. He was late. This did not make me happy. He bought me coffee, so I became happier. We got to the hotel (Hilton Garden) in Williamsburg around 1PM. We checked in. We got settled. We had sex. It was ... ok. I mean, I suppose that I was expecting something a little more toe-curlingly amazing, considering that he only ever has oral sex. You would think that someone who "specialized," so to speak, would be, well, friggin' fantastic. Perhaps, my expectations were set too high. I mean, it wasn't bad. It just wasn't ... well, I guess it wasn't Mike, who as we know gives the best blowjobs ever. And, I was expecting something at or above the Level of Mike. *sigh* We cleaned up and...

It's been a superbusy morning, kittens. As evidenced by the following: Knitten yesterday: Knitten today: Tonight, I will -possibly- complete the thumb and start on the next one. Fun times. Who says it's not Party Central when VUBOQ is around? WHO?

Look! It's a knitten, kittens! Well, at least it's a knitten cuff, kittens! Yeah ... I've been busy at work today. Yessirree ... I've finished the cuff of knitten #1, using the wool I bought in Scotland. *woot* And, notice the weird way the fluorescent lights have reflected off my ghostly pale skin to make it seem like my hand has disappeared. Gotta love pale white boys, yes you do.