January 31, 2007
Come to My Window/Crawl Inside/Wait By The Light of the Moon
I love window cards:
And paper punch outs and rick rack too!
January 21, 2007
Snowy Sunday Mornings
I feel like we are swimming just under the surface--we have a general awareness of things and we push forward through work, school, and the weather but we have all been slightly sick and fuzzy-headed. This morning, we all got up before 7 a.m. (this is on a Sunday morning, mind you) and made our way on slushy highways to drop Conan off at the airport for a flight back to our old stomping grounds. For the next couple of days, it's just me and the children--one furry and one funny, but both wonderfully cute.
Life right now is overwhelming. I cringe slightly when I log in to my work email due to the amount of stuff that is usually in there. I think of all of the knitting projects that I probably should start for all of the girls in my group with new and soon-to-be-arriving babies. I worry about the fact that I'm not getting enough sleep. I worry about The Governor's health or Conan's health or my health for that matter. Lately, I've just become more anxious, and that's not necessarily a good thing.
The snow has stopped, and The Gov is lovingly watching the NFL Sunday Countdown, so perhaps it's just time to get on with life.
January 07, 2007
Hopefully He's an Ambi-Turner
Wednesday night at 1 a.m. found Conan and myself quoting from Zoolander as we attempted to settle ourselves into some semblance of sleep. One of the male Chez Equilibrium residents may soon be making forays into the world of modeling, and it's not the dog (on account of poor posture).
I'm somewhat ambivalent about it, but all along we've been wondering whether this was something we should just try. We bit the bullet, and Conan took him to a local agency and they just about went nuts. I think it's really more of a supply/demand thing, since you don't really have a lot of bi-racial boy models. We'll see.
Wouldn't it be great if we could always wash our hands via the following method:
We've finally recovered from our tropical holiday vacation-the traveling was a bit difficult, but it was great to spend a week just sunning, beaching, and exploring. I learned that I probably couldn't have a second career as a World Rally Championship pilot, because I get awfully, terribly sick when careening via auto down steep, two-lane mountain roads. However, I did enjoy the beach and the lovely weather and finding pieces of sea glass to convert into jewelry. I never did get a picture of the water right before the tropical rainstorms hit. When the sun is out, the water was a deep, jewel-like navy blue. However, as the clouds start to creep it and the water becomes choppy, it turns this teal color-not just "sea foam green," but a true blue/green mix like the aventurine in my bead stash. I'd made a note to head back to my post by the hotel pool to grab my camera, but I was waylaid by the call-to-lunch before the rains really hit on our last day there.
January 01, 2007
Things of beauty
Hooray! The back of The Governor's Accordion in Lamb's Pride worsted is finished.
It's in need of some serious blocking for sure. Not sure if I'm in love with the halo, but I guess I'll learn to love it as one of those "character of the sweater" things:
Also, out of necessity I'm going to be casting on the right front or I'm never going to get to it. Reason? I just got MDK and am close to 1/2 finished with the baby kimono.
I've decided to go with a vintage button closure for this one rather than a ribbon tie.
At any rate, if I don't cast on the right front of Accordion, I know I won't get to it.
Note to self: You can't have all sunshine all the time. If that were the case, you couldn't have moments like this:
