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April 28, 2005
the secret to happiness and health
First, thanks: Thanks to all of you for your sweet comments and being excited for us. We never expected to have soooooo many nice notes. Frog is the best isn't he? You saw his comment, right? Tadpole has already got a shining star hat (it's the periwinkle one I made in calmer a while back) but he/she's going to have to be patient for other handknits because I'm just too tired and busy to get to leisure knitting right now.
Second, a small temper tantrum: It's not fair! I'm missing Yarn Harlot (you know who she is so I'm not bothering to link) in NY today. Blossom is going. I wish I could do something knitterly with Blossom, like go knit socks and listen to the Harlot or help her pick out yarn for her next project... or screw knitting! I just want to hang out with my friends and eat bagels and drink cream soda dammit!
Third, an announcement: A lot of you guys have seen Lee Ann in the comments, non? Well, she's finally got a blog so go and check her out.
Last, but not least, the secret to happiness and health: I have been feeling pretty assy (if you'll excuse the term) and tired instead of glowing or whatever I'm supposed to be doing. I had absolutely no choice but to go to work today so I did and on my way home, I had a choice. Either, I took the shorter route or I took the slightly longer, more boring one and hopefully the best bakery in the world was open. I say the best bakery in the world because it is in many ways. The people are super nice and they make this awesome organic bread and you totally get the feeling that these are people who love what they are doing and I Iove that. Their cakes aren't that great and there are no pastries but their bread is just amazing. They aren't open loads and half the bakeries in my neighborhood are on vacation right now so I didn't want to take the long, boring way for nothing, but my upset, growling stomach led me towards the bakery and they were open. I bought an organic whole wheat boule, some speculos for me, some sablés for Frog and when I went to pay, I saw a basket of rasperry beignets (donuts). I had to have one. Yes, I'm in France, Yes, they are supposed to know how to bake, but a lot of the bread is just blah, honestly and I've never really had a beignet that I thought was great. But I bought one. It was fan-freaking-tastic. My stomach ache went away and this afternoon I have felt pretty darned good. Good enough to vacuum and resist the magnetic pull of my bed. So there it is. The secret to happiness and health is a good raspberry jelly donut. I swear. You can thank me later.
PS My apologies for the continuing lack of knitting content. My ongoing pregnancy coma combined with the projects that I am knitting for deadlines rather than for fun leaves me with not a heck of a lot to show. Plus, looking at the number of comments that I have gotten on knitting vs. non-knitting posts leaves me with the impression that you guys are just as happy to read about me being knocked up, my haircuts and green shoes (that give me terrible blisters by the way). I'll try to prove that I'm a knitter some time soon.
Posted by kate at 03:16 PM | Comments (26)
April 26, 2005
THE EXCUSE
If you ever want to be a lazy piece of crap and have your way all the time, I have found THE EXCUSE. Here's a list of things THE EXCUSE has allowed me to do in the past few weeks:
WARNING: THE EXCUSE can cause side effects such as:
Nausea (really often), vomitting (only twice, thankfully), weepiness for no decent reason, the realization that bread is completely disgusting, as is spinach and any other overly cooked vegetable or anything that could be qualified as slimey, squooshy or smelly, the receiving of unwanted advice, shock, excitement (and sometimes fear) and a baby of unknown sex towards the end of November.
Posted by kate at 01:27 PM | Comments (112)
April 18, 2005
Worsted Wool is not my lover.
Frog keeps calling me "my poor Michael"
I can finally knit with a glove on. It still doesn't feel great, but it works. Last week it just hurt too darned much, glove or no glove.
In other news (or lack thereof): I missed my blog birthday. I had meant to do something about it, like a contest or something, but I am too sleepy and disorganized to have any original thoughts and carry them through right now. Maybe I'll consider the blog birthday the day that I changed the name to Needles on Fire and the month leading up to that as warm-up. In any case, several months of posts are still stuck over in my old blogger archives and I have to bring them all over. I'm really wondering if I even want to. I was always the type of kid who would keep a diary, then periodically go back and rip all the pages out and start over. I'm kind of having this dilemma again as I look at my old posts. I wonder if they are really worth bringing over here. I think lots of the old posts (and maybe a lot of the newer ones) should probably go the way of the diary pages. Who would sit down and read a year of my archives anyway?
Posted by kate at 03:29 PM | Comments (17)
April 13, 2005
So freakin proud!
Blossom did it!
She knits, she purls, she casts on like a pro and she's started her first project! She's making herself an i pod cover and she doesn't even have a pattern. She's just making it up! How kick ass is that? I couldn't be more proud. My little Blossom has turned into a knitter. It took you long enough, chica!
And to those of you who emailed offering support, the toothpaste is gone from the mirror. I appreciate your concern.
Posted by kate at 06:55 PM | Comments (8)
April 11, 2005
just don't feel like it
I don't feel like knitting. Instead, I'm contemplating the crumbs trapped in my keyboard that I can see only because my chair is much lower than usual and the sun is hitting my keyboard just perfectly to make the proof of my slobbiness glitter.
And because I somehow feel that you deserve an explanation for the lack of knitting content:
1) Last week sucked. I had to work a lot.
2) My cousin is here. I'm not complaining. I adore him and his girlfriend but I'm playing tour guide instead of spending hours fondling yarn like I usually do.
3) I have a nasty contact allergy on my hand which was either caused by yarn or worsened by it. Not only does it make people cringe when they see my cracked, swollen pinky. It makes it hurt a lot to knit English style which is the way I knit the most evenly and quickest. I've tried every cream known to man and I've been to the dermatologist and it's better, just not better enough to wrap wool around. I might have to resort to continental until I have 2 grody pinkies.
4) I'm posessed. Remember how I used to complain about never sleeping and not being able to sleep? I don't have that problem anymore. Naps are my friends.
5) Anything I'm working on can't be shown to you anyhow.
This is not at all a complaint or a call for sympathy or anything. I just thought I'd tell you what was up since I've been unusually quiet.
Posted by kate at 05:53 PM | Comments (15)
April 06, 2005
I've got big balls
Get your mind out of the gutter.
and please pretend you don't see my hair sticking up, the toothpaste that is still on the mirror and that I'm wearing my sweater inside out.
This is the hugest ball of yarn I've ever seen. It's Lorna's Laces Fisherman. It comes in 500 yard hanks. I thank the yarn goddess for my ball winder and Dad for my swift because I've got a bunch of these to ball and knit. Sorry. Can't tell you what I'm making. You'll see eventually.
I have turned a few people into knitters recently. Blossom is casting on and knitting like a pro. My old roommate emailed me showing a hat she had made. I don't know that I had anything to do with it, but I did knit a lot when I lived with her and she said, "Now I know why you love it so much. I am addicted." so I'm going to take some credit for it anyway. And an old friend emailed me yesterday saying that she was going right after work to buy some yarn and needles. I'm not sure I had anything much to do with that either since I talked to her on Monday for the first time in about 10 years but I did tell her a good LYS to go to. I'll just consider myself the needle that broke the non-knitter's back.
Posted by kate at 07:06 PM | Comments (12)
April 01, 2005
short post. short hair.
I had to rip this because I cast on for the smallest size and followed the row directions for a bigger size. duhhhhh I've redone it now. It just took me a lot longer the second time around.
Did I get my hair cut? I got them all cut. (for Dad) And no, I don't really have white spots on my face and a blurry eye. That would be toothpaste on my mirror. Forgive me.
Posted by kate at 08:03 AM | Comments (35)
