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Tuesday, May 16th
Drum carder dreams
So here's the deal.
A drum carder is expensive. Very expensive. Like, Several Hundred Dollars That I Do Not Have, Especially After Shelling Out For My Car kind of expensive. But I have to have a car and no matter how honed my debating skills might be, there is nothing I can say to adequately defend "Resolved: Kristin Needs a Drum Carder" right now.
Which is why I'm selling off my stuff.
Well not all of it. But, you see, I have a lot of stuff. And by stuff I mean crap that is weighing me down and filling up my office, which is sort of cramped to begin with. Stuff like CDs that I don't listen to, for example. Or books I have read 27 times that still look pretty new, being fairly easy on the spines as I am. Or a wedding dress I never wore for a wedding I'm grateful I never had. Maybe some watches I bought in the early 90's under some delusion of potential increased value that never materialized.
Stuff like that.
I'm feeling ready to let it go and also I need the space in my increasingly untidy office and also? Maybe? If I sell this stuff I can buy other stuff. Stuff that will allow me to enhance my fiber stash, which will never ever be large enough to crowd me out of my office. Ever. Because one can always sit on roving and call it "Raw Pillows" and who's to know?
Only you and I, and you won't tell, right?
Posted by GoddessKristin on 05/16/06 at 09:58 PM [link]
Monday, May 15th
Weekend Update
It's been quiet around these parts lately as we wind down towards the summer vacation. I found out that I'm going to be hired back next year and I should have my offer letter in hand next week. This is very good news, as I'm still a temporary employee and it would have been very easy for the district to cut my position from the staffing roster. However, I definitely have a job! Yay! The other wonderful news about that is that I know that I have this job now instead of 3 days before school starts, which is basically what happened last year. So I can go into summer with a deep sigh and know that I have a job to go back to. Huzzah!
In fiber news, I haven't added to the stash but my aunt told me yesterday that her friend who is the Ag teacher in Anderson Valley is going to get me a fleece! She wasn't sure what kind but said it was some special breed... a Columbian or something. So I did a bit of research and I think it's from a Columbia sheep, which, if true, will mean a good deal of wool! Those babies yield fleeces from 9-15 pounds! Of course up to 50% of that weight can be dirt, grease and vegetable matter but still. It'll keep me busy! I'm very psyched!
I did spend $$ on yarn, though it wasn't for me. For Mother's Day I took Mom out to a new shop I found in Pleasanton. She found the perfect yarn for a sweater for 40% off and was really hemming and hawing about whether or not to buy it (40% off, people! She's mad!) Anyway, I let her go through her sweater patterns for a while and do gauge math and try to figure out which sweater she might could make with this yarn she wasn't sure she was going to buy and then, when she'd figured out which sweater and which yarn and was just worrying about whether or not to actually buy the stuff... I picked it all up, plunked it down at the cash register and bought it for her. Happy Mother's Day, Mom!
Needless to say she loved it.
It's a good thing Mother's Day fell when it did, since I got the unwelcome news this afternoon that my car needs about $600 of work. The master cylinder is leaking and needs to be replaced and one of the axles as well... I don't even pretend to understand it all. I'm actually relieved to be spending this much because the initial estimate, given to Dave by a desk jockey who didn't know what the estimate meant, was almost $2300. I almost fainted when I heard that but when we went in to talk to someone who had seen the car and knew what he was talking about, it turned out that the stuff that actually needed to be done was a much lower price.
You know it's sad when you're happy to only have shell out six hundred bucks. Sigh.
Posted by GoddessKristin on 05/15/06 at 05:02 PM [link]
Tuesday, May 2nd
Someday my pix will come...
But that day is not today. I know, I know, this is supposed to be a knitting blog and what is a knitting blog without pictures except a repository of imaginary complicated knots, right? But (and here's the terrible truth), I have nothing to show you.
Oh, I knit a pair of slippers over the weekend but they're no different than the 30 or more pair I've knit over the past year, expect for the color. And I haven't seamed them or even woven in the ends because I am a lazy person and so, so bad. I dunno. I don't know what to start. It's not like I'm short of yarn for God's sake and there's no dearth of needles around this place and I DO have an unfinished sock for Dave still on the Addi's and there's the Baby Ull crying quietly in the corner begging me to come finish the Olympic lace booties but...
I resist.
Frankly I'm just a little nervous. The basic stuff is getting a little old and the next step may be charts and... I'm not so sure about charts. I have wound the yarn for Clapotis and haven't touched it (Mom and I were planning a Clapotis-a-long and I think she'll smack me if I start it without her). I have yarn for probably 25 projects (and far more sock yarn than that... and I need to get going on the Pomatomus-along) but...
But.
I'm all full of buts today. Which isn't too surprising since I started Weight Watchers this morning (actually signed up last night). I was fed up with buts if you know what I mean (and I think you do). I get the feeling that fiber rewards will do nicely to motivate me. After all, who wants to spend $150 on yarn for a Lavold sweater in a plus size if you can spend less, have to knit fewer stitches and get the sweater sooner because you only have to knit a size medium?
THIS may be the motivator that I've needed my whole life! Yarn As Motivator. Indeed, I think it could work!
Now I just have to remember to picture scrumptious piles of qivuit everytime I want a caramel and I'll be set for life...
Posted by GoddessKristin on 05/02/06 at 08:16 PM [link]
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