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Six Weird Things

I was tagged by Vanessa to post six weird things about myself. Hmmm... Just six?

1. I cannot stand the feeling of wet hair -- like when I wash my hair and get strands of it on my hands (or even worse, on my feet or arms). Yuck. I don't even like writing about it, either!
2. I could eat cold cereal for every meal of the day -- and I actually have some days. My favorites: Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch, Cocoa Krispies, Honey Nut Cheerios (or Multi-Grain Cheerios) and Life. Also, I think that my family thinks this is weird and they tease me about it a little. My aunt gave me a giant bowl and several boxes of cereal as a birthday gift one year.
3. "Half socks" drive me crazy. If someone is wearing socks and they're not pulled up tight -- like the toe part of the sock is dangling off and the heel part of the sock is down by the arch -- I get physically bothered by the sight of it. I won't even tell you what happens if i'm the one with the half socks. Let's just say that it doesn't happen.
4. I have ornithophobia. I also have chiroptophobia. Seriously. Do not test me on these two things.
5. I cannot really say the word "brewery." Or "rural." It's a good thing I don't work at a rural brewery.
6. I really like to faux-online shop. I'll go to my favorite sites (they range from Banana Republic to Ram Wools to Old Navy to KnitPicks) and I'll fill up my shopping cart. Then, instead of going to the checkout, I close the browser window. It's cathartic, usually; although today I really, really wanted to go through the checkout!

I thought I was weirder than all that, but it turns out that it was kinda hard to thing of six weird things. I guess I'm probably just too close to myself to see all the weird things? I bet John could make a list of sixteen (or sixty?) weird things about me without even thinking too hard!

I know that I'm supposed to tag someone now, but that seems a bit too pushy (?) for me, so I tag YOU!

Right done - Done right.

Alternate title: Mitten as Art.

I posted before about how much I love this pattern. I really do. The pattern itself is well written and easy to follow. The finished mitten is so lovely. No chance of "second mitten syndrome" with these babies. I'm casting on tonight while watching AI, and last night's Heroes. My idea of a fabulous evening!

Thanks to those who gave photography suggestions. We actually have a light tent set up in our family room -- we have been trying to take photos for my parent's website. So today's photo is "a la" light tent. The colors are fairly accurate. But what I really want to be able to do is to take photos like the ones I see on some of my favorite blogs. Someday!

Oh, Noro-oh-oh!

Squares. Squares. Squares.

One square short. Almost but not quite. Back to work.

Anemoi - v2.0

    

I apologize for the poor photo quality - anyone have any good advice for photographing hand knit items indoors in the dead of winter? If so, I'd love to hear them!

With that out of the way, I present to you Anemoi v2.0. The pattern, of course, is Eunny Jang's Anemoi mittens. The yarn is Rowan Felted Tweed. It was difficult to capture the true colors - what with not being home during daylight hours. The colors are aubergine and electric robin's egg blue (teal?). Have I said it? I *love* this pattern.

Now, I just need to finish a pair!

Boo-Boo

This is what I looked like today. I had two moles ("beauty marks") removed several weeks ago, and my dermatologist and I weren't satisfied with the way they healed. One of the moles healed with a bit of a ragged edge, and the pigment came back in the other mole. So today I got lasered. Zapped.

I can't believe that people get this kind of thing done on their entire faces. Yeeouch! And scary... The two little spots on my nose are scary enough that I felt like I'd rather wear this dorky band-aid than subject my co-workers and the general public to scary oozey nose. You can sort of see the other one on the under-part of my nose - a big ole red spot. I hope that it's a lot less scary on Monday when I go back to work. Boo!

It's in my genes...

When I was little -- I'm guessing I was 10 or so -- my mom knit a sweater vest for me to wear on Christmas eve. I don't remember her knitting it, but I'm sure she put a lot of time and love into it. The only thing I remember about it was that I didn't really want to wear it. I wasn't a fashion diva at age 10, but somehow I knew that wearing a handknit sweater made by your mother was the antithesis of cool.

But I did wear it, and I lived through it. (I'm not sure why I thought that the vest was the problem, when clearly it was the hair that was dragging down the coolness factor.) And now I can look back on the whole thing and truly appreciate the love that went into that little sweater vest. Thanks, mom! I love you.

Anemoi - v1.0

I am in love.

   

These are done in Brown Sheep Nature Spun sport weight. I have another pair started in Rowan Felted Tweed, and one more pair started in Koigu PPM + Rowan 4 Ply Soft.

New Year, New Post

Well, the holidays are past -- another year gone by. I hope you all had a wonderful, happy, healthy holiday season. Did you get everything you'd wished for?

I'll share with you the only photo I took while we were in Duluth, celebrating Christmas with my family:

My mom and my grandma and I went to one of the local cosmetology schools for mani/pedis. My future sister-in-law did mine. Aren't they festive? And that's the only photo I took this Christmas. Mom, I'm waiting for the photos from your camera... hint, hint.

I've read a few retrospectives on some of my favorite knitblogs, and I wish I could do one, too. But I'm not feeling that organized. So one of my resolutions is to become more organized in the knitting documentation department. I want to photograph every FO, record the stats (pattern, yarn, needles, etc.) and post them in albums by year. I'll start by going back over last year's FOs and trying to recall the info for each.

But first, I have to finish putting away all the Christmas decorations and tidy up the house a little. Happy new year!