I am reading a book that is so good I can hardly put it down! Diana really likes an author named Jennifer Crusie, and I have read a couple of her books and liked them, but this one is so great I wish everyone would read it so we can talk about how good it is!
The name of the book is Maybe This Time, and it's based on The Turn of the Screw, a gothic Victorian novel by Henry James. (Note to self: Get that book to re-read it!) It's got ghosts and romance and it's written in a sassy style! Read it and then tell me how much you love it!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Why I hate Daylight Savings Time.
Daylight Savings Time is just a huge inconvenience for me! It puts Diana in Arizona just one hour behind us, instead of two, so instead of being able to call her when I get to work at 11, when it is only 9:00 p.m. in Phoenix, now when I get to work at 11, it is 10:00 p.m. in Phoenix, and she is already asleep or very close to it! Which means I hardly get to talk to her at all (well, not daily, anyway, which is the prescribed dosage!) for six months of the year!
Also, Kim is still in Taiwan and she was 13 hours ahead of us, which I had gotten used to, but now she is 14 hours ahead, and when I get to work, instead of just getting back to her room to chat with me on Instant Messenger, she is halfway through her break, and sometime she only has a couple of minutes to talk, because she has to go back to the classroom to get ready for the afternoon classes! Do you see how I am terribly inconvenienced?
So that is my complaint today. I am going to have to try to update more so Diana will know what is going on here, and she will just need to do the same to keep me filled in!
So, here's what I have been doing in the last couple of weeks since the damn time change...
What I am knitting:
When I got home from Scott's I quickly knitted two very cute winter hats for the boys, because while we were there it snowed and Carolyn got out their winter clothes, and the hideous hat Carl was wearing was a crime against nature. I had to make something better!
After the cute hats, I started the new Knitalong with the people at the yarn shop. We got the last clue on Wednesday and I'm almost done with my first pair of socks knitted from the toe up! I'm pretty impressed with the pattern we used, and the yarn, too! I don't know if I will ever bother to make another pair of socks from the toe up, but these look good.
Now I have yarn to make a sweater for myself, and I still have a half-finished dress that I am knitting for Maddy, plus socks! I always have socks to knit!
What I'm reading now:
While we were in Utah, I got a lot of good suggestions for books to read, and I've had a chance to read some of them. I read about a book a day because I have a lot of downtime at work, so I can't remember everything I read, but I can say that I finished Hogfather last night, a book I picked to read because I like some other books by Terry Pratchett, but this one wasn't one that I loved. I picked it because it was Christmas-y, but it was so existential that it took all the fun out of it. Yawn.
When I finished that one, I started a mystery called January Kills Me. It's not Art, but it's entertaining, and I've already downloaded the second book by that author (something about February). What I love most about my Kindle is that there are so many books by independent authors - people who would maybe not get published by the big publishers, but they can get published on Kindle and sell their books affordably, and I get to read them! Some of them are good, some are okay, some aren't very good (some are just werewolf porn), but I love that I can have access to so many books!
Okay, that's all I've got for now. I will fill you in on the Great Lipstick Adventure later. Also, Kim will be home in 3 weeks! Woot!
Also, Kim is still in Taiwan and she was 13 hours ahead of us, which I had gotten used to, but now she is 14 hours ahead, and when I get to work, instead of just getting back to her room to chat with me on Instant Messenger, she is halfway through her break, and sometime she only has a couple of minutes to talk, because she has to go back to the classroom to get ready for the afternoon classes! Do you see how I am terribly inconvenienced?
So that is my complaint today. I am going to have to try to update more so Diana will know what is going on here, and she will just need to do the same to keep me filled in!
So, here's what I have been doing in the last couple of weeks since the damn time change...
What I am knitting:
When I got home from Scott's I quickly knitted two very cute winter hats for the boys, because while we were there it snowed and Carolyn got out their winter clothes, and the hideous hat Carl was wearing was a crime against nature. I had to make something better!
After the cute hats, I started the new Knitalong with the people at the yarn shop. We got the last clue on Wednesday and I'm almost done with my first pair of socks knitted from the toe up! I'm pretty impressed with the pattern we used, and the yarn, too! I don't know if I will ever bother to make another pair of socks from the toe up, but these look good.
Now I have yarn to make a sweater for myself, and I still have a half-finished dress that I am knitting for Maddy, plus socks! I always have socks to knit!
What I'm reading now:
While we were in Utah, I got a lot of good suggestions for books to read, and I've had a chance to read some of them. I read about a book a day because I have a lot of downtime at work, so I can't remember everything I read, but I can say that I finished Hogfather last night, a book I picked to read because I like some other books by Terry Pratchett, but this one wasn't one that I loved. I picked it because it was Christmas-y, but it was so existential that it took all the fun out of it. Yawn.
When I finished that one, I started a mystery called January Kills Me. It's not Art, but it's entertaining, and I've already downloaded the second book by that author (something about February). What I love most about my Kindle is that there are so many books by independent authors - people who would maybe not get published by the big publishers, but they can get published on Kindle and sell their books affordably, and I get to read them! Some of them are good, some are okay, some aren't very good (some are just werewolf porn), but I love that I can have access to so many books!
Okay, that's all I've got for now. I will fill you in on the Great Lipstick Adventure later. Also, Kim will be home in 3 weeks! Woot!
Friday, November 11, 2011
In which a rabbit has a jacket!
I finished the two Rabbit Surprise Jackets and took them to SLC to give them to the rabbits, and wasn't I surprised when they didn't fit!
It turns out that a jacket meant for a human baby is way too big for a stuffed rabbit! Who knew?
Since it was very important that Soren's rabbit have a jacket, I did not give up! Carolyn ripped the jacket back and rolled the yarn into balls for me, and I started over from scratch, just making it up as I went along.
I have knit many, many sweaters, so I know how to construct one, and in the end, the jacket was perfect.
We didn't take apart the second rabbit jacket. Carolyn thought it was pretty, and she is saving it for a real baby, either one of her own, or to be a gift for someone else. Carl didn't care if his rabbit had a jacket or not.
Whew! I'm tired of making rabbit jackets!
It turns out that a jacket meant for a human baby is way too big for a stuffed rabbit! Who knew?
Since it was very important that Soren's rabbit have a jacket, I did not give up! Carolyn ripped the jacket back and rolled the yarn into balls for me, and I started over from scratch, just making it up as I went along.
I have knit many, many sweaters, so I know how to construct one, and in the end, the jacket was perfect.
We didn't take apart the second rabbit jacket. Carolyn thought it was pretty, and she is saving it for a real baby, either one of her own, or to be a gift for someone else. Carl didn't care if his rabbit had a jacket or not.
Whew! I'm tired of making rabbit jackets!
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