G'day all!
We are back in San Jose. It is interesting being back cos it seems I am starting to disengage. Whilst I live here, it isn't home any more. Nowhere is home (but Home is Melbourne). I've been having a lovely time riding around taking pics of the autumnal foliage - it is certainly Fall here. The days (so far) have been brightly sunny and crisp (rather like the leaves, actually). These are the autumn days that I love - the sunny ones when the air is a little cool (not frosty cos this is the Bay area and frosts are not common here, not this close to the bay) and the light is oh so clear. The light on the autumn leaves is delightful!
But I am aware that it is very likely to be my last hoorah here, so I am trying to take advantage of it. I've visited some favourite shops and bought a bit (ahem!) of quilting material (well I had to - Rowan fabrics in Oz are some hideous price, but $10.50 a yard plus tax is a bit cheaper... even after paying for shipping it home). I'm eyeballing some knitpicks yarn - that will be unavailable to me after I leave (if you need to know, the blue and green heathered yarns in the Palette range - yes I am a masochist cos I want to knit a pullover for me out of fingering/sock weight yarn). I haven't hit the yarn shops yet but I did hit wool2dye4 and bought a little yarn from them (it arrived in a box that is about 18"/45cm square).
I've started going through my yarn to leave/sell/give away here and there isn't as much as I'd like! I've cleared out about 2/3 of a 66qt container and now have the washing basket full of yarn that I want to keep. Plus now I have a conundrum - the sterilite plastic tubs I've been buying for $8-9 in Target here turn out to cost $25 in Oz. Ouch! Do I want to ship some tubs home? Hmm....
Anyway I am sure to have something worth showing off knitwise soon, I hope - the husbandly jumper is coming along slowly, the husbandly socks are also progressing, my not Aestlight is almost done... and I have new stash (I bought some stuff for me for my birthday and then I was not back here for it!) that I should show off including a lovely project baggie for ME. Plus I have been reunited with my wheel, oh lovely spinning wheel! How I missed thee - I had to make a CD spindle!
anon!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
The longest day
G'day all!
We are going back to yesterday tomorrow.
Yep, we are off to the States to pack up our stuff and move home.
I really hope they will let us in.
So we cross the dateline, which means we are in today, not tomorrow, for a while and then tomorrow will dawn for the second time. Golly it is confusing doing that! Then when we come back we will lose a whole day! If we leave on Saturday, we basically lose Sunday and arrive on Monday.
Anyway, no new knitting to show off. I have been knitting on stuff but I don't seem to be making measurable progress even though it is clear that I am (12 row repeats are easy to count!). I have to shove it in the suitcase we are borrowing. Hope the wheel doesn't fall off this suitcase. It is deucedly inconvenient to have one less wheel than the case should have.
It's going to be sad, sorting out my US life and packing it for shipping or packing it for our friend who is moving to SF after Christmas or putting it on Craigslist or on freecycle or sending it to Goodwill. I was looking through some photos that I have never shared (and there are some fantastic shots) and I am sad that I will not be able to go for various drives that were wonderful. I love the Sierra Nevada but never saw the aspens in their fall colour and never really saw them at the peak of summer either. I am sad to be leaving various friends, but if they are friends then it won't matter that 10 years have passed, we'll still be friends.
There are of course compensations (like being able to visit Kuranga, one of the best native plant nurseries in Oz, where I took the flower pics). I sat on the train the other day, coming home, and looked on the tatty backs of the houses and light industrial places and shops (rarely their best angle!) and marvelled at how they did not dissuade me from my love affair with my home city. Everyone has a bad angle (heck I am *not* photogenic and getting a good shot of me is like finding hen's teeth) but for me Melbourne is most marvellous, even when I'm looking at a row of dumpsters and a back lot full of weeds. Or the Dandenongs, icons of Melbourne, from a building lot.
Melbourne is my home. Melbourne is a part of me. I can't really imagine living away from her. I have been but that was never going to be long term. It was while we were amused and occupied and had an income.
This place is my place. This city is my city. This is where I grew up, where I have lived for most of my life. This is where, if I may use an Aboriginal reference despite not having a drop of Aboriginal blood in me, my dreaming is. This is where I feel most connected to life, where I feel I understand the rhythm and flow of life. It's been grand getting to understand a little of a different place but I've not felt a part of it. I've never had that intrinsic understanding, though it's been fun trying.
Tomorrow we get on a plane and then change to a big plane and fly away.
Then we'll fly away home.
anon!
We are going back to yesterday tomorrow.
Yep, we are off to the States to pack up our stuff and move home.
I really hope they will let us in.
So we cross the dateline, which means we are in today, not tomorrow, for a while and then tomorrow will dawn for the second time. Golly it is confusing doing that! Then when we come back we will lose a whole day! If we leave on Saturday, we basically lose Sunday and arrive on Monday.
Anyway, no new knitting to show off. I have been knitting on stuff but I don't seem to be making measurable progress even though it is clear that I am (12 row repeats are easy to count!). I have to shove it in the suitcase we are borrowing. Hope the wheel doesn't fall off this suitcase. It is deucedly inconvenient to have one less wheel than the case should have.
It's going to be sad, sorting out my US life and packing it for shipping or packing it for our friend who is moving to SF after Christmas or putting it on Craigslist or on freecycle or sending it to Goodwill. I was looking through some photos that I have never shared (and there are some fantastic shots) and I am sad that I will not be able to go for various drives that were wonderful. I love the Sierra Nevada but never saw the aspens in their fall colour and never really saw them at the peak of summer either. I am sad to be leaving various friends, but if they are friends then it won't matter that 10 years have passed, we'll still be friends.
There are of course compensations (like being able to visit Kuranga, one of the best native plant nurseries in Oz, where I took the flower pics). I sat on the train the other day, coming home, and looked on the tatty backs of the houses and light industrial places and shops (rarely their best angle!) and marvelled at how they did not dissuade me from my love affair with my home city. Everyone has a bad angle (heck I am *not* photogenic and getting a good shot of me is like finding hen's teeth) but for me Melbourne is most marvellous, even when I'm looking at a row of dumpsters and a back lot full of weeds. Or the Dandenongs, icons of Melbourne, from a building lot.
Melbourne is my home. Melbourne is a part of me. I can't really imagine living away from her. I have been but that was never going to be long term. It was while we were amused and occupied and had an income.
This place is my place. This city is my city. This is where I grew up, where I have lived for most of my life. This is where, if I may use an Aboriginal reference despite not having a drop of Aboriginal blood in me, my dreaming is. This is where I feel most connected to life, where I feel I understand the rhythm and flow of life. It's been grand getting to understand a little of a different place but I've not felt a part of it. I've never had that intrinsic understanding, though it's been fun trying.
Tomorrow we get on a plane and then change to a big plane and fly away.
Then we'll fly away home.
anon!
Saturday, November 14, 2009
OT - what has google done to google maps?
They have taken away all the interesting and useful stuff on Google maps (like the measuring tool) and now want me to make a my map. Plus they added a my map to MY account that is in German! Like umm, sorry dudes but I don't do German!
GRRR! And because it is google, there is no way to contact them directly.
GRRR! And because it is google, there is no way to contact them directly.
Friday, November 13, 2009
We'll be home for Christmas
G'day all!
How things change.
I've been sitting on News. Yep. OK, only for two days (oooh, just realised that it is Friday the 13th!) but that is a long time to sit on News.
We will be returning to Australia before Christmas. For good. Well at least for the time being.
We got our new visas on Monday. Hooray! Thank you US consulate for such quick processing :-)
But on Wednesday, we got a phone call. Nathan's boss called up and said that Nathan had lost his job. (The boss lost his as well). So no job = no visa. All that work for nuthin'!
But all our current stuff is in the US! The car, our day to day living stuff, my craft stuff, Nathan's hobby stuff, etc, etc. Plants. (And I was looking forward to being back and getting life back to normal. A big fat HAH to that!)
So we go in on tourist visas and get rid of our stuff or box it up to send it home and come back home.
This is good (Home! Christmas! Yay!) and bad (didn't finish things off in the US at our own pace, didn't get to Maryland Sheep and Wool or Estes Park, crafting stuffs are more expensive in Oz, now I have to get a job!). We will be able to catch up with friends and family a LOT more often. We'll be able to move back into our own place, with a garden and cats and be able to modify it how we like (within reason) and apply for govt rebates to get solar hot water, etc.
But I am a bit sad. I've gotten fond of my life in the States, the eternal crafting, cycling around, the cheap craft supplies, being able to do as I please much of the time. I'm very good at being unemployed. I'm fond of various people and places (mind you not so fond that I would give up being an Australian!). The US is facing big challenges with this recession and an opposition who are determined to fight everything the govt tries to do. I can change things in Australia, or at least vote and push my local council, local member of parliament and local senator to do things. I even get health care as part of being a resident/citizen. I can't change things in the US. Something to do with being a barely legal alien, subsidiary alien at that. Now I'll just be a visitor with even fewer rights.
Oh the fun of it all. I am soooo not looking forward to working out what to keep and what to try to sell and what to take to the goodwill and what just to chuck in the dumpsters.
Whatever happens, it seems that we'll be home for Christmas, and not only in our dreams.
anon!
PS what do you do when you don't have any current referees for job stuff? All my AXA contacts seem to have flown the nest and I can't really use anyone in the USA cos I didn't work with anyone there.
PPS I am looking forward to playing a heap of Bing for Christmas time. I like a good bit of Bing. Yes I am 150 years old. (Imagine if I was that old and still could remember my childhood - I would've experienced so much! So much change! So many wars. Just So Much.)
How things change.
I've been sitting on News. Yep. OK, only for two days (oooh, just realised that it is Friday the 13th!) but that is a long time to sit on News.
We will be returning to Australia before Christmas. For good. Well at least for the time being.
We got our new visas on Monday. Hooray! Thank you US consulate for such quick processing :-)
But on Wednesday, we got a phone call. Nathan's boss called up and said that Nathan had lost his job. (The boss lost his as well). So no job = no visa. All that work for nuthin'!
But all our current stuff is in the US! The car, our day to day living stuff, my craft stuff, Nathan's hobby stuff, etc, etc. Plants. (And I was looking forward to being back and getting life back to normal. A big fat HAH to that!)
So we go in on tourist visas and get rid of our stuff or box it up to send it home and come back home.
This is good (Home! Christmas! Yay!) and bad (didn't finish things off in the US at our own pace, didn't get to Maryland Sheep and Wool or Estes Park, crafting stuffs are more expensive in Oz, now I have to get a job!). We will be able to catch up with friends and family a LOT more often. We'll be able to move back into our own place, with a garden and cats and be able to modify it how we like (within reason) and apply for govt rebates to get solar hot water, etc.
But I am a bit sad. I've gotten fond of my life in the States, the eternal crafting, cycling around, the cheap craft supplies, being able to do as I please much of the time. I'm very good at being unemployed. I'm fond of various people and places (mind you not so fond that I would give up being an Australian!). The US is facing big challenges with this recession and an opposition who are determined to fight everything the govt tries to do. I can change things in Australia, or at least vote and push my local council, local member of parliament and local senator to do things. I even get health care as part of being a resident/citizen. I can't change things in the US. Something to do with being a barely legal alien, subsidiary alien at that. Now I'll just be a visitor with even fewer rights.
Oh the fun of it all. I am soooo not looking forward to working out what to keep and what to try to sell and what to take to the goodwill and what just to chuck in the dumpsters.
Whatever happens, it seems that we'll be home for Christmas, and not only in our dreams.
anon!
PS what do you do when you don't have any current referees for job stuff? All my AXA contacts seem to have flown the nest and I can't really use anyone in the USA cos I didn't work with anyone there.
PPS I am looking forward to playing a heap of Bing for Christmas time. I like a good bit of Bing. Yes I am 150 years old. (Imagine if I was that old and still could remember my childhood - I would've experienced so much! So much change! So many wars. Just So Much.)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Is it bad
to laugh at the next door neighbour cos they can't back down their driveway? Even after 20 years of living in the one place. They drive a small car. The driveway does a dogleg at the bottom. It has trees and shrubs on either side. There's always a lot of backing and filling. The other day they hooked the bumper skin off their bumper bar. They backed too close to a tree on one side of the driveway and to get away from it turned the wheel hard. Of course then the nose of the car pointed towards the tree and the bumper skin got hooked. The more noise it made, the harder they backed until they hooked it right off. If they had just gone straight, they would've been fine. Made their little car look a right mess with its bumper dragging on the ground.
I guess I can only laugh if I know I would've done it differently!
I guess I can only laugh if I know I would've done it differently!
An FO. Beaumont and more yarn
G'day all!
The other day I finished off my variant of Jared Flood's Beaumont tam/beanie.
Here it is in all its unblocked glory.
I knitted mine out of handspun (the purple is dyed by me targhee roving, the white is some Polwarth I think cos it is very soft).
I started this in France, knitted more in Switzerland and
finished it off just in time for some rather warm days in Oz.
I love the way the top makes me think of a starfish or some other radially asymmetric critter.
I am contemplating sending it to a friend who loved the colours. I am just not sure it will be warm enough for her in winter! She will experience much colder temps than those I am used to in either California or Melbourne.
Did you know it is almost impossible to take pics of the back of your own head (without a mirror or a tripod)? I took so many shots with only a corner of the tam in the shot.
Now for the important stuff. Yarn!
Sock yarn. Sockulator. Mmm. This one is pretty thick. I'd knit it on no less than a 2.75mm or US2 needle. The colours are fairly accurate - pinky purpley mauvey colours. 100g hank, wool nylon blend, SOLD
More sock yarn. Off and on. This one is most likely self-patterning and is based on Patonyle, 75% wool 25% nylon. I knit it on a 2.5mm needle, you might want anything down to a 2mm/US1. Black, clematis blue and plummy red. 2 x 50g, SOLD
Another hank of sock yarn! Old Boy. This is a mystery blend (ie I lost the label). It is a blend of various darker colours, burgundy, mauve, purple, grey brown, blues... all sorts of colours. The pics do not do this yarn justice. It has so many colours in it! 100g hank, similar weight to Patonyle, I'll discount it for being an unknown blend. SOLD.
Who wants some cranberries? Plummy reddy orangey colours that I suspect might be self-patterning. Skein pic is a bit duller and redder and the closeup doesn't show the orangey-browny bits of the real thing on my monitor. Another Patonyle base. AU $15.
If you like any of these, email me at natiel311atgmaildotcom and we'll arrange postage and payment. I'd like to see these yarns get new homes! (Before I succumb to their charms :-)
anon!
The other day I finished off my variant of Jared Flood's Beaumont tam/beanie.
Here it is in all its unblocked glory.
I knitted mine out of handspun (the purple is dyed by me targhee roving, the white is some Polwarth I think cos it is very soft).
I started this in France, knitted more in Switzerland and
finished it off just in time for some rather warm days in Oz.
I love the way the top makes me think of a starfish or some other radially asymmetric critter.
I am contemplating sending it to a friend who loved the colours. I am just not sure it will be warm enough for her in winter! She will experience much colder temps than those I am used to in either California or Melbourne.
Did you know it is almost impossible to take pics of the back of your own head (without a mirror or a tripod)? I took so many shots with only a corner of the tam in the shot.
Now for the important stuff. Yarn!
Sock yarn. Sockulator. Mmm. This one is pretty thick. I'd knit it on no less than a 2.75mm or US2 needle. The colours are fairly accurate - pinky purpley mauvey colours. 100g hank, wool nylon blend, SOLD
More sock yarn. Off and on. This one is most likely self-patterning and is based on Patonyle, 75% wool 25% nylon. I knit it on a 2.5mm needle, you might want anything down to a 2mm/US1. Black, clematis blue and plummy red. 2 x 50g, SOLD
Another hank of sock yarn! Old Boy. This is a mystery blend (ie I lost the label). It is a blend of various darker colours, burgundy, mauve, purple, grey brown, blues... all sorts of colours. The pics do not do this yarn justice. It has so many colours in it! 100g hank, similar weight to Patonyle, I'll discount it for being an unknown blend. SOLD.
Who wants some cranberries? Plummy reddy orangey colours that I suspect might be self-patterning. Skein pic is a bit duller and redder and the closeup doesn't show the orangey-browny bits of the real thing on my monitor. Another Patonyle base. AU $15.
If you like any of these, email me at natiel311atgmaildotcom and we'll arrange postage and payment. I'd like to see these yarns get new homes! (Before I succumb to their charms :-)
anon!
Give me a home among the gum trees
G'day all!
(whoops! I didn't publish this yesterday!)
I was looking for a place to photograph DH's Christmas socks in progress (means I don't have to knit him a pair in December, yay!) and realised where better than off the PiL's balcony!
Look at those socks - don't they look like they would like to live among the gum trees? Can you blame them?
I promised more yarn but I've been a bit distracted today. I've taken pics but now it is dark and I don't have good light to colour match with (well as matchy matchy as I can get with the laptop screen, which is to say not very).
Apparently I am feeling a bit twisted up at present. That's me in my jammy jim jams trying to persuade Nathan's laptop to talk to me. I was feeling quite comfortable actually.
Tomorrow I'll post more yarn. I know, I know, not much time to buy stuff if you are interested. And I really really need to get pics of the new beret but umm, well it's been over 30C for days and days and I really am not interested in putting a nice warm woolly beret on my boofhead.
BTW, today was Remembrance Day. I am ashamed to say I did not buy a poppy this year - I forgot! I had held off cos I wanted to find an old bloke who reminded me of Pop or the Old Man but I didn't and then I forget the silence at 11am too. Oh dear! No silence, no mindfulness, no remembrance. I feel like a bad person, forgetting that which I should remember.
Lest we forget.
(whoops! I didn't publish this yesterday!)
I was looking for a place to photograph DH's Christmas socks in progress (means I don't have to knit him a pair in December, yay!) and realised where better than off the PiL's balcony!
Look at those socks - don't they look like they would like to live among the gum trees? Can you blame them?
I promised more yarn but I've been a bit distracted today. I've taken pics but now it is dark and I don't have good light to colour match with (well as matchy matchy as I can get with the laptop screen, which is to say not very).
Apparently I am feeling a bit twisted up at present. That's me in my jammy jim jams trying to persuade Nathan's laptop to talk to me. I was feeling quite comfortable actually.
Tomorrow I'll post more yarn. I know, I know, not much time to buy stuff if you are interested. And I really really need to get pics of the new beret but umm, well it's been over 30C for days and days and I really am not interested in putting a nice warm woolly beret on my boofhead.
BTW, today was Remembrance Day. I am ashamed to say I did not buy a poppy this year - I forgot! I had held off cos I wanted to find an old bloke who reminded me of Pop or the Old Man but I didn't and then I forget the silence at 11am too. Oh dear! No silence, no mindfulness, no remembrance. I feel like a bad person, forgetting that which I should remember.
Lest we forget.
Monday, November 09, 2009
Hooston- we have go! and a sale.
G'day all!
Hooray! DH fixed my laptop!
It turns out the fan was not working after the laptop had been sleeping. It is a known bug that affects both linux and windoze boxes - they both use the same driver.
Anyway, I now have a CPU temperature monitor and a fan that whizzes up and down as needed. Yay!
So now I can torture you with pics of the yarn and tops I've got in some boxes. Yep, you thought you would see what I've been knitting but nope! You get my hand-dyed stuff instead.
All of this is for sale. I take paypal and (from Aussies) direct deposit. All prices do not include postage and are in Aussie dollars.
Note colours may vary due to difference between monitors.
Citrulla 5 ply / sportweight 100g, 240m+
$10 for both
Mauved - pinker than shown, can't get the colours right! 5 ply / sportweight 100g, 240m+
$10 for both
Granite 5 ply / sportweight 100g, 240m+
$10 for the skein
Cornflower - cobweb lace. I don't have a yardage on this but there is LOTS. 135g in two balls. Colour is a cornflower blue/mauve, hard to capture on camera.
$20 for both
Granite lace - single ply yarn in mauvey greys with flecks of purple, orange, cerise and darker grey/black. 108g, lots of yarn.
$12
Sorry, I don't have yardage for the laceweights as my notes are in the US along with the ballwinder and I'm not unwinding enough to get a rough yardage.
For the spinners
Brachycome top, fine merino, 55g $8
Cherry Sundae tops (a bit lighter in the "flesh"), fine merino, 90g ($13), 100g ($15) or both for $25
Boygirl tops, merino, 130g, $20.
Impossible aqua, so named because it is really hard to get a colour-representative shot! It is a true aqua of variable intensity. 100g, $15
Misty morning tops. Fine merino, 100g, $15
Oi oi oi. Fine merino, 160g, $25
Pink cherry sundae tops. Fine merino, 90g, $13
Rainbow storm tops. Fine merino, 200g, $30
Sunrise tops. Fine merino, 120g, $18
There is plenty more yarn (but no more tops) to come. Also check out my old yarn page - all that is ready to go too! Note that all yarn is smoke free but not cat-free - every house the yarn and tops have been stored in has at least one cat.
If you want any of the yarn or tops, please contact me natiel311atgmaildotcom asap cos we are going back to the US on the 17th (16th in the US!). I will not be able to send anything after the 16th of November unless we have arranged for it to be sent in the US. Thanks!
Tomorrow/later I'll have more yarn and maybe even an FO to show you :-)
anon!
Hooray! DH fixed my laptop!
It turns out the fan was not working after the laptop had been sleeping. It is a known bug that affects both linux and windoze boxes - they both use the same driver.
Anyway, I now have a CPU temperature monitor and a fan that whizzes up and down as needed. Yay!
So now I can torture you with pics of the yarn and tops I've got in some boxes. Yep, you thought you would see what I've been knitting but nope! You get my hand-dyed stuff instead.
A sale
All of this is for sale. I take paypal and (from Aussies) direct deposit. All prices do not include postage and are in Aussie dollars.
Note colours may vary due to difference between monitors.
Citrulla 5 ply / sportweight 100g, 240m+
$10 for both
Mauved - pinker than shown, can't get the colours right! 5 ply / sportweight 100g, 240m+
$10 for both
Granite 5 ply / sportweight 100g, 240m+
$10 for the skein
Cornflower - cobweb lace. I don't have a yardage on this but there is LOTS. 135g in two balls. Colour is a cornflower blue/mauve, hard to capture on camera.
$20 for both
Granite lace - single ply yarn in mauvey greys with flecks of purple, orange, cerise and darker grey/black. 108g, lots of yarn.
$12
Sorry, I don't have yardage for the laceweights as my notes are in the US along with the ballwinder and I'm not unwinding enough to get a rough yardage.
For the spinners
Brachycome top, fine merino, 55g $8
Cherry Sundae tops (a bit lighter in the "flesh"), fine merino, 90g ($13), 100g ($15) or both for $25
Boygirl tops, merino, 130g, $20.
Impossible aqua, so named because it is really hard to get a colour-representative shot! It is a true aqua of variable intensity. 100g, $15
Misty morning tops. Fine merino, 100g, $15
Oi oi oi. Fine merino, 160g, $25
Pink cherry sundae tops. Fine merino, 90g, $13
Rainbow storm tops. Fine merino, 200g, $30
Sunrise tops. Fine merino, 120g, $18
There is plenty more yarn (but no more tops) to come. Also check out my old yarn page - all that is ready to go too! Note that all yarn is smoke free but not cat-free - every house the yarn and tops have been stored in has at least one cat.
If you want any of the yarn or tops, please contact me natiel311atgmaildotcom asap cos we are going back to the US on the 17th (16th in the US!). I will not be able to send anything after the 16th of November unless we have arranged for it to be sent in the US. Thanks!
Tomorrow/later I'll have more yarn and maybe even an FO to show you :-)
anon!
Friday, November 06, 2009
Hoop number umpty-eleventy
G'day all!
I am picture poor currently due to a full hard disk and a sick computer. I have soooo many pics to share with you too but nowhere to download them and upload them! (Every time I go near DH's machine, it locks up on me so I've given up downloading pics on it for the time being - I've tried four times this week! LOL)
We've jumped through a few hoops in the last few days. Even the US consulate was bearable this time around. The security guards are Australian and have a sense of humour and even a little compassion (one girl was there for the 10:15 intake at 8:30!!! They wouldn't let her in before 10 and told her to go get some coffee and take a seat for a while, hope you've got a book!).
So in the last week we have:
Which of those is the one thing we didn't do?
Anyway, things seem to be starting to move again. I hope. Let's say that a little progress has been made. Has Mercury moved out of retrograde or something?
On the knitting front, hmm. I've knitted one sock for DH up to the heel turn and am almost to the gusset on the second sock. I started on ?Tuesday? I've started the second sleeve of DH's pullover. It took me half of the worst ever Midsomer Murder to get the cast on right. You would not believe how many times I cast on but the yarn held up fantastically. At this rate, the pullover might be done by Christmas! I've done a little spindle spinning too, making some very silly yarn. It will be rather a challenge to knit up but eh, that is what silly yarn is for!
anon!
PS I apologise for not replying to the best wishes for my birthday comments. I didn't receive most of them! Mr laptop is about to go bye bye again, curtailing my replies even more 8-{
I am picture poor currently due to a full hard disk and a sick computer. I have soooo many pics to share with you too but nowhere to download them and upload them! (Every time I go near DH's machine, it locks up on me so I've given up downloading pics on it for the time being - I've tried four times this week! LOL)
We've jumped through a few hoops in the last few days. Even the US consulate was bearable this time around. The security guards are Australian and have a sense of humour and even a little compassion (one girl was there for the 10:15 intake at 8:30!!! They wouldn't let her in before 10 and told her to go get some coffee and take a seat for a while, hope you've got a book!).
So in the last week we have:
- discovered that DH may well be quite employable here
- found I might be able to get work as well
- rebooked our plane tickets back to the US
- rebooked our tickets again due to some sort of bungle
- dragged ourselves out of bed at ungodly hour and gone to the US visa interview
- wondered a lot why we are going back
- wondered a lot whether DH will have a job
- wondered if they will have redundancies and if DH can get one
- mattocked/dug out a lot of dirt in one afternoon to make a place to build a new woo-tank (rainwater tank made out of rubber liner, marine ply and hardwood frame)
- wondered why the shops along the roads in the inner city areas are hopping with people and why the place is more alive than downtown SJ
- plotted our plans for world domination
Which of those is the one thing we didn't do?
Anyway, things seem to be starting to move again. I hope. Let's say that a little progress has been made. Has Mercury moved out of retrograde or something?
On the knitting front, hmm. I've knitted one sock for DH up to the heel turn and am almost to the gusset on the second sock. I started on ?Tuesday? I've started the second sleeve of DH's pullover. It took me half of the worst ever Midsomer Murder to get the cast on right. You would not believe how many times I cast on but the yarn held up fantastically. At this rate, the pullover might be done by Christmas! I've done a little spindle spinning too, making some very silly yarn. It will be rather a challenge to knit up but eh, that is what silly yarn is for!
anon!
PS I apologise for not replying to the best wishes for my birthday comments. I didn't receive most of them! Mr laptop is about to go bye bye again, curtailing my replies even more 8-{
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