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2007-11-03 02:51 pm
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I sprung for big, thicky knitting needles. (I was going for the 50s, which are ginormous, but they only had 15s, which are big enough.) They're not as hard to get used to as I expected. Plus, you don't have to clench your hand on a titchy needle; you've actually got something to grasp, which is nice.
commotiocordis: Green on black, an animated depiction of a normal heart rhythm on an ECG monitor. (Default)
2007-08-01 01:21 pm
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My amazingly cool knitted hat? Is done.

Okay, not quite. I've still got to stitch the edges together so it looks like an amazingly cool hat rather than. . . idk, some kind of amazingly cool doll cape. (Actually, it sort of curls in on itself so it actually does look like a hat when it's just sitting still, but I've obviously got to still sew it together so it covers your head from all sides. And doesn't fall off.)

But soon.

And then I will take pictures, because I think this is easily the coolest thing I've done all summer.
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2007-07-30 05:46 am

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I have been knitting a hat. Sort of making it up as I go along, though. It's in this pretty yarn I got for free, though--all multicolored, though it sort of ends up all together purpleish if you look at it like a blur. I stopped, though, because I can't decide what to do next, whether to put in another little stitch-stripe thing or not.

This is big for me, though, as usually I just knit with no destination in mind, and more often than not just experiment and then rip it all out and play with the same yarn again (resulting in the outermost bunch on the ball of most of my yarns being all sort of untwistedlike). Though sometimes I turn what I've made into something (I've got a really pretty purse type thing I made with just plain knit stitch something like 3 or 4 years ago that I should take a picture of sometime), usually not. So I hope this works. (Though I think it may be too small for my head, as my needles aren't long enough to carry that many stitches, so I may end up giving it to my sister.)

ANDANDAND I found this "Where In Time is Carmen Sandiego" book from ages and ages ago in my basement. It's sort of a choose your own adventure type thing, but it's bits hard to play without the cards from the middle of the book that got ripped out and lost ages and ages ago, because you have to use the descriptions of the suspects that the people you talk to give you to pick the right person who stole whatever (because it's not always Carmen, as she has bitches to do whatever she doesn't want to do), and the dossiers of her V.I.L.E. Henchmen (I can't believe I remembered that that's what they're called) are on the cards. Still. CARMEN.

I had this Carmen Sandiego plotbunny a while ago that just popped back into my head. It was Carmen Sandiego/Jean Grey (from X-Men), and Carmen stole all the X-Men's powers, so Jean has to sex her to get her all vulnerable so she can steal them back. Because you know how in the show/games/books they always steal impossible stuff? It's like that. I think I must write that. I'll prolly have to enlist Katie in the caper, though, because she knows the X-Men universe, and though this isn't going to be close to/rely on/even look like it's ever gotten near canon, it's going to have to take place more or less in the X-Menverse, and I only remember about 1/3 of what she tells me about it and the people therein.

AND LJ COMMENTS ARE STILL GOING INTO MY INBOX SOMETIMES AND IT IS LE FRUSTRATING.

Edit: There is a raccoon or sommat on my freaking roof. It just bounced really hard on it. I shake my fist at you, random mammal, as you are loud and startling.
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2007-07-10 05:06 pm

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So. More about the Harry Potter ticket saga.

The theatre near us was progressively getting more and more sold out, and I couldn't get dad to give me a ride down there for tickets. Finally, it's all sold out, and I'm rather pissed, because it's another example of how my dad's king of the pocket veto. I check again on Monday evening, just out of some kind of blind hope, and lo and behold all 5 midnight showings no longer say sold out. I assumed they released more tickets or something, so on his way down to the church council meeting (because the priest called in June and asked if he would do it, because they were short a person, so he and mum are sharing a seat) he runs me by. I go up to the little ticket buying machine thing, the machine says they're all sold out. I get home, call the theatre and ask about the whole tickets/sold out thing, the lady says her machine says they're sold out and she'll have the manager look into the website. I give her my phone number just in case and ask her to call me either way (because I knew that I'd be checking the website thrice an hour if I didn't know). During one of those thrice an hour checks, I saw that they were starting to say 'sold out' again, and sure enough, as I refreshed, they all moved to sold out. The lady calls back, tells me that they're definitely all sold out and they won't know if there are any seats until the movie starts (naturally) and apologizes and such, which was nice.

So I was still a little bit angry that dad's indecision was preventing us from going to the midnight show, but I figure that this way I'll at least be able to finish book 5 on my reread before I go. I hung around in bed all morning finishing GoF (I've got a chapter to go still, but I've been doing other stuff since I got up preventing me from actually sitting down and finishing it), and then I get up and ask if anybody called (because the people at the theatre said they'd call if anything opened up), Dad says no, I go to the computer and look up these other few theatres that had a midnight show that was still open, ask him if he'll take us to one of these, one conversation bit leads to another, and it turns out that when I was still in bed reading, he called around and found tickets at one of the farther away ones. So that was lovely. Turns out my sister called this morning and mentioned that our cousin (who's a little less than a year older than me) is taking her to the midnight show up in Vermont, and Dad prolly felt bad because the youngest sibling is going and I'd put so much work into trying to find tickets and such.

So fun there. I also put a call into the local Freecycle for knitting supplies because my dad (or mum, I don't remember) was talking about teaching a class at one of the gifted programs with knitting being part of it, and the supplies are the limiting factor (reactant, LOL [/chemistry joke]) there, so we needed to find out what we could get first. (That and I wanted a set of circular needles.) Already got one reply, which is lovely, though I'm going to have to try to figure out how to get the stuff, as the lady is a good 20 miles out of our way.