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piranhaafter i fell off the "do things on that huge list every day" wagon due to disruption by sleeping a lot, i've been having difficulties getting back on. i've just been faffing about, starting something here and there but not feeling in the least goal-oriented about any of it, and therefore not finishing anything. except for dishes, but that hardly counts since only one sink was half-full.
the only positive that's come out of this faffing is that i've started to put together some of the scrumbled pieces for the freeform vest. i keep dithering between two basic approaches -- make lots of scrumbles first and then put them together, versus start with a few pieces and make the other ones up as i go. i am leaning towards the latter because that way i can impose a little more structure, and i think i am more comfortable with that.
oh, and i "invented" a crochet stitch. i am sure many other people have invented it before me, but i've never seen it before, not in any of the books i have. it's a tunisian variant, and it lightens the normally very stiff tunisian fabric and gives it more stretch, but retains the look of the basic tunisian stitch quite well, especially the strong verticals. pictures tomorrow (also research to find what the stitch is called).
i also started up my laptop. it is sadly still defunct in the screen department, but emitting just enough light that from a certain angle i could very dimly guess what's displayed in the file manager (it helps that i know my partitions well). managed to share everything that matters, so i can smbmount the data on mighty smite.
and last but not least, i made dinner plans with P and managed to keep them. woohoo! it was really nice, actually; a good conversation ranging far and occasionally deep. one-on-one conversations don't wear me out like multi-party ones do. and i felt good that i could hand over a checque for more boat work. and made plans to come work on the boat myself next week. *hoists self back onto wagon*.
the crowning glory of the day was getting a letter (a LETTER! hand-written!) from the *poing*. that is one of those things that happens once in a dark blue moon.
i have bananas that are screaming to be made into banana bread. hm. *checks recipe file*. it's late, but surely not too late for that. there's still the colbert report to watch. and south park. and i got a movie from zip.ca, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
the only positive that's come out of this faffing is that i've started to put together some of the scrumbled pieces for the freeform vest. i keep dithering between two basic approaches -- make lots of scrumbles first and then put them together, versus start with a few pieces and make the other ones up as i go. i am leaning towards the latter because that way i can impose a little more structure, and i think i am more comfortable with that.
oh, and i "invented" a crochet stitch. i am sure many other people have invented it before me, but i've never seen it before, not in any of the books i have. it's a tunisian variant, and it lightens the normally very stiff tunisian fabric and gives it more stretch, but retains the look of the basic tunisian stitch quite well, especially the strong verticals. pictures tomorrow (also research to find what the stitch is called).
i also started up my laptop. it is sadly still defunct in the screen department, but emitting just enough light that from a certain angle i could very dimly guess what's displayed in the file manager (it helps that i know my partitions well). managed to share everything that matters, so i can smbmount the data on mighty smite.
and last but not least, i made dinner plans with P and managed to keep them. woohoo! it was really nice, actually; a good conversation ranging far and occasionally deep. one-on-one conversations don't wear me out like multi-party ones do. and i felt good that i could hand over a checque for more boat work. and made plans to come work on the boat myself next week. *hoists self back onto wagon*.
the crowning glory of the day was getting a letter (a LETTER! hand-written!) from the *poing*. that is one of those things that happens once in a dark blue moon.
i have bananas that are screaming to be made into banana bread. hm. *checks recipe file*. it's late, but surely not too late for that. there's still the colbert report to watch. and south park. and i got a movie from zip.ca, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
Letters
on 2006-10-28 22:39 (UTC)Yay for handwritten letters! I love writing them myself. I need to get back into that habit.