all well with the world.
February 25, 2009
a pan of baked kale for lunch
and, for Maggie, a headband, for warmth-while-biking, in exchange for contact solution (I was out).
Pattern: Calorimetry
Yarn: Leftover Devon from ages ago (bayerische socken), leftover peruvian baby silk from last year (a cardigan I gave to Nic), leftover Jawoll from this summer (cabled socks; Nic’s gloves). All used up. Success.
Needles: size 7 Takumi straights.
pretty.
churchill gems.
February 22, 2009
“To his Military Cross he added the unique distinction of having been shot through the heart, and living happily ever afterwards wtih the bullet in him.”
- Winston Churchill, The Second World War: The Gathering Storm
neuro-cognitive linguistics* probably has something to say about this:
February 18, 2009
the fact that I confuse the German words furchtbar and fruchtbar, because, in my mind, they are the same collection of letters.
the first means “dreadful,”
and the second, “fruitful.”
* if that is even a field.
EPIC FAIL
February 17, 2009
the success of candied oranges and candied ginger went, perhaps, to my head.
but, then again, candied grapefruit is not too unreasonable of a leap.
this is why I ate 6 grapefruits yesterday– for their peels.
cut them up, blanch them a few times to get the pesticides off, etc etc.
shouldn’t be too difficult.
although the pot is full of what looks like tentacles.
roll them in sugar, let them dry, not a problem.
Schön, oder?
except!: the fact that they are NOT DELICIOUS– instead, they have this unfortunate bitter aftertaste.
you’d think they’d be tasty. you’d think it’d be just like candied orange peels. you’d think blanching them would get rid of the bitterness.
not so!
so, what I’ve been doing is:
eating one, recoiling. a few minutes later, convincing myself, “maybe they’re not so bad. maybe it was just that one. maybe you can get over how bitter they are,” and having another one.
this has got to end.
the sad thing: there are so many of them– 6 grapefruit’s worth.
at least the house smells like grapefruit.
Don’t Disrespect.
February 10, 2009
“I had to check to see if disrespect was indeed a real verb, instead of this new hip-hop usage. The answer is yes!”
- Mom, in an email.
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Completely Albus Dumbledore (Sorcerer’s Stone, Chapter 1).
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etymology of device: dividere, to divide. something by which something is divided.
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“I know it seems like ‘how many angels can dance on the head of this piece of grammar,’ but, it’s important.”
- Peter Smith, on the Accusative of Respect vs. the Dative of Respect.
at last.
February 9, 2009
“The first day they were very active, pottering about with hammers and nails and red calico, to put up curtains, make their house habitable and pretty; resolved to settle down comfortably to their new life.”
- Joseph Conrad, “An Outpost of Progress”
mmm, bavarian twisted stitches
February 7, 2009
Maybe this is just very severe Pygmalion & Galatea syndrome, but, I think these stockings (which are for Rebecca) may be my Best Yet.
Let’s just hope I’ve got enough momentum to make the other one (and then, a pair of my own?).
This took up exactly 1 ball of yarn (Knit Picks Palette– of course– in Fog), which is convenient.
(231 yards to go; could run that in a handful of seconds.)
CUTEST TAX EVER
February 5, 2009
A Present.
February 2, 2009
better to give than to receive.
good morning February: the backlogue
February 1, 2009
Man-Socks for (which ended up with) Zac.
Pattern: Gentleman’s Fancy Sock, from Nancy Bush’s Knitting Vintage Socks
Yarn: Knit Picks Palette in Charcoal
Needles: Takumi sz. 0 DPNS
Whilst: watching Lawrence of Arabia at night in the mountains over Christmas Break
after I get over the absolute trauma of knitting a man-sized sock on 0’s, I might want a lady-sized pair for myself.
mittens for Lindsay (on the going-back-to-school laundry basket), in what I thought were Carolina Blue and White. I told my mother this, she told me I was colorblind.
Pattern: Vespergyle Mittens
Yarn: Knit Picks Palette in Fog (maybe that should’ve been a hint) and White
Needles: Takumi sz. 1 DPNs
how Julians.
