Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween!!



We did get our requisite "Halloween snow" this year, although it was in the wee hours of the morning, and it was more of a slush. And it's not sticking - it's still +5C today, so it'll be a while before the snow stays.

Happy trick-or-treating, everyone!

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Blogstalking...again

Today's apparently going to be a productive blog day!
Here is the oldest photo of me that I can find. It's rather convenient that I still have my baby photo album at my place, and that I haven't given it back to my mom yet!!
Here is me, at 2 hours old:



Do I win?? Whose photo is the "oldest"??? :)

Ravelry!

I'm on Ravelry!!! I finally got my invite Sunday night at about 10:30. What timing.
It's going to take me a while to get organized on there, but I'm really excited about the site!! It's awesome!!!!!!!

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Blogstalking - week 6...

It's not as exciting as I'd wish it to be, but it is long!

I decided to wait until Tuesday to take the photos for this blogstalking post, because that was the night of my SnB gathering (“meeting” sounds too formal) at a local pub, but wouldn’t you know that I got stuck at work late on Tuesday and wasn’t able to go to the SnB after all.

A typical day for me involves struggling out of bed at around 8:00am

(much as I’d like to be up and at work earlier, it never seems to happen; I’m NOT a morning person), getting dressed and ready to go, grab a glass of juice and heading out the door.
This is my apartment:

And this is the elementary school across from my apartment:

If I’m not running late, I walk to work, which takes me about 20 mins.
This is what I pass on my walk to work:



If I’m running late, or if it’s miserable outside (meaning pissing rain), I’ll drive, although I’m so close to work that if I get red lights all the way, it literally doubles the time it takes for me to get there! The only other time I’ll drive is if I have to go to a client site, like today. There are 2 reasons for this: a) they’re usually too far for me to walk to, as they’re mostly in the industrial parks of our city and I live pretty much downtown and b) I usually have to take my laptop and a bunch of reference material with me, and I’m not trekking that on my back.
This is the street my office is on:


This is my office:

Once I’m at work, I sit on my butt all day, working on the computer.
This is my desk:

That’s one of the things that I’m really starting to dislike about my job. Although I didn’t like the repetitiveness of what I was doing in my previous job, this monotony is worse.
If I happen to be at a client site, I’m usually sitting on my butt there, too, working at my computer or auditing them (their quality system, SOPs, other documents). There’s a very slim chance that I could be doing a walk-around audit, or executing a protocol, but that’s rare.

I’ve started bringing my knitting with me to work so that I can have a real break from what I’ve been working on at lunchtime.

After work, I head back home. Now, at least, the temperature on the way home is usually about the same as it was on the way to work, so I don’t have to carry a bunch of layers back home. The roof of the church next to my apartment building is frosting over every morning now, which means that the temp is going below zero (°C) overnights, so we’ll have snow soon. We usually have snow fall before Halloween, and it usually starts sticking around sometime in mid- November, although this year it might hold off until after Halloween!!
This is what I see on my walk home from work:




Evenings mean one of several things: going to class (I’m usually taking something if travel for work isn’t imminent – it was knitting up until a few weeks ago, photography last year; not sure what it’s going to be next), going to a SnB gathering, going to my parents’ place for dinner (and/or laundry), doing errands – laundry, groceries, etc. – or just hanging out at home, watching any one of a ton of TV shows that I seem to be addicted to while doing any number of crafty or cleaning-type things. The TV is usually on pretty much all the time when I’m at home – there’s either something I want to watch, or it’s on as background noise (when there isn’t even anything I want to have on in the background, I’ll turn it off and listen to music).

That’s it! That’s a typical day in my life. Booooring. :)
Weekends usually mean meeting friends at some point, maybe heading over to my parents’ place. I always seem to be busy, but when I go to tell someone just what I’ve been up to, it never seems like much!

My So-Called Scarf

This is the front and back of my "My So-Called Scarf"...
(for the benefit of a fellow knitty)

Friday, October 26, 2007

There is a real post coming soon, I promise!

I've just been so busy with work, and I've been out of the office on site a lot, and since I do most of my posting from work (naughty girl - the internet's faster there, that's why), I haven't done any posting lately.
I'll post one big long catch-up this weekend, I promise!!!

Sunday, October 21, 2007

What a productive week!

I have 2 (yep, 2!) FOs to show off this week! (And I promise to get blogstalking week 5 and 6 up soon...)

First up, the Neverending Baby Afghan!!!! Wooohoooooo!!



Pattern: Waffle Stripes, (from Leisure Arts book "Make One for Baby")
Yarn: Bernat Baby Coordinates, about 2 balls each of white and yellow
Time it took: Well, that's hard to say. I started it sometime in the spring (April?) but didn't work on it constantly. Crocheting an afghan in one piece, baby-sized or not, is a little discouraging.

And next up are the Hacho gloves I started at a workshop led by the pattern designer herself, Jane Ellison!

Love these - can't wait to wear them to work tomorrow!
Pattern: from Jane's book - I borrowed it, and forgot to make note of the pattern details before I gave it back!
Yarn: Marasol Hacho, Shade 301, 1 1/2 skeins (what am I going to make with 1/2 a skein of Hacho??)
Needles: 3.75mm (I didn't make a swatch, but they turned out great, sized a little smaller than the pattern. We had Jane's sample gloves to try on before starting ours.)
I started these Oct 8th, but again, worked on them sporadically. Finally resorted to taking them to work to get more done on them!

Friday, October 19, 2007

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Which woman from the Outlander series are you?





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Fetching - Done!

I'm done!
Pattern and yarn info as below.
Modifications: added an extra cable to the top of the fingerless mitten, as it didn't come far enough up my hand. I just thought I had an abnormally long thumb-crotch to finger-knuckle distance, but my friends in the KAL all thought the same thing, so it seems to be a pattern thing. I also increased the number of rows on the thumb from 4 to 10.
Now they fit perfectly, and are going to be awesome for the fall walk to work!!





Sunday, October 14, 2007

Look what I did this weekend...!

It's only the first of the 2 I need to knit, but I'm sure the other one will knit up really quickly!





Pattern: Fetching, from Knitty.com
Yarn: Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran in a dusty eggplant colour
Knitting time: Not long. 2 hours at the Stitch 'n Bitch meeting, plus maybe an hour at home this morning.

Can't wait to get the other one finished!!