and glad I didn’t try to do any xmas knitting this year. my knitting has been nearly non-existant lately. ugh.

I did finish the positive energy shawl (just need to weave the ends in) recently. and I bought some yarn to make the Bite Me scarf (I’m gonna try that on the knitting machine) and I started a pair of mittens the other night while watching RENT (because my DVD player wouldn’t let me watch A Muppet Christmas Carol. and I’ve always considered RENT to be xmas music.)

I’ll probably continue to be fairly quiet here. I’ve kind of sort of been sucked into the realm of fanfiction. (oh, the shame! and I thought getting sucked into Twilight was bad.)

ok, I think I’ve finally worked up the courage to cut my hair. I may or may not post pics.

I am so totally sucked in. somehow I’ve managed to resist someone’s book reviews (scoffing at the idea of vampire romance. more because past romance preference here has been of the historical variety. ah, vikings…*ahem*). and then someone on the knittyboard mentioned she was giving in and going to read them. and a few of us decided to join her. and finally last week the library blessed me with the online download of the audiobook.

well, I made it through the first few chapters and was interested, but managed to ignore it for a few days (never a good idea, since the downloaded books have expiration dates). so I played it again on Saturday while knitting (I cast on a purple scarf. yeah, still don’t have enough projects in need of finishing), and obsessively listened to the rest of it on Sunday (interspersed with trying to watch Legend of the Seeker. which is absolutely nothing like the books it’s supposed to be based on, but I will continue to watch it - mostly because the lead guy is damn fine. *ahem*). I did finish the knitting of the pink blanket. and Wolfie claimed it as a bed again while I had it laid on the floor. and then I worked on the flower washcloth some more. that’ll be done soon. (in theory)

dear spirits, I am totally obsessed now and can’t wait for the movie. I am comforting myself with a lack of book two (cursed library waitlists) by having downloaded Midnight Sun. unfortunately I cannot stay up all night reading it because I have to vote in the morning before heading to work…

ok, enough rambling now. I have to get back to that PDF…

Tuesday morning edit: ok, good thing Midnight Sun is incomplete. I DID stay up reading it (and then succumbed to reading this site’s take on things, which had me in fits of laughter. I finally made it to bed at 4am. also stumbled on a Twilight trailer spoof on youtube that had me in fits of laughter for quite a while)

DSCF7230, originally uploaded by criosa.

(apparently red-eye settings do odd things to his eyes)

I’ve been working on the stashbusting baby blanket on and off for a while now. nothing too exciting - just a big pink rectangle of stockinette. was figuring I’d end up finding a baby to give it to (my cousin’s due in November - so if she has another girl, I’d have a gift at the ready). It’s been on my desk (I worked on it the other night while listening to the first chapter of Twilight.), but I tossed it onto the floor while trying to clean my desk off earlier.

hmmm… maybe I’ll be keeping it:

that was earlier.

this is now.

(and if my sister’s reading this, the blue up in the corner is the hat he pulled out so he could sleep on the other hat.)

so, you may recall I’m attempting to make the stash smaller (as evidenced by the StashDown counter over there in the sidebar). I’ve been trying to keep it close, but I know there’ll be some inaccuracies.

So I downloaded my stash from Ravelry and totaled it up. apparently I currently have 19.12 kg of stash. I’ve destashed quite a bit, but I didn’t think I had acquired that much new yarn. No idea what my actual destash total is, but according to Ravelry, I’ve acquired 3.9 kg. Granted, the other part of StashDown is actually USING the stash (knitting from stash. huh. fancy that.) - and it looks like I have 4.7 kg wrapped up in WIPs. well, I suppose with some luck, I’ll end up with a smaller (albeit barely) stash.

Note that as I was not spinning at the start of the year, the fiber & handspun stash are not included. (nor are we discussing that until next year)

as for the other half of the goal (reduce WIPs): yeah, that needs some serious help. I will need to become a knitting machine between now and the New Year if I want to get anywhere near close to that goal.

ps. Thursday will be my 4 year blogiversary.