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moving

noreply@blogspirit.com (katey) — Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:40:00 -0500

hey there...

i'm moving AGAIN....

i am at typepad...

come see me!!

ranting and raving...

noreply@blogspirit.com (katey) — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:47:47 -0500

so i've been OBSESSIVELY reading knitting blogs for the past three weeks or so, and I am inspired again.

thanks, knitblogging community. i salute you.

[raises glass]

i have also been obsessively knitting lately. i have four more decreases on the second sleeve of the hourglass sweater and then I can join the second sleeve and begin the yoke.

The boy and I were knitting the other night while watching tv, [yes, he knits! aren't i lucky?] actually we've been knitting and watching tv a lot lately.

But over the weekend we watched all the episodes of Battlestar Galactica (BSG) that are avalable on DVD. It was fun. That's a really good show. I guess that I am actually a total geek. (A stylish geek with good taste, but a geek nonetheless.) (Little known BSG fact? They saw "frack" instead of "fuck." I like it and have adopted it!)

In other news, I have taken on new responsibilites at my job, things that are, without a doubt, not part of what i was hired to do. The girl who was hired to do them is rarely if ever int he office, and i suspect is not long for this position. I'm hoping that I can take her place when she leaves/gets fired. She's out sick constantly, is always late and leaves early. (Which, in the right circumstances, would probably not be so bad, but she's only been working there for 8 weeks or so.)

I would love to go into more detail and name names, but I don't want to get dooced.

The geek thing from a second ago though? I have discovered that I really like things that are logical. I have been working on the database system that we are using to track jobs in the office [I'm a graphic designer, so it's WAY outside my job duties!] (she, who shall remain nameless, faceless, and altogether unidentifiable, doesn't want anything to do with it, she'd rather that the company should spend an assload of money on new software that NO ONE understands, at least all the people who aren't in the corporate office already know how to work this thing, but i'm not bitter.)

I've spent several hours of the last few days tweaking this thing so that we can use it. It's only halfway set up for our use. (They want to outsource this stuff, but I think that's dumb when I have the time, inclination, and ability to do it myself. I'm just hoping that all this work will be reflected in my performance review.)

Anyhow. We'll have to wait and see.

I was just going to make a quick post and then hit the sack, and I've been working on this for about 45 minutes now. So I'll check you bitches later. :-)

hey. kool aid.

noreply@blogspirit.com (katey) — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:00:00 -0500

Okay, so I admit it.

I'm a knitter.

I knit.

So do a lot of people.

I also tend to get bored and haven't ever knitted anything of any size before. And I've been knitting for almost 10 years now. Can you say hats, scarves and felted bags, oh my?

So I decided to take on the hourglass sweater from Last Minute Knitted Gifts. [I did knit a sweater once before, but this was loooong before I understood the concept of gauge and fit. I couldn't get it over my head.]

I don't currently have the cash to purchase 15+ hanks of Noro's Cash Iroha to fit my plus sized body. (pun, completely unintentional, I swear.) so I decided to shop in my stash.

I had ten hanks of Handsome Harry's Hanks by Renaissance Yarns that I won back in December of 2003 from Wendy. She had this really cool contest wherein she encouraged her readers to be stalkers. Evidently I was the stalkiest of them all and I won.

Behold the free yarn goodness:

photo from wendyknits

So anyhow, it's great yarn, and the price was certainly right, and there's a LOT of it, each hank is 200 yards (if I'm remembering correctly, the tags are all downstairs) which is good, cause I'm a big girl.

Do you sense a 'but' coming up?

BUT the yarn is gray... I can't wear gray, at least not a whole sweater in stickinette in gray. So I decided to try some kool aid dyeing after seeing this article.

Who knew? Kool aid stains.

[my mom knew, please don't remind her of the 15 year kool aid resentment, courtesy of my cousin Wesley {who by the way, no one has seen in years. Coincidence? I don't know, I mean, I don't think my mom is connected, but anything is possible.]

So I tried it... and here's what happened:

counterclockwise from l: lemon lime, blue raspberry, grape, cherry, and the original gray

and here's a photo of the sweater in progress:

on top is a sleeve, with cherry kool aid dyed seed stitch edging, I don't really like the way the hemming looks on the body of the sweater, by the way, the really big thing under the sleeve? that's the body of the sweater, waiting for sleeves and the yoke.

I hope to have at least one sleeve done and attached to the body by the end of the week, but the 12" addi turbo is really hard on my hands, the needle part is so short that I am having trouble with it, but it is going faster than when I was working on dpns, so I'm just gonna hang in there.

what candy am i?

noreply@blogspirit.com (katey) — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:10:12 -0500

I hate hate hate these quiz things, but for some reason I am driven to take them. I never post them though because they are so dumb, but this one is good because not only does it seem right, but I love gummi bears.

(not this kind though, only haribo gold bears, or twin cherries, or cola bottles.)

discover what candy you are @ quiz me

traffic...

noreply@blogspirit.com (katey) — Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:55:00 -0500

seems like the post I last made was about traffic too, but what the hell...

I recently moved in with my boyfriend who lives in Alpharetta. (That's about 20 minutes north of Atlanta without traffic.)

It's great and I love living with him, but it has affected the rest of my life. I used to live like five minutes from everything, and traffic wasn't an issue because I didn't have to use the highways to go anywhere unless I wanted to. Now, I have to use GA400.

Every day.

No. Matter. What.

For those of you not in the Atlanta area, I will explain why this is a problem.

GA400 is the only highway that goes to the northern suburbs of Roswell, Alpharetta and Cumming (that sounds dirty doesn't it?). These suburbs are where an AWFUL lot of white collar types live. (This is also where a lot of breeders live.) GA400's traffic problem is legendary. It's the road I never wanted to drive on because it's the one you hear about every day in the traffic reports. Click the link above during rush hour in Atlanta to see what I am talking about.

Anyhow, I have discovered that though I would prefer to not sit in traffic, it doesn't bother me as much as it used to. I don't know if it's maturity or the iPod or both. But I just get into a zen-like groove and drive. No big deal.

I read bumper stickers religiously though, and here's my favorite:

I really enjoy bumper stickers and vanity plates. I saw a plate on a red jeep the other day that said FFOOOO (For those non-web designers out there, that's a hexadecimal number for the color red) I thought it was clever.

In other news, I went with the aforementioned boyfriend to the Atlanta Juggling Association Groundhog Day Juggling Festival, where I learned that you shouldn't lean down and look in a duffel bag when there are people all around you throwing things, because you might just get hit in the back of the head with one of those things, and that hurts.

Seriously though, it was really fun and I met a lot of cool people including a fellow knitter, Amanda. Overall it was a great time.

I also learned to juggle two and a half clubs. I can hold the third one while throwing the other two, but haven't mastered throwing the third one yet. I can definitely juggle three beanbags now, and three silicone balls. I also learned some diablo stuff. If I hang in there, I will get the other stuff too, huh?

I will try to remember to post some photos when I get home tonight...

whether you like it or not.

noreply@blogspirit.com (katey) — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:02:41 -0500

people can be so strange.

i was driving in to work this morning and i saw the damndest bumper sticker.

it said:

god loves you
whether
you like it or not

funny, i don't recall asking the person driving that shitty car (or anyone for that matter) the status of god's love for me.

in fact, i don't really care what that person thinks about whether god loves me. plus, isn't it a little in your face to just interrupt what is otherwise a quiet half-asleep drive to work to tell me the status of something that doesn't really matter to me?

that's like when some uber-christian finds out that i don't believe in jesus or something along those lines, and their response is, "well he believes in you!"

huh, so what they're saying is that basically i have no free will to believe what i want.

isn't that one of the big beliefs in judeo-christian religions? that you have free will?

i'll have to ponder this one for a while.

this is me...

noreply@blogspirit.com (katey) — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:51:01 -0500

new blog, new me, new life...

in the last two months:

i got a new job.

i gave my kittites away.

i moved in with my boyfriend.

i had surgery.

i made a few new friends.

hopefully, the posts-yet-to-come will be much funnier/interesting. maybe i can keep up the blog thing a little better than before.