Back...without the charger

Last week I was in Orlando. It was in the 70s-low 80s with a lovely breeze, lots of sun, and I hear it was great to sit outside and just relax. However, I was at the ASCCP biennial meeting and so what I saw of Orlando largely looked like this.

It was a great meeting, though. I learned a lot and learned how much I don't know...which is humbling and really exciting. In the evenings, I did some knitting, some shopping at the outlet malls (cabled green sweater for $6), and a lot of reading outside. Even without the sun, it was pretty nice!

Tonight my sweetie and started our housing search. Well, we looked at ads online. Phew. The only thing worse than trying to find a place for me...is trying to find a place for us together. It's a little scary. Let's see...I'm going to get married, move to a new apartment, live with a GUY for the first time ever, and start a new job. Should be an easy transition this summer. :) But one really fun thing about there being two of us is that our "rent money" goes a lot farther.


Above is my highest-level knitting ambition (ignore my eye and partial face): this woman's sweater says "I LOVE SKI" on the arm. We saw her at Whistler. Isn't that the greatest sweater? I want one. And I think I'm going to have to make it....someday. Later. :)

Lost: one camera battery charger

Actually, it's in my bedroom. I'm 99% sure of that. Unfortunately, there are many places it could be in the bedroom... So I can't show you the fantastic knitting progress I made last week, or the jacket that I'm cutting out tonight.


But I can show you how beautiful it was skiing! And after three days home, I can turn my neck without pain. That was from falling asleep on the airplane ride home, but I still like to think of it as a little sports-related injury. Fortunately for me, the snow was very soft and slippery and every time I fell I managed to avoid serious injuries.

The jacket is a moderately swingy style, in a red and white fabric. I've been wanting to make this since last summer, and I'm afraid that jacket style is already on it's way out but I am determined to sew it up anyway! Pics following...as soon as I find that charger.

Some real, true pain: I was looking at the CSO's next season and found out when I searched for Bach suite number 6 in D minor....YO YO MA PLAYED IT TUESDAY NIGHT. While I was getting some major heartburn at Hema's Kitchen, my absolute top favorite Bach suite was being played by one of my favorite people to watch perform. Oh, the sadness of it. If anyone has Bach suite number 6 in D minor for cello being performed in their area, let me know and I'm on the road. Seriously. (click through to listen at amazon.com-- Casals was a master beyond compare)

Skiing update

Sorry, no pics. Wish I had taken my camera so you could see the adorable line of 3 or 4 year olds that passed me twice on my first run- but I was passing them by the end! :) I'm tired, but I had lots of fun and only fell on my last run. Then to make up for lost time I fell a lot but it didn't hurt much and I'm glad to say, 6 feet isn't _that_ far to fall!

I'm off!

The hardest part of packing was picking what projects to bring. To soothe the separation anxiety, I swatched up my new yarn. It's lurve. True lurve at first swatch. Look at this beauty.


It was totally worth braving the flat-affect vs. mean woman and the nasty sweat smell at LYS (initials A.K. for those who know Lawrence Ave in Chicago). These lovelies were 40% off and I only bought 11. I'm not trying to suggest anything, but if anyone in the Chicago area wanted to swoop up about six more (I want a warm cozy sweater with cables, and it's a yarn hog) I would *wink wink* make it worth it to you. Well, normal people, I mean- ones who like new needles or special yarn or fun treats in addition to the cash they shelled out. No crazy people. The sale ends March 3, Monday.


And additionally, LYS known as A.K. is much more bearable when I started thinking of the flat-affect woman as perilously trying to balance her psych meds. Even if deep down I think she's mean.

I got smacked down...I got back up again!

Yeah, who am I to let a little food poisoning get me down? Oh, right, I was down for the count for a couple of days. But anyway, I feel much better now. How better to celebrate than to stop in for a pair of dpns and come out with a bag full of yarn (it was 40% off and that's 3 balls of Rowan Big Wool you see under that great red/orange stuff)?

My friend CKG recently purchase a swift and a ball winder. Being a wonderful person as well as a great knitter, she let me use them. The blue is lace yarn from Cherry Hill Orchards, just waiting for a scarf. And the red is my souvenir yarn from Spain.

I leave Monday for a week in British Columbia- some time with family, some time skiing. Since I've eliminated my sewing machine from the packing list (really, I only considered it very briefly), I'm trying to figure out what yarn, needles, and books to take with me. I plan to do somewhat less skiing and somewhat more lounging than my friends I'm traveling with.