Mix of old and new Fraggle Stick Car: February 2006
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I'm an English expat constantly struggling to be understood in a different country. I work in the cut throat world trying to bring "YARRR" and "Ne'er-Do-Well" into regular conversation My swear word of choice is Stink Nugget. I'm a yarn snob.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

They say its my Birthday!

Well - its NEARLY my birthday... I am definitely on the Pre Birthday wind up... I've started the "It's my birthday treat" purchasing justifications. _sigh_

The joys of pre birthday retail therapy!

Anyway - I've had a CRAZY weekend. S moved into a new apartment on Saturday, and we had the "fill up the new bigger apartment" trip to Ikea on Friday, I built some of the stuff on Friday night.

On Saturday, whilst he was moving, I was attending the Women In Games International Conference, doing my part to represent and speaking as part of "The Producers" discussion to guide the hopefulls, or something like that. After that I built some more Ikea stuff.

Then, bright and early on Sunday, I met up with J (f) of J and J fame and The Enabler to head to a fun packed day at Stitches West. It was SOOOO much better than the Knit and Stich show I went to in London, although there were no "big names" representing, it was so much fun checking out all the tiny obscure business stalls. I tried my hardest to show some restraint, and headed back with a bunch of fun stuff. I'll get pics soon! Then, I finished more Ikea building.

Monday - went to 21st Amendment with Dr L, The Daily Chuppler and both of the J n J of J and J fame for strong beers for lunch, and that really destroyed the rest of the day.

I have so many photos to post, and have found my cord, but have now lost my camera charger and realized I have uninstalled Photoshop by mistake. So getting them online is proving a little tricky right now.

sigh

Photo extravaganza WILL happen soon. I promise!

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Bad blogger

I'm a bad bad blogger... I have so much to tell, but so little motivation to do so.

This is a pretty good representation of me right now:-


I was doing my good duty as knitting blogger today and sat down to take 5 million photos of stuff I have finished. I had been waiting to get someone to take photos of me wearing said objects, since it makes this may more interesting - but have run out of patience with that. Then, I sat down to upload said unmodelled images, to find I've lost my cable thingie from my camera to PC. God know how that happened.

Oh well... here I am, doing runs to the laundramat, sat in the apartment on a sunny Sunday afternoon, roomie has an impromptu party that consists of people drinking many mimosas and crying about Michelle Kwan.


Valentines Day and my birthday are rapidly approaching, and I have discovered I am allergic to Angora... Who'd have thunk it. Its a bit of a bummer as I'm in the middle of a matching gloves and scarf pattern from Louisa Harding. Probably a blessing in disguise, since despite being February, its been about 75 degrees all week.

Hmmm... enough rants for now, maybe I'll post about my upcoming speaking engagement soon.