Have you ever noticed that exhaustion leaves the door open for sadness and listlessness? Yesterday I spent the day in lab (2 pm until 1 am) preparing for a presentation this morning. The talk (just an in-house thing with the research group) went well enough, but I am fried, baby, fried. I toyed with not blogging, but I can just tell that I needed to post something to keep the momentum going. It's not knitting, it's another acquisition picture. You would think that I had inside info about a wool famine. Not so, dear reader. I have a bottomless rationalization: I am supporting the wonderful community at Circles with every purchase. Most weekends, I go down and dispose of some income in order to help Allison with her mission. Yesterday, before communing with my data and bioinformatics servers on three continents, I popped down to the store to see what wanted to come home. (Oh yes, all of that yarn is lonely, I tell you, craving the touch and admiration of humans. And it gets a little nervous - yea I tell you, even frightened - locked up by itself in the dark all night long.) Big bonus: I had the pleasure of seeing Allison (not so surprising), Judy and Jenn, and meeting Sara. So this is what I adopted:
Blackberry Ridge, Mer-Made, in Blue Violet, fingering weight, and enough for a big shawl.
If none of this inspires you to leave a comment (and I don't imagine that it would), why don't you just tell me when your birthday is? I'd like to know.
Now that you mention it ...
Everyone, thanks for reading and commenting. I am still figuring out the best way to put a calendar with dates to remember on the blog.
Mafia, thanks for asking! (date removed when DH pointed out a possible identity theft risk)
hmm... I thought I posted yesterday, but I guess not. My b-day is May 1, aka international workers day. That is really beautiful yarn.
Posted by: Emily L | 13 July 2006 at 11:39
I do like the blues. 3/9/71.
Posted by: Rebecca H | 11 July 2006 at 23:15
Feb. 19, 1975.
That colorway looks great. I signed up for the next double knitting workshop at Circles today.
Posted by: colleen | 11 July 2006 at 21:46
Gorgeous yarn.
Deceber 6, 1973.
32 and durn proud of making it this far!
Posted by: Dorothy B | 11 July 2006 at 13:15
Yes it was nice spenting the weekend with you LOL. I want a bunch of shawls and am now torn between something out of Folk Shawls and the Icarus in IK.
April 30
Posted by: Judy | 11 July 2006 at 10:43
Hey, thanks for dropping by. Also: you just wrote the 100th comment to my blog, a small "competition" I decided to keep unannouced. So, drop my an email :)
And wow, those blues are beautiful.
Posted by: zeska | 11 July 2006 at 08:51
Love that yarn. But you knew that =)
May 16th, you can guess the year iffen you want.
Posted by: Jenn C | 10 July 2006 at 23:31
Mmm, looks good enough to eat :)
Oh, and the b-day is Feb 1.
Posted by: Danielle | 10 July 2006 at 23:00
Good lord, it's beautiful.
Nov. 16 1974
Yours?
Posted by: The Feminist Mafia | 10 July 2006 at 22:02