Purlene’s Corner

(aya here)

I finally buckled down and put all of the yarn stash in one spot. Now there’s the matter of weeding through it, getting it all sorted out into types (sock, dk, worsted, etc) and deciding whether to keep the UFOs or scrap them. For the most part, I am scrapping them. If they’ve been sitting on needles for over two months, they’re getting scrapped. Now I know where all my US2 dpns went!

I spent about an hour just reskeining yarns last night.

The sock weight yarns are all nicely put away in the yarn dresser, after I photographed those that I didn’t have, and putting their pics up in the stash section of Ravelry. I have two single socks (embossed leaves and crosshatch lace), and I will probably cast-on for one of them later today.

Today I will tackle the dk and worsted weight yarns.

As part of the stash reorganization effort, I had to clean out my bedroom closet – because the yarn bureau is located in the closet. That came out wonderfully as well! When I moved into the condo, I just shoved boxes in the closets, to deal with later. Now is Later!  I can actually move around in my closet now, even with the two bureaus in there. I also weeded through more of my clothes and put them in a pile to give away. Ames, I actually have some stuff for you – a couple pairs of jeans and a couple of button-down shirts that are too small for me, but that I think you’d like. You can take a look at them when you get here – make sure to save some empty space in your bag. :D

I also made space in there for my bed linens, as my laundry closet lacks shelving and there isn’t anyplace else to store them. I’m very pleased with how it came out.

So, today, I tackle:

-More of the stash

-the understairs closet

-the hall closet

-the bedroom closet

Once those tasks are completed, I am rewarding myself by watching the X-Files movie that just came in from Netflix. :D

First, though, I need to finish up my coffee and take a shower.  I am really getting used to not needing an alarm clock in the morning.

(aya here)

Poor languishing blog! Fear not, as there will be blogspamming going on soon! Now that I’m officially unemployed, I will be posting more often. You can look forward to the following: knitting pictures, condo renovation pictures, random ramblings, bunny pictures, bunny ramblings, possibly a book/dvd/song being talked about.

I am taking a full month off. Oh, sure, the resume’s out on the resume sites, and I’ll do a bit of checking here and there, but I am passively searching. If a company calls me? Great! If not, okay.

So many things to do, now that there’s no work. There will be plenty of slacking time, but also many fun (and cheap) things to do: ames is coming to visit in less than two weeks! MDSW and wandering around DC in May with Sparkli and Mia! Possibly sneaking in a visit to Twy’s on the way back from DC. I’m going to start painting my bedroom next week, and hope to have it done before ames gets here. I also have to re-hang the bathroom doors, ha ha, since I will have a visitor. Tons of cleaning! Tons of purging of junk. Lots of reading (maybe I’ll finally finish Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman..I started it when I was still in Charlotte), and I want to pick up Feb Lady again, and get that finished. Too late for this year, but something to look forward to next fall/winter.

Dinner is cooking, mmmyummm. Steak and pasta with marinara sauce.

BSG tonight! Only two episodes left, woe. It’s going by too quickly. What will I find to replace this show????