Much of a muchness
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 by ames(ames)
So it’s been a bit of a few weeks here in amesville. In the past month, I have:
- packed up an apartment and moved states (again)
- been wined and dined throughout Chicagoland as my friends and I said goodbye
- became the new BFF of a little poodle named Buffy
- watched my cat slowly become King of the
LabUpstairs - remained unemployed, sigh (although that’s not new)
- finished a pair of socks
- met my mother’s crazy friends
- sewed one seam out of many in my sweater
- played with cute babies
- contemplated starting a completely insane shawl that makes my fingers itch from wanting to knit it
- hooked up with two old friends, one from law school, one from high school
- watched Julie & Julia with my parents and got completely inspired to cook.
It’s been kind of insane! So, to expand. For various and sundry reasons that include, but are not limited to, my lack of employment, my grandfather’s increasing age, and my family missing me a lot, I have returned home. Home, for the record, is Charleston, SC. I haven’t lived here in roughly 18 years, and it’s like living in a completely foreign city. Well, kind of – I still know where things are, but so much has changed! My father came up to get me, which was very nice of him. The poor man pretty much drove for four days – two up, two down.
The drive was peaceful, although marred in the middle by the surprise death of my little grey cat, Sergei. It was a surprise in that I wasn’t expecting it that night, but I also wasn’t expecting him to be one of those cats who lives to be fifteen. He had a heart murmur, and was slowing down a lot in the past few months. So that was sad, and I worried a bit about how Buddy would handle it, until I remembered that he was moving into a house with two miniature poodles. Cue chaos, hahaha. They’re settling down now, but oh my – Buddy hasn’t had this much excitement EVER.
The socks! The knitty girls and I went to YarnCon last October, and I scored this sweet skein of Sophie’s Toes:
Candy Corn colorway, and it is most beautiful. I know you’re thinking that the brightness is because I abused the flash on my camera, but you are wrong, because this is some seriously BRIGHT yarn. And it makes cute socks!
Very cute, yes? Yes! Sadly, that’s the only completed knitting I have to share. I’m still avoiding the seams on the sweater just out of contrariness, and there’s a hand towel of Mom’s that I’m finishing (linen! very stiff, I’m mostly working on this because I want to see it become lovely and soft), and staring at a crazy lacy beaded wrap with absolute knitterly lust. I want to make it.
Instead, Mom and I cooked. Beef Burgandy (I am most tired of typing out the French name, you’ll have to live) a la Julia Child. Witness:
It was good! It was a little heavy for my particular eating today, but I didn’t care and ate it anyway. Yum.
