January 2011
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2010 blew chunks. let’s never do that again.
the last two hours of it will be spent high on pain meds, reading crappy YA books about fairies, and knitting.
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30 days of knitting: day 3
Day 3: Do you have any other WIPs (works in progress)?
welp now I can officially say I’ve got bbcablesandbigones on the needles - I am on row 17! - and there’s a sock in my closet that I need to rip the toe off of and reknit, and there’s a sweater in my yarn box that needs fixing, and there’s another cardi under my bed (in a bag) that I’ve been planning to frog and...
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all right, healthy people of the world: you should know that every time you try to convince a chronically ill person of the existence of a silver lining in all things, said chronically ill person is probably plotting your death.
consider yourselves warned
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30 days of knitting: day 2
Day 2: What is currently on your needles?
uh, kind of nothing. just finished a hat and am in the middle of frogging a badly-sized sweater so I can make baby cables and big ones too. buuut yeah all needles are currently unoccupied. WHICH IS WEIRD LET ME TELL YOU
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i am china dinosaur factory →
I do not think I want to establish long-term cooperative relationship with you, China dinosaur factory
but also could you make me a velociraptor, I hear they’re pretty cool
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hazards of being home sick on medical leave: during holidays when all your high school friends come back to town, they’re all brimming with stories of being awesome and college-y and “hey do you wanna come to the bar tonight” and then they ask how you’re doing or what you’re studying or how long you’re in town for
and you kind of wrinkle up your nose and say...
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k why not: 30 days of knitting
Day 1: What was your first finished project?
a stockinette-stitch hat in truly awful yarn: variegated pink-purple-green-blue acrylic. half the stitches were twisted and at least ten per cent were split. but I knitted it on circular needles and finished it on DPNs, mostly because people on the Internet were all OMG DPNs ARE BREAKING MY BRAIINZ and I was like CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
I don’t...
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yeah I am listening to Planetary (GO!) nonstop...
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today will be spent playing the balancing game between Getting Shit Done and Not Being In Pain
which is to say I would love to eat a bunch of painkillers but I should really do some stuff
ughhh ow
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having your doctors go “we dunno and we’re sorry :(” is not really all that comforting
fuckin’ I hate being sick and I kind of hate being alive
emopants: engaged and ready for action
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christmas knitting update - gifted all but the green-and-brown endpaper mitts, and apparently I knocked it out of the park. OH RIGHT I have another picture to post
fuck yeah knitting
CEILING FAN MAKING NOISES LIKE IT WANTS TO UNSCREW ITSELF FROM THE CEILING AND KILL ME
I don’t even watch horror movies
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reading Wuthering Heights.
“And he struck his forehead with rage” —> “Heathcliff facepalmed”
this is probably not correct
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is it christmas →
signs point to YES
merry christmas, tumblr, and have an awesome saturday
<3
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“Trust yourself. And don’t lose.”
– Granny Weatherwax’s tips on winning, I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett, p. 297
ugh, having a bad night. may need cute-infusion.
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movies to see before awards season starts for...
the social network I GUESS
the king’s speech
true grit (yeah shut uuup)
tron: legacy (if I don’t I will lose all my nerd cred)
the fighter
winter’s bone
burlesque, lol
the kids are all right
tangled, possibly
I had better get Netflixin’
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kate beaton provides wonder to the internet →
A picture of Quakers being expelled by Puritains, but I must say it looks like they’re being danced out of town by ravers
OF COURSE