Aimlessness

The back issues of Piecework that I ordered from Mountain Laurel Books finally got here! What with the holiday and media mail and all, it took a little longer than expected but they came! Only for me to discover that I had ordered the wrong back issue, and that I had the one I was looking for all along. How annoying. At least I now have another Orenburg shawl pattern to play with, which is something. Overall, I think I love Mountain Laurel. They did ship my package to the wrong address, and charge far too much for crappy media rate shipping, but they had things I wanted and couldn't get anywhere else, were very friendly, and got everything shipped out very quickly, so I'm happy with them.

Other big winners for the Christmas shopping season were Overstock.com and Homebrewers Outpost, all found through Froogle.

Knitting content! You knew it happen sooner or latter! I finished the little Orenburg style scarf, and have started on a lovely lace stole for one of my friends as a birthday gift. The gift will be sadly late, as her birthday was Monday, but should be a big hit. She had a lovely knit stole that got lost, so making her a new one should be a good gift. Anyhow, the pattern is from the Folk Shawls book, it's the Japanese tea stole I think, knit in a lovely sage/sea foam wool and alpaca lace weight yarn I picked up at Village Spinning and Weaving on a one pound cone when I was there over Christmas. There should be enough of this yarn to do the stole and the new Orenburg pattern I got with my Piecework back issues. Yay! I discovered, much to my dismay, that lace weight yarn and size 3 needled are not the things good commute projects are made of. It took the better part of 20 minutes to do one row in the car (I was getting a row done in less than 5 minutes last night, half asleep, sitting on the sofa), so after the 5th dropped stitch I gave up. I'll have to start some socks or something for the car and train rides. Something small that will get done quickly will be a good thing, this shawl is going to take awhile.

I still have no idea what I'm going to do for New Years Eve, but it probably will involve sushi, champagne, the cat, and something from the Colin Firth oeuvre. I just don't feel like being the only single person without anyone to kiss at midnight at the party again. Plus I'm all broke still, which makes perfect sense given that I haven't worked a full week since early November, did all the holiday shopping, and paid for all my law school applications in the last couple of weeks. It's been an expensive month. Oh well. January should be better, once I get past the whole having to pay extra rent because my ass of a house mate is sabotaging any and all attempts at filling the vacant room. I wish he would hurry up and leave like I asked him too, it makes it hard to find a new house mate with some creep still hanging around not giving any indication as to when he'll get the hell out.