Bored...

[gnomi]

I should be writing. I could be knitting. I could be editing.

Instead, I'm bored.

Anyone have anything entertaining to share?

(Please keep this family-friendly, as this is an unlocked post)

(If I am left to my own devices and am bored for too long, a long, rambling post about my personal idiolect may result, and that's not fun for anyone, now, is it?)

Comments

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

"1969" (Stargate) is on the Sci Fi channel. It's one of my all time favorites.

I am trying to teach myself to crochet, and I'm finding it very difficult. I like knitting better I think.

*smooch*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

"1969" (Stargate) is on the Sci Fi channel. It's one of my all time favorites.

Ooh -- that's a wonderful episode. And Hammond references it a couple of times in later episodes, if I recall correctly.

I am trying to teach myself to crochet, and I'm finding it very difficult. I like knitting better I think.

I learned to knit when I was in elementary school. It didn't take, so much (I mean, I remember the stitches, but it didn't really appeal to me at the time, and unlike knitting, which I've come back to, I haven't really picked it up again). Lots of my friends crochet, though. I should ponder trying it again.

Have you seen The Happy Hooker (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761139850/qid=1141696683/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-3668099-1712153?s=books&v=glance&n=283155) by Debbie Stoller, the crocheting companion to Stitch and Bitch? I highly recommend S&B; I'd figure HH is also excellent.

*smooch*

*smooches you back*

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

I have S&B, and I love it. I have not seen HH but it sounds worth getting!

[arib.livejournal.com]

which one's "1969?"

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

SG-1 goes back to 1969 and encounters a young Hammond. They go on a road trip with some hippies.

(here's a summary (http://www.tv.com/stargate-sg1/1969/episode/7361/summary.html).)

[baiacou.livejournal.com]

http://www.earlygirl.com/roombaloo.shtml

Two cats and a roomba.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Hee!

I remember seeing another one, with photos, but now I can't locate it. Cat vs. Roomba seems to be a deep well of amusement.

[gem225.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do have entertaining stuff to share! My upstairs neighbor, also a knitter, gave me an easy (she says) pattern for socks, as well as a set of the double-pointed needles I'll need AND two skeins of Cascade Superwash wool to use in knitting a pair for me (a glorious purple). She's going to walk me through starting them tomorrow night.

Also, I found out that the store from which I bought much fabric back in my sewing days sells lots and lots of gorgeous yarn, and my mother and I spent a long time there today. It's like Windsor Button, only smaller - the yarn section, I mean. Paton's! Lots of Paton's yarn! Bernat's too! And I found out that my nana used to shop for yarn there, something I didn't know, which makes it even more special to me. :-D

Oh, and I finished the slippers my mother asked me to knit her today, in front of her, and she was surprised and delighted and impressed. Thank you for all that you've done to encourage me to be a knitting Gail. :-D

I like your rambles, FYI.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yay for knitting! Yay for socks!

Yay for stores that sell yarn and fabric! And yay for a connection to your nana!

And yay for finishing slippers!

I'm so glad you enjoy the knitting. I find it immensely satisfying and fun, too, which makes it a double win.

And I'm gald you like my rambles. Rambling seems to be a natural style for me. :-)

[eal.livejournal.com]

Not a thing, but for the blind among us:

what does your Jon Stewart icon say?

Love ya!

M (feeling less sick now)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Glad you're feeling less sick.

And the icon says "I'm old school. I'm very old school. I'm Yeshiva." He said it on "The Daily Show" a while back (further research shows that it was on 4 April 2005), while interviewing Reggie Miller of the Indiana Pacers.

Love ya, too!

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

Sniff. I'm sorry!

Seth walked in late (as you know; he explained to Gideon, who asked, that the computers were being bad, to which G responded "I knew that was going to happen."), leaving me to deal with getting two hyper (one, possibly both overtired) kids served dinner. Bedtime was a balagan as a result, and after that (which ended at 8:30 or so) it was sink-full-o-stinky-dishes and pay-bills and clean-up-after-the-kids (it was clear that asking them to do it was just not going to be productive that close to bedtime). Not boring, but not friendly-like, either.

Let me know when you're next husbandless for an evening, we'll try again at making plans. Schniff!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

No worries -- I hunted down the paperwork I needed to hunt down, and then I worked a bit on G's scarf, but then I had all these things I should have been doing and no desire to do any of them.

M is teaching again after Pesach. So, if not before, we can make it work then (same bat-night, same bat-time).