Monday Morning Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- Purim was good, if busy. Megillah at night, then Megillah-seudah-mishloach manot delivery, then Shabbat prep.

-- Friday dinner with arib's parents and Shabbat lunch with lucretia_borgia and sethg_prime removed *some* of the pre-Shabbat crazy, but it always seems like, even when I don't have a ton of Shabbat cooking to do, the amount of prep spreads to fill all available time.

-- Soon I will segue into the pre-Pesach crazy. This year we're not traveling (except to lcmlc and Abba for the sedarim), so the whole place has to be Pesach-friendly. I will likely start the process this week (I couldn't bring myself to start yesterday, even though that would've been smart).

-- Speaking of Pesach, I said last night to a friend that I had a wish: that Jewish leap years (such as this one) had, instead of Adar I and Adar II, Nissan I and Nissan II. Following the Adar pattern, we'd have Pesach Katan (little Passover) in Nissan I, and the real Pesach would be in Nissan II, thus giving us a whole extra month to do Pesach prep.

-- What did I do instead of Pesach stuff yesterday? I knit. Specifically, I worked on these socks:






-- Relatedly, now that they've been received, I can show off these, which I knit for thespisgeoff:

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Keep them home for Pesach with socks?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Something like that.

Remind me; we have an invite for a meal if we're home for seventh and eighth day.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Remember that we have an invite for a meal if we're home for seventh and eighth day. :-)

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Nice socks!

I still think you ought to knit a TARDIS. But that's just me.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I like doing socks. And there's a magic phrase that, when used, usually triggers me to knit socks for folks. :-)

I finished my TARDIS (http://pics.livejournal.com/gnomi/pic/0004hbby/g31) in time for Arisia this year (though it was a close thing; I think I was sewing it together the Wednesday night before Arisia).

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Ah! I should have known.

They (by which I mean the TARDIS and your husband) look so natural together.

[emrinalexander.livejournal.com]

The socks are so cute! I do knit, but I've never mastered making anything other than scarves.

I started cleaning yesterday and I have the sinking feeling that I'm never going to get all the chametz out of the house, let alone the other stuff done. I wish time would expand to fit the tasks.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I love doing socks, because they're relatively straightforward, with minimal fiddly bits.

I love the fact that, right before Pesach, we declare all leftover chametz null and void. That has kept me from going absolutely crazy. That said, I still clean like a crazy cleaning thing.

[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Pesach, I said last night to a friend that I had a wish: that Jewish leap years (such as this one) had, instead of Adar I and Adar II, Nissan I and Nissan II. Following the Adar pattern, we'd have Pesach Katan (little Passover) in Nissan I, and the real Pesach would be in Nissan II, thus giving us a whole extra month to do Pesach prep.

Huh? I don't get it. If we had an extra Nisan instead of an extra Adar, Purim would be a month earlier, but Pesach would still wind up starting on Apr 19. The only benefit I can see is that the grocery stores wouldn't annoy me by starting to sell Pesach items before Purim.

[introverte.livejournal.com]

But there would be an extra month between Purim and Pesach, in which you'd be done with making costumes and cookies, and able to eat the cookies and chase away the crumbs.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

*Exactly*!