Why I Am an Atheist #2568 May 21, 2009
Posted by threadingwater in nature.Tags: atheism, politics
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I’m a Histamine Ho May 7, 2009
Posted by threadingwater in gardening.1 comment so far
More of what’s blooming at TW HQ.
Spring in the midwest is not a season, it’s a bad magic show. Lots of filmy scarves and promises – no actual magic. Until, voila! Every goddamn trick of nature comes pouring out of the hat at once and one doesn’t know where to look first. I swear to you, if I hadn’t grabbed my camera this morning – already late for work – to snap these pics, I would have missed half the show by the time I got home from work this evening.
white bleeding heart (the bloodless variety, dedicated to Dick Cheney)
fritillaria - look! it's checkered!
poeticus - best flower name ever
I want to eat these
and these
fiddlehead fern - really can be eaten
Here’s a fiddlehead fern recipe to try, and if you can’t get enough of them in your tummy, you can also knit with them.
My Brain on Pollen Part 2 May 5, 2009
Posted by threadingwater in nature.Tags: migraine
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You are looking at an MRI scan of a brain suffering from migraine headache. Beautiful. Just as the visual hallucinations that warn me the headache is coming are beautiful.
Although, largely underappreciated – especially if the aura occurs when one is driving because it tends to be a bit disconcerting to have the pavement suddenly turn into a watery kaleidescope.
It’s a wild little trip, alright, brought to me by the magic of bright spring light, pollen and my brain. Cool.
Or not.
My Brain on Pollen May 3, 2009
Posted by threadingwater in gardening.Tags: spring
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As you’ll see
I’m too May-obsessed to blog.
Mother’s Day Project Update April 16, 2009
Posted by threadingwater in crochet, fiber arts, iraq war.add a comment
Phase one of the Mother’s Day Project, launched in April 2007, is complete. Cross-posted with additional details at the MDP website.
Now, I’ve Done It April 15, 2009
Posted by threadingwater in books, knitting.Tags: desire, international relations
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And, it’s not the first time.
Desire is a funny thing. Need a car to get from one side of a Greek island to the other? No problem. Just hand over your US driver’s license and sign the Greek contract by that “x.” Done it.
Want to tour Poland with a group of 75 Norwegian high-schoolers? Take your seat on the bus and hand your passport over to that officious little Polish man in a big-ass uniform and try to figure out what’s happening in two languages you don’t understand. Done it.
Shopping for fabric in Provence? Remember your manners and just keep handing over Euros until the goods are in your hands. Done it.
See a mightily desired and mostly unavailable Japanese knitting book on a Japanese website? Well, I think it’s headed my way but I might have just signed over my tax refund to get it.
Stimulating the US-Japanese economy? Done it.
Confessions of a Bad Blogger April 14, 2009
Posted by threadingwater in fiber arts.Tags: blogging
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What? I have a blog?
Contrary to the privately expressed concerns of TW readers who fall into the category of “lurkers,” I continue to walk amongst you in my usual shadowy, stick-to-the-peripheral way. In other words, I see you. I feel your deep angst and concern. I don’t care.
Well, I care a little.
I care more about my job – which I love, but like most objects of affection can become a monster from time to time, requiring unwavering focus and soothing discipline.
I care more about creating things with dye, fabric, wax and thread. I care more about knitting – as in, must knit every single day. And, as this bitter spring refuses to cough-up a single spot of daffodil yellow, even scattering snow last night like salt on an open wound, I care more about creating color than I do about writing.
So, if you’re still with me, here is what I would have blogged about, but didn’t, during the past month:
- the color blue
- the wrongness of Timothy Geithner
- the sublime-ness of Michelle Obama
- that kitten in the Sarah McLachlan commercial
- my anti-affair with Che
- a new shoe moratorium
- why I need to go to New Mexico
I know! You feel cheated, and probably a bit surly. Sorry, but I have to run. I just received an email from Senator Al Franken, my coffee cup is empty and I have to order that Japanese knitting book from amazon-japan (and figure out the exchange rate for dollars to yen). Sayonara, grasshoppers.
Thread Bare March 4, 2009
Posted by threadingwater in tech stuff.Tags: knitting
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Feeling a bit unraveled lately, so imagine my astonishment at receiving this bit of awesomeness (from BG, natch!) in my inbox yesterday. It perfectly captures my sense of being knit and unknit about a thousand times a day.
So, tell me – how is it the stoner in the office behind me (unshaven and smoking at work at 9 a.m. to the strains of some pounding rock music) has mastered website design and speaks “Flash” as fluently as I speak English, and I can’t even tell you the difference between PHP, ASP, SQL or ColdFusion?
I’m serious. HTML is like a Dick and Jane primer in comparison. I NEED to build a dynamic, database web page (or two) and I need them now.
Excuse me while I go pound my head against my keyboard again. There’s a nice bass line wafting in from somewhere.
Sick Day Stash-Buster February 8, 2009
Posted by threadingwater in politics.Tags: knitting, Republicans
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'Meet the Press' Pot Holders - to stuff the pieholes of the GOP
Still recovering at threadingwater abode, but keeping my hands from throwing items that would seriously damage the surroundings by knitting up these swell pot holders.
That anyone with the label ‘Republican’ is not a laughing stock of the nation right now is really chapping my ass. How freakin’ DARE they even whisper a defense of their abysmally failed policies, much less sit at the same table with the likes of Barney Frank and Claire McCaskill?!? Friggin’ poster boys of the FAIL blog, if you ask me.
Dear Mr. President: FUCK bi-partisanship! Help yourself to a pot holder and stuff it down their throats while reading them the latest unemployment figures.
(hah. feeling better by the moment)
Shameless Self-Pity February 5, 2009
Posted by threadingwater in ravelry.2 comments
Not 24 hours after giving BlueGal some advice on self-medicating a cold (Emergen-C, in case you’re wondering) my sympathy for her turned into a cold virus for me.
So, I know what you’re thinking. Big deal. A cold. And you’re right, except that . . . All that medical research that indicates OTC cold medications don’t do anything except mask cold symptoms? Well, ’scuse me? I could go for the masking of a few lousy symptoms right now, thank you very much. Trouble is, there is almost nothing on the market that doesn’t contain some ingredient that I’m allergic to. So, here I sit ~ my head swimming with a million thoughts and observations on the general state of government/political affairs, and not one chance in hell I can sort through the fog to share any of it with you.
All things considered, that might make this your lucky day.
For those of you who still show up here looking for knitting content, it seems the ONLY thing I’ve managed to accomplish this week is the mind-numbing task of a yarn stash inventory for my ravelry account. It is now complete and it paints the picture of a yarn hording addiction extraordinaire. Clearly, I have a problem, especially if one considers that I have only been knitting for 8 years.
If you have a ravelry account, I invite you to stop by. You’ll find me under “threadingwater,” natch! See anything you like? Drop me a line. Just about everything in my “trade/sell” category is free for the asking, and a similar attitude prevails over the entirety of my stash.
Take advantage while I’m weak.
