25 Things Meme
1. I like reading posts full of random synaptic firings on my friends list. :)
2. I wish I could emulate that style of writing, but I feel I'm not very good at it.
3. I tend to think in sentence fragments. However, I often fail to notice it when I'm blogging until I go back and wonder *what on earth was I thinking when I wrote that?*
4. My mailbox will soon be full of even more yarn.
5. But it's a blend of silk and merino! And lace-weight! I don't have any of that! If you use sock yarn in stoles it may not drape right because sock yarn that drapes means socks that are puddled up in your shoes.
6. And more sock yarn. I like socks; they're less labor-intensive and time-intensive than sweaters. My step-dad loves getting socks from me. :) Mom says that they're back on his feet as soon as they're out of the wash.
7. I've started taking a great interest in lace projects because less complicated projects bore me now. Cables suck because they're basically a ribbed project but more annoying.
8. Cables also suck because they make the fabric thick, so you will be too hot and look fat. I not in favor of either of these.
9. Sometimes I think that I like spinning more than knitting. I can think and spin or listen to music and spin. With knitting, I sometimes discover the next day that I have been knitting at random while in a media-induced haze. :P
10. Do you remember that scene from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" where Harry finally finds the right wand after almost leveling Ollivander's with all the rejects? When there's a glow of light and the music score soars and you can see that this is an Important Moment? That's what it was like when I picked up my first spindle. Srsly.
11. Do you ever think about what sort of iconography you might have on your holy card if you ever became a canonized saint?
12. I figure mine will have a spindle. See item 10.
13. And also a cat who is *not* chasing yarn or batting at the spindle. Dora is fairly well-behaved around yarn in general, which surprises me. I don't think she approves of spinning and knitting in general, however, because it means that my hands are not free for petting. She tolerates knitting better because she can at least sit on my lap, even if she's not being petted.
14. Sentence fragments.
15. I suppose if I'm going to both spin *and* get my very own holy card, I'm going to have to become a better contemplative. Does singing along with the Travelling Wilburys count? Prolly not. :P
16. A special intention. I haz one. I've been sending donations for prayer intentions to my favorite professional praying organizations lately.
17. U too, plz? I haven't been able to really formally pray for a while. The best I can do is spin in silence. And delegate to professional pray-ers.
18. I *do* remember to pray for my lj friends, by name, at Mass, tho.
19. I have a whole regular list of intentions that I'm trying to mention in my head before the Sacrament melts completely. After Communion, I pray like an auctioneer.
20. Am I boring you? I'm sorry, I'm trying not to. :(
21. I'm happier now than I have been in a long time. Maybe the happiest. :) Despite the prayer thing. Special intention!!!!
22. I suppose I don't feel the need to post so much when I'm happy, at least not any angsty types of things. Mostly it ends up being technical notes to myself. I still read my friends list almost everyday, tho, even if I don't comment much.
23. I'm so excited by, and terrified by, the future that I could just burst. Special intention!!!!!!
24. I haven't thought of a Lenten penance for this year. I suspect I forgot last year altogether, but have no clear recollection one way or the other.
25. "I got sunshiiiiiine on a clooouuudy day . . . ." :) Maybe I should browse for some Motown at Amazon.
2. I wish I could emulate that style of writing, but I feel I'm not very good at it.
3. I tend to think in sentence fragments. However, I often fail to notice it when I'm blogging until I go back and wonder *what on earth was I thinking when I wrote that?*
4. My mailbox will soon be full of even more yarn.
5. But it's a blend of silk and merino! And lace-weight! I don't have any of that! If you use sock yarn in stoles it may not drape right because sock yarn that drapes means socks that are puddled up in your shoes.
6. And more sock yarn. I like socks; they're less labor-intensive and time-intensive than sweaters. My step-dad loves getting socks from me. :) Mom says that they're back on his feet as soon as they're out of the wash.
7. I've started taking a great interest in lace projects because less complicated projects bore me now. Cables suck because they're basically a ribbed project but more annoying.
8. Cables also suck because they make the fabric thick, so you will be too hot and look fat. I not in favor of either of these.
9. Sometimes I think that I like spinning more than knitting. I can think and spin or listen to music and spin. With knitting, I sometimes discover the next day that I have been knitting at random while in a media-induced haze. :P
10. Do you remember that scene from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" where Harry finally finds the right wand after almost leveling Ollivander's with all the rejects? When there's a glow of light and the music score soars and you can see that this is an Important Moment? That's what it was like when I picked up my first spindle. Srsly.
11. Do you ever think about what sort of iconography you might have on your holy card if you ever became a canonized saint?
12. I figure mine will have a spindle. See item 10.
13. And also a cat who is *not* chasing yarn or batting at the spindle. Dora is fairly well-behaved around yarn in general, which surprises me. I don't think she approves of spinning and knitting in general, however, because it means that my hands are not free for petting. She tolerates knitting better because she can at least sit on my lap, even if she's not being petted.
14. Sentence fragments.
15. I suppose if I'm going to both spin *and* get my very own holy card, I'm going to have to become a better contemplative. Does singing along with the Travelling Wilburys count? Prolly not. :P
16. A special intention. I haz one. I've been sending donations for prayer intentions to my favorite professional praying organizations lately.
17. U too, plz? I haven't been able to really formally pray for a while. The best I can do is spin in silence. And delegate to professional pray-ers.
18. I *do* remember to pray for my lj friends, by name, at Mass, tho.
19. I have a whole regular list of intentions that I'm trying to mention in my head before the Sacrament melts completely. After Communion, I pray like an auctioneer.
20. Am I boring you? I'm sorry, I'm trying not to. :(
21. I'm happier now than I have been in a long time. Maybe the happiest. :) Despite the prayer thing. Special intention!!!!
22. I suppose I don't feel the need to post so much when I'm happy, at least not any angsty types of things. Mostly it ends up being technical notes to myself. I still read my friends list almost everyday, tho, even if I don't comment much.
23. I'm so excited by, and terrified by, the future that I could just burst. Special intention!!!!!!
24. I haven't thought of a Lenten penance for this year. I suspect I forgot last year altogether, but have no clear recollection one way or the other.
25. "I got sunshiiiiiine on a clooouuudy day . . . ." :) Maybe I should browse for some Motown at Amazon.