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Archive for March, 2007

Eye Candy:

Thanks to everyone for commiserating with me regarding the latest hole in the sock episode.  I said last time that it was my wood floors that contributed to the destruction and I believe that the floors are the perpetrators of this crime also.  I’d like to submit Exhibit A:

…and Exhibit B:

See the big chunks missing and the ragged edges?  They tend to catch on socks…and this section of the floor sees the most foot traffic.  Guess what just got added to the ‘House Upgrades to do this Summer’ list?

It all started innocently enough – doesn’t it always?  I had run out of clean hand knit sockage so I threw a bunch of them into the sink to soak without really looking and let them sit for about 20 minutes.  The horror began when I took them out to dry. The first few were okay…then I took out the p-sockage. (you know the pair, I had to fix the toe on one about a month ago)  The first one was fine the next…

…not so fine. Let me share with you the vision that made me go all Nancy Kerrigan in the middle of my kitchen:

Say it with me now, “Why?! WHY?!?! W H Y ?!?!?!”

…that the latest cover of Spin-Off has a pair of socks that were dyed, spun, designed and knit by none other than the lovely Kristi – how cool is that? Dobby is now completely convinced of my insanity because when I got my copy I ran around the house showing it to her, RR and the dog. Both the dog and RR were pretty impressed ;o) I have a feeling Dobby will be more impressed when she turns 25 and becomes human again…

ANYway, in her post about her cover debut she mentioned that she’d finally feel that it was ‘real’ once she sees it on the newsstands. I think she mentioned B&N specifically…so, since I aim to please and will use any excuse possible to go into B&N (especially with RR since when I go with him…he pays) here you go, Kris…I braved being committed by RR, the evil eye from the manager and the crazy controls on my camera phone to bring you:

…the latest Spin-Off on the magazine rack at the B&N in Albany, NY. Congrats again!! (go congratulate her – what are you waiting for?!) (and aren’t those socks gorgeous?!?! They’re part of the reason why I broke out the Kool-Aid the other day – beside the sheer desperation to have new roving any way I could other than buying it, that is…)

Oh, and here is a bit of cuteness for you…taken for La’s foot thingy but then not posted…

Why not posted, you ask?  Because I’ve been busy.  with taxes.  and clown poop.  Going back to the taxes now…