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darchildre) wrote2011-01-10 03:45 pm
darchildre) wrote2011-01-10 03:45 pm
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Things I have accomplished thus far today:
- Bought a soap dish. (Because, see, I bought these soaps from this place and they are lovely and smell fantastic and thus they needed a place to be near the sink. And my mother was tired of me stealing her ramekins.)
- Watched the Going Postal miniseries. Which I was a little hesitant about, because I didn't much like the Hogfather one. (I have not seen Colour of Magic. I hated the book, after all.) Going Postal isn't perfect, but it's a lot of fun and I quite enjoyed it. After all, there was Moist and Adora Belle and they kissed. And Charles Dance's Lord Vetinari is fantastic and perfect and I want his coat. (I do have trouble taking David Suchet seriously as a villain because, y'know, he's Hercule Poirot.)
- Taught myself to knit in the round. Knitting in the round is ridiculously complicated and requires far too many implements, but it's necessary for socks and gloves. So I am knitting these (the ones without thumbs, because I don't need that sort of hassle yet). I tried very hard to make myself stick to easy flat things for learning purposes, but I am terribly impatient when it comes to yarn craft and with flat things you only have three options: 1) washclothes, which I don't really need more of, 2) scarves, which I don't wear, and 3) large things like sweaters, which I would like to make eventually but not today. Round things can be small and interesting and useful. We should all be glad that I didn't decide to jump straight into cabling.
Pretty good crafty day, really.
- Bought a soap dish. (Because, see, I bought these soaps from this place and they are lovely and smell fantastic and thus they needed a place to be near the sink. And my mother was tired of me stealing her ramekins.)
- Watched the Going Postal miniseries. Which I was a little hesitant about, because I didn't much like the Hogfather one. (I have not seen Colour of Magic. I hated the book, after all.) Going Postal isn't perfect, but it's a lot of fun and I quite enjoyed it. After all, there was Moist and Adora Belle and they kissed. And Charles Dance's Lord Vetinari is fantastic and perfect and I want his coat. (I do have trouble taking David Suchet seriously as a villain because, y'know, he's Hercule Poirot.)
- Taught myself to knit in the round. Knitting in the round is ridiculously complicated and requires far too many implements, but it's necessary for socks and gloves. So I am knitting these (the ones without thumbs, because I don't need that sort of hassle yet). I tried very hard to make myself stick to easy flat things for learning purposes, but I am terribly impatient when it comes to yarn craft and with flat things you only have three options: 1) washclothes, which I don't really need more of, 2) scarves, which I don't wear, and 3) large things like sweaters, which I would like to make eventually but not today. Round things can be small and interesting and useful. We should all be glad that I didn't decide to jump straight into cabling.
Pretty good crafty day, really.