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Feb. 19th, 2012 06:36 pmThings I have done this weekend:
- Celebrated my grandmother's 86th birthday! My Auntie Lamb came out for it and everything. We bought a ridiculous pink cake because we are still used to having a five-person household and not a three-person-plus-Granny-who-doesn't-eat-much one. There is so much cake.
- Went thrifting with my mom and my aunt. Which is an endurance event, let me tell you. They are not quite the kind of people who have to touch everything in a thrift shop, but they have to touch 75% of the stuff, yes. Yesterday, we went to a St Vincents, a Value Village, and a little antique store that I didn't catch the name of, as well as the grocery store. And we almost went to a Pyrex museum (!) but it was closed. I'm not sure if I'm sorry about that or not.
- Gave my aunt my Wolfman monster doll. Let's face it, I have never really been a werewolf person. Larry was fun to make, but I don't love him like I love my vampires or mad scientists, so he never got taken anywhere fun. But Auntie Lamb thought he was adorable and then carried him about with her all weekend, so I know he's going to a good home. He'll be happier with her, I think.
- Finished the torso of the sweater I'm working on. I bound it off too tight the first time and thus had to unbind it and then bind off again (using a larger needle and a different bind-off to boot), but now I just have to do the sleeves and the neckline and it's done! Hopefully before it gets too warm to wear it.
- Watched a somewhat ridiculous amount of Dark Shadows. You guys, did you know that part of that is streaming on Netflix? It is pretty great knitting tv, as it's quite talky and if you miss anything important, they'll tell you about it in the next episode. Also, vampires. Well, a vampire. Not that he has done any onscreen vampiring as yet. But he does have a lovely Renfield. I am enjoying it immensely.* Also it's really interesting on a how-different-people-watch-tv level, because I have never really watched a soap opera before and am far more accustomed to other genres of tv, like sci-fi or crime procedurals. Those genres always have a quest of some sort, something for the characters to be aiming at. Not to say that these characters don't have things they're trying to accomplish, because they certainly do. It's just that those wants don't necessarily lead in one direction and it's perfectly okay to sort of pause the action for an episode and talk about their relationships. I keep having to adjust my expectations as to how the story's going to work, which is kinda neat.
*I am, however, a little glad that I didn't get around to watching any with my mom and my aunt (who, like every mid-50's woman I know, have stories about rushing home from school everyday to watch Dark Shadows), because it's always a little weird being around while they're revisiting childhood fandoms that I now share. I always feel like I'm retroactively destroying their childhoods or something. I had the same problem with Man From UNCLE.
- Celebrated my grandmother's 86th birthday! My Auntie Lamb came out for it and everything. We bought a ridiculous pink cake because we are still used to having a five-person household and not a three-person-plus-Granny-who-doesn't-eat-much one. There is so much cake.
- Went thrifting with my mom and my aunt. Which is an endurance event, let me tell you. They are not quite the kind of people who have to touch everything in a thrift shop, but they have to touch 75% of the stuff, yes. Yesterday, we went to a St Vincents, a Value Village, and a little antique store that I didn't catch the name of, as well as the grocery store. And we almost went to a Pyrex museum (!) but it was closed. I'm not sure if I'm sorry about that or not.
- Gave my aunt my Wolfman monster doll. Let's face it, I have never really been a werewolf person. Larry was fun to make, but I don't love him like I love my vampires or mad scientists, so he never got taken anywhere fun. But Auntie Lamb thought he was adorable and then carried him about with her all weekend, so I know he's going to a good home. He'll be happier with her, I think.
- Finished the torso of the sweater I'm working on. I bound it off too tight the first time and thus had to unbind it and then bind off again (using a larger needle and a different bind-off to boot), but now I just have to do the sleeves and the neckline and it's done! Hopefully before it gets too warm to wear it.
- Watched a somewhat ridiculous amount of Dark Shadows. You guys, did you know that part of that is streaming on Netflix? It is pretty great knitting tv, as it's quite talky and if you miss anything important, they'll tell you about it in the next episode. Also, vampires. Well, a vampire. Not that he has done any onscreen vampiring as yet. But he does have a lovely Renfield. I am enjoying it immensely.* Also it's really interesting on a how-different-people-watch-tv level, because I have never really watched a soap opera before and am far more accustomed to other genres of tv, like sci-fi or crime procedurals. Those genres always have a quest of some sort, something for the characters to be aiming at. Not to say that these characters don't have things they're trying to accomplish, because they certainly do. It's just that those wants don't necessarily lead in one direction and it's perfectly okay to sort of pause the action for an episode and talk about their relationships. I keep having to adjust my expectations as to how the story's going to work, which is kinda neat.
*I am, however, a little glad that I didn't get around to watching any with my mom and my aunt (who, like every mid-50's woman I know, have stories about rushing home from school everyday to watch Dark Shadows), because it's always a little weird being around while they're revisiting childhood fandoms that I now share. I always feel like I'm retroactively destroying their childhoods or something. I had the same problem with Man From UNCLE.
