I may have a problem. This may be more serious than originally thought. By my count I have....
18 sets of needles, including straight, circular and double pointed.
12 balls of 100% wool
3 balls of acrylic
1 ball of ribbon yarn
2 balls of merino
2 balls of possum (yes POSSUM, blame
1 ball alpaca
2 balls hand dyed sock wool
19 balls of cotton (what? they're tiny and like, a buck fifty apiece)
This is getting bad. Though in my defense I only have remnants of left of most of those. Not whole untouched skeins. (no, I just have 15 like that)
....So why is it that I still don't have the right needles to do the scarf i want to do while I wait to figure out the sock?
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nerdy
Anyway, I have ripped 3 out of 4 of my new CDs for your listening pleasure. I should have the Monkey Majik CD up tonight in the same folder, but I forgot the CD at work over the weekend.
Sambomaster - Sambomaster wa Kimi ni Katarikakeru (Sambomaster is Talking to You)
This is probably my favorite of the bunch. Sambomaster is pretty much pure rock, and full of that Bill and Ted 'Rock and Roll will change the world' spirit. LOVE AND PEACE. Tracks 1, 4 and 8 are some of my all time Sambomaster favorites and I'm glad to finally have the CD instead of watching the YouTube videos over and over.
Sambomaster - Atarashiki Nihongo Rokku No Michi To Hikari (The Road and the Light of the New Japanese Language Rock)
Not as good as 'Sambomaster wa Kimi ni Katarikakeru' but it's still Sambomaster.
Teriyaki Boyz - Serious Japanese
I think I love this CD as much as I love to mock it. I don't think I like this supergroup as much as I like the groups the members are from, and there's a lot of true fail on it. I mean, Kanye West is so very very bad. And there's a whole song dedicated to the brand of clothes that one of the members created. But track 2 and 9 are very good. And track 7 is all about the movie Fifth Element. Really. (Ok, not really, but it does specifically shout out to Bruce Willis)
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cold - enough with the air conditioning already! - Music:Teriyaki Boyz - Get the Hell Outro
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happy - Music:サンボマスター - 歌声よおこれ
I also got a CD by 'Teriyaki Boyz' which is a supergroup made up of people from Rip Slyme, and m-flo plus Wise and the DJ Nigo. I want to say that they got together to perform the 'Tokyo Drift' song for the Fast and Furious movie, and have put out two albums since, but I may not be right about that. I do know that they have inexplicable guest stars on their albums like Daft Punk, Busta Rhymes and Kanye West.
And I have to say, Kanye (because I know you're listening) it is not good when the Japanese guys have better English lyrics than you do. First here's a bit from m-flo's Verbal (who admittedly went to international schools growing up and speaks perfectly fluent English):
'When I speak I'm like Shuriken / lookin for a hustle to sink my teeth in'
And now Kanye, here's what you threw in:
'All that frontin for the audience / make'em not exist no more, Yugoslavians'
Time to step up the game, Kanye.
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energetic - Music:Work That - Teriyaki Boyz feat. Pharrel
I have fat ankles.
...AND calves.
I tested the cuff, and found that if I was intending anything more than an ankle sock I was doomed. Luckily for me one of my Christmas presents was 'Big Girl Knits' which I remembered had a section on adapting socks for people with thicker legs/ankles. Easy-Peasey-One-Two-Threezy right?
Uhh... So I may have spent most of last night building a spreadsheet to figure out my sock equations. The number of stitches I need to start is the circumference of my leg where the sock should end times my stitches per inch minus 15% for a snug fit, 10% for a looser fit and then rounded to the nearest multiple of 4. Then to figure out how to get to my decreases it's....well, that's not important.
What's important is that I think I'm back to washcloths for awhile. XD
(I need to make a knitting icon, I think)
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amused
'Wait, what's going on now? Is this the same character that was singing the last song that I heard? Is this the hero or the villain? You need more singers!'
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confused - Music:The Hazards of Love - Version ??
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cheerful
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content
Name: Castleray Roxanne of Derkatz (Roxy)
Nickname(s): Moneypenny, Grumpybutt
Birthday: 10/20/07
Origins: adopted from the Dertatz cattery after her first litter of kittens did not go well and they decided she'd be better off as a pet than breeding stock.
Breed/coloring: British Shorthair / Tortoiseshell
Distinguishing features: OMG Big Orange Eyes, also one inky foot and one biscuit foot
Favorite food: yogurt, tuna juice and Greenies cat treats
Favorite sleeping position and spot: on top of a cardboard box of manga
Enemies: perhaps my coworker's 10 year old son, but she's pretty tolerant of him too
Bad habit: deciding the laptop cord is a toy and destroying my lovely, wonderful couch.
Most anthropomorphic trait: Hates the alarm clock as much as I do, and complains when it goes off.
Other strangeness: Tiniest grumpiest meow in the world. Has successfully been cat yodeled.
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content
Ring Ring Ring BANANARCHY!
(link found by the ossim
But it still feels weird. And especially weird for filling out unemployment when really I feel more like I'm taking a no-pay vacation. But the office told us to do this, and I'm not missing out on benefits for a week out of pride. (My boss said something about not filing just out of pride. I told him I could use his benefits if he didn't need it.)
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determinedly optimistic

Kisses
Originally uploaded by DarjeelingTea
So Saturday I actually dragged myself away from the computer early in the morning (I wake up early just fine. I just don't like to DO anything) and off to the local Farmer's Market. I figure, there's actual farmers here, there's probably a good market, right?
So I picked up some cinnamon raisin bread, and fresh eggs. There wasn't a whole lot there, but I hear it's a bit early for produce.
But what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a lady around my age with a spinning wheel and a table full of yarn! She said 'It's knitting in public day! Grab your sticks and come join me!" So I ran my eggs home, grabbed my folding chair and came back and knitted and chatted with her for a few hours.
It turns out she is on Etsy, as Paper and Yarn. And I somehow found myself buying two skeins of hand dyed sock yarn. It's beautiful and I want to work with it right now, but I do NOT know how to use dpn or magic loop or even how to knit in the round. So it will probably sit in my knitting bag for awhile until I build up confidence.
It was a pretty awesome day.
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happy

troika of geek
Originally uploaded by DarjeelingTea
Finished my Trek knitting project! One washcloth/dishcloth for each uniform color. But the real question is....how long until the red washcloth bursts into flames, or comes unraveled in the wash? Oh I hope it's soon.
(Oh, btw, here's that ribbon scarf I was talking about )
When I finally decided it was time to bind off it was...uh....six feet eight inches.
I will try and have a picture of it's ridiculousness up soon.
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dorky
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thirsty
It's the story of a bunch of girls in a high school band getting ready for the school festival. They lose one of their members to an injury, and decide to replace her with the next person to walk by as their lead singer. The next person happens to be a Korean exchange student who only speaks limited Japanese. From there on it plays out pretty much exactly as you'd expect it to. I loved all of the Korean girl, Son's, scenes. They reminded me very much what it was like when you're playing along with only sort of understanding what's going on around you.
Another plus is that the girls are a Punk band. Yes! Japanese High School Punk! In that way that they are much more ordinary students than anything punkish. Their songs they play are all covers of The Blue Hearts, a popular Japanese punk band. And all the instrumental tracks were done by the Smashing Pumpkins, James Iha.
The only thing I didn't like very much about it is that they don't differentiate when someone is speaking Japanese vs. Korean. Which makes a HUUUGE difference in one of the scenes.
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chipper
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ditzy
And since I was in the land of, like, stores and things, I picked up my Father's Day presents and a bunch of cotton yarn. I may be acquiring a stash after all. But it's all necessary! For geeky washcloths! Like the Daleks I promised people, and the first of the Star Trek washcloths. (I'm making a gold and red one, and then planning to see if the red one manages to catch on fire, or get destroyed in the wash or something)
The Trek washcloth I knitted while mainlining the first disc of Chuck. OMG what a great show. I'd heard many good things, but had never gotten around to actually watching it. (I might have done much sooner if I'd known that Adam Baldwin was in it, and playing a very slightly more civilized Jayne to boot.) Very, very funny show.
And, to drive up my ratings, two more Roxy Pictures.
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ditzy
Then I noticed that there was a coupon stuck to the box...buy the 5 pack and get a free 10 pack box of Capri Sun. It's not something I usually drink, but...free!
And then when I checked out I got a dollar fifty off my next grocery bill. Between that and other things I think I saved about $10 on that trip.
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smug
