Instead of sleeping, like I should be, I have a wicked amount of energy and am instead watching "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" with my sister and her friends.  Well, I was, but they've all fallen asleep and I'm still awake.  I think it's because I'm the only sober one, but whatever.  There you have it.  Beer makes you miss movies.  I'm ( Read more... )

So, something's making me a little nervous--the fact that I actually haven't been missing Wells this summer.  I mean, I miss my friends from Wells, and I miss a few things about it, but on a whole, I'm having a great time here.  This is upsetting for a few reasons, but chiefly my reason is:

I'm not really doing anything this summer.  I have an ( Read more... )

So, I've been a bit fiber-crazy lately. The weird thing is, even though my mind has been chanting, "YARN, YARN, YARN," I haven't actually done...basically any knitting lately.

It's this thing's fault.

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I have a spinning wheel....that WORKS!!!  I spun like, four ounces of Blue Face Leicester today (kind of without taking a break) with something near a modicum of swearing!  Too bad no one was around, I'm sure anyone would have picked up some really creative dirty words.

A CELEBRATORY MEME, yoinked from
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On Saturday, I went to the Northern California Wool and Fiber Festival.

Did anyone else think this was perhaps a BAD BAD PLAN??

Perhaps.  I MAY have come home with some of the following....

A drop spindle!


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