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  • Jul. 20th, 2007 at 3:35 PM
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I just got some more yarn in the mail from Midnight Sky Fibers. I ordered some more Doorjam. I won't lie, it should be called Toejam. Someone asked me to define what colour it was, and I said, actually, it's kind of vomit coloured. Don't let that deter you from buying it. I adore it. It's what I used for that dream swatch I posted about last week.
This is the description, verbatim, from the Midnight Sky Fibers sight:

Name: Doorjam


Weight: lace-sock


Yards: 50


Ingredients: wool


Description: Wool spun in stripes of miscellaneous colors- some with touches of mohair, alternating with a dusty purple stripe.



I bought about 90 more yards, to finish said dream swatch. It won't be super long, but it doesn't need to be.



When I first met up with Doorjam, it was in a sampler type box I ordered along with a yellow single skein. The yarns from Midnight Sky are always lovely. They have a great.. I want to say raw, but that's not it, quality you just don't get from a mass produced skein from a big company. I think a lot of it comes from being handspun (at least the stuff I buy) and not mass-spun. I couldn't decide what to do with it, but it was begging to be something cute. I did a quick google, and remembered about the Dream Swatch and voila! That was it.



I even got a little surprise in this latest shipment, a free mini skein of Tangerine (which I cannot find on the site, so I am guessing it was an end) but it's cute too. I am thinking another something small, a couple of change purses or something.



All in all, I have always had a great experience with Midnight Sky Fibers, and I absolutely would send anyone over there to buy yarns.


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Ho Hum

  • Feb. 13th, 2007 at 4:54 PM
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So, drama on the board turned out to not be so "drama-full" as it could have. We lost a member... lost. No, she was given the option to come clean, provide proof or leave. She chose to leave. Goes to show you don't know shit about who is on the other end of your computer!

Our bags are selling like hotcakes. We'll need to order more soon, I think. Shirts too, and some other goodies in the works.

I bailed on the gym today. I wasn't up to walking, lifting or anything at all. So Michael went, and came home and we went to the post and the food store.

New GlassesI got new glasses yesterday! Clicky clicky the thumb for a better image.

I was a bit of a label whore. They are D&G frames but they actually cost less than the unbranded pair I was looking at. Plus with a AAA discount, they were almost free. My lenses, on the other hand, were just shy of 300$ Michael got new glasses as well, and thank goodness he got approved for their credit, b/c we certainly didn't have what it cost in full to spend yesterday. On the good side of things, my script hasn't changed much in the past two years. I am practically blind to distance without glasses, but I am 20/20 up close. (My distance was like 70/80 or something... I could barely read the third line down on the chart).

Another of our koi died. We need to test the water and clean the tank. Our pleco isn't really doing it's job and we have some nasty algae all over everything.

We had cake for Eshiva on Monday night. We didn't really do birthday anything this year. I didn't really want to. I hope that doesn't set the tone for the whole year. We had cake for the twins birthday as well, but it wasn't festive. I feel bad. I took lots of photos of her eating her cake, and of the kids and my dad and everyone.

My wrist and elbow are killing me. I need to find a decent support for them. I've been working a lot and it's taking it's toll.

Someone called asking for mom. Out of habit (assuming it was a telemarketer) I just said she isn't here and may I take a message. I hope it wasn't a friend who just didn't know. How shitty would that have been? Those telemarketers are thinking they are slick lately though, asking for people by their first names in a real friendly tone.

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Gym, Panera, Mall, Home

  • Jan. 14th, 2007 at 2:02 PM
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Went to the gym this morning. Walked for five minutes, ran for five (at 4.2 mph) and walked for five more. Biked for 20 minutes, average speed was just over 18 mph, but I was up around 28 mph for a minute (I made sure I held it for a minute solid) and was close on either side. We stretched, and then I did two reps of 10 (30 lbs) on the pec machine, one rep of 10 on the butterfly (?) machine, tried the leg press but couldn't get it set proper for me to use it. Not a bad gym day, all in all.

Came home, showered, went to Panera and had the mediterranean sandwich, and went to the mall.

I bought my sister her first real bra (went to Vickies and had her measured). Actually, I got her two, one beige, one white. She's had like, sports bras before, but I figured it was time for a decent one. I also got myself a bag that has some smelly stuff in it, and we went to Trade Secret and I got an OPI sampler thingie (I liked all the colors, couldn't decide, so I got the small bottles instead) and some CHI leave in hair repair/strengthener stuff.

Now we're home.

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