weekendness
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2eclipsei went solo for most of the weekend as ross was mostly at work prepping for little house. friday was pretty uneventful, but saturday was SERIOUSLY eventful. in a good way mostly.
first i went to detta's spindle and ordered *da da-da-DA!* my spinning wheel. it's an ashford traveler single drive unfinished. i will finish it myself.
i also got:
a niddy noddy - also unfinished that i can match to the wheel, which has a 1 meter and 2 meter options.
standard carders - the teeth are doubled and should work well with fine fibers
wheel oil - i'm still shocked that motor oil is recommended on spinning wheels.
2 lbs of LOVELY fawn colored 27 micron wool. no idea what kind, but it is soft enough to wear next to your skin. 1 lb of wool comes free from dettas when you buy a wheel - i upgraded to a higher quality of fiber, so she just gave me a discount - then i also brought soap for her to buy since she said she was interested. i got all of this wool for free and got my tax taken off as well.
detta is ridiculously nice.
then i stopped at a produce stand and picked up fresh locally grown strawberries, local potatoes (cuz we needed them) and fresh(but unfortunately not local because that's impossible here) nectarines - and headed over to shawn and thistle's place. i REALLY enjoyed myself over there. i hadn't seen them in an age due to the birth of their new-ish son, phoenix, my travel this spring and ross and my surgeries. phoenix is a beautiful, easy-going baby and cedar is actually protective of him, which is cute. he is also talking like mad (though half-unintelligably to me - it took a while for me to realize that when he says "eh-er" he's talking about me). thistle and i talked about politics and family and she says she has a friend who has some wool they are looking to get rid of for free. oh-oh-oh pick me! she is going to look into getting it to me rather than to the trash. i WIN!
we played killer bunnies (which i think was fun, but would be vastly more fun drunk or stoned), pandemic - which was a cooperative game that i REALLY enjoyed. complex and cool and apparently not easy to win - but we won. i really like the cooperative board games that are about planning everything out with the other players rather than fighting each other. most of them any way. we also played a game called bizarre that is kinda about trade conversions. it was fun, and challenged my brain in a way i'd been missing, but wasn't as much fun as the others. we talked about maybe getting an rp game going...but that will take more planning.
in between shawn and i took cedar out to burn off endless energy after his nap and actually got to talk about real life and books and movies. i think he is going to come with us to go see dark knight next week, but i have to run times by him. that should be fun. i like it when i'm the only person visiting them, or one of two, because i actually get real time with both of them. the gaming and more general stuff is fun too, but shawn and thistle are people i genuinely like and want contact with, even if i am not the most communicative friend to them sometimes. they were also kind enough to loan me lois mcmaster bujold's curse of chalion series and watchmen, which i've been wanting to read for ages. i've already finished the first book and really enjoyed it. much more complex and deep and satisfying than the other things i've read by her (sharing knife). i look forward to the others. i have started watchmen...but i'm still at the very beginning and am not sure what to think yet.
the downside of all this is that cedar is a 2 year old. and 2 year olds demand MUCH in the way of talking. i really strained my voice and hurt myself. i had to go sleep upstairs after ross came home because i was tossing and turning, and wound up doing nothing except reading and sleeping sunday - which really sucked because scott gave ross the afternoon off and he was actually home for me to be with...of course, he really slept most of the time too, poor guy. still i felt like a very unattentive wife. i wish i'd known he was going to be around. i would have come home earlier the night before. i DID start doing some laundry for him after he left, but it isn't the same.
first i went to detta's spindle and ordered *da da-da-DA!* my spinning wheel. it's an ashford traveler single drive unfinished. i will finish it myself.
i also got:
a niddy noddy - also unfinished that i can match to the wheel, which has a 1 meter and 2 meter options.
standard carders - the teeth are doubled and should work well with fine fibers
wheel oil - i'm still shocked that motor oil is recommended on spinning wheels.
2 lbs of LOVELY fawn colored 27 micron wool. no idea what kind, but it is soft enough to wear next to your skin. 1 lb of wool comes free from dettas when you buy a wheel - i upgraded to a higher quality of fiber, so she just gave me a discount - then i also brought soap for her to buy since she said she was interested. i got all of this wool for free and got my tax taken off as well.
detta is ridiculously nice.
then i stopped at a produce stand and picked up fresh locally grown strawberries, local potatoes (cuz we needed them) and fresh(but unfortunately not local because that's impossible here) nectarines - and headed over to shawn and thistle's place. i REALLY enjoyed myself over there. i hadn't seen them in an age due to the birth of their new-ish son, phoenix, my travel this spring and ross and my surgeries. phoenix is a beautiful, easy-going baby and cedar is actually protective of him, which is cute. he is also talking like mad (though half-unintelligably to me - it took a while for me to realize that when he says "eh-er" he's talking about me). thistle and i talked about politics and family and she says she has a friend who has some wool they are looking to get rid of for free. oh-oh-oh pick me! she is going to look into getting it to me rather than to the trash. i WIN!
we played killer bunnies (which i think was fun, but would be vastly more fun drunk or stoned), pandemic - which was a cooperative game that i REALLY enjoyed. complex and cool and apparently not easy to win - but we won. i really like the cooperative board games that are about planning everything out with the other players rather than fighting each other. most of them any way. we also played a game called bizarre that is kinda about trade conversions. it was fun, and challenged my brain in a way i'd been missing, but wasn't as much fun as the others. we talked about maybe getting an rp game going...but that will take more planning.
in between shawn and i took cedar out to burn off endless energy after his nap and actually got to talk about real life and books and movies. i think he is going to come with us to go see dark knight next week, but i have to run times by him. that should be fun. i like it when i'm the only person visiting them, or one of two, because i actually get real time with both of them. the gaming and more general stuff is fun too, but shawn and thistle are people i genuinely like and want contact with, even if i am not the most communicative friend to them sometimes. they were also kind enough to loan me lois mcmaster bujold's curse of chalion series and watchmen, which i've been wanting to read for ages. i've already finished the first book and really enjoyed it. much more complex and deep and satisfying than the other things i've read by her (sharing knife). i look forward to the others. i have started watchmen...but i'm still at the very beginning and am not sure what to think yet.
the downside of all this is that cedar is a 2 year old. and 2 year olds demand MUCH in the way of talking. i really strained my voice and hurt myself. i had to go sleep upstairs after ross came home because i was tossing and turning, and wound up doing nothing except reading and sleeping sunday - which really sucked because scott gave ross the afternoon off and he was actually home for me to be with...of course, he really slept most of the time too, poor guy. still i felt like a very unattentive wife. i wish i'd known he was going to be around. i would have come home earlier the night before. i DID start doing some laundry for him after he left, but it isn't the same.
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Date: 2008-07-22 06:27 pm (UTC)One of those things I mean to pick up someday, because I know my mother could. I also think I'd enjoy it.
Sounds like a good weekend.
I understand the feeling unattentive part when timeframes just don't work. My partner's new schedule is really messing with us both as far as that goes.
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Date: 2008-07-22 06:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-30 06:21 pm (UTC)I would feel good about it, too.