I thought of another good weird thing after I put together my list – I can’t bear to have those stupid little postcard subscription things in any magazine I receive, so I go through and rip them all out when a magazine arrives.
It’s so hard to get out of bed at this time of year! Not only is it dark dark dark, it’s chilly, so I don’t want to crawl out from under the flannel sheets and down comforter. Plus, when my alarm goes off, both cats come in (if they weren’t there already) and snuggle and purr. Flannel, down, warm purring cats… I think I need to go back to bed!
Reading Update
Back Story by Robert B. Parker. This is one of the Spenser novels and I just read it for the tiny bit of Jesse Stone crossover in it.
Blue Screen by Robert B. Parker. I just read this Sunny Randall novel a few months ago, but it was fun to reread it after reading the Jesse Stone novels, since Sunny and Jesse get together in this one.
Shakespeare’s Champion by Charlaine Harris. This was (I think) the second Lily Bard novel and I read it totally out of order, since I finished the others weeks and weeks ago. You should definitely read these in order if you can – and it should be easier since this one was reprinted at the beginning of this month.
Knitting Update
The gifting season can be difficult for the knitblogger – you’re working on these great things, but you can’t blog more than evasive hints in case the gift recipient happens across your blog entry and the surprise is ruined. But on Saturday afternoon, I finished another 13-stitch wide Arrowhead Lace scarf and since it was a birthday gift presented Saturday evening, I can actually blog about it!
This particular scarf was made from SWTC Bamboo in Fiery Red. I was so excited to have finished it that I promptly wrapped it and forgot to take any pictures with the usual suspects! 😮 They’re probably pleased that they missed out, actually.
Why yes, that might actually be genuine Naugahyde in the background! (As opposed to artificial Naugahyde?!)
The usual suspects kept busy at home.
I know!!! I want to go back to bed too!!!! It’s crappy and cold out.
Great scarf! How long did it take to make?
Lovely scarf! Did you make the kitties santa hats so they could go out with you for the christmassy festivities?
Is May that really tiny or does she have a bigger bowl?
My MIL does that and now I do it too. How annoying to have a magazine open to the same page of adverts every time, eh?
Scarf is pretty. Chaos looks grumpy en route to the bowl there. You feeding him these days? ;o) He can’t just be raiding May’s bowl.
I do that too with magazines. It’s the first thing I do.
The scarf is beautiful!
I totally rip all of those annoying thingies out, too. I think if they weren’t made of paper that’s 50 times thicker than the magazine they wouldn’t be so bad.
And the sun comes up so late, if it weren’t for a hungry cat I’d sleep until 9 or 10. I rip out the cards also, wish the advertisers realized we all hate it.
Do you remember the old ad about naugahyde: The Nauga is an ugly beast but his hyde is beautiful! OK I’m officially old.
Oh yes. I don’t think ripping those postcards out is weird at all…
Poor kitties, they do suffer so when we’re late to feed at night! Like we’re really going to starve them?
(((hugs)))
The scarf is very pretty. I love the color.
Hehe that’s your genuine artificial leather, huh? Great oxymoron. Now I must think of others….
Why do you encourage my insanity? 😛
Total agreement here on the getting up on these chilly mornings – nope, not doin’ it!
and btw- your “weird” list isn’t very weird at all. hah!
Lovely red scarf too.
I do the same thing with tose postcard subscriptions, I can’t stand them falling out as I read a magazine. The scarf is beautiful. Love the picture of C & M. May is getting big.
I rip those postcard things out too.
Nice scarf, it really shows off that supple shiny yarn — sometimes they are hard to work with, but this project looks like it might be worth it! The Usual Suspects? Maybe you should put them on a webcam and see what they do when you’re gone – or do you already? I think I would be scared by feats of kitty gymnastics if there was one at my house 😉
love that pattern!!
Oooh love the red! 🙂
Hey Chris- I thought of alot of other weird things too.
I get the magazine and I hold it by the spine and shake it. Martha Stewart Living is the worst for those things, like she’s afraid you won’t subscribe.
The touching tails are too cute.
The scarf is beautiful though I am concerned by your ecologically unsound use of rare nauga in your home. Those suckers are endangered. (It’s the NyQuil talking)
Real Naugahyde, so refined! Maybe that is not the word I was shotting for. This head cold has got to go.
(Blog is fixed! Thanks for the encouragement!)
It was a happy happy day when I discovered the name of those pesky little postcards:
http://www.answers.com/topic/blow-in-1
Now I know what to call them when I am cursing them! LOL!
That is a great scarf!
Abner when it’s morning and he doesn’t want me or my Nick to get out of bed, walks up and lays down across both of us. 90 pounds of black lab can definitely keep one in bed.
Oh poor starving kitties 🙂
I agree about the subscription cards, hate em.
Beautiful scarf.
I just want to comment about the plight of the poor Nauga. Such a short life and a sudden, painful death. Where there were once herds of Nauga teaming across the prairies, now they are only farmed for their durable hydes. It’s all just so tragic.
😉
I don’t think anybody likes those bind-in cards. But I’d rather deal with the ones attached to the magazine than the flurry of blow-in cards falling out as I turn pages . . . I always pull them out first thing . . .
Worse yet are the perfumed post card inserts. Although they aren’t often found in knitting magazines!
So – who got the scarf???
I don’t consider that weird..I do it too (the postcard insert thing). I sent in some to MSF/DWB to the Harlot, same as I gave all the neices and nephews. And, this year, all of our parents gave a sheep to a family through Heifer. AND my brother called to see if I thought it was a good idea if he gave my son (and our 2 neices) a “gift” through Kiva.org. YOU BET! The kids (or adults) get to decide who gets their $25, an investment in some entrepeneur in some hard place in the world, and when the entrepeneur makes the money back, they return the loan to Kiva, and after a year, the kid gets the $$ back…to reinvest or to just have. I’ll have to blog about this…and he sent in a pic of his kitty…so I can post a kitty pic!
Oh, we “gave” the parents the sheep!
I hate those postcard things in magazines too. I take them all out before I start browsing. My mother counts them, and if there are more than 10, look out.
I didn’t know about the Lily Bard mysteries; I followed your link, and they sound good. I’ll have to order after the holidays.
I like how Chaos and May are touching tail tips in the last photo.
Great scarf!!!
Oh your evening sounds much better than mine (check my blog). And was the intended scarfee equally delited?
Oooh pretty scarf 🙂
I have to tear all the inserts out before I can even start looking at my magazines. Why do they put those subscription cards into the ones I already subscribe to??
I hate those blow in cards that drop every where and the subscription cards. I totally agree about getting up this time of year.
Give me some of your chilly! It is hot here. Hot and yucky and my train had no a/c and the windows aren’t openable….metling in puddle on train floor…. but I still have flannie sheets on the bed cos they are soft soft soft.
OOoooo the subscription cards– good one. I do that too. I pulled 11-YES ELEVEN-out of Mother Earth News. The last one you’d expect it from. I almost had to lie down after that.
i hate waking up when it is dark
i hate getting home when it is dark
i hate getting out of bed when it is cold
i hate getting in the shower when it is cold