Back away from the oven!
Happy New Year!
It’s our James Bond year! (Was I the only fool suckered into going to see A view to a kill because Duran Duran sang the theme song???)
Yes, I know, I’m a few days late… But trust me, you would thank me for not posting a few days ago! After all, this is supposedly some kind of knitting, spinning blog, right; not some type of therapy.
Good thing I’m not superstitious about ‘New Years’, I spent the first few hours in tears, and New Year’s day covered in vomit. Sounds like it was a good high school party, no? Well, It isn’t what you think. Plus, I was never one of those types to get drunk and cry, I left that one up to Rob. He was the drama queen back then. The vomit came from my young, ah! the glamorous life I lead. The tears, well, apparently, I slid down the dark PMS abyss. Add the power of hormones to the magical change that is supposed to happen with the turn of the new year, multiply that by the expectations I have for myself, viola, tears.
If I was 20 years younger I would have been held up in a dark room listening to Cure records smoking cigarettes and writing bad poetry and doing stipple… (And you know, with having two sick kids to contend with, this seemed like a really great option.)
Instead, I threw myself at the mercy of my spinning wheels.
I’m not one for resolutions at the beginning of the fictitious calender change; but I do have a bad habit of looking backwards over the year and finding all of my faults. The thing that bothered me the most was I felt like I wasted the gifts that were bestowed on me in 05. It was a difficult year, but the amount of personal growth that was granted to me by the universe was astounding. I feel like I’ve almost betrayed my compassionate path. I feel like what I do is totally trivial given the state of the world. In my heart, I hope that isn’t true. And I know I can take steps to correct that, if it is the case.
Out of all that came my Fiber Friday.
It is called ” 58,408 ”
185 yards
10 ounces
apx 11 wpi
2 ply,
One ply of black wool top & mohair locks with an itty bitty ply of wool, nylon and silk sari.
The topic this week was Grief.
58,408 is the number of Iraqi civilians killed since the resident and his cronies decided to stomp up in there. For what? Money and oil? When the greed of a few men can cause that much human suffering, and not be held accountable for such shameful acts; we truly live in an unjust world. I wonder how they can sleep at night? (Perhaps large quantities of sleeping pills washed down with alcohol? )
I know, you must be thinking “……and this ISN’T depressed?”
Believe me when I say you would not like to have read anything I would have posted a few days ago, before my new favorite cure for hormonal induced insanity…
For those of you who want in on the cure, take 3 to 4 pints of neopolitan dynamite (I would highly recommend 4, just to be on the safe side.) Put this on repeat, (Thank you Brenda & Muggle!) and do something you find joy in. Stir well and often.
I think that will be a new mantra for this James Bond year; Find the joy.
♥
I can find the joy in everything Ben & Jerry do! I need a little of that PMS relief right now. So glad you’re enjoying the CD - just trying to spread the love
January 5th, 2007 | #
OH, and can I say, for a yarn called “grief”, it’s so beautiful it makes me want to cry. Either that or wrap myself up in it.
January 5th, 2007 | #
Hey, in A View to a Kill they had a magical car chase that started in SF, jumped a drawbridge in Alameda, and ended in east Oakland. They’d be stuck in traffic today. I like Christopher Walken, too.
January 5th, 2007 | #
absolutely beautiful yarn!
I also went to see the View to a Kill because of Duran Duran. I was a Duran Duran freak back in the day. Kind of embarrasing to think about it now
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Can I ever relate to your New Years eve. I had a nice New years eve, it’s just been every day since that has sucked. I like your mantra. I’m going to start chanting it right now.
January 5th, 2007 | #
hey beautiful. I’m glad you’re doing better xoxo
January 5th, 2007 | #
I hope the new year is good to you, Pippi. xo
January 5th, 2007 | #
I wish you the best in the new year; your goal sounds a lot like mine. Find the joy & use your talents.
That is beautiful yarn - and your Flickr tags make perfect sense now. Over 58,000… that just leaves me speechless. *sigh*
January 5th, 2007 | #
I hear you on the sick kids thing. Blech. Same thing here. Beautiful yarn, as always.
January 6th, 2007 | #
Duran Duran? No way- I had you pegged for the Clash or something with more of an edge!
January 7th, 2007 | #
I hope you have a great new year! I too love the Neopolitan Dynamite ice cream! It does wonders when I’m in a foul mood.
January 7th, 2007 | #
I am glad you are back. I have been worried it was your health that was making you feel down.
I still love the Cure - and Morrisey/ The Smith’s - “Somebody”:
I want somebody to care for me passionately, with every thought and with every breath, someone who helps me see things, in a different light - all the things I detest, I will almost like.
Well, I hope things go better - and the yarn was definitely worth the wait - beautiful.
Take care of yourself.
Holly
January 8th, 2007 | #
I’ve always hated New Year’s Eve (especially this year, when my friend’s 20yo daughter started wailing, as the ball dropped, “I feel soooo old!”). At least you can feel comfort that, as far as being covered in puke goes, you picked the most popular night of the year to do it.
New important PMS discovery: I always have a meltdown about five days before my period starts. It’s like clockwork, it only lasts a few hours, and I can feel my chest start to tighten up as I prepare to have an out-of-body experience that involves me watching myself destroy my family with verbal shrapnel. Then it’s over.
I did some googling and found out that on day 23 of one’s cycle, there is a huge progesterone crash, worse than any other day of the cycle. I now blame everything mean I’ve ever said or felt on inadequate progesterone.
However, knowing and accepting one’s PMS, and being able to overcome the onslaught, are two different things. Hope you are feeling better.
‘Til next time.
January 10th, 2007 | #
Your cure sounds perfect, especially for a woman who’s spent her week lost in a sinus infection. And wow, that yarn is beautiful!! Feel better soon, okay?
January 14th, 2007 | #
Sorry about the hormonal crash and burn. I can’t remember what it is like. I was surgically altered (not my choice, the big C) almost 15 years ago. I can’t blame my bad moods on anything. However, I do have something to blame for my dry shins.
The Grief yarn is fabulous (completely ignoring what the name says about it - I am in serious Iraq overload/disgust/dismay/shame). As is the scarf. Nevermind what it says it wants to be; do you listen to everything your children say that want?
I am excited about your Sport weight sock yarn. I am waiting for my colorway (I don’t know what it is yet, just that I will know when I see it.) Sport weight socks are my new thing. Did you see my finished Strange Days socks? I posted a pic a day or two ago.
Hugs,
January 17th, 2007 | #
Crap, it sounds like I am disgusted with your scarf. Acck!
Love the spinning column/article. Will it be a regular thing? Hope so.
January 17th, 2007 | #
Gosh, I am so late on this post, but Neopolitan Dynamite is one of my faves, along with Chubby Hubby, and Chunky Monkey!
All of your yarns are fabulous!
January 31st, 2007 | #