Feb. 25th, 2007

aprilstarchild: (knitting!)
I wanna spinning wheel. Yup. Don't get me wrong, my drop spindle is fun and all, but man. I tried a wheel at Hecate's Sickle, and they're so much faster and easier. Le sigh.

Drop spindles, though, have the advantage of being Very Old Technology. And I'm geeky enough to get some satisfaction from that. To get even geekier, I really want to try spinning flax into linen. Cotton was prohibitively expensive until just a few hundred years ago, so everyone's clothes were made of linen or wool (or silk if we're talking very very wealthy). "Linsey-woolsey" was an inexpensive fabric made from having linen as the fiber going one way in a weave, and wool going the other way.

iPod + knitting or spinning = happy April

I don't need to buy yarn anytime soon, that's for sure. I have white-ish merino and alpaca roving, a big chunk of brown merino roving, a sweater to take apart, [livejournal.com profile] 5minutelimit has some older roving...

I need to go get the Sunday paper, for the employment section and to look for houses for rent. But also, comics! Yes!
aprilstarchild: (Gir playing DDR)
Meme from [livejournal.com profile] glitterninja:

Step 1: Put your music player (iTunes or whatever) on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Have people guess the songs.

Expanddone with my iPod because I don't have iTunes )

Damn, that was kinda hard. I seriously had to go through twice as many songs, because there were instrumental songs, and songs from the "teach yourself the folk harp" cd, and books-on-CD that Jarrod puts on there, and a handful of folk artists y'all haven't heard of. And for a bunch I still had to google the lyrics because I can't make them out clearly enough, or they went by too fast for me to get them accurately. *rolls eyes*

More coffee!
aprilstarchild: (all your fault)
I didn't get the Mirador job. The woman who owns the place was really apologetic, and said over and over how much they liked me and what a hard decision it had been...

But I really really shouldn't have mentioned that I was planning to go back to school part-time. They hired an older woman who they figured would stick around longer.

Blargh.

Nobody else has even contacted me.
aprilstarchild: (cranky vegan asshole)
I've gotten jack shit done today...literally nothing I was hoping to accomplish. Except for buying the Sunday paper and getting in a little rat-training. (*squeak!* *squeak!*)

I'm just feeling kinda down today, I guess.

But, yeah: I need to at least start the dishwasher and bleach all my hair dye out of the sink.

What doesn't help anything; is that the laundry room door finally came completely out of the door jam last night. The laundry room isn't that much of a room, it was tacked onto the outside of the house and therefore has thin thin walls and it's always cold and drafty in the winter. So of course it's next to the living room and the thermostat. It's seriously freaking cold in this house, but I'm afraid to turn up the heat for fear that it'll run constantly and the bedrooms will become unbearably hot.
aprilstarchild: (Ron and spiders)
DO NOT PRESS

I laughed so hard, Jarrod had to come out to see what was so funny. I think I'm wheezing. Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] blakthorne for the link!

Also: I cleaned the bathroom (mostly), washed the sheets, and did a load of dishes. Whew.

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