I'd Rather Be.... Not Spinning!!!

I am sitting here so po'd with spinning at this moment that I have decided that I need a real break from it... By real I mean more than a few minutes. I have been spinning all day today and all day yesterday trying to get an illusive 12 t.p.i. skein of yarn and I am getting nowhere fast. I break it midway through plying it...this is a big no no! I get 10 t.p.i. Or 9 t.p.i. But not 12 t.p.i. and I am certainly NOT having fun! I have to say that I really hate these high t.p.i. yarns. I keep wondering who in their right mind would want a yarn that has such high twist. I will give it one more try tonight. If I get it, great! If not, then I will set it aside for now and stick with level 5 homework. I have been trying to get this yarn with silk so I will try with cotton and see if that is any better. Actually I was just thinking that I enjoyed sweeping dirt on the floor from the dog's paws better than spinning right now. You know it's bad when! *I'm using this little star to signify a new paragraph since yesterday's try at making paragraphs with Daughter #2's iPad was an abysmal failure. *Easter is going quietly this year with dinner at Mom and Pop's house tomorrow. Teapot has been finishing some panelling in the bathroom upstairs and after try #4 of spinning a 12 t.p.i. I decided a nice walk in the spring air was a necessity. Out I went into the beautiful sunshine with my ever faithful companion Narmie... and the kitten who went for a walk too. She is now in heat... Another f-ing cat with blinking pregnancy issues! Once again we are caught in the cycle of kittens. But I'm determined to get them aborted if I have to. It's off to the veterinarian on the 16th. A great birthday gift to me. Payday and a day waiting for the kitten to get her ovaries removed... But at least I can go shopping while I wait. Hmmm... maybe a cat at the vet's won't be so bad after all. *I have been listening to CBC radio and find that the budget cuts to CBC are horrible. Still, sometimes I wonder if CBc has diversified too much. Maybe we could do without CBC 2 and just have CBC 1 radio and the T.V. Station. Would that not solve some of the problem? Meanwhile Harper is cutting funding to libraries across the country and the first thing cut is free Internet access to those who need it...and who needs it most? Well... I would say that it is the poor.... those who cannot access the Internet from home. Then there is the roll back to 67 for the Old Age Pension. I'm now not going to get a cent until I'm 67. Sucks to be me! And if I was truly relying on it I sure would be really ticked. But then I might not have to worry about it if I pop off early! Anyway CBC radio was interesting for the most part though I thought the stupid program about obsessive behavior was odd especially when they interviewed the guy who thought that all food fell into one of two categories. one category was dirty food and the other was.. You got it...clean food. An example of clean food was a squished hamburger and sushi. Peanut butter came into the category of dirty food! That was enough for me.... I turned of the radio but not before hearing the interview about the fellow who had a pencil sharpening business. he obsessed about beautifully sharpened pencils... Like they are art... Ok that was weird too. So now I'm listening to world music on my iPhone. Lovely. *I hope your Easter is full of flowers, chocolate,and hugs... 'cause what's life without a few hugs?

Writing From My Daughter's iPad

Ok this works a whole lot better than trying to type from my phone. I will have to borrow her iPad and then save my pennies and buy one for myself. I definitely like this darn wee thing. It is great. I wonder if blogger will recognize paragraphs from this thing! Ish all give it a try. OK so this is a new paragraph. I won't know if this works until I post because I can put the paragraph in in the draft but then when I hit post the paragraphs disappear. Still, if I can make this work it would be great. Now I think I will try posting a picture from this thing. Ok, I can't figure that thing out! That was just plain weird. Maybe I will have to get someone to help me figure that out. I like this little thing though. It's really sharp! Tell me what you think.... And let me know what is your technology thingy that you like best. Meanwhile I'm off to spin a 12 t.p.i. See ya...

Virus(cont.)

By the way... When I post from my phone I for some reason can't do paragraphs. And May near the end of the previous post should have been capitalized. And sorry I won't be responding to comments until I get my computer fixed!!!

Virus

The reason we got a Mac computer was mainly because they're pretty good at keeping viruses at bay. But about a week or maybe two ago you will remember that our keyboard started giving trouble... well now the whole thing is on the fritz. So I am typing this on my phone 'cause I can't access the Internet from our main computer. I hate typing from my phone! The keyboard is so small and I can't always fix my mistakes (and there are plenty of those!). So I hope you will forgive my mistakes today and put it down to rather large digits and a wee small type pad. I know I promised photos but I'm not that good!! I haven't figured out how to put photos on this blog from my phone. I have been working like a daemon. It's been head down and arse up for days. I had a warp to put on my loom and when I got it finished a few days passed before I was able to weave. But Wednesday I tried a few throws of my shuttle and discovered a mistake in the threading. Argh! So yesterday I had to pull out 93 threads and rethread them. They are not finished but I will try to finish them today. So with all the leaning over the loom it really has been head down and arse up! I think Teapot is starting to think I have a different face... that of my butt! Perhaps I should paint a happy face on the seat of my pants.... or borrow the mother-in-law's shorts! In addition to the warp for the loom I have been spinning. Lots! Teapot and the girls have been enjoying mid- term break but I have hardly been out through the door. I have all t.p.i. samples done for level 5 and two left for level 3. I will try to finish those today. I sure hope so because I would like to take the rest of Easter and enjoy it! I am slowly getting though the questions for level 5. After the t.p.i. section is done, I have eight more questions to do. I am hoping to have them done by my birthday on the sixteenth... then two weeks to complete the fifty hour project and level 5 will be going in the mail for marking. Then I will spend may concentrating on level 3. And it will be head down and arse up again! Now... I am going to post this. I hope it doesn't disappear into cyberspace. Here goes...

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry.... I Have Been Writing.. Really I Have

Head down, arse up. Head down, arse up. Head down, arse up..... that's what it has been like here for the last few days. We are still getting jerked around by the Ford Dealership....

Weaving is not happening though I do have the warp on the loom and I've been spinning t.p.i. samples... there will be pictures tomorrow if I can swing it at all.

Company has been swinging through the doors regularly and between sweeping mud up after the cats, dogs and husband/kids, I think I might just add a broom to my feet so that when I walk I'm sweeping too. Mud is everywhere and permeates all parts of the house. Nightly, I have to shake out the top blanket of our bed, over the rail of the balcony upstairs because the dogs have jumped up on the bed with their messy toes. God, I'm sick of it.  Today it is raining and that means that the ground will thaw and the snow water will drain into the ground and maybe, miracle of miracles, the mud will disappear.

I have been writing though, just not on this blog.... you can read here.... to see what's happening and what I've been writing about.

I'm off to spin another t.p.i. sample.... there's a light at the end of the tunnel for level 5... I can see it now... And level 3???  Well, that train's still in the tunnel in the dark... but if I can just get level 5 done then maybe there will be progress there too...

See ya... with photos soon.

Hiding In Fear And Trepidation

I went to FSJ today.... just for a quick trip. Teapot was supposed to get his new glasses. That didn't happen as it looks like they won't be ready till next week now. We also thought we would pick up our truck since we called lunch time and everything was going good... yes, once again The stupid truck is in for the same problem that they think they fix but don't. This is the forth time the truck has been in for repairs in less than a month. We were supposed to pick the darn thing up when they were closing... well we didn't get our truck and there's a bit of a story to that. We also took the Daughters with us because since they are on spring break and everyone of their friends are vacationing in some wonderfully beachy resorty place that we would try give them something nice too.... no we did not take them to a tanning salon... and no we did not find a place comparable to a beachy resorty place. We ended up taking them to the movies... we went to see The Hunger Games. The movie started at 3:30 p.m. and we expected to be out in time to go get the truck... and we would have been if the power hadn't gone out and then come back on... so that put us behind by 20 minutes or so.  Which meant by the time we got to the dealership it was closed.... but that was ok because our truck is NOT fixed yet. At least it wasn't out on the lot and usually they park the fixed trucks in the parking lot for pick up... we drove around but it wasn't there... which leaves us wondering why.... not.

Meanwhile, the movie was awesome... I loved it and now really really want to read the books. It is all about a futuristic world where war has been abolished through the implementation of games where each district gives up a boy and girl between the ages of 12 - 18 and they are let loose in a forest to fight to the death till only one person remains standing. Our heroine volunteers after her 12 year old sister is picked in an effort to let her young sister live a little longer. Most of the movie is about the dilemma of humans caught in a setting they they do not want to be in and how they survive. Interesting concept rather like Lord Of The Flies..... and will human goodness win in the end. Our poor heroine spent a great deal of time hiding and waiting for the others to kill each other off but of course there had to be a bit of politics and background machinations involved....

Like our poor heroine I am sitting here thinking of ways that I can hide in fear and trepidation. I stupid-like took on a project that I should have my head examined for. My new loom is sitting in the corner of the living room waiting for a warp.... I should have known at Christmas time when I agreed to the Shadow Weave project that I would be too busy to do this thing.... I loved the idea and I wanted to do it really badly but I have two friggin levels of homework to do and I have been really hard at it. That is my priority.... PRIORITY. Saturday is my day of reckoning.... I am supposed to have the warp on and my first block woven.... I do not. I would like a large hidey hole in which to lie low.  I am going to be killed. In no uncertain terms... dead.... d... e... a... d... dead! I'm even afraid to write that because I know just know that RG is going to be totally disgusted.... I'm scared.... really scared... she reads this... I think I will go turn off my phone... cause I'm really really scared. Even my knees are knocking. Yes I'm totally chicken... maybe I could sleep through Saturday....  So I am writing here today to say good bye to you all before I die a slow and painful death on the looms of my fellow weavers.... Squeak! I'm really a mouse at heart you know.

I'll let you know if I live through it all... I expect I'll be at least told off in style. Good bye my beloved blog followers .... thanks for all your support. I'm heading off to go into hiding....

Avoidance really is the only way out... maybe I should at least warp my loom... arggghhh! Would someone please take pity on me and help me warp my loom..... mwaaaaa...I'm going to diiiiieeeee.....

I'm Baaaaccckk... I Think... Or Am I Thinking

Holy Hell! How did it get to be the 29th? I mean it seems like I was here only yesterday... did I sleep through a day... did I forget to hit publish yesterday and my last post just drifted into internet eternity? No... no sign of a post yesterday..... I know I talked about swimming but that was yesterday... have I grown a beard... did I miss a day.... did I over sleep... seriously oversleep???? I have no idea how the last two days disappeared without my knowing it. I have been spinning... Lincoln and it is the worst damn shit I have ever spun in my life..... sorry for the swear words but honestly it really is horrible. I threw the whole works in the garbage cause it looks like stuff I would have spun ten years ago when I couldn't spin as good as a duck could! I am supposed to spin a 3 tpi 2 ply yarn... OMG... it's bad, just plain bad. 2 tpi and 2.5 tpi... but not 3tpi... I finally spun a 3 tpi today but the darn thing is so over spun that it looks like a cork screw in the skein.... no U there that's for sure. It is the coarsest Lincoln I have ever spun and I'll be honest, the hair from the tail of a horse would be nicer to spin. Yuck... with a capital Y. So now I have used up all of my Lincoln wool. I am relying on a friend to supply me with a wee bit of Lincoln to get me over the hump... honestly if someone had never spun Lincoln before and then spun this, they would never spin Lincoln again.

Meanwhile the keyboard is working.... so soaping it up and the rinsing with distilled water and cooking it in the oven did not hurt it.... I can't tell you how happy I am to have this keyboard back and working again... the other old one was a misery.

That's the end of my complaints... sort of.... I am having a bit of a down day today... my poor body is in a terrible state. I swam yesterday... and loved it... it truly was lovely in the pool yesterday. Just the right temperature and not too many people. There was a class of octogenarians learning the front crawl (I hope I never have to worry if my boobs are falling down through the leg of my swimsuit like theirs!!! Still it was cool to see the old gals learning to swim... mind you at the rate I'm going I'll never need a personal floatation device cause my boobs will just float and save me from drowning... : }) And... I swam a whole kilometre. 40 lengths... at 25 metres a go. It took me 47 minutes. Today though my body is saying Stop! so I didn't do my usual 20 minutes on the exercise bike. I will try the bike again tomorrow. Still all that swimming felt pretty damn good    but that was yesterday.

Ok something really strange is happening to my mind.... this is not the 29th..... so why is my damn computer saying that it is the 29th..............................................................................................................
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HA HA... very funny Teapot. He changed the date on the computer.... (I'm sure he is trying to secretly make me think I'm losing my mind....) well for a moment he had me going pretty good. I really thought it was the 29th... but no that is tomorrow... I know, because this is not Knit Night. And besides... Mom goes to Crib on Wednesdays and then Dad comes for a visit because he doesn't play crib "with all those biddies"... and he was here today, so that must mena that it is Wednesday... the 28th... right! I also had my Confirmation class... (of one) come this evening and that was supposed to be  a Wednesday appointment. And another reason... Saturday is the 31st... this is only Wednesday... I just have to do the math. But for a moment I actually thought I might be losing my memory... it does run in the family you know... hmm, that explains things eh?!

See ya tomorrow... I'm just going to go have my brain checked.... I need to know if any of my brain cells have left for warmer climes!