Don’t you just love it that as early as 10:30 AM you can already have a crappy day? That’s right. I spent 45 minutes this morning dodging traffic jams. I’d get out of one and come up on another. All within about five miles from my house. And it wasn’t the usual commuter traffic either – there were like 47 accidents – something weird is going on out there. Be careful.
And now I just found out I have to go out again. G left something at home – an important something – for a meeting – and I need to bring it to him. Generally I wouldn’t mind. He’s working his ass off too and he was working late last night and forgot it – I’m glad I remembered to ask about it (since I ran my desk chair over it this morning) but I had my day planned out down to the minute for maximum efficiency and it was GONE TO CRAP by about 8:15 this morning. It’s beginning to feel like every minute that goes by I lose another hour. Know what I mean?
Two-fold evidence: A) I worked hard yesterday; and B) I can take a crappy crappy picture.
That’s eleven packages – I think it’s eleven – all ready to ship. If I owe you something, it’s in the mail. (Well all except Janet and Wendy – it’s coming. Don’t worry.) There were actually a couple of more packages, but this is all the knitting related stuff. AND I managed to finish up two jobs that were sent off to the printer last night. Aah. Productivity. AND I joined the fingers onto my Nona’s Serial Gloves. I’m still a little bit iffy about the joins – there are holes, but Margene says that’s okay, so it’s okay. I’ll darn them, darnit. I also cast on a new sock. For me. Because I don’t have enough shit to do ( the Cotton Candy STR was calling out to me) but then I ripped it because something weird happened. I think I dropped a stitch or something, but I need to investigate more what I want to do with this yarn. It’s a sock for sure – a nice long one – but I need some calf shaping strategies.
And I don’t understand why the Harry Potter freaks get all the special treatment. I preordered my 30th Anniversary Special SUPER FUCKING FANTASTIC OH MY GOD I’M DYING HERE Commerative Edition of Born To Run a MONTH ago and it came out today and Amazon’s all like it’ll arrive some time next week. WHAT? Aren’t mailpeople running around knocking on doors at midnight so all the little Harry Potter fanatics can get the book the second it’s allowed? And I HAVE TO WAIT FOR MY BRUCE?!?!? No matter. I was at Best Buy this morning at 9:15 (I would’ve been there at 9AM, but I was stuck in traffic) to pick up a copy. There ain’t no way no how I’m waiting for that shit. And of course, Amazon won’t let me cancel the order either. Fuckers.
I would love to talk about Bruce – it was my intention today to talk about the love and the love and the music and the love, but I’m in a crappy mood. So maybe later. Hope YOUR day is a good one.
PS – In my defence about the crappy shitty picture, I didn’t use the real camera. I thought – eh – I’ll use the stupid crappy point and shoot – these are the pictures it’s meant for – little did I know it takes CRAP PICTURES! Note to self: take the extra five minutes and pull out the real camera if you don’t want to be pissed off.
PPS – And while this may sound like I’m backtracking – the camera doesn’t MAKE A PICTURE. It’s the PHOTOGRAPHER that makes a picture with the control you have with the camera. If I had read the fucking manual on the P&S like I’m always preaching about, I would’ve had more control as to how the picture came out. But I didn’t. So it was on Auto, which gave me a crappy picture. I’m a manual kind of girl – complete control at all times. That way you have no one to blame but yourself. 😉
You may be having a crappy day, but eleven people are going to have special happy days when those parcels arrive, so maybe that balances things out a bit.
It’s somehow gratifying to see you take a crappy picture. Never fear, your faithful readers remember the other nine million gorgeous photos you have posted.
And Amazon? Don’t ever pre-order from them. I have had no end of trouble doing that. I think you get put at the end of the shipping order list, and everybody that orders when it becomes available gets theirs first.
Cara, I have another suggestion for your KAL. The Japanese knitting site says that the Japanese word for knit is pronounced “ami”. “Ami” is also “friend” in French and the root of the word “amicable” which means “having a spirit of friendliness”. So you could call it AmiCable – knit (japanese) cables in the spirit of friendliness.
Oh girl! May Bruce brighten your day. I can’t wait til mine arrives (but I’m gonna!). Post us a review, K?
Well, I guess it’s goin’ around! (and it is a full moon tonight, so that might explain the traffic shit. GREAT. I have a 4 p.m deposition today. Ugh.
I feel like I need to duck! Something is certainly in the air, however. Maybe it’s that Mercury thing. The IT guy has messed with my computer and no OS and all that and it’s made everyting weir (and new). Anywooo, I’ve been listing to Bruce on the radio (our community station is playing the hell out of the new BTR). I think I need to buy it, too.
Look in Nancy’s new book. She has a couple of socks with calf shaping;-)
Poor Cara. But there’s definitely something in the air. I say we all go back to bed and knit, damnit.
Few things in life make me as happy as new Pearl Jam product. Just sayin’ I understand. 😉
i’m sorry about your crappy day. does it feel better to know that your post still made me laugh? probably not. but it did.
hope things are better now….we’re sending big hugs.
man that’s a crappy P&S — even my camera on auto takes a better picture than that 😉
what kind of camera is your “real” camera by the way?
Cara, you can always take the one from amazon back to best buy just don’t open the plastic stuff and say you got a second one.. that isn’t really doing anything bad:-) karola
So would it make your day worse to tell you that Target had it cheaper? We just picked ours up (had to reserve it at the furthest Target ’cause the other two were sold out by 3 this afternoon) – The Man says the videos are awesome.
One of my favorite stories is Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse, and in it her teacher writes her a note that says “Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better.”
Tomorrow will be better. 🙂