Kiss My Knits!

Man, the Jayne hat has really taken on a life of its own on the Brewing Network. Let’s hear it for geek cross-pollination!

Click to see the Brewing Network cartoon, the very first one of which features The Hat. I hear it’s making its way around the globe, going from brewer to brewer. Here’s hoping nobody tosses it into the washing machine. Yikes.

The husband and daughter went to his folks’ yesterday and came back today. They had a great time! She got to see a play that her cousin was in. Emily loves plays. There were two shows, so they went to the first and it kind of washed over to her. Then they went to the second (she really, really wanted to go again) and this time she was quietly asking all kinds of questions. (“Who is he? Who is she? What’s that?”) She had a blast.

Most of her cousins were in town for the play, and they had a blast. She has a set of three girls for cousins who fight almost incessantly. But when they weren’t fighting, she wanted to play with them. So she approached them to play hide and seek, and they did! Emily’s an awful hider, popping out quickly to say “here I am!” but she’s an excellent seeker. So they all had fun. And I liked that she was able to successfully initiate play with other kids. Go girl!

When she got home, she had a Barbie/mermaid/fairy doll that Nana had gotten her at WalMart. And when she got home and started voluntarily telling me about her trip, and her doll, and where she got her doll, and what she did at Nana and Grandpa’s house, her speech wasn’t repetitive or forced at all. Honest to God, if I hadn’t known there was something different about her, for that five or ten minutes, I wouldn’t have suspected it at all. It’s a great reminder of how far she’s come. We’ll just polish up a few more rough spots, and hello, Harvard!

While they were away, I bought the haul of yarn that you saw yesterday. Also, I put together a kit and knitted some while I watched Lawrence of Arabia. I swapped some yarn for it months ago and only now have had a chance to break it out. It’s not exactly a short movie. I also cleaned up a bit, finally giving away some maternity clothes that were still in our bedroom in a big Tupperware container. I was kind of sad to do it. Seeing those clothes again reminded me of what it was like when I was wearing them. Good days. But I’m glad someone else will get to use them.


I also jumped into the wayback machine and rented Superman and Superman II. They’re not high cinema, but they were fun. Cheesy fun sometimes (“Kneel before Zod!”) but still fun. Good acting, too. I’d forgotten how much fun Christopher Reeve looked like he was having. And how the hell notoriously tempramental Marlon Brando got snookered into wearing a big white robe accented with silver lame for this, I’ll never know, but he salvaged it nonetheless.


Also, I went to see a movie at Park Terrace theaters. It was a noon show, and at about 12:05, with no movie yet unspooling, someone came in and said the projector was broken, and offered money back or free passes. Since I had gotten in at a matinee rate, and since they were offering me two free passes, I took the passes. Yay for future free movies! Then I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest in a different theater. Enjoyable, inventive with its situations and with shoehorning everyone onto the same boat, but by the end I kept thinking, “c’mon, it’s over now, right?” Well, they definitely set it up for a sequel.

I’ve been feeling odd for the last couple of days. Sweating a lot, kind of… I don’t know, weird. It concerned me until I read that a possible side effect of prednisone (for my poison ivy) is excessive sweating. You shouldn’t just go off prednisone cold turkey, and I’m tapering off anyway, so we’ll see if it goes away in a couple of days. Let’s hope so – sweaty, out-of-shape geek girl in sci-fi T-shirts and jeans is SUCH a stereotype. I did get on the treadmill and walk some today, so that I could get some exercise out of the heat, at least.

I’m thinking I’m going to put aside Branching Out as the scarf I was doing for someone. It’s just going to take too long, at the rate I’m moving on it. The recipient had no requests beyond “blue scarf” anyway, so something else should work. Maybe a nice multi-directional scarf in thick Noro Yoroi. As you may have noticed, I’m queen of the Noro.

This feels very disjointed. I stayed up too late, and I think it’s making my thinking fuzzy. I’m working a wedding tomorrow night with GM Dremara, so I’lll try to get plenty of sleep tonight so that I’m fresh for that.

Jayne hat packed up for Massachussets. Next up: SC, WA, and New Orleans, LA!