I used to be so good about updating my blog, but with Twitter and Ravelry and um…life, I guess, I’ve really neglected this place. Well, I’ve been good about updating my latest reads, but other than that…le sigh. I need to take more photos and post about knitting, but I just get lazy and distracted. Usually I’m actually reading or knitting, which is better than just blogging about nonsense, right? Maybe?

Come to think of it, maybe silence isn’t so bad, since right now I’m just rambling aimlessly…

Saw this at Shiny Shiny–Elevenses is having a contest, and the prizes are yarny and literary goodness. To enter, leave a comment telling who is your favorite literary character and why.

Be sure to mention that sassenach at mixedupbeauty sent you

I started a Fans of Ewan McGregor group on Ravelry. That is all.

Join us:

I joined Plurk. It’s quite addictive and I think I like it better than Twitter. But I know some people might not migrate over, so I’m keeping both accounts in the meantime. Feel free to friend me.

• I almost hit a squirrel right after I exited the interstate this afternoon! I was still going kind of fast, and it just darted across–I hit the brakes and I could see it sort of freeze in fear and I felt badly because I thought I had hit it! But I drove past and looked in my mirror and it was gone, so phew, it got away!
• oh, and earlier this morning I saw an accident a couple cars behind me on the interstate. There was a backup, and I guess someone wasn’t watching, so they hit the car in front of them, and I think that car might have hit the one in front of IT, so…yikes.
• I’m currently testing the Time Machine feature on Leopard. I’m using my external hard drive as the backup source and it’s taking a while to copy all my files over. But apparently only the initial backup is the longest and subsequent backups will be speedy.
• Lately I’ve been reading a lot. I’m trying to get in as much as I can before the summer semester starts (next month!). Recently I finished The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold, which has an awful rating on Amazon (and awful reviews basically everywhere else), but I thought it was an interesting read. Nevertheless, I don’t see myself re-reading it, so I’ve posted it for swap. Now I’m reading The Book Thief as part of the Ravelry Book Group’s April selection.
• My Ravelry destash has gone really well! There are still some items available but as of right now, I have $124 in PayPal funds pending transfer to my checking account. woohoo! This will be put directly on my main credit card, which is *almost* paid off.
• Re: that credit card–I made a huge mistake last week and accidentally deleted my credit card e-bill. Bank of America charged me a late fee AND took away my promotional 0% APR. I freaked out and almost cried, made a payment, and called them. I asked them to refund the late fee–which they did!–but the girl I talked to said she couldn’t refund the promo APR as well. She said it was the late fee or the APR, one or the other. Well, the next day I called back and spoke to someone else, and he reinstated my promo APR. yay! So, um, yeah, hence the emergency destash on Ravelry. That’ll teach me to pay attention to the things I’m about to delete. yikes.
• I think the next thing I’ll do is sell that albatross I call my engagement ring–I really think it’s bad juju holding on to it for this long! Call me superstitious but I just need to get rid of it!
• I contacted a local realtor and am in the process of scheduling an appointment. (!!!) I just want to sit down with someone and go over the basics and see if it’s even realistic to think about buying a house someday in the near future. I could totally get my hopes shot down, or I could find a great opportunity, like maybe a house that’s affordable since it’s a foreclosure or something…living with my parents continues to drive me batty, more on some days than others–but I really, really want to get my own house.
• Work, by the way, SUCKS. ugh. My main job, mainly. I’m trying to stick it out until I finish my degree, but man–I am just hating it. hatehatehate. The library is going pretty well still though, so that’s a plus!
• I decided recently that I’m going to try to stop eating red meat. (This basically means beef, as I don’t eat venison or anything like that.) I was going to try going vegetarian but that’s such a huge commitment and I don’t think I am prepared for it. So it has been 7 days and I haven’t had any beef. It’s been interesting! I’m doing it for health and partly ethical reasons, though I am still eating fish (mostly tuna) and some chicken. I’m hoping I can stick with it.
• Earth Day is coming up and coinciding with that, I’ve become all enviro-conscious. I switched some of my personal products like shampoo and toothpaste to natural alternatives and I’m also working on reducing and reusing the amount of plastic I consume. I really don’t want this to just be a fad or something, so I’m working on one thing at a time and trying to see how I can make better choices as a consumer.
• I’m going to try to get some knitting done tonight. What a bummer that the work week is about to start again. *sigh* I think the next holiday is Memorial Day next month…maybe I should take a vacation day or something. Goodness knows I need it!

oh wow, remember the Friday Five? Everyone used to post their answers way back when…I think the original site was gone a long time ago. And why do I keep remembering the old days of bloggyville? No idea. Nostalgic.

A few random thoughts:

1. Magknits is gone. There’s a big huge crazyass thing over at Ravelry about it. It’s another trainwreck, a la Mystical Creation Yarns.
2. The weather was so nice today! I went out on lunch break and felt compelled to treat myself to some springtime yarn. Sock yarn + winding by hand + pretty weather =
3. I don’t have to work on Sunday; hence, I get a real two-day weekend. wee!
4. The final dregs of my sickness (yes, the sickness from one month ago is STILL lingering) are at long last departing my virus-ridden body. Good riddance, I hope you had the time of your life and all that. (Sorry for all the flowery words but I’m reading Alice Sebold currently. She likes those flowery words and they get stuck in my head like rice.)
5. I am making time to read and knit again, and this pleases me very much.

I hate the feeling that I want to ask someone something, but actually fear the backlash if I do, because the person I want to ask might rant and rave about it on their blog and I don’t want to look like a bad guy! Isn’t that sad?

(P.S. No, it’s likely not you! I doubt this person reads my blog.)

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