*sleepy purr*
Feb. 22nd, 2012 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelHad a good day today:
* got a haircut; not super short (it's still shoulder length) but a good four or five inches shorter than it was. I kinda want to start wearing headbands, too, and leaving my hair down.
* wandered around downtown for a bit, found a tea shop I hadn't known about, went to the bead store and got a couple of pendants (a purple iridescent dolphin, and a sprawling silver octopus) along with silver cording for them to go on. will get pictures later, because they are Awesome
* generally enjoyed the weather (74 [F, or about 23 C] and sunny and utterly freaking gorgeous, with trees starting to blossom) and being outside
* came back and spent a bit of time tilted back with suri on my chest/stomach, and managed to have a mindset of "enjoying the present" rather than "doing nothing like a pathetic lazy slacker"
* have also found a rather enjoyable book -- onrb's recommendation, "How To Be Sick" by Toni Bernhard, subtitled "a Buddhist-inspired guide for the chronically ill and their caregivers" -- which has suggestions for dealing with life with chronic illness, including such chapters as "What To Do When (It Seems) You Can’t Do Anything?"
* also discovered that a favorite author has some books available in ebook format that hadn't been ebookable last I checked, which makes me very happy. there is a tiny part of me that grumbles about paying for an ebook when I own the hardcopy books (and just want a more managable format) but as there is no convenient book-to-ebook exchange mechanism, buying another copy it is!
* restarted the tunisian crochet with the proper hook, and magically it is a manageable size, go figure; also have gorgeous tweedy yarn (a plum purple with flecks of yellow and green and red) to make wristwarmers with once I'm done with the dishcloth practice
(yarn is such a happy thing)
since I seem to have a goodly amount of contentedness and love right now, let me share it. I would radiate it if I could, but in lieu of that: you are awesome. Yes, you. /many many hugs and, as desired, kitty- and puppy-snuggles/
* got a haircut; not super short (it's still shoulder length) but a good four or five inches shorter than it was. I kinda want to start wearing headbands, too, and leaving my hair down.
* wandered around downtown for a bit, found a tea shop I hadn't known about, went to the bead store and got a couple of pendants (a purple iridescent dolphin, and a sprawling silver octopus) along with silver cording for them to go on. will get pictures later, because they are Awesome
* generally enjoyed the weather (74 [F, or about 23 C] and sunny and utterly freaking gorgeous, with trees starting to blossom) and being outside
* came back and spent a bit of time tilted back with suri on my chest/stomach, and managed to have a mindset of "enjoying the present" rather than "doing nothing like a pathetic lazy slacker"
* have also found a rather enjoyable book -- on
rb's recommendation, "How To Be Sick" by Toni Bernhard, subtitled "a Buddhist-inspired guide for the chronically ill and their caregivers" -- which has suggestions for dealing with life with chronic illness, including such chapters as "What To Do When (It Seems) You Can’t Do Anything?"* also discovered that a favorite author has some books available in ebook format that hadn't been ebookable last I checked, which makes me very happy. there is a tiny part of me that grumbles about paying for an ebook when I own the hardcopy books (and just want a more managable format) but as there is no convenient book-to-ebook exchange mechanism, buying another copy it is!
* restarted the tunisian crochet with the proper hook, and magically it is a manageable size, go figure; also have gorgeous tweedy yarn (a plum purple with flecks of yellow and green and red) to make wristwarmers with once I'm done with the dishcloth practice
(yarn is such a happy thing)
since I seem to have a goodly amount of contentedness and love right now, let me share it. I would radiate it if I could, but in lieu of that: you are awesome. Yes, you. /many many hugs and, as desired, kitty- and puppy-snuggles/
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Date: 2012-02-23 12:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-26 09:32 pm (UTC)It has a lot of the same action as crochet -- hook through fabric, yo, pull loop through, and a bunch of the yo, pull through two loops, repeat sort of action -- except the two halves of the stitch, pulling loops from fabric and finishing the stitch, are separated more.
I find it easier than crochet, but I don't know how much of that is being closer to knitting and how much is the physical manipulations.
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Date: 2012-02-26 11:55 pm (UTC)Your description of how Tunisian crochet works helps, though, thank you! I'll check out a video later to see if my visualization of it matches reality.
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Date: 2012-02-23 01:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-23 06:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-25 03:22 pm (UTC)Also - hurray for good days :D