Fidgety Knitting

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And some Calgon too while you are at it... WAIT I did NOT say to take my WINE away!!!

Ok so ummm... this week has not lived up to expectations. I haven't started the things I need to, nor finished the things I should have. And in some ways I have avoided me, myself and moi. Instead I went to a movie and had dinner with my friend Laura.

It is always hysterical to go out with Laura. I LOVE Laura. Laura is Italian, so we speak in Italian together. Well she speaks Italian, I speak gobbeldy-gook of Italian, but she puts up with it. Just one more reason to love her. I am sure we must be hysterical to listen to for others. We speak in Italian, say a phrase or sentence in French, and place our order in French. Then switch to English and back to Italian in the same breath. But the funny part is when we have to find complex ideas in the other language.

We wandered Pere Lachaise cemetary one weekend and I just about died there. Which I guess there is no better place to die than a cemetary- all is there and ready for you. We were talking and she was asking me about funerary things. See it was a vocabulary lesson for us both, we trade these. As we walked past the Cremeratoire she asked me what are the words in English for what she could only explain as "when people are cooked in the oven." I literally had to stop and sit because tears, they were streaming down my face. She was talking about cremation/incineration. She had it right, the explanation was spot on. Myself on the other hand couldnt help but think of cooking someone for a Thanksgiving funeral.

So as you can see I am seeking any tangent to ride away from the tasks at hand. Those tasks would be work (thank god for the weekends), errands such as going to the post office, setting in the sleeve for Helen's sweater, and holy shit trying to rewrite Salina for short row shoulders.

I know it can be done, I have seen it. But with the bits about the lapel/collar and then the short rows themselves. It is making my head hurt. I would have caved and just started a sleeve but the sleeves are supposed to have cuffs that are sewn on... Umm you know finishing it be not my forte and sewing on cuffs doesn't exactly interest me. But I am still wondering if I should sew them on or knit them on...

Until then... I am off to cook someone in an oven.

Mama Mao Calls This Distraction

Posted by Stinkerbell at March 3, 2006 08:42 PM | TrackBack