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Dec. 17th, 2003
A light dusting of snow this morning. It's cold enough that the snowflakes are actual snowflakes, each delicate and individual, rather than little fragments of frozen water. Very pretty and sparkly. I wish I had the macro setup to shoot snowflakes.
I finished the chenille hat last night--swung by Michael's with my 40% off one item coupon and bought one of the two remaining skeins of forest green chenille that they had, which were luckily in the same dye lot. Now I have most of a skein of forest green thick and quick chenille that I have no idea what to do with, and an amorphous forest green chenille blob which in some societies would be considered a hat. I have to balance it on my glasses while driving lest it fall down over my eyes. Ok, yes, I intended for it to be loose-ish, so that it wouldn't mush my bangs down flat (which it sort of does anyway, because my bangs are highly sensitive to external criticism), but it is rather more loose-ish than I'd originally envisioned. No matter, it will serve its designated duty, which is to keep my ears from freezing solid and falling off, thus allowing my glasses to plummet to the ground and shatter into teeny little fragments of plastic (if it's cold enough that my ears are freezing solid, my glasses are most certainly to shatter when they hit the ground, being somewhat crystalline in nature).
On the plus side, I have now an inch of ribbing for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rustmon's hat, which may or may not be inflicted with moose at some future point.
I suppose I could use the green chenille in conjunction with the wine colored chenille (color name "dark wine" or some such) to create a scarf that has been inflicted with moose, in vaguely Victorian holiday colors. But no fringe. Chenille and fringe are not a good combination. Ask the cat.
I also tried making yogurt last night. It was very soupy this morning, not at all a good yogurty consistency, so I left it on the heating pad (turned on 'low', so as not to cook the apparently delicate and sensitive lactobacilli and will check it again when I get home. It occurs to me now (well, a bit ago, but I am only writing about it now) that perhaps that was the correct consistency and I will return to discover a mutated blancmange-type monster crawling about my kitchen, devouring the cat food and gurgling. Although the cats really like yogurt (plain or imbued with fruit), so it may not survive very long should it venture out of the bowl, assuming it can get past the plastic wrap in the first place.
In preparation for the yogurt-making experiment, I decided that I needed counters again, so embarked on the beginnings of a voyage of discovery of counter space. There's lots more now. Ask one of the other house residents with opposable thumbs. There will be even more once I figure out what to do with the several squashes that are living over by the toaster oven and the easter chocolate that I am still hoarding, and the main counter needs a good scrub (and probably a bleach, and perhaps even a quick once-over with a low-intensity flamethrower), but there is still a lot more available horizontal food preparation space than there had been previous to my embarkment.
And zyxt is, in fact, the last word in the OED. It is some obscure Kentish vernacular for some conjugation of the verb see. And zyxth is obscure Kentish for sixth. And yepling has to do with cast iron. Not that anybody really *cares*, mind you, but they're nifty Scrabble words.
Had I mentioned the Old/Middle English Scrabble plans that I have been hatching? Two Scrabble sets and a Sharpie should do it, but I need to have better info on letter frequencies in OE and ME. I figure one of the nostalgia sets in the nifty wooden box, and one of the cheapie ones in the cardboard, and I'm good to go.
Aaaand, the concert is back on. Wheeeee!
I finished the chenille hat last night--swung by Michael's with my 40% off one item coupon and bought one of the two remaining skeins of forest green chenille that they had, which were luckily in the same dye lot. Now I have most of a skein of forest green thick and quick chenille that I have no idea what to do with, and an amorphous forest green chenille blob which in some societies would be considered a hat. I have to balance it on my glasses while driving lest it fall down over my eyes. Ok, yes, I intended for it to be loose-ish, so that it wouldn't mush my bangs down flat (which it sort of does anyway, because my bangs are highly sensitive to external criticism), but it is rather more loose-ish than I'd originally envisioned. No matter, it will serve its designated duty, which is to keep my ears from freezing solid and falling off, thus allowing my glasses to plummet to the ground and shatter into teeny little fragments of plastic (if it's cold enough that my ears are freezing solid, my glasses are most certainly to shatter when they hit the ground, being somewhat crystalline in nature).
On the plus side, I have now an inch of ribbing for
rustmon's hat, which may or may not be inflicted with moose at some future point.I suppose I could use the green chenille in conjunction with the wine colored chenille (color name "dark wine" or some such) to create a scarf that has been inflicted with moose, in vaguely Victorian holiday colors. But no fringe. Chenille and fringe are not a good combination. Ask the cat.
I also tried making yogurt last night. It was very soupy this morning, not at all a good yogurty consistency, so I left it on the heating pad (turned on 'low', so as not to cook the apparently delicate and sensitive lactobacilli and will check it again when I get home. It occurs to me now (well, a bit ago, but I am only writing about it now) that perhaps that was the correct consistency and I will return to discover a mutated blancmange-type monster crawling about my kitchen, devouring the cat food and gurgling. Although the cats really like yogurt (plain or imbued with fruit), so it may not survive very long should it venture out of the bowl, assuming it can get past the plastic wrap in the first place.
In preparation for the yogurt-making experiment, I decided that I needed counters again, so embarked on the beginnings of a voyage of discovery of counter space. There's lots more now. Ask one of the other house residents with opposable thumbs. There will be even more once I figure out what to do with the several squashes that are living over by the toaster oven and the easter chocolate that I am still hoarding, and the main counter needs a good scrub (and probably a bleach, and perhaps even a quick once-over with a low-intensity flamethrower), but there is still a lot more available horizontal food preparation space than there had been previous to my embarkment.
And zyxt is, in fact, the last word in the OED. It is some obscure Kentish vernacular for some conjugation of the verb see. And zyxth is obscure Kentish for sixth. And yepling has to do with cast iron. Not that anybody really *cares*, mind you, but they're nifty Scrabble words.
Had I mentioned the Old/Middle English Scrabble plans that I have been hatching? Two Scrabble sets and a Sharpie should do it, but I need to have better info on letter frequencies in OE and ME. I figure one of the nostalgia sets in the nifty wooden box, and one of the cheapie ones in the cardboard, and I'm good to go.
Aaaand, the concert is back on. Wheeeee!
The cat, she has fur.
Dec. 17th, 2003 03:50 pmMy good heavens, I am bored. Bored, bored bored bored.
And LJ has neither an emoticon for edgy nor do they have one for impatient. Hmph.
Completely unrelated to anything else, those lint-remover things which are basically masking tape wound backwards onto handles? They don't work so good on cats, at least not that I could see.
And the Mountain Peach Spice flavor of Yogi Tea is really quite nice as long as you don't expect peaches to be involved.
And LJ has neither an emoticon for edgy nor do they have one for impatient. Hmph.
Completely unrelated to anything else, those lint-remover things which are basically masking tape wound backwards onto handles? They don't work so good on cats, at least not that I could see.
And the Mountain Peach Spice flavor of Yogi Tea is really quite nice as long as you don't expect peaches to be involved.
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Dec. 17th, 2003 04:12 pmI should avoid the Disney store web site. They have a Limited Edition sericel of the Disney cats. *sigh* And it's just way too expensive for art, even though it would go along with the general feline art theme of my decor.