Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Dare

Go out with a bang!

 No regrets, should of/would of

check off bucket lists!

 

Don't let fear stop you,

Inaction worse than failure!

You know you want to!

 

DARE to go for it!

There are no life do-overs!

Use your life all up! 

Lunch with Grace

Grace made me 2 hexipuffs.. with embroidery! And a 49ers punter monster( who is in surgery having a keychain attached to his head)

Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Anticipation

Carpet ships today

22 hours plus 10

Be on Brauns Monday!

I got this from my upstream swap partner KathyB



A: Age 44 3/4
B. Bedsize: king
C: chore that you hate: doing dishes - fortunately as long as I cook, Curt doesn't mind.
D: Dogs: wish I had one.  Australian Shephard, or Irish Wolfhound or Black Labradoodle.
E: Essential to start your day: I drink (if it were all DD) about 14 or 15 XL coffees a day, beginning at 245am.
F: Favorite color: Red, black, red, black red yes red
G:Gold or Silver. I'm a silver kind of girl - then again I don't like diamonds either..
H: height: 5'6 1/2"
I: instruments you play: Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away - ok just a long time ago I played piano, violin and glockenspiel
J: Job title : Inventory/recovery team mgr
K: Kids: the Angie
L: Live: Live hard, play harder and hope to die in your sleep
M: Mom's Name: Toyoko
N: nicknames: Ria, RiRi, Kiko, Flip
O: Overnight hospital stays: I need to be sedated at night in a hospital or I have the most psychotic panic attacks
P: Pet Peeves: Gum smackers, morons, bad drivers, lazy people
Q: Quote from a Movie: "this word________, I do not think it means what you think it means"
R: Right or left handed: Right - my left hand is there so my shirts fit and I don't walk in large unbalanced circles
S: Siblings:2
T: Take-Out food: sushi
U: Underwear: usually
V: Veggies you hate: I don't think I have one depending on how it's cooked - most often it is onions,
W: What makes you run late:  Curt - he can't grasp that i will get up and finish getting ready in time to be walking down the stairs when I say I'm leaving.  he takes me heading for the stairs as time to get his shoes, his jacket, his glasses whatever.
x: Xrays: Sigh more often than one would want
Y: Yummy food: yes
Z: Zoo Animals:cheetahs

Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Freestyle

Peter Principle

Rise to ones incompetence

Daily proof at work. 

Lunch with Grace

if you've been around the blog awhile, you know about my friend Grace.  I met her on Ravelry, on the Morris County Knitters group.  There were 3-4 of us who used to meet in the afternoons, but life, illness and moving to Florida kind of broke up the group. Grace and I still meet up when we can.  Summers seem to not approve as they throw illness, injury and Angie in the way of our lunches.  So it's unofficially fall and that meant we were able to meet at the Spa, a real friendly diner like place near her house.

We had a lot to catch up on - so I did show Grace my sister's shawl, but I forgot my puffs and we were talking so much I actually didn't knit.  I like to "blame" her for my new addiction to hexi-flats (the Beekeeper's Quilt) and told her she should make me a puff or mini skein.   Well she showed up with a cupcake box:


That was filled with mini-skeins in little cupcake paper cups!



Two layers! two dozen!

 

WE are all Nerds... deep down

So some of you who read this, have read about NERDWARS.  It's a fiber arts (knitting, crochet, spinning, dyeing) I'm going to say challenge rather than competition.  It is a competition, it is mostly teams (those who don't want to be on a team for whatever reasons or those who don't play well with others are Ninjas,but it is more about challenging yourself.

 The various Nerddoms are pretty varied.  There are the ones you would expect - StarWars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, vampires, there's also comic books/graphic novels, there is serial books , there are the grammar nutcases (yeah totally will never be one of them) Every tournament there have been new teams forming, existing teams merging etc. I started tournament 1 on Team Bazinga- fans of the Big Bang Theory - and since it's a show about nerds it made tying any projects into the show pretty simple.  Then in tournament 2, I was lured into the world of Board games with Team Meeples.  

I didn't feel like I did all that well in T2, so I was going to be a Ninja for T3 - but then a new team came together, of Jim Henson fans!!  I am a Muppet!! ask my husband!  So now I am the team manager of Team Fraggle!

  And it turns out I didn't do as badly in T2 as I thought.  I only got halfway through my dissertation (a longterm project you can tie into one of the 6 challenge categories however you choose) but as I hit halfway I did get 50 points.  The monthly challenges fall into 6 categories: Giving Geeks (a charitable challenge) Team spirit ( not always about your team) Scientific (there have been some doozies here) Technical ( usually has you stretching your skills or trying something new) Nerd Culture and Intellectual.  Why I call it a challenge is that you can do one or all of the challenges, you can decide to do or not to do a dissertation.  While I only did a few challenges each month - I did complete at least one of each Category!!

REally it isn't as complicated as it sounds.. If you are on Ravelry come check it out!  Sign ups start Sept 15- Sept 27. (If you miss sign ups you can still compete as a ninja)

Hope to see you there! 

Honey Badger

I finally finished my modified Honey Badger socks! And made my first hexiFlat for my future Beekeepers quilt.  I will be making, a lot, literally hundreds of my left over sock yarn scraps.  I figure a couple years.

One of the groups I'm in on Ravelry is doing a swap of a puff and a mini skein of 15 yds.  Another group is considering a puff swap. And I'm swapping puffs with a few other friends as well.  More variety of puffs, and like a memory puff at the same time.

Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Numbers

 Numbers are like the

alphabet for mathmatics,

And so much more fun!

 

I studied physics,

It uses math for its grammar.

Simpler than English.

 

I believe Math is

the language that God uses,

In all creation!

 

Swap Goodies!!

Check out my NerdWars Swap package!  Stacey (aka nordicgdss) did a great job of stalking!  She saw my Tony Stewart obsession and made me a great project bag with matching notions case



The cutest little Big Bang Theory buttons



and inspired by TBBT a Doppler shift cloth



There was also a Settlers of Catan inspired t-shirt, sheepfeet2 yarn that is destined to become hexipuffs, a cute "baaaaad girls" card, a Chewbacca thing, a pizza "pi" cutter (that the Angie wants)  chocolate covered pretzels and cookies from a place local to her. 

Many thanks again for a great package!.

I used my sewing machine!

I was going to post this yesterday, but after going to dinner with Curt, I was so tired I fell asleep somewhere after the drop of the green flag of the truck race.  It seemed like everyone had taco's yesterday! (Ok Thom taco salad - but still) Even the Angie found a new taco truck on campus and said they made incredible carne asada tacos.  So i told Curt I'd treat him to dinner - and we went to Applebees. Yes, I know not the big name in tex-mex , but I wanted a waiter - which La Salsa doesn't have, and Chili's is far, and the new Mex place in the borough I just don't like.  We had the Ultimate Trio appetizer - mozzarella sticks, queso blanco dip and asian pork wonton taco's (they come in chicken Min!) Then I had steak/shrimp fajitas and Curt had steak/chicken.


But on to sewing.  I got a sewing machine before I got married.  I sewed a few straight lines,  but not many.  Then I got a swap partner who lives in Tallahassee,  FL.  And I got said partner in the middle of July, so thinking of something to hand make for my partner was giving me a blank.  I was going through my craft stuff, and I saw a kit I bought at some point in life for a reversible small tote bag.  And I thought everyone can use another project bag right?  So I put my sewing machine on the table. Wound a  bobbin without too much trouble and went for it.  

So here is side one which I am calling spring/summer

and this side I am calling fall/winter

Honey Badger

In one of my Ravelry groups we are doing a knit a long called Honey Badger socks.  I modified mine because I don't like socks touching my ankles - and damn it - Honey Badger don't give a shit!  One sock down - one sock to go!