Here knitty, knitty!

Lookin' good!

I'm about 4" into my secret pal's stocking and can I just say that the
two strands of variegated malabrigo are terrific? Its a really nice
heathered look. I'll take a picture when I get my camera batteries
charged up.
+kac

posted by KackieC @ 7:20 PM 0 Comments   

Post thanksgiving travel

Ok, people. I'm in a madhouse full of people who fly twice a year. I
just want everyone out there who falls into that category that airtravel
is not a full service operation. If you are not capable of lifting your
own bag, please don't try to carry it through security and on the
plane. I'm particularly talking to the lady in the red sweater and the
Princess Leia hairdo. All that time you think you saved by not having
to check a bag? Well you wasted it and mine. By the time we both got
off the plane, all the luggage was already circling the baggage claim.
+kac

posted by KackieC @ 12:31 PM 0 Comments   

Rainy days and Mondays

Well here it is Sunday night, and I'm all packed and ready to go to indy
at 4am tomorrow. According to the Frontier Airlines website I've flown
over 22.000 miles in the last 6 weeks. Ya'll, I'm about damn tired of
being on an airplane...

I started making a christmas stocking for my secret pal. Its one of the
patterns in Handknit Holidays, I forget what its called. Its the one
that matches the tree skirt, and its in a beige and blue color scheme.
Except I'm making mine in a great pink and red malabrigo with olive
trim. Very festive, if I do say so myself.

I worked all day today, which is just as well considering it rained all
day. But really I'd have liked to put up my chrsitmas tree instead. I
guess i'll do it when I get back from Indy.

Gnight ya'll!
+kac

posted by KackieC @ 10:11 PM 0 Comments   

Hrm

Well, Thanksgiving did not turn out the way I anticipated at all. Not
even one little bit. The sitcom that is my life continues with no signs
of letting up anytime soon. The shit that happened yesterday was
something even the writers of Friends couldn't dream up. Good thing I
have a sense of humor. I consoled myself with a new 16" #13 addi
circular from The Yarn Place this morning. I'd planned to watch Pride
and Predjudice and put my new needle to work tonight, but in yet another
comic turn of events disc 2 of my P&P set is no where to be found. Just
when I needed to see Mr Darcy and Lizzy live happily ever after, too.
Grrr. Maybe I'll go knit at a coffeeshop or something instead.

You know, I'm not really into chick lit, but the events of the last
month make me seriously consider writing my own contribution to the
pink-cover-with-lipstick-and-shoes-motif literary genre. I'm jumping a
little ahead of myself here, but I think I'd like either Catherine Bell
or Parminder Nagra to play the heroine in the Lifetime Movie
interpretation of this story.

You know, I didn't even get any pie yesterday?

posted by KackieC @ 4:19 PM 0 Comments   

Happy Thanksgivng!

I just took the bird out of the oven. It looks great. I hope ya'll all
have a great holiday!!
+kac

posted by KackieC @ 12:37 PM 0 Comments   

A treat from my pal!

Yesterday I went down to Manresa to go surf (yep, same Manresa as the
legwarmers in Knitty). It was kinda crappy/ big/ closeout-y but it was
nice being outside anyway. When I got home I discovered a package from
my secret pal! Some yummy chocolate candy (hersheys and nestle peanut
butter treasures) and three luscious balls of Patons SWS soy/ wool in a
gorgeous colorway called natural earth. I'm going to make a hat for
myself with it. It's just gorgeous! Thanks pal! You Rock!!!
+kac

posted by KackieC @ 1:18 PM 1 Comments   

No place like home!

I am back from Indianapolis, and I don't have to go back till the Monday
after Thanksgiving. Yay! It's nice to be home, that's for sure.

I got a bit of knitting done on my malabrigo tote bag I am making. I
could never decide how I wanted to do it, and I finally said "just
flippin' make something!" so I am. I'm kinda just making it up as I go
along. We'll see how it ends up.

Tomorrow I am going to take myself for a bike ride along the Monterey
Bay Coastal Trail. I hope the weather is nice. Even if it's not I'm
going anyway. I feel like I have been indoors for a solid week. Maybe
that's because I HAVE been indoors for a week straight.

Happy Friday ya'll!
+kac

posted by KackieC @ 2:57 PM 0 Comments   

I went bowling tonight!

I went bowling with folks from work tonight and I got some ridiculously
wonderful score like 123 and I got a tiara as a prize. Woohoo!!
+kac

posted by KackieC @ 6:49 PM 0 Comments   

155 and indy

Guess where I'm off to tomorrow? Indianapolis! I think this is my 5th
trip there since mid-September. The last leg of the last trip home I
racked up the last few miles I needed to make elite status on Frontier
Airlines, which means now I get all the amenities like free in-flight
direct TV service, and priority checking and boarding. And that will
come in handy since I have about 5 more trips out there between now and
the end of the year...

The 155 is a reference to the number spam mails I have gotten since
midnight last night. SHEEEESH!
+kac

posted by KackieC @ 6:46 PM 1 Comments   

How much fun

I'm working. On a Friday night. Woohoo. I'm working in Starbucks in a mall in Santa Cruz, and having oh-so-much fun. The kids coming in with their hip outfits to get coffee are cracking me up. Way back in the Bronze Age when I was a kid I didn't really wear any hip outfits, despite the fact that it was the 80's and there was some marvellous styles goin' round. Mostly I wore my school uniform after school, even to go to a movie or the mall or out to eat. So did most of the girls I went to school with, so I guess in reality I was wearing the local equivalent of a Hip Outfit.

Did I mention I sent my secret pal a little treat this week? I did. I picked up some Cascade 220 in a sweet pink and tucked a little felted purse pattern in with the yarn and dropped it into the mail Tuesday morning. I hope she enjoys it.

Ok, me sitting here blogging isn't going to get the rest of my work done. I better go.

posted by KackieC @ 8:11 PM 0 Comments   

Lightbulb!!!

Yesterday I showed my gal pal Elecktra my training socks. She said I
should make some Christmas stockings, and well, all of a sudden I
realized that I could use some great pink and red variegated malabrigo
(from my last secret pal!!) and some olive green wool from my Grammie's
stash to make a smashing stocking. I can't decide if I want to felt it
or not- if I don't felt it I will use a pattern in Handknit Holidays,
but if I do felt it I will just make up something. I'd do one of each
but I know I'm a lazy person and I will only finish one by the
holidays....

+kac

posted by KackieC @ 7:25 AM 0 Comments   

What's red and wiggles?

I got a hankering for some jello so I made what is know back in world
where I grew up (Sherwood, Arkansas) as Congealed Salad. Its a fancy
way of saying jello with stuff in it. I made mine with sugar free
raspberry jello and coolwhip mixed together, with walnuts and
raspberries in it. Yum yum yum. Its my belated birthday cake, from me
to me.

And just before I ate myself almost-sick on congealed salad, I got a
suprise gift in the mail from my gal pal Betty. She sent me a whole
mess of goodies from Sephora, including a fabulous perfume called Pink
Sugar that smells just like cotton candy.

Golly, this has turned out to be the best Alternate Birthday ever.
+kac

posted by KackieC @ 7:20 PM 0 Comments   

What a nice day

Ok, the weather is grey and wet, but it's really such a great day otherwise. For the first day in I-can't-even-remember-how-long I don't have a 13 hour work day in front of me. I've finally gotten my jet lag under control- going back and forth between Eastern and Pacific time zones has been really really hard on me. And at the moment I am not particularly stressed about anything work-wise, although that is subject to change at any second. And I'm finally back in Santa Cruz, which is sooo nice that I think for lunch I am going to go sit on my bench and look at the ocean despite the rain.

The best part of the day, though- by far- is hearing from a friend I hadn't heard from in a very long time. It gave me such a nice happy warm feeling when I saw the email in my inbox this morning. It was a belated birthday wish, and was just exactly the kind of thing I had been hoping would happen.

I think with all the goodness in my day today I am going to call this my Official Birthday. The actual day, as you may recall, was absolutely sucktastic. Today seems like it is a much better bet for a positive celebration of all things Kackie.

Speaking of celebrations, check out this hat and carf combo. It screams Merry Christmas at the top of it's little green lungs, doesn't it?

Oh look! The sun is coming out! How awesome is that?

posted by KackieC @ 11:41 AM 0 Comments   

Knitting in indy

I finally finished one of my training socks, and started the other. I
knitted a little on the plane to Indy. I'm hoping to get this other one
finished before I come home in, oh it feels like 3 months....
+kac

posted by KackieC @ 4:30 AM 0 Comments