This is one skein of Connemara, on its way to becoming a Bijoux Blouse from Oat Couture.
The Yarn Harlot had a thoughtful post on love yesterday, and The Panopticon has a funny list of ways to say “I love you” to a knitter.
That’s in case you sort of missed Valentine’s Day, as I did. It’s a good holiday, and worth observing.
Never mind. Mardi Gras is coming up.
I have a huge amount of music to learn. The Chamber Singers are doing Rutter’s Requiem, Vaughan Williams’s Easter, and a sort of medley of masses, from Monteverdi’s Vespro della B.Vergine to Bruckner’s Locus Iste and a Bach Alleluia. With lots of other stuff in between, of course. The church choir is doing Christus Paradox and a bunch of other flashy stuff, and contemplating a choir trip to #2 daughter’s church. The idea came to us in rehearsal last night. The director asked if I had been up to hear her “outfit” yet, and I said I hadn’t, at which point Suwanna said, “We should all go!” and someone else asked if they would let us sing if we came.
We only had one tenor last night, and he is rather elderly and frail, so it might not have been the ideal grouping for a tour. Ah, if only I were capable of bending my sons to my will!
#2 daughter is coming in tonight, and we plan a game night. I will therefore be cleaning house and making food and stuff like that before work, as well as running to the bank and the gym. This may not be a realistic plan, but I have rehearsal after work.
Blessing says our new business plan is unrealistic, too.
Is realism overrated?
The other suspenseful thing around here is tea. I found one more Yorkshire Tea bag in my purse, so I am having my excellent tea this morning, but then I will be out. #2 daughter was going to bring me some from the Big City, but they had run out. I have ordered some, but I see by the UPS tracking site that it has been wandering around the country, as UPS packages always do. It has been to Parsippiny, NJ (can that be right?). It has been to Memphis. It went to Little Rock and left again at 3:27 this morning. It could get here today, if it tried, but I think perhaps it will be too late to get onto the UPS driver’s truck before she leaves for my house. Especially if it decides to go to Ft. Worth first or something. I continue to hope that my Yorkshire Tea supply will be replenished in time for tomorrow morning’s all-important First Cup, but that may not be realistic either.
I’ve come back because the sun came up and revealed snow all over the ground. What a surprise! Cross off the bank and the gym, I guess. Sigh. On the other hand, I can get the house cleaned. On the third hand, if the boys are home from school, there is little point, as they will mess it back up while I am at work. I don’t know if this will affect #2 daughter’s travel plans, but it may keep me from going to rehearsal. My husband says not to walk to work today. If I have to work somewhere else, he says, I may have to get accustomed to driving on snow. Hmmm…
Hey, Google’s business plan was unrealistic.
I hope your tea does arrive, and that #2 daughter does arrive, and that all manner of things shall be well.
Snow snow snow!
RYC: Did you guys get a Wii?? So far, we only have three games for it – the sports game that came with the system, Marvel Heroes something or other, and a Legend of Zelda game. The only one that I’ve played is the sports game, which I enjoy rather a lot: I got pretty good at the bowling game on it until I suddenly got hit by a losing streak. John, however, has gone “pro” on all the sports on the game except golfing.
However, we do have a couple other games not specifically built for the Wii that we can play on it: we got the wireless internet attachment (which you can hook up to regular internet) so that we could connect the Wii to the internet, and once we did that, we were able to download from the Wii shopping channel two “classic” Nintendo games – Super Mario Brothers and Mario 64. Super Mario Brothers is my favorite, although I can never get beyond the fourth level!
RYC and RYD: Actually, we have cable internet as well. The Wii is already set up for wireless, so all you have to do is buy this little attachment that plugs into the USB port of your computer, which basically broadcasts the internettyness somehow into the air (you can see I am very techno-savvy) – so that your Wii can operate wirelessly. Eventually, once the system is full set up and there are games with that capability, people will be able to play games remotely (i.e. your son at home can play Wii with your son away at college). My husband is most excited about that capability, because all his best gaming friends are at home in Missouri.
I really have wanted to get together with Hospitality to bring choirs in on like a semi-concert series.
The shell pink of that yarn is very pretty. It looks like it will make a perfect sweater for those cool Spring days. Or late winter when you’re so sick of it that you want to pretend it’s Spring.
Good luck with all the rest of it.
Here’s a thought. Next time you buy a vehicle, you might want to think about 4 wheel drive. It won’t keep you from sliding if you’re driving at speed on ice or something (the laws of physics really are laws), but it can make driving in snow much less nerve-wracking and might give you a bit more confidence. Just the extra ground clearance is helpful.
Good luck with your job situation.
Realism is underrated… at least around here.