Moving Day

for some reason i think the knit stuff looks cool but i've never been inspired to take it up.

my friend made these two for wedding presents, they're nice but i don't like round blankets and they are too lacy and old-fashioned—looking for my taste (bc i am always up to date)
http://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/2008/12/girasole.html
http://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/2007/08/hemlock-ring-blanket.html

when my mum tried to teach i just couldn't get it. i'm not very coordinated.

round blankets are useless

oh neither am i--i first learned like 6 years ago and was so bad at it, i kept forgetting how and starting stuff over because i didn't know how to fix mistakes but in the past year or so i'm getting better. starting is a big hurdle but after you get knit and purl down you can do anything: cabling, lace, etc. anything! the possibilities are *endless* xp

hey it's jergins being otm

when is he not?

only about house plants, i think.

i have a huge, huge, huge afghan my great-grandmother crocheted. theresa might have seen it when she was here but i didn't point it out. it's bright neon orange, puke green, and yellow. she used to just crank them out but was really tacky (greek) so she made interesting color choices. it's also acrylic so it will never be destroyed.

the yellow is not really yellow, it's more "mustard"

i love that combo! it makes me nostalgic for my parents' poor decorating choices when i was a kid.

my friend's mom made me a gorgeous afghan a couple of years ago and there was wool leftover so she made a surprise little afghan for my dog<3<3.

do you wear them around the house together, pinned around your necks, tsking things?

lol sort of.

i don't have anyone to teach me how to knit :(

my father taught me how to knit when i was 5 and during the lesson i made sexist remarks and questioned his manhood.

tsk

why you little

i should remind him, he will be gleeful.

why you big

he <3s trouble.

your father's daughter

the more i am like him the better, he is <3<3.

is this you estela??

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n24/n121212.jpg

no, that is harbl wearing a wig.

lol definitely not!

a gorgeous afghan

just realized i don't know what an afghan is

gis safe search off isn't helping

an afghan is just a knitted or crocheted blanket basically. they are often hideous (except estela's gorgeous one). i think you would recognize one if you saw it

here u go http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=afghan+blanket&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=

damn those are mostly ugly huh

not so into afghans, me.

signing lease tomorrow :)

can't wait to get my very own one of these
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/features/green/yellow%20recycling%20bin.jpg

a) round blankets make no sense to me whatsoever
b) recycling bins are completely fucking awesome

with images off i thought harbl got a blog for a sec

harbl's very moving day blog

harblog

would troll

ugh WORST moving day on friday

saturday rather

it took us 3.5 hrs to get from NJ to brooklyn in the pickup truck, which was terrible because ari had an interview that afternoon so instead of spending the afternoon packing and loading beforehand she basically showed up, packed 2 boxes and had to go, i had to enlist some bros to go way above and beyond their duties as friends to help me pack and load and it took forever and they were pretty annoyed with me by the end BUT we ended up getting all of the shit into the truck so it only took 1 trip AND ari got the job which is just a crummy tutoring gig but its a job nonetheless

and since most of the crap in the apartment was aris and not mine i was really afraid of throwing anything away so i brought home probably 2 boxes worth of stuff she didnt want saved--also she accused me of breaking her lamp but we all know it was already broken

THE REALY WORST BIT THO is that we moved out this weekend because we thought we had gotten out of our lease early since another man was going to come move into the apartment and sign a lease from august first but we found out this morning that the guy has backed out and no longer wants to move in for the first so unless we can find someone who wants to sign a year long lease or sublet an empty apartment for one month were on the hook for august! which doesnt really save us any money at all!!!

LYFE!!!!!!

there is a cute little one bdrm cottage right behind our apartment building that has become available, even has a miniature front yard and a really private back patio that looks out on trees and shit. ytth wants to move, and so do i, but even just thinking about the hassle of moving makes me feel sick ;_;

max, that does sound like a miserable day. This is the first year we won't be moving since Mr. Jaq and I (have moved 10 times in the past 9 years), because I signed a 2 year lease. I'm still looking at craigslist all the time though.

oops. since Mr. Jaq and I met

you are addicted to moving!

pretty much. Though I don't especially like the trauma of the actual process, I do like pruning out the stuff to donate/pitch, the thrill of the hunt for a new place, and getting everything set up once the move is done. But the idea of staying where we are for now is also very appealing (as long as no one moves into the unit above us, which may not happen for awhile in this economy...knock wood).

max where did you move?

i used to be like you, jaq! i think i will not move for a while because a) moving is $$$ b) this place ain't so bad c) i have not even reallllllly moved all the way in yet!