State of the Laura

[celticdragonfly]

Life's been a bit more chaotic than usual lately.

FenCon prep, what little of it there was. Coming down sick just before the con. Being sick afterwards, and dealing with sick kids. selenite's mom visiting, and having time with the grandkids. Etc. I'm hoping to have things settle down a BIT now, and get back to the rich online life I was having, interspersed with the busy local life. Which is getting busier - Wednesday nights at church are back up and going for the kids, Maggie has dance on Thursday, we've been entreated to start coming back to ORAC stuff, etc. And of course the sheer busy wonder that is baby Alanna.

Today I am tackling a goal I've had for some weeks. I've been checking LOTS of knitting books out from the library - many through Interlibrary Loan. (Which you can request ONLINE now, at least in my area. Bwahahaha. Dance, my puppets, DANCE!) I've been reading and sending some back, but have realized I ought to do better than that, and I want to write up little informal reviews of each of them. I will put them up here, but also in the Knitting Book Talk forum on Ravelry. Hopefully this will be a helpful resource for other knitters, and also useful for me to go back and read over and recall just WHERE that cool glove pattern was from, and such.

At some point after this is done, I'd like to get back to being online and actually getting to chat with people. That'd be nice... although everyone will have to be patient with me and my much-interrupted life. Nursing at the keyboard works better for reading than typing.

Ooooh! Mail just came. A BOX. For me. Sterzings I will have to find time later WITH NO KIDS. Mine mine MINE. They wouldn't properly appreciate them. Well. Maggie might. But it'd be a clear case of the Shrimp Principle[1], as discovered by my grandparents.

[1]They urged my dad rlseiver and my uncle to try shrimp. Got them to really like it. Then they realized - wait, now they needed to buy shrimp for 4, not 2. This caused budget problems.

Comments

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

The Shrimp Principle affected my mom's life in exactly the same way. She's grumbled about it ever since. :)

[mostuff.livejournal.com]

So are Sterzings chips really all that? Better than Zapp's?

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Well, I think they are. My parents think Zapp's are very similar, but they taste quite different to me. As I was telling fordprfct, it's impossible for me to sort out how much is the love of the taste and how much is the early imprinting on them as the wonderful special chips we only got to have at Granddad's.

[filkferengi]

I call it the Fudgsicle Philosophy, but, yeah. :)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Although many in my family are fussy eaters, I have never yet met the child who needs to be convinced to try a Fudgsicle.

[filkferengi]

Quite the opposite. As a child, I learned to refrain from having a fudgsicle when my uncle was there with his latest step-family. If I had had one, they would've finished off the whole box [& it only took it happening once]. That's one reason I prefer sharing things like books & music; you can share, & still have something left.