Sarah’sTim Blog

Thinking

Things I think about: food, coffee, being passionate about my work, quilts, fabric, Loki, Tim, classes, going back to school, work, work, work, am I eating enough fruit, going to the farmer’s market, Web 2.0, interns, photography, SPEA, The Commission for Sustainability, recycling, living green, whether I can see the New Pornographers in concert, being a good person, travel, friends, organic food, allergies, natural leave-in conditioner, exercise, switching to gmail, having a baby someday, paint colors, books, The Clash, religion, gardening, health care, family, whether I should get new highlights, crosswords, publicity, and politics.

In no particular order, and not meant to be inclusive or exclusive.

Unwrapping

No, we weren’t waiting for the winter solstice, but decided to go ahead and open the majority of presents tonight. Tim is a sweet pea, and despite talking about not getting each other gifts, he plied me with many books. I shall never complain of not having anything to read.

Hopefully with all the cash received (thanks moms and dads!!), we will be heading to the big city to go shopping while Tim is still on break. Indy, here we come!

Prodigious Start

This is what Tim’s office looked like after he finished finals. There wasn’t an inch of space not covered by papers, wires, cups, papers, books, papers, blankets, and more papers. That path in the middle? Only there to be able to walk from the door to the computer. Today it is neat and tidy, and? Tim has heard back on his final projects and knows his overall grades. He did excellent! Yay! I knew he could do it.

Also?

Helper cat, helps. With the quilts. Binding is 5/8 done!

Open Letter to Internets

Dear Internets,

Why has thou forsaken me? I heard that one could find anything using the Google and the tubes. ANYTHING. Well, it isn’t true. In fact, it is a bunch of lies.

We are only trying to find a sofa that is 68″-72″, modern design, with arms, preferably in leather (or really anything other than the color of nubby cement or “paprika”) and less than $2,000 including shipping. Oh, and I don’t want to wait 6-8 weeks either. Should it be that hard internet? I don’t think so.

Seriously? It can’t be impossible. But, it seems that it is. Impossible.

Tomorrow I turn 32 so for the hell of it, here is a gratuitous shot of my cat (bonus points to anyone who can place the bag:

Packed

To compliment the post of things I will miss about Texas, I was going to post a list of the things that I won’t miss but that list pretty much begins and ends with the weather and allergies, so sort of repetitive and boring. And why focus on the negative? I have hated living here in parts, but had some great times as well. Since we’ve been here, I’ve made some truly wonderful friends, got married, adopted a cute little Spanish speaking cat, learned how to quilt, had my first real job and bought a house. Now it is time to leave.

I am mostly packed, and it doesn’t seem quite real. I will load up my car tomorrow, hope I don’t forget anything and hit the road for a two day road trip to Btown, just me and the cat.

Oh, and Ashley? Its in the mail!

Newsy

This is sort of how I feel today. A little off centered and fuzzy.

I don’t know all the details yet, but things are happening and I am giving my two weeks notice tomorrow at work. I will fill in all the details as they become more clear, hopefully by the end of this week.

Cheating

It was Tim’s idea. And you might call it cheating, but we sprinkled the felted wool Kitty Pi bed with some catnip and that is what ultimately got Loki in it.

Still with the house and getting it ready. If all goes well in the next couple of days, the house should be on the market by Monday!

Pi Bed!

It’s done! Knitted, woven, and even felted. I increased the pattern as Loki is…uh…big boned but it came out pretty much the right diameter, but is really tall. He has put a front leg into it, but has yet to really take to it. I give him a few days. This was my first knitted and felted project and it was fun. Now on to my charity hats!

In other news, vote for Brad! He was named one of the top 10 sexiest vegetarians.

Loki, meet Pi

Tim thinks it looks like a big rasta hat, which it sort of does at this point, but eventually it will be a kitty pi bed for Loki. Thien helped get me started since the pattern has you starting on dpns, which I’ve never done before. But all is going smoothly since I moved to the circulars, and is now just fun mindless stockinette knitting. Really this picture is looking at the wrong side, and showing all its little yarns where I’ve changed colors. All those little tails you see sticking out will eventually be woven in and the whole thing will be felted. So far kitty doesn’t seem very impressed.

As you can see from the top banner, tonights game finally came out in the Colt’s favor. Needless to say, Tim is just a little excited.

Happy Festivus!

Hope everyone had a nice holiday! We are still in south Florida waiting for my parents to arrive out of Denver…tonight if everything goes well. The first few days here we had nice weather, so we’ve been to the beach and drove down to the Everglades. In the Everglades we saw lots of alligators (some even really close!) and dolphins uh, frolicking in the waters the bay just north of the gulf of Mexico on our boat tour of the 10,000 islands in the Everglades National Park. Since then we’ve had two days of rain, so had a low key Christmas day including a delicious mixed grill dinner and shopping in the rain today.

Since the rain has kept us in for the last two days, I’ve gotten lots of knitting done on my kitty pi bed, I might even be ready to felt it when I get back. Though I might need to make it a little bigger than the pattern as Loki is a husky cat (he’s just big boned, really!). We also played Euchre, which is a northern midwestern game, which Indiana people take pretty seriously and I think is designed only to confuse me!

Am thinking of my friends and family near and far. I hope all of you had the holiday of your dreams.