I've been getting all kinds of cool mail from Mama E this week.
Firstly, I got my blue installment of sock yarn. Gorgeous as always. I really should buckle down and knit with it. Actually I'm thinking about not knitting socks with her project spectrum yarn but knitting this really cool blanket using all of it. I think? I could always use a new project I don't have nearly enough going on.
The second mail from Mama came tonight. An email about something I never would've bet money that I'd be interested in but find myself really excited about: A Sock Cruise up the Pacific Coast. How fun!!!
It's set for next April and will be going from LA to Vancouver and stopping in San Francisco for a day - at Embarcadero - like right by where Jocelyn works and..right near ArfFibers! Yaaay!
There are lots of plans on the boat for us - color theory, sock classes, and a bag of Mama E goodies included! The price isn't that bad - 475 per person double occupancy need 200 for a deposit. I'm totally going. Just have to sell enough yarn to pay for it. I need to get back on the spinning wagon anyway I really miss it.
Let's see if Cody wants to go too! Barry's definitely on board with the idea.
Remember how I mentioned not needing more projects? I've been in a finishing mood this week. Last night I stayed up really late and finished that gypsy scarf made from a bunch of yarn I picked out at ArtFibers. It wasn't that hard to do and strangely I think it's one of the best things I've made. I love that it's like a souvenir from my big day alone in the city. This thing looks so cool. I've got to get back into photographing stuff but no photos will do it justice. Really.
Tonight I'm going to finish knitting some fuzzy liners for the ugg baby booties. I decided they were really too big and instead of knitting icords for ties or creating a corset effect on the back of the shoes with extra suede yarn (both are cool solutions) I wanted the inside to be fuzzy. So I picked up the stitches at the top and have been knitting little fuzzy socks out of Berroco plush to push inside the bootie. I just finished the first liner and after following a full sock process - heel flap, gussets, toe decreases, I've discovered it's just as easy to just knit a tube and stuff it in there. I'm halfway through finally watching Heaven's Gate tonight. Kris Kristofferson is in it. Anyone that was in The Highwaymen kicks ass.
Speaking of another Highwayman, I watched Walk the Line last night. Ok. Now of course I liked the ending (yes I cried like a leetle girl) and OF COURSE I liked the music. Reese Witherspoon was great. Yeah everyone said so and it was true. But not for one second could I forget that was Joaquin Phoenix. That was a surprise. I mean, I never thought I'd get over the fact that Leonardo DiCaprio was playing Howard Hughes but I did (although I'm still afraid that I'd giggle at his beard throughout Gangs of New York so I haven't seen that). I certainly expected to have that suspension of disbelief with Phoenix but it never happened. I just kept comparing them. He did the best he could but no. Not the same. I also kept hearing him say that line about every time he watches the weather he has to..well...if you've seen To Die For you know what I'm saying. I've never seen Gladiator and I'm pretty sure that's for the best.
I did get a big kick out of the two small scenes with Shooter Jennings playing his dad, Waylon Jennings (yet another Highwayman). If I ever have a kid I'm totally naming it Shooter - boy or girl. The other one will be Schmuley. Schmuley and Shooter. That's ok I used to want to name them Vincent and Thor. Aren't you glad I'm probably not having kids now?
When I was watching the ending of the Walk The Line I was misty eyed and wondering if Cody and I could ever sing together. He's a great singer and a pretty good guitarist. Very low voice. I decided he'd give me too much crap about my pitch and I would give him crap about what songs we played. We're a much better programming duet. At the same moment, when the credits started he was thinking about me at work and called. I love our weird married telepathy.
I watched a live Johnny Cash performance from Montreaux in 1994 on PBS last week. That was fun. They sang Jackson.
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I heart Johnny Cash. I saw him and Willie Nelson at the VH1 Storytellers recording session (if you look on the cd cover you can see my ex's funky glasses and the top of my head behind the singers).
Wish I could do the spring 2007 cruise, but I won't know my dissertation defense date until late fall...can't make any plans. The east coast fall cruise, though, that I could do!
xx
Posted by: Beverly at June 17, 2006 8:00 AM
I had a hard time with Joaquin in Gladiator. He seemed just a bit too modern and fey. I will rent Walk the Line on your rec.
Posted by: Gina at June 17, 2006 11:19 AM
The fuzzy liner is a great idea!
Posted by: Ramona at June 17, 2006 4:38 PM
I get to see you for a day!
I know I only saw the first four inches or so of the gyspy scarf, but I thought it was a beautiful yarn and a really nice stich. I think that cruise sounds really fun, and I think it's great that you'll be in town for a bit. And you were saying that you were really wanting to get back to spinning more when you were out here, so it's cool that you have a goal related to that.
But, of course, I'm most excited that I'll get to see you again, even if it's just for a day.
Posted by: jocelyn at June 18, 2006 12:20 AM
That is such a great movie!
Oh, the cruise is tempting tempting tempting... hmm...
Posted by: Chris at June 18, 2006 1:51 PM
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