July 23, 2010
TGIF, Dear Readers!
(Moved comments up to the top of the blog entries for grins, and whittled down the blog list since some seem to have gone to the big Backup Drive in the Sky and some Just Aren’t Being Updated, no matter how many times I click on them with high hopes and crossed fingers.)
Now, see how you guys are? I was enamored with and completely committed to the “Ramius” name. It was the name. It rolls off the tongue, it’s sexy, I love the movie, I love me some seagoing manly man in uniform (despite…you know), but then along comes Pam with her comment…aaaaand we have a winner! The final-final name, because it still refers to teh movie and teh red, but makes me laugh every time I say it, is “Crazy Ivan.” So it’ll be just me ‘n’ Crazy Ivan, tootling down the road of life together. Done and done. Except maybe for ordering this sometime:
Which’all makes me very glad I ran the poll even if I didn’t use any of the original names because it still led directly to the answer. Thank you, Pam!
Some knitting has been getting done lately but not a lot because of pesky wrist and arm problems, the siren call of the garden and the dahlias, and because of [breaking off eye contact] an almost-tall-enough-to-topple-over pile of new video games. (I can talk and knit at the same time, read and knit at the same time, do crossword puzzles and knit at the same time but I haven’t quite sussed out how to play video games and knit at the same time. Basic math tells me it requires four arms which means I have to become a transplant surgeon first. I’ll get right on that.)
As for the dahlias, this weird summer weather--record-breaking cold, heat and rain--has wreaked havoc with them. Some are a spindly five feet tall, some a squat six inches, some struggled bravely up and promptly gave up the ghost. But over the course of the last two weeks, a few have managed to squirt out some of their trademark beautiful blossoms.
For my part, I managed to squirt out this...
...made from a worsted-weight superwash merino in unique shades of coffee brown, liver brown and silver from Fancy Image Yarn in Shelton, WA. These ended up quite hefty and will most likely be my go-to socks when the weather turns nasty this winter. Now, back to squashing six-armed brain monsters, green, slimy poltergeists and two-headed ogres with the help of my trusty shape-shifting sidekick in Level 24 of a 50-level dungeon.
Posted by Ryan at July 23, 2010 08:54 PMI hope Crazy Ivan treats you MUCH better than most Russian "chaffeurs" of my experience. Trust me, NYC cabbies have nothing on Moscow ones!
Have fun!
Posted by: Kristen on July 23, 2010 09:18 PMCrazy Ivan is PERFECT!
If you find you like really heavy wool socks, you can accomplish the same thing with two strands of sock yarn. I have a couple pairs like that -- perfect for those extra cold mornings.
Posted by: kmkat on July 23, 2010 09:41 PMI love Dahlias. Looks like they are holding up okay. No knitting here, just spinning - too damn hot.
Posted by: Lisa on July 24, 2010 06:37 AMGlad I could inspire you :). Re: video games and knitting, that's why I like all the travel time in WoW...it's easy to knit on the back of a griffin.
Posted by: Pam on July 24, 2010 09:11 AMI want to knit a sock the color of the second daliah! LOVE that color. (Unlike my blog, at the moment. I really wish technology could be kicked in the butt, on occasion.)
Those socks are very nice, too.
Rule the road, Crazy Ivan!
Cat
Posted by: Cat on July 24, 2010 02:36 PMI don't know how to play video games and knit at the same time, so I usually end up knitting. It's too bad, because there are a lot of games I would like to play and there are just not enough hours in the day to both separately.
Posted by: Seanna Lea on July 26, 2010 06:52 AMIf I remember correctly, Crazy Ivan, isn't that when the Russian sub suddenly does a 360 in the ocean to see if they are being tracked?
If I am correct, are you going to start doing 360's in the road?
Posted by: PICAdrienne on July 26, 2010 03:53 PMThose dahlias are A-Mazing!
:)