Reading is FUNdamental.
Mac mentioned today that she finished reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and said that it was in the same sort of a veing as Catcher in the Rye. Now, Catcher in the Rye is my all-time favorite book ever, I think in part because when I first read it my dad got so excited by it because it is one of his favorites too. Well, going in to work was kind of a bust today because the meeting I was supposed to have was cancelled AFTER I'd already gotten there so I had TheBoy pick me up and we swung by the Eugene Public Library where I picked it up. I've been reading it while I was waiting for banana bread to bake and I'm done the first 70 pages. I'm really diggin' it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to find track lighting.
Pillars
This is part of a Christmas gift, although I don't believe the recipient will be reading. The description will remain somewhat cryptic none-the-less. I made it with some Tahki Magic in Winter which looks like cookies-n-cream ice cream to me. Its "polar weight" and each strand consists of four smaller strands loosely held together by the merino halo. The recommended needle size was 11 but I knit this up in 2 days on size 15's to give it a little bit of a looser look and feel to it. The stitch is pillar stitch, which is a lot of fun. The fantabulous Kristi remarked that it looks similar to crochet and it does, a little. Its got a great series of vertical lines without having to be ribbed. I'm tempted to frog out another item that I made in order to change it's stitch pattern, but I'm not sure Christmas deadlines will allow that.
Office Space
So, here's my office. The post-its notes were last week's to do lists. The majority of those items on them are now checked off. Whee!! Sadly, I am behind on my hours for this month and unlikely to pick up more hours, and then next month I will spend 3 weeks away from work. That's the one bad thing about working on the University schedule. TheBoy asked how I used the cd-rom on the eMac with the post-its there and I said I rarely use it anyway so I hadn't had any hardship with it. The poster on the floor is one that I did to go on one side of a sandwich board. I do some really random things but I enjoy the vast majority of it so I'm okay with the randomness. This post is pretty random because I've just spent several hours in illustrator tracing a photo to create an image that will be sent to a neon-signmarker to create a sign. Whee! At any rate, click to make my office bigger.
Animal Crackers in my Soup.
So, Mac posted up an entry about finding an opossum in her backyard earlier tonight. Somehow the trainwreck that is my thought process got into the idea of animals I'd like to see but never have. The first is this:
A marmot. When I was preparing to travel to Eugene from Fargo my friend Adam (who I miss greatly) recommended that my dad and I stop in Couer d'Alene, Idaho to see the marmots. We didn't get a chance to do this, but TheBoy says that he thinks they're cute so maybe he'll take me to find one a some point.
The other animal that I'd like to see is one of these:
Nutria. TheBoy says they're ugly, mean and rodent-y but I still think they look cute here. The third and final random animal of the night:
Elephant shrews. I want to have one and love it and keep it in my pocket, soft and fuzzy and safe. That is all. Weird animals TheBon is intrigued by was brought to you by the letters Q, X, and the number Pi.
Pardon?
When you say Sears you probably think of quality goods, like Craftsman tools and high-end appliances. When you say K-Mart you probably think Kame-Apart, or crap quality with a funny smell. At least I do. However, Sears and K-Mart seem to think they were made for each other.
Kmart Holding Corp. and Sears, Roebuck and Co. announced a merger agreement today that will create the nation's third-largest retail company, called Sears Holdings Corp.
The companies said Sears Holdings will have approximately $55 billion in annual revenues, 2,350 full-line and off-mall stores, and 1,100 specialty retail stores. It will be headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates, Ill., but will maintain a "significant presence" in Troy, Mich., where Kmart is based
I'm a little disturbed by this merger. It just doesn't make sense to me, although I suppose it should since everything is all about money and not about quality these days.