More blogging as soon as my head stops spinning
Yeah…um…busy few days in the Life of Cari. Someone decided it was time I get routed out of my little cave. Alison arrived Thursday night and I got to spend time with her in actual 3-D here in my own home, and then we spent a lovely knitty Friday with some of my favorite knitters (though we missed some of my other favorites. There were two shifts of knitting at The Point on Friday and shift one got antsy before shift two arrived. Alas).
Saturday was the Mermaid Parade and Sunday that craft fair…but not for me. I had made plans well over a month ago to visit a dear friend in DC, and our mutual dear friend was flying in to join us. Well over a month ago this plan was made. Regular readers will know that I almost never go anywhere. Never. So what were the chances that the one weekend I would be out of town would be the weekend La Brainy flew in for a visit? Yeah. Exactly. So I missed the crafty mermaid hijinks and packed Alison off to spend a few nights Chez Em. Monday night I get her back, though. (Yay!)
Though the timing of the trip could have been better, DC was still great. Okay, actually DC was oppressively hot and muggy, but the visit was great. Quality time with Rebecca and Serena, as well as Rebecca’s husband, Matt, and their new daughter, Olivia (she’s the one I knit that placket-neck sweater for). AND I managed to talk them into swinging by Knit Happens to hug the huggable Kristine and fondle the yarn. I also got to meet Cindy. Yes, I bought yarn. I bought sock yarn, of course, but I also walked out of there with two hanks of Kaalund Expressions in the Wombat colorway. It’s called Wombat. How can you resist a yarn when the colorway is named Wombat? Laceweight hand-dyed kid mohair. Mmmmm. Knit Happens is just as great as it looks in all the pictures (which is pretty damn great). Now if only I could convince Kristine to open a branch here in New York…
Get this: I forgot my camera. Yeah. I met Kristine and didn’t take pictures. She got one, but my strongest superpower is the ability to ruin a photo so there’s a great chance it didn’t come out.
I’ll try to do a bit better with the whole photo-taking thing for the rest of Alison’s visit.
And now, sleep. Much-needed sleep. I spent entirely too much time with Amtrak this weekend. Let’s just say I know now why they’re in trouble. Miserable experience. Pack mule would have been faster, more comfortable, and probably smell better. And perhaps I could have spun its hair as we traveled. Knitting might have been harder, though. You know, mules tend to sway more than trains…
We missed you this weekend, but I’m glad you had a good time in D.C. Sucks about Amtrak, though trust me, a stalled Q train coming from Coney Island in 90+ degree heat couldn’t be much better.
Posted by: jackie
Mules aside, that sounds like the best sort of weekend to me 🙂
Posted by: Alison
Heehee, I love your strongest superpower. Yeah, I’m so sorry for Amtrak. We need a good train in this country, damnit.
Posted by: Norma
It was lovely to meet you… Come back to visit soon!
Posted by: Cindy
I’m glad you had a great time, though you were missed very much.
Posted by: Em
Yay, you’re back! I’m so glad you had a good time in DC.
Posted by: alison
D’oh! So sorry I missed you this weekend – I really need to start going to the shop on weekends more often! 🙂
Posted by: maeve
We missed you this weekend, but I’m glad you had a good time in D.C. Sucks about Amtrak, though trust me, a stalled Q train coming from Coney Island in 90+ degree heat couldn’t be much better.
Posted by: jackie
Mules aside, that sounds like the best sort of weekend to me 🙂
Posted by: Alison
Heehee, I love your strongest superpower. Yeah, I’m so sorry for Amtrak. We need a good train in this country, damnit.
Posted by: Norma
It was lovely to meet you… Come back to visit soon!
Posted by: Cindy
I’m glad you had a great time, though you were missed very much.
Posted by: Em
Yay, you’re back! I’m so glad you had a good time in DC.
Posted by: alison
D’oh! So sorry I missed you this weekend – I really need to start going to the shop on weekends more often! 🙂
Posted by: maeve
sounds like a great time! i don’t think that i’ll make it tomorrow night for knitting 🙁 i’ve been put out of commission by my play and now that it’s over i still have to recover. have a great time and hopefully i’ll see you at the point soon!
Posted by: gleek
Ew, Amtrak. The upside is you get to see stuff rarely seen by any other mode of transport because, well, you’re on train tracks…and you get to see some amazing graffiti art (but also lots of bad tags and horrific ramshackle housing that makes you think of third world countries) but at least you can knit while moving along at the snail-like pace and waiting for long-delayed connections. Of course, that’s all from a roundtrip Sacramento to San Diego experience, I don’t know the run from DC to NYC. I take it you had a real Greyhound Bus of the rails experience.
Can we get pictures of the dog-happy-dance someday? If you rarely go anywhere I’ll bet they got some serious air upon your return. 😉 (Or are IGgies more sedate because of the leg thing?)
Posted by: spaazlicious
Hey lovie, sorry I missed you on the Friday knitting extravaganza, I showed up a few minutes too late from what I hear. I got a great visual of you on a donkey’s back spinning its mane hair. What a hoot.
xoxo
j
Posted by: john
I would’ve bought Wombat yarn too.
Posted by: claudia
Blogging is odd – you can recognize people you’ve never met, as proved on Saturday at KH when I went “Hey, I think I know that yarn hair….” 😉 You could get a pack wombat maybe? Although it probably couldn’t carry as much as a mule… but it could carry a fair bit of Kaalund I expect 🙂
Posted by: Kel
wombat is the best name…glad you had a good weekend, and hope you guys are having fun right now! and i’m so glad diego is doing well.
Posted by: mrspilkington
i’m sorry amtrak was such a pain, and that you missed all sorts of stuff in nyc, and that the elevators in the hotel only played techno music, but we were SOOOOOOOOO happy to see you! And Olivia loved meeting her aunties! Next time we will come to you 🙂 And when the weather gets a bit cooler, we will send pictures of Olivia in her sweater.
Love you!
Posted by: rebecca
OH FROG TITS! I’m so sad that I missed getting to meet you in real life at KH this weekend. The way my week has been going, it figures! Glad you enjoyed the visit. And the Kaalund, isn’t it great? I have three skeins at home trying to figure out what it wants to be.
Posted by: Shelley
sounds like a great time! i don’t think that i’ll make it tomorrow night for knitting 🙁 i’ve been put out of commission by my play and now that it’s over i still have to recover. have a great time and hopefully i’ll see you at the point soon!
Posted by: gleek
Ew, Amtrak. The upside is you get to see stuff rarely seen by any other mode of transport because, well, you’re on train tracks…and you get to see some amazing graffiti art (but also lots of bad tags and horrific ramshackle housing that makes you think of third world countries) but at least you can knit while moving along at the snail-like pace and waiting for long-delayed connections. Of course, that’s all from a roundtrip Sacramento to San Diego experience, I don’t know the run from DC to NYC. I take it you had a real Greyhound Bus of the rails experience.
Can we get pictures of the dog-happy-dance someday? If you rarely go anywhere I’ll bet they got some serious air upon your return. 😉 (Or are IGgies more sedate because of the leg thing?)
Posted by: spaazlicious
Hey lovie, sorry I missed you on the Friday knitting extravaganza, I showed up a few minutes too late from what I hear. I got a great visual of you on a donkey’s back spinning its mane hair. What a hoot.
xoxo
j
Posted by: john
I would’ve bought Wombat yarn too.
Posted by: claudia
Blogging is odd – you can recognize people you’ve never met, as proved on Saturday at KH when I went “Hey, I think I know that yarn hair….” 😉 You could get a pack wombat maybe? Although it probably couldn’t carry as much as a mule… but it could carry a fair bit of Kaalund I expect 🙂
Posted by: Kel
wombat is the best name…glad you had a good weekend, and hope you guys are having fun right now! and i’m so glad diego is doing well.
Posted by: mrspilkington
i’m sorry amtrak was such a pain, and that you missed all sorts of stuff in nyc, and that the elevators in the hotel only played techno music, but we were SOOOOOOOOO happy to see you! And Olivia loved meeting her aunties! Next time we will come to you 🙂 And when the weather gets a bit cooler, we will send pictures of Olivia in her sweater.
Love you!
Posted by: rebecca
OH FROG TITS! I’m so sad that I missed getting to meet you in real life at KH this weekend. The way my week has been going, it figures! Glad you enjoyed the visit. And the Kaalund, isn’t it great? I have three skeins at home trying to figure out what it wants to be.
Posted by: Shelley
Well we’ve been awfully busy, now haven’t we? All that time with friends must have been so fun. But no camera??
Posted by: Vicki
What is this “Mermaid Parade”????
Posted by: Jenn
I’m jealous that you got to meet the marvelous Kristine. I must plan a trip to DC for just that reason. I’m glad KH is as wonderful as it seems.
Posted by: Stephanie
Well we’ve been awfully busy, now haven’t we? All that time with friends must have been so fun. But no camera??
Posted by: Vicki
What is this “Mermaid Parade”????
Posted by: Jenn
I’m jealous that you got to meet the marvelous Kristine. I must plan a trip to DC for just that reason. I’m glad KH is as wonderful as it seems.
Posted by: Stephanie