04.01.07

Random

Posted in books, entertainment, knitting, random at 8:36 pm by wendy

IMPORTANT

Did you know I’m a rumor monger? Stop eating anything with wheat gluten in it.

Contaminated pet food ingredient sold as “food grade” may be in human food supply.

And now for something completely different.

Google’s offering free broadband! And an awesome new option for Gmail!

And, at least Lion Brand admits their yarn is lame.

The things you find on flickr.  You know those Biore pore strips?  That pull stuff out of your pores?  Someone took a picture of theirs.  I can’t look away.

Mourning Update

I had a dream the night before last about Mom.

This is the fourth one that I remember, and while I had the “yay, you’re alive! but this is probably a dream and not the other way around, but yay! I don’t want to wake up!” feeling I still got to hug her and smell her again and it felt so real, so it’s all good.

The Road

One of my favorite books from this last year is now Oprah’s book pick. The Road is such an amazing book and has really stayed with me and Nick, one of the rare books this year I read in a single sitting. Believe me, I wanted to put it down.

It’s incredible and encapsulation would do nothing but mislead you, but it’s fantastic— but it definitely contains his bleak awareness of darkness, of evil, of selfish cruelty.

And the helplessness of guardianship of another life in a world full of this selfishness and cruelty.

Also joy and love and pride and fear and hope. So don’t let the sticker on the new releases of this book scare you, don’t be shallow like me.

The joy of trying to be a natural dyer in the disputed meth capitol of the world.

Despite every resource I read on natural dyeing assuring me that pool supply companies stock these chemicals, I get nothing but attitude and “NO! We don’t sell that here!”

I am using these chemicals in natural dye processes. I am careful & moderate in the use and disposal, no need for the hostile freakouts I’ve been receiving.

I’ve said what they are, I’ve said what I need them for…I mean seriously, if you don’t know what the hell sodium hydroxide or copper sulfate are, all you need to say is “I’m not sure we have that but I’ll look.” I guess pool supply and customer service are mutually exclusive. No need for the reaction I got the last time, her anger was so out of nowhere it was surreal, but it was consistent with the weird defensiveness of other pool supply store employees.

I think asking for the actual chemicals (even by the common names of lye or blue vitriol) instead of brand names makes them feel stupid. Maybe it’s all those chemicals that make them stupid. Hello? Who sells chemicals but doesn’t know what the hell they are? Only as brand names? Jeebus, these are things that children are swimming in!
But at least I fuckin’ know what their molecular structure looks like.

Yeah, like THAT means anything.
“I was eloquent! Shit!”

I guess I should start compiling lists of the brand names these chemicals are sold under. Or just tell the “help” to go away and let me look through everything myself. Boy, I read this and it seems so melodramatic and witchy–really, buying something from a shop shouldn’t be a big deal at all. I don’t know what’s up with this, it’s really odd.
Looking Forward

The Golden Compass movie! I pictured Lyra as grubbier, but okay. And I have to admit, the armored bears are my favorite part of the series. The very graphic part where Iorek rips Iofur’s jaw off made me go, “whoah? This is a kid’s book? Awesome.”

Link to preview on youtube

Also Captain Tightpants is Lord Asriel. Rawr.
I didn’t finish the sweater or the bicolor cardi.

I suck. I’m a knitting lame-o. I picked up Sherwood again too. So I can inch along on various projects and not finish anything indefinitely. I’m a genious.

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