This Time Next Week I'll be......
Well, I don't know where I'll be or what I'll be doing, but I guarantee it will not involve adding machines, tax forms or for that matter, a desk. It should be involving all those right now but I'm losing my will to live. I mean, work.
And next time when I run into Craftylily at Peet's, I won't be running late to the office and desperate for caffeine. I've ran into her twice this last month! She has a very cool decal on her car but she'll have to post a pic of it because I........was running way late and needed caffeine to think of taking the pic.
If you look closely (or click on the pic) there are cows peacefully grazing on the left side of the hill. And look how GREEN! Wow. It's why I've always thought California cows are happy cows. At least the ones by my house seem to be. Chatty bunch though.
Julia of Knitting History and I were chatting (aka emailing) about the purpose of The Queue on Ravelry. My view is that The Queue should fulfill all the pattern needs/wants/desires that I, my next eight lives (well, hey. I am a Leo after all) and any reincarnations to follow me might have. (Although there might be a problem with the passwords.)
Other people should fill their queues with good ideas for my queue. No? Your thoughts?
Speaking of queue, a certain person who shall remain nameless athough she is X(Heather)at X (Lectio) and who made an ill-advised bet with me (ill advised on the grounds that I am never wrong and if I am.....well, see above) and she was wrong! Wrong! Jake did not join into an unholy alliance with Constantino. I was surprised Eric didn't though. And now she owes me mittens.
And, most importantly, I was right.
I thought I might knit her Mitts for a Dystopian Future if, by some sheer chance of random chaos in the Universe had I been wrong. (But mittens for a dytopian future. It's cold where she lives. There's this stuff called snow? I'm not sure if you've heard of it.) That or FrankenMitts. (Both of which are in my queue, but just in case you want to see and have never heard of Ravelry)
Clearly Heather has nothing to do (note the fluffy rip & read reading list she has there) and clearly I don't actually need mittens (see green hills above) but that has nothing to do with anything. Okay, I admit it. (Since it's fairly obvious.) I just wanted to gloat.
And not figure cost basis for a few brief moments.
Hez sez: "What? Who did you say you were? My mother told me not to talk to strangers."
Hey Carrie,
Your entry seems a little jittery and not as smoothflowing as your usual style. Have you been drinking too much coffee? Remember only one pot per roll of adding machine tape.
Tim
Posted by: Tim Rooch | April 09, 2008 at 05:22 PM
You do seem a little jittery. One more week, baby, one more week. We have volunteers doing taxes at the library twice a week. Egads! Those poor people have been flooded this year. I guess nobody wants to miss out on their $600 "rebate."
I have a hard time distinguishing what I should put in my queue and what I should put in my favorites. Because what I want to knit next changes daily, if not hourly.
Congrats on the mittens and being right. Jake would never do such a thing. Eric? Could go either way.
Posted by: Sonya | April 09, 2008 at 07:02 PM
Exactly! I depend on "my friends" to waste their time to search for lovely patterns, which I then add to my queue ;-)
Posted by: Marina | April 09, 2008 at 07:27 PM
Why didn't TypePad warn me that it doesn't accept some HTML?
Apologies to my friends ;-) "To waste their time" was supposed to have been struck out!
Posted by: Marina | April 09, 2008 at 07:30 PM
I thought your Ravelry queue was to keep ideas for ME!!
(and mine is clearly for the list of things I'll be knitting well into my 7th next life anyway ... isn't that what it's for? I mean ... golly, there's no guarantee we'll be able to get into our own stashes in the next life... but things online are more accessible... right?
Posted by: NeedleDancer | April 09, 2008 at 08:18 PM
The 15th is almost here . . . Less than a week now, Carrie!
Posted by: Literary Feline | April 09, 2008 at 08:23 PM
Ouch! Hez! So cruel! (But so fluffy!)
The "Friends Activity" is absolutely evil in Ravelry - my queue would be 1/4 the size it is without that.
Posted by: Chris | April 10, 2008 at 05:01 AM
Does anyone remember when patterns were called "Lady's Twin Set" or "Man's Socks"? "Mitts for a Dystopian Future" is a distinct improvement, no?
Posted by: Kim | April 10, 2008 at 05:24 AM
Yeah, I agree with Chris! If it weren't for "Friend Activity", I wouldn't be 57 projects in the hole.
But, it is nice to see what others are making.
The end, she is near!
Posted by: Brigitte | April 10, 2008 at 05:58 AM
Heh. Poor Heather. She was so sure she'd win.
Posted by: Amy | April 10, 2008 at 06:31 AM
At least the end is in sight ...
Oh. Do some people use their Ravelry queue only for things they are planning to knit SOON? Well then, what's the point???
Looks like you are gonna owe Hez big-time ... good luck!
Posted by: Bridget | April 10, 2008 at 06:49 AM
Being right IS important.
Posted by: Miss T | April 10, 2008 at 06:55 AM
Hang in there, Carrie.
Oh, and why was Peet's out of the pumpkin scone! I'ts a conspiracy I tell you.
Posted by: Jennifer | April 10, 2008 at 11:02 AM
I use my queue to bookmark patterns that I might want to do at a later date. Who knows, I just might be able to knit it all within the next 30 years!
Posted by: Opal | April 10, 2008 at 11:57 AM
So, you are into full fledged QUIRBLE, huh? It'll all be over soon.
Posted by: Jeanne | April 10, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Who would have guessed that ERIC of all people would grow a spine and do the right thing?
Posted by: kookiejar | April 10, 2008 at 01:05 PM
I'm loving your cows on the green hill. And how odd that you know someone in real life from the blogging world. Kind of groovy :)
Posted by: Felicia | April 10, 2008 at 02:04 PM
Just dropping by to say you're almost there.
And I agree completely on the purpose of Ravelry queues.
Posted by: Lisa | April 10, 2008 at 02:09 PM
Oh Hez, your mom gave you very good advice!!!
Tell your mom to hang in there and huggs to both of you!
Posted by: Geraldine | April 10, 2008 at 02:54 PM
Carrie- Don't you love a good gloat? Especially when you have something great to gloat about?
Noogies to Hez.
Posted by: Lorraine | April 10, 2008 at 07:00 PM
Only a week to go!
Posted by: mrspao | April 10, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Oh, the que. I use it as a referance. I'll never knit have of it. But at least I can find my inspiration there.
Posted by: Abigail | April 11, 2008 at 05:08 AM
8 lives? Ha ha! I earmarked too many projects to knit- enough for 20 lifetimes. :)
Aspirations - it's a nice thing, hmm?
Posted by: tiphanie | April 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Ahem. Very wrong, was I. Hanging my head, I am.
Mittens, I will knit. Possibly Halland Mitts. Colour preferences, please!
Posted by: Heather | April 13, 2008 at 08:47 PM
Congratulations on being right! Unfortunately it also signals the end of Jericho, correct? No more political allegory and conspiracies--bah!
Posted by: Holly of HollYarns | April 14, 2008 at 09:55 PM