a miscellaney
Jun. 12th, 2010 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardYou know how I mentioned I have both lost weight and have no hips? I was at Maurice's today, and tried on a skirt (in a small, mind you), and it did not quite fall off, but it sits way too low BECAUSE I HAVE NO HIPS. I am pretty much straight up and down, although at least I have boobs and a butt. (Apparently, my mother and my cousin were discussing this in Japan. I haven't seen Ami in a while, but I guess she has a flatter chest than I do (I wear a B-cup) and less in the ass area?)
*sighs* I like skirts. I now have to figure out what size I wear for skirts (my mother suggests a 0 or a 1), which is just irritating. I apparently have the Kato build, since my mother says she was skinny when she was my age, and that Maya and Ami are too. I definitely didn't get the robust buxom Scandinavian build from my dad's family. I did get some height, though, which can't have come from the Japanese side. The sad thing is that I am still short.
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I love Japanese tradition, and also having relatives who like to give me money EVEN WHEN I AM NOT THERE. I mostly plan on buying yarn, which is at least one cause of my anxiety that I can do something about, even if I have discovered that I have been doing my yarnovers wrong. (Actually, I knew I was doing my yarnovers wrong the whole time, which is why I don't knit a lot of lace, but I couldn't find a good guide on actually doing yarnovers, especially since I knit continental. I did -- and still do, I think -- my yarnovers really weirdly.)
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Human Voices is -- um, well, it's a braided POV, which isn't something I usually do. And I'm rewriting from the top down (or maybe the toe up? wait, I'm talking about Narnia, not socks), which is...tiring, a little, because the setting of the original draft was very firmly placed, and I have to move it up a year because of timing. (The difference between year one and year two, which is significant.)
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I like knitting socks, but I always end up with yarn leftover -- probably not enough for another pair, but maybe enough for fingerless gloves? I'm not really sure what to do with the odd bits of yarn. (I'm not sure how much I have left over in either yardage or weight, so it's hard to guess. Hi, I'm Bed, I'm unhelpful.)
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Herbs: we have parsley, sage, and rosemary already, and the basil died so we have to get more. I want to get mint, I'm not sure what kind, and coriander (although my mother hates coriander, so that's for me). Thyme, maybe? I kind of want to get catnip, for no particular reason. I hear it makes a good tea, although that one should probably stay inside instead of getting planted outside, as we have cats.
My mother says that if I can find somewhere to plant the corn, we can grow corn. We mostly do container gardening now -- not because we don't have the space, but because there are freaking deer (a couple wandering around the front yard right now, actually; I can see them from the window) and otherwise they'll get eaten unless we put up fencing, which we gave up on a couple years ago. Can one grow corn in containers? It seems unlikely.
*sighs* I like skirts. I now have to figure out what size I wear for skirts (my mother suggests a 0 or a 1), which is just irritating. I apparently have the Kato build, since my mother says she was skinny when she was my age, and that Maya and Ami are too. I definitely didn't get the robust buxom Scandinavian build from my dad's family. I did get some height, though, which can't have come from the Japanese side. The sad thing is that I am still short.
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I love Japanese tradition, and also having relatives who like to give me money EVEN WHEN I AM NOT THERE. I mostly plan on buying yarn, which is at least one cause of my anxiety that I can do something about, even if I have discovered that I have been doing my yarnovers wrong. (Actually, I knew I was doing my yarnovers wrong the whole time, which is why I don't knit a lot of lace, but I couldn't find a good guide on actually doing yarnovers, especially since I knit continental. I did -- and still do, I think -- my yarnovers really weirdly.)
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Human Voices is -- um, well, it's a braided POV, which isn't something I usually do. And I'm rewriting from the top down (or maybe the toe up? wait, I'm talking about Narnia, not socks), which is...tiring, a little, because the setting of the original draft was very firmly placed, and I have to move it up a year because of timing. (The difference between year one and year two, which is significant.)
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I like knitting socks, but I always end up with yarn leftover -- probably not enough for another pair, but maybe enough for fingerless gloves? I'm not really sure what to do with the odd bits of yarn. (I'm not sure how much I have left over in either yardage or weight, so it's hard to guess. Hi, I'm Bed, I'm unhelpful.)
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Herbs: we have parsley, sage, and rosemary already, and the basil died so we have to get more. I want to get mint, I'm not sure what kind, and coriander (although my mother hates coriander, so that's for me). Thyme, maybe? I kind of want to get catnip, for no particular reason. I hear it makes a good tea, although that one should probably stay inside instead of getting planted outside, as we have cats.
My mother says that if I can find somewhere to plant the corn, we can grow corn. We mostly do container gardening now -- not because we don't have the space, but because there are freaking deer (a couple wandering around the front yard right now, actually; I can see them from the window) and otherwise they'll get eaten unless we put up fencing, which we gave up on a couple years ago. Can one grow corn in containers? It seems unlikely.
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Date: 2010-06-13 12:13 am (UTC)http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf24347400.tip.html crochet project suggestions for scrap yarn
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Date: 2010-06-13 12:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-06-13 01:35 am (UTC)For herbs, definitely thyme! "Thyme all the time" is my motto. Well, not all the time, but mmmm, thyme. :D
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Date: 2010-06-13 03:13 am (UTC)Thyme! I shall respectfully suggest to my mother that we get thyme, then!