Jeans and Sneakers

I woke up around 11am, and decided that I had to go outside.  I took a shower and got dressed in a skirt and took my finished two toed sock to the yarn store to show Karen.  I didn’t stay long today because she was having lunch with her husband (whom, I might add, was pretty handsome for an older gentleman. . .way to go Karen!), and I didn’t want to intrude.  When I came back I woke Rob up with my prattling on about how nice it was outside, and told him that we should do something outside today.  He agreed, and eventually got out of bed.  :]

We didn’t know what to do though.  It’s been a long while since the weather has been nice enough to play in and Rob wasn’t too sick to enjoy it.  We decided to drive down by the beaches.  On the way there though, there were so many idiots on the road that we got discouraged and decided to come back home and go bike riding.  We didn’t go out long, but it was nice.  I hope to go outside much more this summer.  And wearing a skirt wasn’t even that bad!  (I changed into pants before going riding though.)

We came home after a little bit and I told Rob that I was taking him out to dinner whenever he got hungry, since today is two years and eight months that we’ve been together.  We don’t always celebrate the months, but I’ve been wanting to take him out to dinner forever and today I finally had the means to.  We went to our favorite Thai restauraunt in Bay Shore.  The food there is SOOOOO tasty.

Then it was back home again, and we watched the extended version of Gladiator.  All in all, it was a wonderful day.  And tomorrow’s Easter.  I keep forgetting.  I should call my mom.

During the week, Rob bought me the His Dark Materials trilogy of books.  I couldn’t really get into them during the week, at least not as I wanted to, and I still was determined to finish my friend’s sock.  So yesterday I lept into the first book. . .and finished it.  It was really, really good.  Usually when I read a book, there’s so much foreshadowing that I can tell many chapters ahead what is going on, and not much comes as a surprise to me.  At least, not at the late time the author intends to spill the beans.  This book had me surprised at every turn.  It was great.  I can’t wait to get into the second one.

During Gladiator I began two toed sock #2.  I’m worried about the first one, because the ankle is pretty wide.  Even though I put a little bit of ribbing on the top, I don’t think it’s enough, and somehow the ribbed top of the cuff is stretched out.  Maybe I should thread it with some elastic to make it tighter.  I might just do that.  And I’ll make it so that if the elastic is annoying and my friend doesn’t like it, he can just cut it and pull it out.  What a pain!!  How weird that my wool socks are retaining their shape beautifully but my cotton/elastic one has stretched out.  :[

Oh!  And I think I also neglected to mention that the roomate has dumped his gf and kicked her out of the house.  He found out for certain that she was cheating on him, and he ended it.  I say it's about time, and I still can't wait until he's gone.  It bothers me more than a little bit that he thinks that just because he's dumped her and finally kicked her out that everything is ok between us.  He thinks that we can just forget what kind of a scumbag he's been for the past year.  He acts as if nothing had happened.  I keep away from him mostly.

I've decided I want a spinning wheel, and I'm going to get one from a specific seller on Ebay.  They've got the best deal on the wheel I want, and I can only hope that they'll still have some when I have the money to buy one.  I was talking about it to Rob tonight at dinner, and he sounded like he thought that I might just be obsessing over something, as I sometimes have been known to do.  It seemed like he was trying to hint that maybe I shouldn't make such a big purchase on something I may well get tired of.

I don't think that's the case with this though.  I've been knitting for over a year now, and my obsession with it has only grown.  I had a knitting machine, but I pretty much never used it.  I think that, though, that was mostly because the machine wasn't in top condition, and you had to meticulously correct it's mistakes while going along.  It negated it's whole purpose, to quickly and efficiently produce knitted fabric.  I had to constantly stop to fix it's mistakes.  Spinning is something else entirely.  I've used the wheel I want at my aunt's house, the same exact model, and I was good at it.  While I can sort of spin on a hand spindle, it's awkward for me.  But when I sat down at the wheel, everything fell into place exactly where it should be, and it worked.  I don't think I'll ever want to resell a spinning wheel once I get one.  Even if I kept it for 5 years and then picked up spinning, it would still be worth the money now.  In my opinion at least.  But if the inclination struck me, I could easily get back what I paid for a used wheel.

I can't wait until I can get one.  Also, I ordered a set of Denise circulars, and they'll be here on Monday.  I'm so excited, but I know I'll have to wait a little longer before I can start on that hat.

And one last thing.  I want a new camera.  But I know I really shouldn't make two huge purchases like that before taking care of things I've been neglecting for too long now.  Like my teeth.  It's been over a year and a half since I was last at the dentist, and there was some temporary work that wasn't finished.  I need to get two root canals redone, and I'm pretty sure I need a wisdom tooth pulled.  Not to mention a cavity in one of my front teeth that was supposedly taken care of at my last dentist, which has become active again.  I know I should take of myself first and foremost.  :/  It sucks though, because I want things.  :]