Reasons for the radio silence:
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone that I spend most of my free time knitting rather than paying attention to the web.
In the past year, I’ve made a lot of things, including stuff I’m actually proud of, and I’m getting really enthused about it. I joined a knitting group, built their website and started a knitting blog on the site.
I came up with my first real pattern, planning to make them up and sell them to people, only to have Steve Jobs announce a whole new iPod Nano.
Of course, now I’m tempted to start knitting covers for the MacBook Air.
I got back into Twitter. I threw together a Tumbr log filled with things far more random than this.
I drifted, mostly, spending more time looking at things and less time actually recording my responses to them. It’s easier to read and knit than it is to write and knit, y’know.
I sent in a picture of Chegwin to the Nottingham Evening Post‘s Pet of the Year competition. I added the URL to his site for a laugh.
So far, I’ve had an article in the paper (with a particularly cringeworthy photo), and tomorrow, I’m talking to BBC Radio Nottingham about it.
The local ITV people emailed me, but haven’t replied.
I’m alternating between terror and delight, because I always wanted Chegwin to be the most popular goldfish out there, but now that it looks like it might be happening…it’s just not right.
At least he’s in a bigger tank. So I don’t get goldfish fanatics protesting tank size outside my door.
But the biggest timesuck of my life for the past few months has been moving into a house of our own.
After seven years, I finally have a mortgage and a living room and a kitchen of my own. I have a dining room that is mostly filled up with a fishtank, and everywhere else has boxes. We have a sofa, but no wardrobes, a mattress and a futon but no bedframe, and nowhere near enough shelves.
But it does mean I can sit on the couch and watch bad TV while the husband is upstairs listening to music. That I can have maneki nekos on the windowsills and my religion books in the bookcases.
There’s work that needs to be done — of course — but, for the winter, things will hold nicely. I’m already itching to get into the garden, especially since I have pumpkin seeds waiting.
I suppose it’s only natural I’m not doing much here. But things might change in the future.
Jan 16, 09:09 PM |
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