Kneel for Mercy
Jan. 7th, 2014 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyBack to work. Among the email newsletters that had gathered while I was gone was a link to a quiz testing how many fun medical news stories from 2013 one can remember. I scored 15, making me Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. Sounds about right.
I am currently trying to knit a mitten. Eventually I hope to knit two, but I am struggling with the first. Three times I have cast on, and three times I have joined to work in the round, as instructed, taking care not to twist stitches, as instructed, and three times I have somehow managed to twist it into a Moebius mitten. So I have had to throw it into the knitting bag in a fit of pique.
I started doing that 100 question meme that’s going round, but it wore me down. I bored myself writing the answers, so I won’t bore you with them. Only with this one question, which was about something nice that something has done for me recently. My original answer was the lady who works in my local milk bar (=corner shop), who gave me a mini candy cane from her Christmas display when I went to buy the paper on New Year’s Eve. That wasn’t just for me, though. She had a stack of them, so I think all her regulars were getting one.
Only then I remembered that a random stranger passing by left a comment on my Pinterest shoe board. Just one sentence, and it made my day. This board is a gift to society, she wrote, and you know what? It really is. (If you click that, may I recommend scrolling down (or Ctrl + F) until you find the barefoot high heels, which as far as I can tell are nails.) If I have learnt anything from gathering all those shoes together, it’s that there is more than one make of high-heeled flipper.
I am currently trying to knit a mitten. Eventually I hope to knit two, but I am struggling with the first. Three times I have cast on, and three times I have joined to work in the round, as instructed, taking care not to twist stitches, as instructed, and three times I have somehow managed to twist it into a Moebius mitten. So I have had to throw it into the knitting bag in a fit of pique.
I started doing that 100 question meme that’s going round, but it wore me down. I bored myself writing the answers, so I won’t bore you with them. Only with this one question, which was about something nice that something has done for me recently. My original answer was the lady who works in my local milk bar (=corner shop), who gave me a mini candy cane from her Christmas display when I went to buy the paper on New Year’s Eve. That wasn’t just for me, though. She had a stack of them, so I think all her regulars were getting one.
Only then I remembered that a random stranger passing by left a comment on my Pinterest shoe board. Just one sentence, and it made my day. This board is a gift to society, she wrote, and you know what? It really is. (If you click that, may I recommend scrolling down (or Ctrl + F) until you find the barefoot high heels, which as far as I can tell are nails.) If I have learnt anything from gathering all those shoes together, it’s that there is more than one make of high-heeled flipper.