Here is a tiny copy of something I drew of Sweeney Todd. It has been photoshoped for the red and the black gradient. Not sure why it is so small.

You Are an Ingrid!

You are an Ingrid — “I am unique”

 Ingrids have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

 How to Get Along with Me

 What I Like About Being an Ingrid

• * my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
• * my ability to establish warm connections with people
• * admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
• * my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
• * being unique and being seen as unique by others
• * having aesthetic sensibilities
• * being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

 What’s Hard About Being an Ingrid

• * experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
• * feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don’t deserve to be loved
• * feeling guilty when I disappoint people
• * feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
• * expecting too much from myself and life
• * fearing being abandoned
• * obsessing over resentments
• * longing for what I don’t have

 Ingrids as Children Often

• * have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games
• * are very sensitive
• * feel that they don’t fit in
• * believe they are missing something that other people have
• * attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
• * become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
• * feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents’ divorce)

 Ingrids as Parents

• * help their children become who they really are
• * support their children’s creativity and originality
• * are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
• * are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
• * are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed

  Who are you? Take the test…

However, they chose the most unfortunate sack dresses for the women. They weren’t as black as they should have been and the cloth choice was most unfortunate. It showed every lump and bubble on a woman’s body. They had a great soloist soprano and you could see the dent where her belly button was. Very distracting. My mom noticed too.

Anyways, afterwards we went to the Temple Bar just a few blocks away and I had the best tuna/provolone panini. Amazing. The salad I hated, but Isaac ate mine. Abe and Jim loved theirs too. I was blown away by that panini sandwich though. I highly recommend it.

Before we went to mom’s to go to the concert, we met with Rijl and Teirnan for lunch, which was great. It is so nice to see her. I had the veggie melt (bagel thing) and it was delicious as always. She had the smoked salmon chowder which was the special and smelled amazing. Then Abe and I each got a chocolate chip cookie and they were almost a foot across! And quite good. We chatted with Rijl for an hour or so. Always so nice to see her. Makes me want to move to Bellingham just so we can hang out more often.

I was looking at houses there. They are a little less expensive than here. There are some really nice ones. I also looked at houses in Northern Maine. There are some super cheap really cool ones. I really want an old house. If I am going to spend that much money, I want to at least get something I really love.

Off to knit Xmas gifts….

yeah. Need any more proof?

Abe

for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction.

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

So on the plane, a small jet plane. I got a seat to myself. Had a window and had to watch our takeoff. Awesome. I got there right on time even though we left early. Everyone else was late because of the weather. So I waited around freaking out because I thought nobody was going to show up. I was working on a second hat for me. (The first one was for Abe). But they showed up and we caught a bus and it was FREEZING. Litereally. There was snow on the ground and everything. From the bus, we got on the train. Which was strange and cool. Then we got off, and we were so thankful for yarnwhispere from ravelry who had gotten directions for us.  The other girl was from Kirkland, oddly enough, which is just south of where we live.

So the directions were to walk four blocks up the hill, but there were no hills. There wa a slight slope, so me and the fishie from Kirkland laughed that they called it a hill. Pretty funny. When we got there, it was awesome. The shop was warm and there was wine and yarn and sitting in the window knitting like she is a normal person was the Yarn Harlot.  I nearly lost my mind. Later she noticed my Jayne hat and said it was awesome. It was already my favorite hat, but that makes it more awesome. While I was there, I bought some needles to make a sock since I forgot sock needles. I also got some amazing Sanguine Gryphon lace weight yarn that I will use to make Laminaria. I drank some wine and realized I hadn’t had anything other than the snack on the plane, a cookie and a Tim Horton’s Canadian maple donut at the airport.

Then we took the bus and I sat next to this nice lady who is becoming a lawyer in Canada. We talked and got sleepy and knit and looked out the windows at the utter blackness. So I had no idea where we were.

We eventually got to the very nice hotel and I threw my stuff in my hotel room. I had two queen beds so I organized my clothes and yarn and books on the other bed. Then I went downstairs and we had dinner. It was actually really good food. After dinner, we had a “raffle” for the classes on Saturday. I was at the Make1 table, ironically. I got into the Fitting Your Knits class with Stefanie Japel and Plug-N-Play Shawl with Amy Singer. Actually, I got into Travelling stitches with Cookie A and switched to Plug-N-Play Shawl after my Friday class was so awesome.

During dinner they announced that one of the teachers, Nancy Bush, just had a birthday so we sang her happy birthday. Then some dude ran into the room from out in the hall and asked who nancy was. Then he had us all stick our hands in the air and move them to the left shouting Nancy! to the right and shout Nancy! and then back and forth three times shouting Nancy! He did that about 8 times and then shouted happy birthday and jumped about 5 feet in the air and ran out of the room. Needless to say, whenever anyone did a good job and needed cheering, that was the cheer for the rest of the weekend.

After dinner, I went up to my room and watched TV and knit and then slept. I set my alarm to get up in time for yoga the next  morning which was at 7, but I woke up at 8 and the alarm never went off. It was set for AM in the PM. The clock, not the alarm. So I fixed it so I could make it the next morning.

On Friday, I went to the class - how to make a true Hapsaalu sal - which is an Estonian shawl. Nancy Bush taught and it was awesome. She had a billian amazing shawls. We learned to make nupps, which are like awesome bobbles. The class blew my mind. I was so tired by the end, but I got everything done that was scheduled for the class, which was a rectangle and one half of the border, which is sewn on. It looks awesome. It is almost done now. Need to weave in ends. I wasn’t the fastest knitter, but I was one of only a handful of people to finish by the end of the class.  I barely remember that night I was so tired!

I think I bought books on Thursday night and got them signed Friday night after dinner. It was awesome. I got my new Fitted Knits book signed by Stefanie Japel. Great book. I am almost done with the short-sleeved cardigan with ribbing. I like it a lot. Dark grey.  I got my new Estonian lace book signed by Nancy Bush. I also got the new Yarn Harlot book and a book of hers that I brought signed. It was awesome. She is so much more deadpan than I thought she would be. And looks so much like my mom. I think it is the hair. Though my mom got her hair cut and now they look nothing alike.

So Saturday I took the Fitting your knits class. It was awesome to see her teach, but I didn’t learn much more than I already knew. A few tips and tricks, but it did give me the confidence to make that cardigan. She is so nice and very smart. It was awesome. Then I took the plug-n-play shawl with amy singer who does knitty, which is awesome. The class was great. I am still working on the shawl and I think it will be beyond great when it is done.

Saturday night, we had a pj party. It was pretty good. I had three $10 beers, which was ridiculous, but good. One of the nicest cutest pregnant ladies got my picture with the Yarn Harlot.  Then they talked feminism while I watched. I went to bed around midnight and made yoga in the morning. Our brunch was the Xmas brunch because that is the only brunch they serve, so it had all this xmas stuff and dessert. It was awesome. I was so tired when I got back. It was a good thing I had the next day off. I actually had a bloody nose the whole time through 5 days after I got back because it was so dry there! It was awful. I had to keep giving my self facials by running totally hot water in the tap with a towel to hold all the steam in.

So I have been recuperating from that since then. I have finished two hats, a scarf, and whatever else. I am tired just reliving it! But it was so awesome. I hope I get to do it again next year. Pics later.

And I sent her a link to this comic this morning. You don’t have to be a Questionable Content fan to think that’s funny.

Abe

So this Friday is Halloween and I need to come up with a costume. I think I am going to be Tohya Miho from Megatokyo. I have half the clothes and I totally have the shoes now that those boots have been fixed, though maybe I should wear my knee high lace up platforms instead. I think the ones I just got fixed would work better.

This weekend I also made a hat. It is from the LYS tour the Hilltop yarn store in Queen Anne. Great hat. I just need to make it longer next time or use the right size needles (10.5 instead of 9). I used Malabrigo Chunky in burgundy and it is so amazingly soft. I love it. It just needs to be bigger. I have so much hair it slides up my head. I think I am going to ask my boss if I can dye my hair purple and get my hair cut and dyed this weekend. Just normal color if I can’t go purple. I also am almost done with some socks. I just need to weave in the ends (and get pictures).

Also! I got this great bag from Deadworry - Octo-owl messenger bag. This is what I am going to use to travel to Calgary. So exciting. SO EXCITING!!

When we got into the apartment, we looked up some stuff for the University of Iowa where he wants to go so he can get a certificate in book binding and a degree in math, but I showed him it is about 4x the cost to go to school out of state. He still wants to go, I think. Then we spent an hour looking at comedians on You Tube and left to pick up Abe from work. THEN we bought some beer (I got the Elysian Night Owl pumpkin ale). THEN we went to Dick’s and ate it back at the apartment. I had some ice cream right before my beer which was stupid. It was okay. I did manage to finish the whole 22oz bottle while I watched You Tube some more. First we all watched corgis and then some other dogs. Cute but not very funny. Then Isaac started watching Abe play EQ2 while I watched bloopers on You Tube and laughed my head off. Eventually, we went out to watch Cowboy BeBop, which of course Isaac had never seen. We only watched a couple episodes and we were all pretty drunk. But Isaac will be coming down the next time he has a weekend off to watch all of Cowboy BeBop. I helped Isaac finish off his last beer while we played a little Soul Calibur. I kicked Abe’s ass.

The next morning we all split a dutch pancake, so yummy. I wish I could eat that every morning, but they are not that good for you. Then I wrote down for Isaac how to do the magic cast on for socks. I can never remember so it was interesting writing it down. Abe and Isaac played EQ2 together while I did that. Big mistake. I thought they would stop when I was done, but they played until 1 in the afternoon. Jerks. I guess they tie for jerk of the week for making me wait for 2 hours for lunch.

Made up for it by getting to go to Luisa’s, though. So good. Of course, I had chicken sopes.  Isaac just had a taco (he at about 7 pieces of pizza at grandma’s for lunch the previous day and was merely satiated) because he had to leave for home in a few hours and didn’t want to ride the bike that far with a full stomach.

Anyways, after lunch, Isaac showed me a song he plays on the violin that he made up. We wrote it down and now I will have to practice it. Both on the piano and the violin. He plays it so fast. I like it. The song is interesting. I really need to practice Abe’s piece, too. Anyways, at 3, when Isaac was supposed to leave, we realized I had forgotten to show Isaac how to cast on for the sock toe. So I showed him that (which took about half an hour) and sent him on his way. We printed up University of Iowa applications for him earlier and sent him with those and I gave him the orange skien of 3-ply yarn I had dyed and spun, but I forgot to give him the yarn for a surprise thing we are knitting for someone. I will see him this weekend for something else, though so I can give it to him then.

Then he called when he got home. Turns out that right when he got on the freeway and started to merge, the visor flew off his helmet and he had to drive from Seattle to Kendal (I would guess 100 miles) with no face plate on his helmet. And it was already a chilly day. He said he could barely feel his nose by the time he got home.

And while he had watched Cowboy BeBop while totally shnockered, I tried to knit a very simple basketweave (also in the dark). This did not work out well and I may need to rip it out. Frown.