the quacking fiber addict

I present, for your amusement and my own humility, a picture of my chipmump cheeks (a chipmunk with mumps)...

Wow, could I look any more ridiculous?

Good news? I am finally able to eat hot/ real foods again. I just managed some mini mozzarella balls (bless Mum and her funky grocery lists). Mum's even promised me lentil soup... I never thought I'd say it, but at the moment I never, ever, want to see (much less eat) ice cream again.

Other, knitting, news. 4 rows on the pair of Jaywalkers done. I've also swatched for the official wraplan pattern. And drawn up schematics (much appreciation for that term of mechanical drawing in high school). Since Emmos has offered to test the pattern for me, I'm waiting for her response to get to pattern writing.

The blog's sidebars have been updated (long overdue). I got rid of the WIP list, because (let's be honest) I'm bad at updating it and tons of smaller projects never made their way onto it. And, since the single FO list was becoming unmanageable, I went to the yearly FO lists that are so (understandably) popular across the blogosphere..

And, I think I'm going to sit and watch Dad and Emm roll up the carpets now (the area rugs are going up North tomorrow, I think). I'm a bit nauseous from the antibiotics and lovely opiates, and the puter isn't making it better.

But, I think that's everything.

Oh, and I LOVE this Shibui bag. Seriously. It deserves a post of it's own.

Labels: designing, knitting, personal vanity, template update, wraplan

The blog's template is FINALLY IE friendly! I had to do some serious HTM/L editing (and chopping) - I don't know how half of the code got lost, but it works now. It doesn't look as good as on Firefox or Safari, but it works. It also takes a little longer to load...

But it WORKS!

Labels: template update

no quote. tired.

• updated the blog's template again. likes it betters now.
• children are fun in small doses (i.e. 1 hour a week tutoring)
• eating out is so much more fun than eating without chairs at home
• got to see Emmos and plot. we're hosting/ planning TheBon's bridal shower. mwa. ha. ha.
• played with St M earliers. tks is fun.
• we have some major cuteness walking around in tight t-shirts, painting and sanding stuff. I have no idea why my parents always seem to hire cute, young, guys for hard labor. maybe I'm reading too much into it?
• the fish is annoyed with me. I can feel it.

And here's something for your Classicist knitters out there, Yahoo! Avatars (no doubt because of ROME) has a bunch of Roman stuff to play with now:

Labels: template update, update

OMG! It's all I can do to NOT run around the house shrieking with joy. It IS 2:45 am, and it'd be rude to wake everyone up, even if I am freaking ecstatic!!

Why am I ecstatic??

Because I finally got the CSS&HTML worked out on my template to have THREE columns instead of TWO!!

I've been battling the coding for months, to my frustration, and never managed to get a layout I like until about 2 am this morning. Yay for stubborness. Now, I please request that you refresh just to see if it works with your browser (and pleasepleaseplease let me know if it doesn't)...

I need to go and sit quietly before I go to bed, now.

Labels: template update

“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
Marie Curie (1867-1934)

I made the mistake today of thinking that I should update my blog's template and layout. It was pretty simplistic and could use some shnazzy CSS and HTML, right?

(see previous post on my general idiocy)

I should mention here that the last time I took a computing course was in high school, approximately 7 years ago. You'll notice that I did manage to put in an expanding archive menu (which was all I wanted, really) after many hours of snarling and typing. It also didn't help that Blogger went down for maintainance in the midst of my attempt at moving my blog into a higher function.

So, by the time I realised that I was late for knitting, I had still NOT managed to fix my problem nor had I picked up M. Oops? We got there over 20 minutes late, but luckily Bon and Emmos were still waiting for us.

Knitting was good. I revealed my grand birthday scheme - I want to reserve a oceanfront cottage on my birthday weekend and invite my friends up to have a mini-fibery retreat. My father is tentatively approving of this scheme, so... yeah. Emmos and Bon and M have promised to help me plan. If you're going to be in Oregon from Dec 1 - 3, drop by/ bring a sleeping bag! Ooh, must call Opus.

Anyway. Despite the calm surroundings and soothing presence knitting, I had developed a migraine that was splitting my head by the time we made it home (in a roundabout fashion - don't even ask about the trip into the sorority, that was just plain trippy). So, I curled up in fetal position in a very dark room and tried to ignore the auras and weird shrill noise only I could hear.

Suddenly, I woke up at midnight, frantically trying to figure out if I was still dreaming. For a moment there, I actually had wondered if that guy at the cafe had slipped me something. Just... hell. I had the weirdest dreams and nightmares, but (luckily) my migraine had passed. Thank g-d. I hate migraines. In retrospect, I think I would have preferred the migraine to the dreams, though - they were just crazy.

Still sleepy, I made myself get up (leery of more nightmares) and go "do something". I baked brownies. Quadruple chocolate brownies. Wrap your mind around that. Chocolate solves everything in this house. Then, I sat down and worked on my Dulaan child's mitten and finishing up some merino/ silk top I've been spinning for over a year now:


But, once the brownies were done baking and I had spun long enough for my arms to ache, I decided to try my hand at modifying the template once again. Luckily, the stars were now aligned and Blogger wanted to play. Finally, the blog is functioning again and hopefully seems a bit easier to navigate. If only just a bit.

I'm still torn over whether or not I should even both to have the links to this week's posts or not... They flatly refuse to go into a menu (no matter how much I plead) and take up a lot of sidebar space. If you have an opinion, let me know, please?

Now, I think I shall try to sleep again. I might even try something really pagan and sleep with a moonstone under my pillow, to keep away bad dreams.

Labels: template update