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February 13, 2006
damn web sites 
Well, it's grey and misty outside. I knew our little island of sunshine had to end sometime, but I'm still really disappointed that it has. Though the weather guy has predicted snow for the end of the week. We can only hope.
I'm halfway through the back of my shrug. My knitting now measures 13" x 16". It's incredible to me that I've accomplished so much, so fast, and this on reasonably small needles (US 8 / 5mm). The jet black is beautiful but a little hard on the eyes, truth be told.
This weekend was lovely. Saturday, I spent most of the day knitting, punctuated by a trip to my new favorite Mexican place for brunch, and getting groceries on the scooter. Sweetie bought and assumed a gas grill. Sunday, I did the race, then came home and hung out on the backporch with Sweetie and his beloved new obsession while he grilled chipotle-orange chicken. I made some corn spoon bread, and we had a massive meal of chicken, beans and rice, salad and spoon bread. Yum!
The race, eh. It was a 5K, and I hadn't slept so well the night before. I got down there, and everything was pretty disorganized—volunteers didn't know anything about where to pick up your bib, where the starting line was, etc. Usually, Mela is supercranky about this sort of disorganization, and I'm all excited and happy about racing. This time, I was cranky and she was happy.
Still, it's a good cause (fanconi anemia), and we had beautiful weather, so quit yer 'plainin', vj. I did the 5k in 47 minutes, not my best time, but still. The last mile I did a good sprint, and was very pleased with myself, and then Mela and I ate breakfast, which as always was the most delicious food I could ever remember eating.
Later in the day, I scootered up to Alberta Street to buy some fabric and check out the new yarn store there. The fabric store is small, but full of really beautiful materials, which explains I suppose how 2 yards of fabric, some accessories and some rick-rack cost me 30-someodd bucks. But damn, it's gorgeous material! (I got a yard of a brown Kaffe Fassett fabric, which if you look at the photo on their web site is the sixth in, and a yard of a hand-dyed aqua fabric. And a light lemon yellow chenille rickrack)
I really liked the owner, as well, who greeted me by complementing me on my Corazzo jacket (literally, she said, That's a beautiful Corazzo jacket you have on). Lo and behold, she's the Corazzo owner's ex. It's such a small town, and seemingly quite amiable as well. We chatted about my sewing class, and scooters, and it was the sort of pleasant genuine conversation that makes you want to go back.
I went into the yarn store, and even though it was closing time, the store was full of folks. I loved looking around but I never found the needles—not that I was looking very hard.
Later, we met up with the Texiles at a brewpub in the pearl. The tall tables in the bar area are elegant, but kinda hard to sit at for a couple beers. In spite of all of my misgivings of the remodel, it's an elegant space, but it didn't seem very relaxing. I guess that's probably not the aim, though. The prices weren't cheap, but they weren't crazy either as I had feared. The most annoying thing about the place though was the staff—everyone acted like they were your best friend.
We hurried over to the Guild to see the Devil and Daniel Johnston. My filmophile friend had loved it, and we were all looking forward to it. I had checked the Film Center web site on Friday for the time: 8pm, Sunday. So we get there, and, oh, there was a mistake... says the stoner guy out front. Us, and a half-dozen angry people were all like, there's a mistake? We checked the web site! And if you check the web site today, it still says Sunday, 8pm. Grrrr!
So we went to our new neighborhood place and had another beer. Damn, we were all disappointed.
Posted at February 13, 2006