The personal website of the Midnightferret. I bet you're here because I fascinate you in some way. Don't worry: you're not alone. We can all fascinate each other together. Over some cookies.
How to test if your radio station is playing the most current hits that appeal to the average mouth breathing teen:
Turn on your radio. Listen to the song - anything from My Chemical Romance to Lost Prophets to Jimmy Eat World. Can you do the swimmer to it? (123 and 123 and 123 and 123 and…) Then it must be the most popular crap around.
Let’s all do the swimmer!
Okay, having begun to knit in 2005, mostly to have something cheap to do with my hands while James was in New Orleans trying to get back into our neighborhood after the stupid hurricane, I have now become proficient enough at it to need real supplies. Right now I have a long plastic needle case with a few different needls of various sizes and a small yarn “stash” - I don’t think you could even really call it a stash, though. Every skein of yarn I have (and some I don’t have) is already alotted to a project, or it’s a bit of a skein from a different project.
My point is that I’ve decided I need an entire set of double pointed needles, circular needles, and straight needles, and I also need cable needles of more than one size and I really really need a place to put it all. Right now all the knitting stuff is organized in plastic bags stacked up inside a wicker hamper thing with a lid I got at Big Lots. My ferret Mab likes to scale it like MT. Everest, in hopes of reaching still greater heights, but I moved it away from the kitchen table, so she is routinely disappointed.
The only reason I say this is that I’m tired of getting a new pattern only to discover that I not only need yarn, but I also have to buy needles. I guess that’s why James has all those drill bits. He just likes to be prepared.
Yep, that’s right. I’m going to be reduced to one of those people who starts fights on the internet. No, I’m not a forum troll, although I have annoyed quite a few people in my intermittent forum rovings: I may have to fight over 30 bucks with an online merchant.
Hi guys,
In honor of slightly elevated traffic lately (i.e. two of you who seldom pass by have both let me know you’ve been reading!) I decided to finally sort out the recipe section of this blog. I decided that that only format for my recipes that I can stand to use is actually another blog. Now, this will probably pose problems related to ease of use and sorting via cooking times, etc, but since my cooking isn’t really an exact science, I don’t have to worry too much about that.
Notice the new “recipes” section on the navigation bar above. When you click it, you will notice that it takes you to an actual recipe blog that has actual recipes you can view on it. A far cry from my abortive experiments with recipe softwares, no? I’m still working out a system for posting pics, but since food photographs so awfully anyway I’m not too worried. I think I have a nice piccy of a King Cake somewhere, though… heheh.