It has been a week. Murphy’s Law seems to have been doing its diabolical little business. Time to wipe it all off the slate and start fresh, I say! Here’s some this and that to wrap up the week.
Blogging. My social networking question seems to have struck a chord. Or hit a nerve. Or… well, anyway, 44% of responders said “nuh uh” to networking on line. Timesuck appears to be the primary detractor for most. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! It’s amusing that blogging has become rather “old school” – in fact, a few bloggers have mentioned that they are moving away from blogging and toward Twitter, because they like the real-time aspect of it. Each to his own, but wow. I have enough trouble keeping up with the act of living itself, without posting updates about what I’m doing at any given moment and reading what others are doing, as well. And can I be so bold as to say I don’t care? At least one person in my life has observed that blogging could be viewed as a narcissistic activity. Seems to me that hourly posts about filing my nails or eating Cheetos or whatever would add an order of magnitude to the self importance factor.
Knitting. Gaelic Mist may have been designed to give me carpal tunnel. I’m starting to wonder if the knitting world divides naturally into lace knitters versus cable knitters. I can get into a zone with lace, and if anything, the stitches slide around too readily – except maybe for the occasional knitabunchtogether, but even then I generally don’t have to wrestle much. Cables, though, tend to want to defy and resist. This could be in part because I knit rather tightly to begin with, and in part because I’m purposely knitting with yarn that doesn’t have a lot of spring or give. However, combining the effort of twisting cables with the stop/start business of cabling leaves me rather drained after a few row. (Yes, I know I can cable without a needle but it’s still a stoppy/starty process.)
Nonetheless, I persist – I still love seeing the cables emerge, and in spite of the aggravation, I’m enjoying the project. Progress shots later in the weekend.
Reading. Persuaded by Stacey, I started on another fit of teenage vampire fiction: the Blue Bloods series. I’m well into the second book and pick up the third from the library today. This has been a welcome distraction in a week where not everything is going my way. My verdict so far? Fun, frothy, great take on vampires. The writing leaves quite a lot to be desired, but it’s not so bad that I don’t want to pursue the story.
Hope everyone is looking forward to a great weekend! Enjoy!
I agree about cables, but they are so darned much fun to watch grow that it makes the stoppy-starty thing easier to take. I also not only don’t care what others are doing from minute to minute, I really don’t care what I’m doing from minute to minute. There is no way I can make it interesting to anybody, so why even bother. We all do the same stuff so why do we need to discuss it. I like the blogging because we can discuss ideas and passions. Those tulips are gorgeous! Spring is coming. HAPPY FRIDAY!
I agree with you about the writing, but they make you like the characters. While I was on the book aisle, someone recommended another series and I picked it up. It’s not bad. It’s not great, but again, you like the characters. They make too many references to past books, I want to smack some writing sense into them and it’s a little sexually mature for teens. (there, I said it) I’m on the last book and if you want, I’ll send them to you. It’s like potato chips, (but less fattening) you need to stuff yourself with nonsense.
Blogging? Narcissistic? Uh uh. What better platform for my greatness to be revealed, plus how else am I going to get my book deal? (just joking for those unfamiliar) I think what completely drove me from Plurk was someone “buying” people with a free pattern. It’s insanity. You aren’t that great because if you were, people would plurk you for you. *ahem*
Cables? Loosen up and let go.
That’s the only way I can do them.
Erm. Wow. That was kind of long. Happy Friday Nora! May you find root beer in your machine today. xoxo
I love cables, but mostly use a cable needle. Otherwise I spend most of the time I “save” by fishing for dropped stitches – if that makes any sense at all on only 1 cup of coffee
As Stacy said, loosening up is a big help!
Cabling tends to bother my wrists more than lace knitting. I guess it’s all the manipulating of stitches. You can use this to make a good case for having multiple projects on the needles, though!
Oh – what gorgeous tulips! Those are my favorite flower. I planted about 100 of them last fall – hopefully I’ll get good results from them soon.
Those tulips are fantastic!
I prefer my vampires evil and stalking, a la Kostova and King, thankyouverymuch!
Like Cindy said, the minutia of my own life isn’t very interesting. I certainly don’t care about another persons…not even a BFF. Cables are harder for those of us who knit snugly. The best thing you can do is loosen up a bit, and also, have another project on the needles. If you can spell off with something else you’ll save your hands. A change is as good as a rest.
Cables are so intriguing. Try to loosen up and you can enjoy them more (I know, easier said than done).
Twitter, Plurk, et al, strike me as the ultimate in narcissism, along with people who feel the need to update their Facebook “what I am doing” multiple times per day. I. Just. Don’t. Care.
Thank goodness Stacey said what I’ve been thinking! I think it takes a massively huge ego to think anyone would care if you just got back from the grocery store or not. Blogging is enough of a struggle, thanks.
I like lace and cables. What does that say? *L* You’ll get it, honey. It just takes time and practice.
I love historically placed vampires. Well, just the one.
Love the tulips!
I hope this weekend offers the break you need.
xo
I’m reading the fifth book of Kim Harrison vampire/witch/were series right now. Interesting but sometimes I have to blink to figure out how the story “got there.”
Murphy really needs to take a break, says I. Have a great weekend, Nora.
Glad to see you delved into the Blue Bloods series. There is a fourth one coming out in September.
Love the tulips! Makes me yearn even more for spring. And I didn’t get in on the whole Twitter discussion, but agree wholeheartedly: who has the time? And if I haven’t kept up with friends from high school in real life, why would I online?