One of my favorite bloggers frequently talks about her own mishaps with a tongue-in-cheek reference to her breezy elegance. Boy, did I identify with her today at work.
A friend was chatting over the cubicle wall to me, wanting to know what this whole “blogging” thing is about. I eventually hopped up with the intention of going to the other side to help her get set up on Blogger.com. (Probably not the helpful team spirit my boss wants me to exhibit, but what the hey. It’s Friday.) My feet got tangled in my headphone cord, and — once again losing my work/life balance — I plunged to the floor. First to my knees (MAJOR thud), then kind of slumping onto my butt with a secondary thud, a groan and a couple of choice words.
As co-workers scrambled to my area to see who had dropped a load of bricks or fallen dead in the aisle, they saw me on my ass. And, I’m sure, they thought, “Oh. Just Carolyn again.”
And although I laughed it off while my stinging knees were crying for mama, I was left to wonder, “Why the hell doesn’t something like this ever happen when there ISN’T an audience?”
On the upside, I didn’t tear my jeans. On the downside, I left a couple of layers of skin on the inside of the jeans’ knees. Here’s a picture of the boo-boos. I’m just hoping all evidence of this breezy elegance is gone by the time of my business trip on the 26th. Or will there be green bruises by then … never can tell. Breezy elegance abounds. (Update: As it turns out, the knees were not the worst of it. I had a purple bruise the size of a salad plate on one side of my fanny. And, since I fell with all my weight on just one hip, it was a huge spinal adjustment. Put a kink in my spine that took weeks of chiropractic visits to unsnarl. Whee.)
But enough about my natural grace. A bright spot in the day was my very first purchase of railroad/ladder yarn — it’s so pretty! Normally I prefer to focus on the pattern and use plainer yarn, but I liked the springy, drapey feel of this in the sample wrap that my LYS had on display. Plus, it knits up on size 15s, so it’s uber-quick. You use two strands at once, one of the red/pink Mega and one of the glittery black Dazzle. It may sound gaudy but it works wonderfully together for a subdued glow. I’m going to start it tonight while we’re sitting around a local bookstore tonight at one of the local Harry Potter parties. (Yes. I’m a book nerd TOO.)
And tomorrow, I head to the Intergalactic Bead Festival here in Memphis with other members of Memphis Stitch ‘N Bitch to see what we can see. Maybe I’ll pick up the glass beads for my Seaweed Stole. FYI: I say “My Seaweed Stole” loosely — I haven’t even bought the pattern yet. It’s just one of those that I know I’ll make someday. So lovely with the zig-zaggy fringe. Completely impractical, but things you love seldom are. Check it out at Needle Beetle and see if you don’t agree. Go on; I’ll wait. (tapping toes) You loved it, didn’t you — I knew you would.
So many pretty things to make … but so many UFOs to tackle first.
Ciao, folks! - Carolyn
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