Plath’s Adventures

Imagine my surprise when I opened my mailbox yesterday and saw an envelope from Canada. Now I haven’t ordered yarn in ages, so I know it couldn’t be an order from anyplace… Even though I sometimes suffer from a tad of yarn-buying amnesia, I knew that wasn’t the case this time, as certainly I would have remembered ordering from out of the country!  After seeing who it was from, I was so befuddled I promptly dropped it in the dog’s water dish. Shouting f*ck and scaring the pee out of the dog, I immediately pulled it out and ripped it open.

Fantastic summer sock yarn! Can you see who it’s from? The Yarn Harlot herself, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. I feel so special She writes in her note, that she had some “extra sock yarn.” Um… who has extra sock yarn? Is it possible to have “extra” sock yarn? From the woman with a house of wool, I think she’s fibbing a bit… but I certainly appreciate her “extra yarn” even if I don’t believe it

In knitting news, I did something crazy and cast on for a pattern the day it was available. Boogie’s Sprout pattern just called out to me, and made me cast on.

I even had to be completely unimaginative and cast on in close to the same color of yarn. Can I help it if I *love* that bright spring green color? Just a start of a sleeve, but I’m knitting again! I’m using my new Cotton Ease. My idea was that this would be the perfect San Francisco sweater. However, we leave a week from today. I think in this case, I was very imaginative…

But speaking of San Francisco (and Sonoma and Yosemite), I’m so excited for our trip! I’ve already started pre-packing. Am I the only one that does this? I set aside things that I must bring with me. I already have yarn picked out for a pair of vacation socks (using this Panda Cotton), have decided which embroidery project to bring for when I don’t feel like knitting (Sublime Stiching’s Winterland on a kitchen towel), have my swimsuits and a few clothing items all set aside to go in the suitcase, and have started planning my snack for the flight. I also make lists like crazy of things to purchase, as well as things I can’t remember to pack. I’m a huge list-maker. The trouble is, I make lists constantly and then end up losing the list. I already have my list made up of wineries to visit, and our day in Yosemite is all planned out, plus I have my list of must-see San Francisco sites. Just writing this blog-post, I’ve already thought of a few things to add to my must-bring list (camera charger, corkscrew, cool wine vacuum-y thing we have, etc).

In tv news, anyone else think Big Brother 8 is kind of blah? I’m loving Hell’s Kitchen, on the other hand. I’m rooting for Julia, the Waffle House short-order cook. Nothing else excites me on tv, and in fact my Tivo is pretty much empty except for my guilty pleasure, (whispers) Y&R. Say something about it, I dare you! My mom used to watch this when I was a kid, and I, of course watched right along with her when I was home sick from school, or on the occasional rainy summer day when my My Little Ponies or Matchbox cars weren’t interesting me.