Knit Addictions

Quad and Raw

QUAD
What a mad mad weekend! On Friday night, my friend, Kastle invited me to Quadrophenia (look up THE WHO if you don't know what I"m talking about!) with her. It's a staged production and I braved the hail storm (yes, hail storm in LA!) to go and check it out. Together we braved the insanity known as 'which color wristband do you have' inside the Avalon Theater to figure out where we were allowed to sit. Wow! After all that craziness, it was definitely worth it. The lead character is played by Stephen Shareaux who was the lead singer for Kik Tracee and he is reeeeeeeally well suited as a singer in a big production play. Overall, it had its high moments and I don't get out much to plays so for me, it was a gas.

Saturday, we had a client in our recording studio. So that was fun!

RAW
But during this whole time........we have been reading and absorbing this book about living a raw food lifestyle. Since this particular book is written by two chefs, we found it particularly interesting as the recipes are verrrrrry delicious. At the same time, my friend told me she had a juicer she no longer wanted so we graciously received her juicer for free. We are going for the raw life. So far, I feel terrific. No cooked foods is agreeing with me. It's weird to eat like this at first, but I'm liking it, I'm liking it. Plus, I get to eat pretty much as much as I want! God knows, I love to eat! I've been reading alot over on this forum and finding lots of sites dedicated to the raw food lifestyle. We will eventually get an ice cream maker and make our own dairy free/soy free ice cream!!!!!!!! Imagine eating a gallon of home made coconut ice cream?! I can!!!!!

Notice how I go straight for the sweets part of it all? Actually, I'm craving sugar waaaaaaay less now that we've been doing this for a few days. We're still not what they call 100% raw.........we are transitioning. But we're both into it. I feel soooooooooooo damn Californian. Bloody hell. First the feng shui and clutter clearing and now this! What's next? Hypnoretrospacetravel-therapy???????????

A Little Bit At a Time

I love to read books. But as I've gotten busier, time has managed to slip away from me. Has this happened to everyone else too? We try to cram so much in and we're always available on our cell phones and life is just go go go.

Sigh. I remember being a kid and reading book after book on a weekend. Wow! That is unbelievable to me now!

Anyway...........I have been using this free site for a couple of years now and it's a cool FREE way to try out books. They send you emails which break up the opening of the book in to 5 sections......one for every day of the week. That way, you only need a few quiet minutes to try out the book. It's kinda cool and the newsletters that precede each email are fun and well-written, too. I've just started one about a workaholic lawyer.....well, I have to say.........I'm hooked and looking forward to Tuesday's installment.

KNITTIN'
Sheesh! I've been knitting up swatch after swatch for the technical photos for the book. So nothing to really report outside of the fact that now I can't wait to get back to knitting an actual garment! he he!!!!

Interesting POV

It's interesting what I read over on Live Journal in the Punk Knitters group.
Wow. I'm made out to sound like a tough business chick! That's so insane!

I guess some knitters have nothing better to do than be judgemental.

Ah well.......

DISHCLOTH PATTERN
To answer a couple of you about the knitted dishcloth....I didn't actually use one of those patterns. But wish I had! Argh! Here's a snap of the one I made with good ole Lion Brand Kitchen Cotton.

I used garter stitch (5 stitches) around the edges and stockinette for the rest. But I think the patterns on that dishcloth site are waaaaaaaay better.

Alright! Well, I'm off to go 'pimp' my businesses....cuz ya know.........I'm soooooooo businesslike! ha ha!