This weekend was spent in the most wonderful of ways. Saturday we had fancy tea at a friends house, followed by grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup in front of the Seahawks game. Saturday night I cooked a roast beef that would make you cry at its perfection.
Sunday brought a lazy morning with some spinning and a lot of hanging out with my sweetheart. We lazed around the house playing on the computer and even napped for a while. In the evening we packed up my spinning wheel and lots of fibery things and headed over to Ryan and TMK's house. Don't get all excited - RYAN IS NOT LEARNING HOW TO SPIN. Ryan's resistance to spinning is not a phase she will grow out of, it's a life-style-choice she has made and I think we need to be supportive. However, all is not lost for them, TMK is learning how to spin. Not only did she try her hand at spinning, she completely spun up a full ounce of cranberry merino - roughly 50 feet long after we plied it on itself. I bet there will be photos on Wednesday.
We started around 4:30 in the afternoon, and took just a few short breaks to eat pizza and set BLING up on the PS2. By 9:30 the wool was spun, plied, skeined, washed, rinsed, rinsed again, and ready to dry in the "miracle fiber drying closet". It was lovely and soft, an art fiber in the best of ways - I would be happy to knit with it (but I know my place and will leave that right to Ryan).
In addition to their wonderful company, and some really rocking pizza, Ryan and TMK presented me with two beautiful ounces of merino (eggplant and rust) and my very own Chibi! I got the giggles over that. Now I can be like Yarn Harlot and lose all of my needles at once (did you see she commented on my last post - yes I did drag BLING over to the computer so she could see it too).
BLING had a great time visiting and watching TMK and I geek out over the spinning wheel. She was a good sport and let us go for a couple of hours before casting her eyes to TMK's PS2. BLING loves video games the way I love fiber. Soon, she was blissfully lost to us for the evening.
Monday was a holiday for us and we disregarded the meaning of the day and sashayed from the house in consumeristic glory. I won't bore you with details about shopping for new underwear (what the heck are boy panties?). We found ourselves at the local video game store (OK, found as in compared prices on line, checked account balances, discussed, debated and eventually decided to "go see") and ended up buying what - a PS2 (and two games, the one she played at TMK's and a Simpson's car chase one I wanted).
Confessional:
Yes - BLING loves video games. Yes - we were buying HER the PS2. Yes - I played the damn thing all night long and have a crick in my neck and lobster claws for hands. I'll say 6 Mossy Cottages and 4 Yarn Harlots and hope my immortal fiber soul is forgiven for absconding with her toy.
BLING - don't you look at my spinning wheel that way, get your own.
Ratchet and Clank: Deadlocked is my new favorite game for the PS2. My husband has all of the series, but this one's different. You can actually have two people play together. At the same time. Cooperatively. We've spent a couple of nights together with it since I got it for hime for Christmas. Whacking things with a giant wrench is such fun.
Posted by: Christina in Washington | January 17, 2006 at 02:40 PM
Christina,
It was the first Ratchet and Clank that I bought. I'm sure I will eventually own them all, but I have this weird thing about starting a series at the beginning....(yes...I have...in fact...at one time or another in my life....owned and played....ALL of the Mario Brothers line. Power up mushrooms? Now THOSE game developers are smokin some drugs)
I have noticed that I might have to find some TWO PLAYER games for my sweeties new habit (if I ever want to see the PS2 again that is)
PPG: HEY! I own half that spinning wheel! (yes yes I know...and you own half "My" PS2) *grins abound*
Posted by: Bling! | January 17, 2006 at 03:01 PM
What's mine is mine and what's yours is ours. I'm sure that was in the vows somewhere near the obey bit. smootches!
Posted by: Elaine | January 17, 2006 at 03:38 PM
TMK and I have already figured out that, now that we have you BOTH hooked on the PS2, pretty soon the spinning wheel will start gathering dust and we'll be able to scam it from you for an obscenely low price. Our evil plan is working.
Posted by: Ryan | January 17, 2006 at 03:41 PM
I will deftly avoid the domestic squabble and simply say that grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup sound marvelous. Very cold weatherish. (I take my tomato soup with a large dollop of sour cream. You?)
Posted by: Kim | January 17, 2006 at 05:27 PM
Mmmm...tomato soup and grilled cheese! My absolute favorite comfort food! We make ours on our little George Foreman Grill (the sandwhiches, that is, not the soup!)
What color Chibi did you get? I admit, I ended up buying a second one, a semi-clear blue one. After all, have to have one for home and for on the road! ;)
Posted by: Carry | January 17, 2006 at 05:55 PM