Keeping myself company
Feb. 3rd, 2005 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
velvetpageWell, Aunty Krista had stuff to do last night, so Aunty Heather took over and took the baby out instead. I still got my "free" evening, which I put to very good use writing nearly 3000 words in an hour and a half. I was quite smug about it.
Anyhow, the result is that Aunty Krista was feeling Elizabeth-deprivation and asked if she could keep her for a couple of hours this evening, effectively giving me two free evenings in a row. While I'm starting to feel some Elizabeth-deprivation myself, I still agreed. That much uninterrupted writing time, this close to the end of the book, is not to be sneezed at.
So I came home after the staff meeting (nothing crucial happening there, thank heavens) and started blogging. Then I wrote for a while, finishing the Rianna segment I posted a few days ago. That was about 800 words. Then I blogged a bit more.
At that point (about an hour ago) I decided I'd spent enough time over the last two days staring at a computer screen, and I decided to go crochet instead.
Accordingly I went downstairs and pulled out the new balls of yarn - specifically, the pink and the green. I have done twenty rows of double-ended afghan crochet, and I love the effect. It creates a play of colours where the green dominates on one side and the pink on the other. Exactly the same square reversed would give a totally different effect. I'm going to do a nine-patch afghan this way, with four different colours. That means that even though one combination will be doubled up, I can simply reverse the colours and still get a different look. The trick will be arranging the squares so that the same dominant colour is never showing up side by side on either side of the afghan. But hey, life is made for challenges, right?
I also put on my "Delovely" soundtrack. I love that CD. I've been putting it on as background music a lot lately, but Elizabeth generally gets bored with her toys in the living room about halfway through, so I rarely get the chance to listen actively to the whole thing. Today I did, and I love it even more. I sang along as Kevin Kline enjoined his listeners to experiment, revelled in the georgeous piano solos, enjoyed Gabriel's Trump, and generally amused myself quite well.
Evenings like this are good for the soul.
Anyhow, the result is that Aunty Krista was feeling Elizabeth-deprivation and asked if she could keep her for a couple of hours this evening, effectively giving me two free evenings in a row. While I'm starting to feel some Elizabeth-deprivation myself, I still agreed. That much uninterrupted writing time, this close to the end of the book, is not to be sneezed at.
So I came home after the staff meeting (nothing crucial happening there, thank heavens) and started blogging. Then I wrote for a while, finishing the Rianna segment I posted a few days ago. That was about 800 words. Then I blogged a bit more.
At that point (about an hour ago) I decided I'd spent enough time over the last two days staring at a computer screen, and I decided to go crochet instead.
Accordingly I went downstairs and pulled out the new balls of yarn - specifically, the pink and the green. I have done twenty rows of double-ended afghan crochet, and I love the effect. It creates a play of colours where the green dominates on one side and the pink on the other. Exactly the same square reversed would give a totally different effect. I'm going to do a nine-patch afghan this way, with four different colours. That means that even though one combination will be doubled up, I can simply reverse the colours and still get a different look. The trick will be arranging the squares so that the same dominant colour is never showing up side by side on either side of the afghan. But hey, life is made for challenges, right?
I also put on my "Delovely" soundtrack. I love that CD. I've been putting it on as background music a lot lately, but Elizabeth generally gets bored with her toys in the living room about halfway through, so I rarely get the chance to listen actively to the whole thing. Today I did, and I love it even more. I sang along as Kevin Kline enjoined his listeners to experiment, revelled in the georgeous piano solos, enjoyed Gabriel's Trump, and generally amused myself quite well.
Evenings like this are good for the soul.
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Date: 2005-02-04 03:58 am (UTC)I want to get it now, too!
Now that someone I know approves, I will have to buy it!
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Date: 2005-02-04 12:57 pm (UTC)But Delovely is definitely recommended. Thanks!
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Date: 2005-02-04 04:55 pm (UTC)It's funny because I always shunned Rod Stewart, but I love those classy-type song CDs...and now I have his Best of on my computer too. Oooh, I am a hypocrite! :)
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Date: 2005-02-04 06:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-04 07:11 pm (UTC)Yeah, I have that one too - it's quite fun. It has some duets on it with some famous British (and American and Australian) actors, too. Robbie Williams is so arrogant (I think it's all show!) and pompous but I like him, darn it! And I like his swing music! :)