waiting game

I’m stuck in a waiting game. And I’m the worst waiter ever. Seriously. Oh, I can wait patiently enough when there’s a discernable end-to-the-waiting in the foreseeable future. For instance, standing in lines at grocery check-outs. Or at a red light, or a train-crossing. Or before a movie starts. All those situations are fine, since you always know the wait will be over in x amount of time. You know this. It’s those times when you don’t even know for sure whether anything will come of your waiting that are so hard to put up with.

One of the reasons I’m The Worst at waiting is that I’m a tragically early shower-upper. So like, if I’m supposed to meet someone, I show up 20 minutes early, and then when they arrive on time, I’ve already been waiting 20 minutes. But I just can’t force myself to arrive late. Or even exactly on time. Because if anything ever came up, and I had scheduled it so I’d arrive right on time, I’d end up being late.

So I have a hard time waiting for people, because despite all the odds I always start to wonder if I got the time/place/person wrong… if something happened to them… etc etc. (I’m also a big worrier; yay!) It’s not like I’ve been stood up or something, or have a history of getting these things wrong, it’s just my automatic train of thought.

Right now, I am waiting for Job News, which I had expected to get last week (as mentioned in the previous post). Grf. But of course, since I spent all of last week grawing my fingernails and waiting, the news didn’t come. I did get some reassurance, and can now expect to hear news by the middle of this week. Or at least, I hope so.

While waiting totally being blase about things today, I crocheted a little love bird.

The pattern can be found here, on Bittersweet blog. Mine is significantly rounder and smaller, since I was using up some leftover cotton yarn.

Last week, I made a market bag, although I haven’t had the chance to try it out at the actual Saturday Market yet.

The pattern is Mineco, which I found as a free download on Ravelry. I really liked how it turned out, and kind of like the idea of making one from organic cotton, as soon as I find some for a good price! Possible gifting ideas are starting to take shape…

I’ve also been working on Erika Knight’s Military Cardigan, from the lovely Classic Knits. It’s not hard (although the reverse-all-shaping directions really bug me) but there’s going to be tons of seaming when I’m done, and I’m not really looking forward to it. I’ve almost finished the individual pieces; I’m working on the sleeves right now. All that’s left is pockets, epaulets (!), and the collar.

Oh! And I got the new Debbie Bliss magazine- Spring/Summer 2009 issue. I thought the Fall/Winter one was great, but this one is amazing to look at as well! I love love love all of the photos. Even if I never make anything from it, I love poring over the colour schemes and layouts of the photo shoots. They really did a stellar job.

lacy somethings

Lace top by Erika Knight, how I love thee.

Okay, so I am actually approaching the finish line with this one, and I absolutely can’t wait until it is finished. All that’s left is one sleeve, the ruffle for the front, and finding the buttons in a relatively matching colour. (Which, incidentally, is a darker teal than in the photo…)

In other news, I’ve discovered a new fave (Canadian) artist… Wendy McNeill. She does an amazing duet with Ane Brun (another– this time Norwegian– fave) on Ane’s duets album (recently gifted to me!) called Such a Common Bird. Both the front and sleeve of the Lace Top were knit listening chiefly to Ane Brun’s album Changing of the Seasons , on which my current favourite songs seem to be:

• The Treehouse Song (oddly chilling-neat video here)
• The Puzzle (equally distressing but somehow beautiful video here)
• Ten Seconds (which for some reason reminds me of a wolf)
• Changing of the Seasons (easily the best lyrics of them all)
• Lullaby for Grown-Ups (sad, realistic, a bit ironic)
• Armour (second favourite lyrics)

Yes, I realize that’s almost the entire album. What can I say? Also, if you’re in the mood, give this a listen. I can’t even really classify it. They sing a great duet.

one more day…

So there is currently only one more official day at work and then it is The Summer Holidays! Woo(t)/hoot (for those who commented previously). ^v^ (that is an owl).

Aaaand… there are lots of wonderful things about summer, this one in particular as it may include such activities as: moving, looking for a new job, starting a new job, travelling, and all sorts of other nice stuff.

Those were some of the things we saw last summer. This summer, I plan to be on the lookout for more of the birds on the Nature List we downloaded last year (and which I did come across in the office the other day– the list, not the birds, of course).

Should I sneak out early tomorrow, before the staff baseball game begins…? It’s a tough decision: on the one hand, I have a baseball bat in the back seat of my car (to play, silly, not to hit people with)… and on the other hand, leaving early is always good. I mean, I already have my commemorative photograph (signed by all employees) of the hallway at work, so… I’m pretty much set to go, right?