lilgirlblu

last days of summer

i'm in a quiet space this week. the last week of vacation, the last hot weekend at home, the first week of school have all wizzed by quietly, eclipsed by both the lunar eclipse and the passing of my grandmother (here with blu last month). i think that i will be quiet for a bit longer, as i'm am not really in the headspace to blog right now, but will surely be back soon.  until then ~ laura

ps: i'm having a fabric sale in the shop this weekend, so stop by!

Does it make up for lack of posts if I do two in one day? I'm in a bit of a manic rush to finish all of my Summer tasks as i start counting down my last week of vacation. Today I finished sewing up this little softie (face still in process) and culled the massive pile of Blu's clothes that are too small. Tomorrow I'll do my closet (ugh :-( ), try to find Blu a backpack, and tackle some of the sewing projects I have lying around.
Monday we're back at school (how did summer go so fast??), and I'm taking some really heavy classes this semester ~ O. Chem ~ I doubt I'll have much energy for thorough housecleaning so it has to be done now.

oh and before the week is out I have to hit up Poppy Fabric in Oakland. I've been meaning to go since i moved to the city, and I'm always hearing how great they are, but didn't have a car, or time - and can you believe they are closing down? I'm making the time now.

from the other side

If you've ever wondered,
this is what the city looks like from the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Sunday was fantastically warm here, and after discovering that my camera was not as fried as previously thought - and actually still worked after it's three day drip dry (Yippee!), we packed ourselves up and tried to escape the city. we only made it as far as Sausalito though, as Blu spent the whole ride demanding 'da boat??' so we took her to the marina.

Evidently many yuppie tourists people had the same idea. Luckily the mobs kept to the shops, and we had the boats to ourselves.

Loved these buoys.

There were some incredible houseboats, this Taj Mahal one was enormous - we had to google it afterwards, apparently someone lived in it for 25 years! I've always thought that living on a house boat would be pretty cool, but can't imagine doing so for that long. Wouldn't you have to cart in all of your drinking water? and it was a pretty long walk from land.

Some boats had nice embellishments for luck.

A guy was building these along the sidewalk, pretty neat but it was super windy so they may not have lasted all that long.

It was really nice to make it out of the city for a warm afternoon, naturally the fog rolled in on our way home and today was freezing again.

crochet anyone?

Can anyone explain to me what this drawing is trying to tell me here? I can't figure out if the stitch with the arrow is supposed to be part of the 2nd row or the 3rd....while were at it maybe it would be good to know into which stitch specifically the 2 to eitherside of the arrowed one go (in row 2 - the gap its pointing to doesn't do it for me).

Karma

i'm really bummed. blu's water bottle came undone in my handbag and soaked my camera - i found it very wet, and trying to turn either on or off (i couldn't tell but there were lots of lights flashing) unsuccessfully. After reading on a couple of forums that it might be possible to save it if its left alone a couple of days to dry out, i'm crossing my fingers. as much as it sucks, i have to own it up to some sort of karmic law of exchange, i bought a car today so obviously the camera had to go.

:-(

escapism

Summer is winding down very quickly, and the closer the school year gets the more i think about escaping somehow :-) I'm trying to enjoy the rest (2 weeks) of vacation. it was a really busy spring, so this is a bit of downtime before getting back into the cycle of studying and classes.
extreme laziness has settled onto me, and i've done little more recently than take blu to the park and read. this is the terrible sort of escapism that makes up excuses as to why its really a good thing to put the laundry away later rather than now, or not to start something because it will take too much effort later. nothing good will come of it i know because: a) its illusory. the laundry is still there. and b) its defeating, feeling guilty about doing nothing prevents me from enjoying it. so i should do everything i'm supposed to first and then do nothing in earnest, right? so so hard though....
hence the lack of posts, we  have the same 2 or 3 day's routines that we just cycle through over and over and over...

so not much crafting going on here. lots of knitting though - it keeps my hands busy while we get through the first two seasons of Weeds - and lots of cooking. there is such a glut of fabulous vegetables at the farmers market, i can't help but come home with extra for a crumble or roast.