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Such A Bad Blogger...

I haven't blogged in over two months! Oh lots of reasons why, mainly due to lack of time, and that's also why KnitCast is late. The Welsh general election has kept me busy at work and sorting through my various hoardings, desperately trying to downsize has kept me a little busy too.

Last weekend I sorted through twenty years worth of clothes. Yes. TWENTY YEARS! I actually had stuff from far back as 14. Hannah helped me and joked that she could see the various stages I'd been through in life, including the extended Goth period. Which never really went away entirely. I gave 99.9 per cent of it away to charity, Hannah and others had some too. I feel really good about it because now I can buy more clothes with impunity. Ummmm....can't I?! :)

Now onto KnitCast. That's mainly been delayed because I haven't quite made the switch from editing audio on a PC to editing audio on a Mac. It's a bit ironic considering that I am Mac mad and rather evangelical about them! A certain Mac friend of mine is probably laughing at this! Although Macs are superior to PCs, don't crash as often, don't really get viruses etc. they also don't have as many software programs written for them. So my main bug bare is that Nero Wave Editor which I used to use to edit is not available for the Mac. I can't edit quite as finely with Audacity as I'd like and anyone who's listened to Knitcast will know how I love my editing. I think though that I may have to worry less about editing since I would like to get a podcast out before the end of the month.

And speaking of podcasting, I'm hoping to record some interviews when I go on holiday to New York in July. I'll be there for the first week of July and I have some ideas for interviews and I'll be contacting people soon about those. However I do want to leave the majority of my trip for shopping! It'll be my third visit to NYC and my second trip to the Garment District. I'm really looking forward to it! Let's hope I don't go over my baggage weight allowance on the way home!

I wasn't quite sure exactly what I was going to blog about today but Jeni has tagged me so I'm going to finish with the Seven Random Things About Me...warning they are very random!

* I love Woody Allen films, although I tend to prefer his earlier, funnier ones! (in joke!) My favourites are Manhattan and Annie Hall. I can never choose between the two and have watched both far too many times to count.

* I've wanted to live in America since I was a kid. I intend to fulfill this dream one day :)

* Madonna - I've been a fan of hers for nearly twenty two years! I still have lace gloves from my teenage years!

* Spring is my favourite season. I love seeing the bulbs come up and trees blossom after a cold winter.

* Nature makes me feel very spiritual. There's something godlike almost in growing things from seed and I also have a quiet fascination with how numbers appear in nature. However I'm crap at maths!

* I love order but somehow always end up in chaos. I'm incredibly untidy!

* I'm really into astrology. Well ok, I do read several horoscopes each day and pick and choose which bits I like, but I do think there's more than an element of truth in them.

Now I have to decide whom to tag...I'll have to think about that and update this later

Happy Valentines Day!

Yes, it's a commercial concept but Andy and I are old romantics! :-)

Andy's is the hearts one - which was screenprinted in Buffalo, NY. Mine is the one with two cats and, although you can't see it, says "Perfect Partners". When the card is closed you can see two sparkly pom poms in the cutouts.

Andy's present hasn't yet arrived from Amazon.co.uk. :-( But this is what he got me

Yes, I'm 31 years old but I still like Wonder Woman! I loved the Lynda Carter series as a kid, although looking back it's a bit campy, and I still collect the comic book.

Here's another view of her

She will join my collection of various action figures, statues, etc. It's not a serious collection because I don't like to keep things preserved in boxes, but one of my favorite items is a book mark that says "Reading is strength".

And although it's still chilly outside this glamour puss is showing herself off in the kitchen.

This is the third Amaryllis I've owned and they can last a good few years if you take care of them. I'm not always that good at remembering. My garden is mostly perrenials because they can take care of themselves, houseplants don't always fare too well with me!

And upstairs is another Glamour Puss!

Jake in one of his favourite places, the tatty, scratched up basket outside the bedroom. I got this basket from a woman I used to work with some years ago. She'd bought it for her cat who had turned her nose up at it. I was rather surprised when our cats actually liked it and used it. As I wrote before it is tatty looking now because they've been sleeping in it for years but they like it. The pic is a bit bright but it is representative of just how white Jake's fur is!

Art Fibers order - the yarn I ordered is actually for two scarves. One will be made from the lovely Oz the other from Cartier and Nemo. Inspired by Becky and Nora's scarves from combining various yarns I've started a new scarf in some Anny Blatt Angora Super in Black, Mutine from Bouton d'Or in Prune and a coordinating unnamed wine coloured chenille that I bought on a cone during my trip to Undy Yarns some time ago. They've all been sitting unused in my stash for at least a year, the Mutine and chenille for longer, so it's a good stash busting project. I'm knitting it in a drop stitch pattern since Becky's looked so delicious! And the Angora Super is just amazing! It feels so soft and wonderful!