(I) Like a cheap distraction

Ever since we dug out the wedding pics last weekend, I've been on an 80s video kick. Here's one of my favorite bands singing one of my favorite songs.

This weekend has been about the punch list - all those little items that needed touchups/fixing. The separation between the trim and the ceiling over the bed, the missed 2nd coat of paint on the baseboard behind the laundry hampers, the loose lamp socket - all taken care of now. And to treat myself, here's a cheap distraction brightening my windowless bathroom. The bamboo is from Creative Habitat, the dish is an old canary birdbath picked up somewhere in my journeys, and the filler is from my jar of polished stones and seashells.

I'm off to iron a stack of clothes while watching some movies. And then on to this other cheap distraction -

Pip says, "I got my tummy to distract me."

A unplanned organizational side trip

Friday night, the CatMan was looking for our wedding pictures. Unfortunately, they were not in the album conveniently located in the bottom drawer of his nightstand. They were in the last box I pulled out of our upstairs storage closet. Culling through this space had been lower priority on my to-do list. This is the shred box (receipts/statements/etc. older than 7 years - Jack the cat is for scale.) I also have one banker's box of photos which need to be sorted and labeled; easy enough to do while watching TV.

Here's the closet, cleaned out and organized. What you can't see in this pic are my feet wrangling cats out of the way. This closet is the feline version of spelunking. With my clothes as the belay lines.

I ended up frogging last week's Cypress Ribbon scarf and started over doing it the right way. This is a little over 1 skein into the project. Yes, that is a safety line. I'm not tempting any fate while doing this lace pattern. I've got too many other projects to get on the needles.

Bandwagon--->Me

Yep, all the cool kids are doing it. Here's my version of the Lace Ribbon Scarf that 1180 Ravelry knitters are working on. The yarn is the Rowan Wool Cotton in Cypress purchased at Kyarns' sale. In my usual let's-not-really-read-the-pattern style, I didn't do the pattern repeats as outlined so I have solid stockinette ribbon alternating with the undulating waves. And I like it enough not to frog it. So there.

The finished Spring Cleaning socks. Project specs: Lang Jawoll Aktion (wool/cotton/nylon) , color 7113, using my favorite sock pattern on #2 Inox DPNs. And I can say my spring cleaning is done too. I think.

Isabelle says "It's hot, but I'm gonna sit in the sun anyway."

Where did May go?

Hello? I don't remember authorizing an ENTIRE MONTH to go by without my realizing it. When I'm in purging mode, that doesn't mean TIME!

The CatMan and I don't live a majorly stuff-filled life. My knitting stash occupies a 3-drawer bin, we I routinely cull over our books, and I've confined the CatMan's outdoor gear to one room of our apartment (which also doubles as his office/study). But this weekend, I took 6 computer paper boxes to a tag sale, 3 boxes to Goodwill, and several large trashbags to the dumpster. I am amazed and chagrined at the amount of crap that readily fills the corners of our lives which, if left unchecked, sucks our time in maintenance.

Knitting content will resume shortly - there is a light at the end of the spring-cleaning tunnel.