Go Ahead, Push Your Luck


...and find out how much love the world can hold.

That's from a song by Dar Williams that I listened to as I walked home on this loveliest of fall days today. I'm trying to savor every moment of Toronto's best time of year before the long winter starts. On a day like this, when it's chilly enough that you can smell the first fireplace fires, it doesn't take much more than a folk song to get me misty-eyed. I've been really blessed this past week, not just in weather, but in moments of hilarious laughing with friends, work actually going well for a change, and not least by the company of my mischevious kitten.

It wont be long till I come home for American Thanksgiving, and I can't wait to stand out in the cold with my Dad while he smokes his cigar and expounds on the book of Romans, to laugh my butt off with my little brother, and to have a girly day with my mom. My best friend Sten and his boyfriend Tom are going to be in Chicagoland as well visiting Tom's fam, so we can all get together in the city, which is awesome. And my friend Danielle, who I shared a house with this summer and used to go running with along the sea (sigh!), might come up to visit as well. And Seattle Brian calls Illinois home as well, so I suppose he will be there too. All roads, you see, eventually lead to Chicagoland. It's where it's at.

Could it get better? Only if I can manage to bring Binky along. I wonder what the law is about bringing cats from Canada to the U.S.

Oh, this troublemaking cat, he sure knows how to bring the cute. When I'm sitting on the couch knitting or studying, he likes to sneak into my lap and look at me. That's when he's being nice. Then he slowly climbs up to my face and rubs his little nose against mine, like a little kiss. Sometimes he even likes to take a crack at my research . Though this usually leads to sleep for both of us. Even when he's picking fights with my foot or my stuff , he's still so damn cute that it's very hard to stay mad at him.

Oh, I was gonna write about knitting. Right. I have no money, but this didn't stop me from splurging on not one but three knitting books in the past week:

Sooo exciting! I got Knit Wit at the kickass opening party / book signing at Lettuce Knit. I totally want to make the blue skirt, but I don't have the yarn and I really, really, can't let myself go back to Romni any time soon.
I do, however, have a nice yarn for the cover scarf of the scarf book. That's gonna be supercool, once i get to it.

In the meantime, I finally cast on for my Noro Poncho.

It's just going to be two rectangles loosely based on this pattern from Magknits. I'm not going to do the leaves pattern even though it looks cool, because I know trying to follow those instructions without a chart will just drive me to the crackpipe. In any case, this berry colorway is, to me, very autumn and very perfect for a light poncho. Poncho bandwagon, here I come.





Posted: Tue - October 5, 2004 at 12:15 AM        

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