Well, just immediately, I'm making a baby sweater for my boss, who is making a small person. Then I shall make a baby blanket, just as soon as I figure out how to make the colors go. (For anyone inclined to help, I have the three solid blue colors of Knitpicks' Swish Worsted and I'm looking for a light contrast color -- I'm thinking Bok Choy, but I know I've got the color sense of your average house ant, so I think I'm going to go the "photograph the color cards in greyscale" route to figure out which ones go if I have to do it myself.)
Personally, I make things because it's nice to have something material at the end of the day to hold up when someone says "what did you do today?" Right now, I'm doing office work, so at least I have the satisfaction of moving files from one part of the office to another and knowing I'm being Efficient! And! Helpful!, but for a long time I worked in an industry where I felt like I spent a lot of time not accomplishing much of anything important and certainly nothing I could point to and say "hey, I did that." As more and more of us have jobs that don't involve physical creation, I think we're needing more and more to create things for our hobbies, to satisfy our need to make and do, and to get the ego boost of having someone else admire what we've done.
I made these today, and they're very tasty (although not like my grandmother's and therefore always faintly surprising).
I do have one question, though -- does anyone know the secret to getting the frosting all even and perfect? Ours are pretty globby.
I was born in 8/80, and I find that I'm missing the one thing that *everyone* my age in the States seems to remember (Challenger), because I wasn't here at the time.
Instead, I have a bunch of IRA bombings (most notably, the Christmas/Harrod's one, because we were almost there), bomb/kidnapping drills (because I went to diplomatic school), and the Berlin Wall. The next thing I remember is Gulf One, and I think that was probably the first or second big political thing I was allowed to watch on TV, because it's the one I have the clearest visual memory of (although I do remember crying and being very upset at the IRA blowing up cars with dogs in, as evidenced by the grills they had across the back seats).
Almost everyone I know who's my age (or within two years) and from the US remembers Challenger (because a lot of them were watching the launch live in class) and Gulf One (because it was our first war), but very few of them know anything about European politics from that era.
Having been taught to write in the French school system, my One True Paper is Clairefontaine French Rule. It's ridiculously difficult to find in the states, but the stationary store near me carries the perfect bound notebooks, so my current One True Notebook is one of those in a surprisingly nice leather cover either my boyfriend or I picked up at some conference a while ago. The logo is embossed in the front, but you can't see it unless you're looking, so that's all right.
When I can't get those, I use plain old college ruled notebook paper in a plain 3-ring binder. Oddly enough, I've never had a fountain pen bleed-through problem with it. You can see that the other side's been written on, but not enough so to make things difficult.
If I could have an idea notebook, I'd get a three ring binder with french ruled looseleaf, but since that's not going to happen short of going to France and putting it together myself, I'll just have to live with what I've got.
I know this is probably a silly question, but what *is* the difference between "that" and "which"?
(Hey, give me some credit, at least I know -- and can explain -- the difference in usage between "less" and "fewer"!)
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