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So Topps makes holiday themed boxes of baseball cards to give as gifts. My mom got me one for Christmas and another one for Easter. I enjoyed seeing which cards I got, because I do watch me a lot of baseball, generally speaking. But I didn't think too much more about it until maybe a month ago.
My mom told me that she had started buying cards more and more often, as a distraction from awful things happening in the world. And it gave us something to talk about besides… well, besides the awful things etc etc.
So then the week before Mother's Day, I was in Costco and they had some large sets, something like 12 packs per box, so I bought one, and when she came over for lunch, we went through it together. It was fun.
Then she stopped buying the packs and started buying individual cards of her favorite players on eBay. I was over there this afternoon, and the mail carrier brought five eBay envelopes. (She had been expecting six.)
She has also started visiting local card shops. She took me to one of them today, and we spent a couple of hours searching through their stock. That was also fun.
Anyway, that's why I now have dozens of baseball cards in various stacks and organizers. It's all her fault.
My mom told me that she had started buying cards more and more often, as a distraction from awful things happening in the world. And it gave us something to talk about besides… well, besides the awful things etc etc.
So then the week before Mother's Day, I was in Costco and they had some large sets, something like 12 packs per box, so I bought one, and when she came over for lunch, we went through it together. It was fun.
Then she stopped buying the packs and started buying individual cards of her favorite players on eBay. I was over there this afternoon, and the mail carrier brought five eBay envelopes. (She had been expecting six.)
She has also started visiting local card shops. She took me to one of them today, and we spent a couple of hours searching through their stock. That was also fun.
Anyway, that's why I now have dozens of baseball cards in various stacks and organizers. It's all her fault.
I've been on a knit/crochet binge for the past couple of months. I guess it started when Project Hail Mary came out in March, and I ultimately made and gave away something like 6 crochet Earth balls from 3 different patterns, none of which I was perfectly happy with.
I also spent weeks making a vaguely baseball-themed blanket for my baseball buddy, and then made a baby blanket with the leftover yarn, not because I knew anyone who was expecting, but just to use up the yarn and make more space to store different yarn.
Then I missed having a blanket to work on, and started a new one. Then I decided I wanted more colors for it, and bought more yarn that I probably won't use up. And so the cycle continues.
Meanwhile, it's not enough for me to be writing 3 different flavors of D&D fic, I also have done amigurumi of two of our group's characters plus a Night Mare, which I'm actually making twice because our DM is adopting the first one I did. Also I made a dice bag for R's character now that he's joined the group, and some colorful balls to represent uses of Bardic Inspiration for another character who just multiclassed into Bard, and a bag to hold those as well.
One of my Mother's Day presents to myself was a set of Tunisian cabled crochet hooks, so I've been practicing that technique as well. I started with a potholder and now I'm working on a small rug for my bathroom.
I've also started working on knitting a whole entire cloak to wear the next time I go to a Renn Faire or con or whatever. And I bought the new D&D crochet pattern book a while back, and I just got the yarn I need to make the Bag of Holding from that. And I also have a couple of scarves in progress that I keep around to work on because they travel out of the house easily.
So basically if I disappear just look for me behind the piles of yarn and unread books.
I also spent weeks making a vaguely baseball-themed blanket for my baseball buddy, and then made a baby blanket with the leftover yarn, not because I knew anyone who was expecting, but just to use up the yarn and make more space to store different yarn.
Then I missed having a blanket to work on, and started a new one. Then I decided I wanted more colors for it, and bought more yarn that I probably won't use up. And so the cycle continues.
Meanwhile, it's not enough for me to be writing 3 different flavors of D&D fic, I also have done amigurumi of two of our group's characters plus a Night Mare, which I'm actually making twice because our DM is adopting the first one I did. Also I made a dice bag for R's character now that he's joined the group, and some colorful balls to represent uses of Bardic Inspiration for another character who just multiclassed into Bard, and a bag to hold those as well.
One of my Mother's Day presents to myself was a set of Tunisian cabled crochet hooks, so I've been practicing that technique as well. I started with a potholder and now I'm working on a small rug for my bathroom.
I've also started working on knitting a whole entire cloak to wear the next time I go to a Renn Faire or con or whatever. And I bought the new D&D crochet pattern book a while back, and I just got the yarn I need to make the Bag of Holding from that. And I also have a couple of scarves in progress that I keep around to work on because they travel out of the house easily.
So basically if I disappear just look for me behind the piles of yarn and unread books.
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Quick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!
EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.
EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.
