Update and a blog contest!
As I wrote yesterday, there have been some personal things going on in my life as of late that had taken me away from my knitting and from blogging. I'm not going to get into them all here, but the one I do feel comfortable talking about here is the end of the boy and I.
I don't know what happened truthfully. We were doing fine, and then all of a sudden things just seemed to change once I came back from South Carolina. He seemed indifferent, withdrawn. I thought I'd give it a little more time to see if things got back to normal, but little things started happening that really had me questioning what the heck I was doing. Things just weren't adding up, I had my suspicions, and yesterday, well I learned somethings that just confirmed them.
Usually when things don't add up, there's a reason for it, so that in mind, I decided to end it.
A failed relationship is never a happy thing, but at the same time I'm surprisingly ok with all of it. I feel a lot of relief. I haven't been really happy for the past month and all that anxiety and doubt and disappointment wasn't healthy for me.
The good news is now that I don't have to worry about buying Christmas gifts for the boy, I can treat myself with a nice Christmas gift instead. And I'll be doing just that in December when a few girlfriends and I head up to Massachusetts. We've decided to go on a little road trip and a stop at Webs is on the agenda!
And now onto happier things! I saw this on Monica's blog and thought it was interesting. As a kid, I hated my first name. I was called Helena, Montana all through middle school thanks to an over zealous geography teacher as a homeroom teacher. But as I grew up, I learned to really love my name. It's kind of unique. I've never met anyone with the same name, only with variations such as Elena or Aileen. But apparently there are 31,497 people with my first name in the US. My last name is more common, with 74,992 people sharing my last name. But combined, first and last name...
And I must say, at least one out of 8 of the Helena XXXXX's here in the US completely agree with Monica's opinion that knitters should be able to take extended lunch hours for trips to the LYS. :)
In more happy news, I am probably the last person to do so, but I have jumped on the Tivo bandwagon. I love Tivo. I love that I can record TV shows and not have to worry about missing my favorites, I love that it records things it thinks I will like, in fact I love checking that suggestion list. It's always a surprise to see what Tivo recorded for me.
The first thing I did once I set it up was set up some season passes, which basically just means that Tivo will record every episode of that show that airs. And that is the inspiration behind my blog contest. [I'm excited, my first blog contest. I hope at least one of you plays. It would be pretty embarrassing to have to announce there is no winner because no one wanted free yarn from me! LOL]
First up, the prize.
A half a pound of superwash fingering weight Merino wool, hand dyed by me using acid dyes. [Skein pictured on the bottom left, click to enlarge.] It's hard to tell in this picture but there is more white in this yarn then you can see here. The colorway is Daisy. I'm not sure of the exact yardage, as I have since lost the tag that came with the undyed yarn, but I know it's somewhere between 500 - 1000 yards. There's more than enough here for a pair of knee socks or a lacey shawl.
So how do you win this awesome one of a kind hand dyed yarn? All you have to do is send an email to midnightpurls AT gmail DOT com (replace the AT with @ and DOT with .) and tell me what show you think was the first one I added to my season pass list. Since I don't talk about my TV watching habits on my blog, I'll even make it easier by giving you the first five I added in no particular order. Your choices are: Dr. Who, Law & Order SVU, Alias, Battlestar Galactica, and Veronica Mars. Whoever guesses right will have their name thrown into a hat. Then my friend Lauren will pick a name out of the hat. If no one guesses right, anyone who guesses the second show I added will have their name put into the hat, and so on and so on.
Contest opens now, and will close on Tuesday, November 7th at 11:00 AM EST.
I don't know what happened truthfully. We were doing fine, and then all of a sudden things just seemed to change once I came back from South Carolina. He seemed indifferent, withdrawn. I thought I'd give it a little more time to see if things got back to normal, but little things started happening that really had me questioning what the heck I was doing. Things just weren't adding up, I had my suspicions, and yesterday, well I learned somethings that just confirmed them.
Usually when things don't add up, there's a reason for it, so that in mind, I decided to end it.
A failed relationship is never a happy thing, but at the same time I'm surprisingly ok with all of it. I feel a lot of relief. I haven't been really happy for the past month and all that anxiety and doubt and disappointment wasn't healthy for me.
The good news is now that I don't have to worry about buying Christmas gifts for the boy, I can treat myself with a nice Christmas gift instead. And I'll be doing just that in December when a few girlfriends and I head up to Massachusetts. We've decided to go on a little road trip and a stop at Webs is on the agenda!
And now onto happier things! I saw this on Monica's blog and thought it was interesting. As a kid, I hated my first name. I was called Helena, Montana all through middle school thanks to an over zealous geography teacher as a homeroom teacher. But as I grew up, I learned to really love my name. It's kind of unique. I've never met anyone with the same name, only with variations such as Elena or Aileen. But apparently there are 31,497 people with my first name in the US. My last name is more common, with 74,992 people sharing my last name. But combined, first and last name...
And I must say, at least one out of 8 of the Helena XXXXX's here in the US completely agree with Monica's opinion that knitters should be able to take extended lunch hours for trips to the LYS. :)
In more happy news, I am probably the last person to do so, but I have jumped on the Tivo bandwagon. I love Tivo. I love that I can record TV shows and not have to worry about missing my favorites, I love that it records things it thinks I will like, in fact I love checking that suggestion list. It's always a surprise to see what Tivo recorded for me.
The first thing I did once I set it up was set up some season passes, which basically just means that Tivo will record every episode of that show that airs. And that is the inspiration behind my blog contest. [I'm excited, my first blog contest. I hope at least one of you plays. It would be pretty embarrassing to have to announce there is no winner because no one wanted free yarn from me! LOL]
First up, the prize.
A half a pound of superwash fingering weight Merino wool, hand dyed by me using acid dyes. [Skein pictured on the bottom left, click to enlarge.] It's hard to tell in this picture but there is more white in this yarn then you can see here. The colorway is Daisy. I'm not sure of the exact yardage, as I have since lost the tag that came with the undyed yarn, but I know it's somewhere between 500 - 1000 yards. There's more than enough here for a pair of knee socks or a lacey shawl.
So how do you win this awesome one of a kind hand dyed yarn? All you have to do is send an email to midnightpurls AT gmail DOT com (replace the AT with @ and DOT with .) and tell me what show you think was the first one I added to my season pass list. Since I don't talk about my TV watching habits on my blog, I'll even make it easier by giving you the first five I added in no particular order. Your choices are: Dr. Who, Law & Order SVU, Alias, Battlestar Galactica, and Veronica Mars. Whoever guesses right will have their name thrown into a hat. Then my friend Lauren will pick a name out of the hat. If no one guesses right, anyone who guesses the second show I added will have their name put into the hat, and so on and so on.
Contest opens now, and will close on Tuesday, November 7th at 11:00 AM EST.
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