Not knitting, not spinning, but playing Dragon Age on the Xbox. Although the spinning and knitting is slowly working its way back into my things to do. There’s only so many times I can play through Dragon Age, I suppose. I guess that number might be 5.

I did finally finish my Patchwork yarn earlier this month. I’m not sure if it’s the most awesome or the ugliest yarn I’ve ever spun. It’s a toss up, I think, and I’m either going to have some really cool socks or some really ugly ones. Either way, they’ll be warm and soft, though, and I guess that’s just fine. I’ve started knitting with the yarn a little bit already, and it doesn’t seem so bad. Of course, I haven’t gotten to any of the questionable bits yet, so there’s still time for things to get hideous.

This yarn is uglier than it looks here

Next on the wheel is Night Sky, the December 2008 fiber from the Hello Yarn Fiber Club. I couldn’t decide what to spin next, so I put it to a CPAaG vote, and they told me to go with the superwash BFL. I’ve been wanting to spin this up for a while, but I couldn’t decide between standard 3-ply or a navajo-ply, and being locked into this roving via vote forced me to finally choose. I ended up going for the 3-ply. I split the roving into thirds, and then I just split the thirds into strips of varying thickness, to get a more random, less uniformly striping yarn. We’ll see how it goes.

Aside from those things, I just got back from a trip back to Long Island. It’s been two years since I’ve gone back to visit, but I was really surprised by how normal it felt to be there. I don’t remember ever really feeling at home there when I would go back during breaks from college, but it definitely felt like going home this time. And my family didn’t get on my nerves hardly at all! Amazing. At only 5 days, the trip was entirely too short (this could explain the bit about the family), but at least it was something. We all went in to Manhattan on Christmas Eve, and it was incredibly busy and crowded, but still a fun time. It was L’s first time in Manhattan, too, so that was interesting. Saw the tree, saw a bunch of pretty lights, and we also went to dinner.

The best photo I took that night, I think

It was great to get away for a bit. I haven’t been away anywhere other than short trips down to Chicago since 2007, so even though this was definitely a family visit, it was nice to have some kind of vacation. I think the next vacation I take, though, will have to be something that doesn’t involve visiting anyone. Something where it’s just L and I going somewhere together. It’s about time we took a vacation like that. Of course, there needs to be money for that, which will probably be a long time from now.

So, there’s the more interesting bits of what I’ve been up to in the past two months since I last touched the blog. Not really much to speak of, as usual.