This week I was reminded once again that, although I love stickers, I have a deep aversion of actually sticking them to anything. I am striving to work through this issue with one of my unofficial therapists, D., who recently challenged me on this point. She also hauled out her personal stash of dozens of music-related stickers that I could choose from, and I selected three that depicted The Beatles.
I did not, in fact, stick these Beatles stickers on anything. Yet. But the act of selecting stickers and talking about them brought my attention to a sticker that’s been sitting on my work-desk for several months. I peeled off the backing and affixed it to my iPhone case. Which is why I can’t take a picture of it to show you (I really should have thought this through before I peeled off the backing, but here we are).
There is something about stickers that strikes me as far too permanent. They represent some sort of commitment that I don’t want to make. Magnets are easier for me to deal with: you can move them around. You don’t have to worry about finding the perfect place for them. You can remove them from things, save them for later, and affix them to different things. You can take them off your car before you drive through the car wash. I have a few nice stickers that I have converted into magnets.
This issue probably says a lot about how I feel about commitment, permanency, representation, and my willingness to be seen. Maybe I should take notes for the therapist I’ll eventually need to consult about this. But for right now, let’s just say that I prefer magnets.
This week in the Impossible Read, I finished the third section of The Mists of Avalon, which brings me to page 655. Just 200-some pages to go before I take a break from books and head for the movies.
I know that sounds like a lot of pages to read, but as a proportion of the book it doesn’t look like all that much. And now that I’ve done the math…it’s almost exactly 25 percent of the book.
Knitwise…well, I hope you’re sitting down. Because I finally opened a drawer, took out some yarn, found some appropriate needles, and cast on for a stash-yarn project. Yes, it’s an eyelet-edged triangular shawl — why do you ask?
The yarn is Lion Brand Wool-Ease in three different dyelots of Dark Rose Heather — two full skeins and one partial skein. Somewhere around here I have some Dark Grey Heather of the same yarn, and I’m thinking about knitting some of it into the shawl to make a separation between the different dyelots. It will, perhaps, look like a random design element. Only you and I will know why it’s really there.
It’s not so much about making another shawl, though I suspect that it will come in handy this winter. It’s more about finally using up yarn that is just sitting around. To do that, it’s easier if I work a mindless pattern like this one-row wonder: Kf&b, yo, knit to end; repeat until out of yarn. It gave my hands something useful to do this weekend while I watched sessions of the Grand Prix of Brazil. I’m still not sure what I just saw there, but at least I got a shawl started. I’ll share progress shots next week. Pinky swear.
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