Insubordiknit

I got tagged (feel free to ignore)

10 years ago: Wow, 10 years ago, to the month, I was leaving behind my tattoo artist boyfriend (Ugly Bill) and hoppin’ in my packed-to-the-headliner Jeep Cherokee, leaving Kansas City, and driving off to California. Poppy C, who would later go on to steal all my earthly belongings and disappear without a trace, was in the passenger seat and Jawbreaker was on the stereo. Oh how I loved, uh, love, Jawbreaker. I’ve tried numerous times to contact Blake Schwarzenbach, yelled at him in the street, written letters, but he resists our clearly natural connection. I could make him so happy. Blake, call me.

5 years ago: I was just moving back to Kansas City after a very successful 5 years in SF. B-ill and I were buying our first house, a giant restored mansion, and returning to school. As a person though, I had no real direction.

1 year ago: I was in Baltimore, living in house number 3. My Little Bit of a boy was 2 1/2 and the perfect mixture of beauty and brains. I was working hard and pretty steady at carveGirl, my woodworking biz. I’d just finished designing, building, carving, and painting the tables for a new cafe. I thought I found what I loved but that was still a few months off (for those of you not keeping up, that would be fiber baby, fiber!) I just got an essay published in mamaphonic a book about being an artist and a mother. I was also just getting involved in the charm city kitty club, a queer caberet around these parts. I’d been on stage as a pussycat player and was just startin’ to get down and dirty with Jody. She’s the one on her knees, very uncharacteristic.

YESTERDAY: I sweat off the rest of my pregnancy weight while doing my weekly dying of fiber. Fuck, it’s hot in this city. What’s up with that? I miss SF. I did make some pretty rovings though, except for one, it’s kinda ugly. Also, my throat was scratchy.

TODAY: The scratchy throat turned into a brick on my chest so I let the Little Bit go swimming with the wonder-twins and I chilled on the couch, started, and all but finished a pair of socks for b-ill. They’re the first socks I’ve made out of my own yarn, I used harley and they rock.

TOMORROW: I’ll spin in the morning before the Little Bit wakes up. I’ll play with him, maybe find a cool (temperature-wise) park and make up for being sick yesterday. When he hits the sack, I’ll knit a bit. The socks should be done so I’ll probably start of a design I’ve been knocking around in this old skull o mine.

5 snacks I enjoy: roasted seaweed, tings, grapes, avocado right outta the shell with a bit of salt, and trader joe’s unsweetened dried mango (it’s soooo good!)

5 bands/singers I like: Do I even have to say it? Blake Schwarzenbach, he’ll always be my #1, know him? Send him my way! Tom Waits. As for the others, they are ever changing, right now I’m listening to Nelly Mckay, Jonathon Rickman, and Devandra Banhart.

Things I would do with $100,000,000: I’d be happy,of course! Right?

5 locations I'd like to run away to: oh jeez, isn’t this thing over yet? Is anyone still reading? You can’t be, even I’m bored and I’m the one writing it. Blah, blah, blah. Many places, none are in the US, in fact, that’s one of the requirements – not in the US.

5 bad habits that I have: I’m a bit controlling, though I think I’ve exercised some control over it and am getting better. I eat faster than anyone you know. I've been known to exaggerate. I a terrible speller. I talk about peeing a lot.

5 things I like doing: I like peeing. I love to listen to my son laugh. I love to laugh. I loke knitting and spinning.

5 things I would never wear: Shoulder pads, oh my, kill me if that particular 80’s bit comes back, I can hang with the side pony-tails but shoulder pads? falsely broad broads, eeek.

5 TV shows I like: Hmmm… For years I’ve not had a television because I could not be trusted. I’d watch anything and it’d eat away all my time. Now that I knit so much, we have a TV again but it’s not connected to anything so I belong to netflix and only watch at night while I knit. That said, Buffy is the shit, the best thing ever on. Joss just got it all right, the cool, the geek, the gore, the politics, so fucking good! I’ve got all of the DVD sets except season 5 and whenever I need something to knit too, it’s buffy and spike keeping me company! Oh buffy, I miss ya! Other stuff I’ve liked recently (from netflix): the wire, deadwood, and queer as folk. If you’ve got any recommendations, send ‘em my way. I love teen dramas, so help me., I admit it.

5 movies I like: They live. Miller’s Crossing, Memento, A night on earth, Charlie and the Chocolate factory (original), I'd say Pi, but I feel that'd be pretensious.

5 famous people I'd like to meet: Blake Schwarzenbach, five times, and one of those times should include much inappropriate groping.

5 biggest joys of the moment: My Little Bit. Spinning up a really nice, balanced yarn. Knitting. A big secret I don’t wanna share with the world yet (no I’m not with child). A cool house in the face of unconquerable heat.

5 favorite toys: Hitachi magic wand. Ipod. Spinning wheels, Pablo and matilda. Silly putty.

Posted by jacey at July 28, 2005 08:11 PM