Like it / Like it not - Szeretem / nem szeretem

Like it: my Symphony interchangable needle tips, size 3.25mm. I bought these only because i wanted to try wooden needles. Originally didn't liked them, i was constatly afraid that the tips will get chipped off, the needle will broke in the middle, i didn't liked the colours, they were much slower then the metal needles... But in the course of the last year, i ended up using these a lots of times even when i started with different sizes or on plastic needles. I just keep ending up working with these and now i'm fairly sure they wont broke just buy holding them. I made some of my biggest knitting accomplishments with these, an Aeolian and a Swallowtail lace shawl, among other projects.
Good old tools which slowly but surely worked themselves into being one of my core knitting necessities.

Like it not: garter stitch. I'm all right with them as edging as they stop the fabric from rolling but as an all-around stitch, row after row, i just can't stand it. Soooo slow, and i have to fight to get the tip of the needle under the loop at every stitch... Guess would be less bad with a looser tension but i'm a tight knitter. So, for now, no garter stitch blankies and squares. I'll stick to lace :)

Like it: AC/DC. A couple of years back my brother and me asked our mum what kind of music did she listened to when she was our age. We both are no-mainstream, me liking heavy metal and world music and my bro liking punk, and we knew our dad liked pop-rock and she was in high school '72-76, in the height of abba and boney-m, so we wondered if it just us gone astray... Her answer: "Well, i liked stuff like ac/dc, led zeppelin and such". Both our jaws dropped. She grew like 4 inches in the eyes of my brother and we went "Ahaa!!! So it's a genetic thing. Not our fault!" Something genetic must be in it as our closest cousin - who is first cousin on both sides, yeah crazy family we are - is also into hard rock. Blame the parents :D

Like it not: i spent way too much money on yarn in the last two months. I barely bought anything in january and february, and now i'm falling over the other side of the horse (or what's the expression.) I think i spent between a hundred and hundred and fifty pounds. I dont wast to count it 'coz i'm afraid i'd end up something even closer to two hundred. At least i love all of them, everything i bought :)

Still dumb... - Még mindig...

Started a simple cardigan pattern. Instruction: Cast on 115 stitches. Using markers, that's 30 + 30 + 30 +15. Right? It was for me, for 5 cm of ribbing and another 8 rows of stocking st, at least. After that, I felt really really dumb. Have to take up crosswords or some logic-boosting thing before i sink into the level of a holstein-friesian.

Mooo.

Probably because of this (another...) failure, i led myself persuaded by my cousin K and cousin-in-law C to go with them to a club after the pub instead of going home. I dressed deliberately casually, jeans and training shoes, as the clubs here all have dress-code. Unfortunately for me the other two wasn't too dressed up either plus the place wasn't full so they let me in too. Before i knew what's happening i was paying the 6 pounds entry and got to the edge of the dancefloor... Luckily the bar was nearby too. It turned out quite nicely though, somehow i found the don'give a damn rocker in me and even the music couldn't bother. We had a funny evening, girls night out while my other cousin was babysitting his daughter at home :D
And thank god - or whoever invented it - for the green tea. ;)

Butulok - Dumbing down

Mert 8x6 az 32. Aha. A sok szivacs az oka, egyszerűen kiszívják az ember agyát... Még jó hogy a két kollégám se jutott többre, a thai csaj nem tud angolul számolni, a lengyel meg lengyelül se :)

Vasárnap meg voltunk moziban és vettünk leckét sárkány-edzésből. Nagggyon tetszett, C-nek nem annyira pedig miatta mentünk, négy felnőtt a három és fél évessel (jó kifogás). Moost vana Miért? korszakban és rendszeresen ez a válasza bármit mond neki az ember. Balszerencséréjére az anyukája profi a csattanós, gyors válaszokban, mi meg próbálunk nem röhögni :) Mos is volt egy jó párbeszédük: a film nézése helyett a pótülőkéjével játszott, háttal a vászonnak.
- C, gyere, nézd leesett a kisfiú.
- Mért? - Fel se nézve.
- Mert nem figyeltél.
Na erre fölkapta a fejét és kikukucskált. De attól tartok a málnaszörp tetszett neki a legjobban az egész mozizásban.

Spring, sunshine, horse racing - and the dark clouds - Tavasz, napsütés, lóverseny - és a sötét felhők

I was working this morning, first overtime in ages or at least months. I hope this means the company is going up :) Same for the weather, sunshine and blossoming trees in abundance, plus my cousin's wife and daughter are arriving at the afternoon so it looks to be a very nice weekend.
Yesterday we had a little betting game at the workplace too. Today's the Grand National - horse race - and the managers cut up a start list, and for a bet of one pound, you get to pick a horsename and if your horse wins, you take all 40 pounds. I was working with two of the chinese womens and their faces just lit up when the boss said the last bit :D "Yeah, we want to win all the money!!" :D And then we spent half an hour laughing at the horse names. Mine is #20, Snowy Morning - this one's more on the cute rather then on the funny side, and as i watched quite a lot of ski and snowboard lately it seemed sort of appropriate. The funniest name was "Comply or Die" i think, this one got the most laughs.

On the more serious side, i saw a piece of news printed out and handed around by the polish people at teabreak but only saw the title. That was around 10 am so it only talked about a plane crash involving the polish president. Now i read the whole article about the tragedy and feel so sorry for all the polish people. May those people who served their country rest in peace. So many great people had died, i guess the whole country is in shock.

Just a sidenote though - i dearly hope this won't cause diplomatic problems, and it was "just" a mechanical failure or pilot problem, not something more sinister. There's sooo much going on already right now, with all the elections: both Hungary and the UK will held parliamentary elections in may; and the "unrest" - what a stupid word for near-civil-war-like situations - Kyrgizistan and Thailand too, i have thai collegues too - everyone's going to be miserable now that spring is here?!

Ok heads up, i'm 27 rows away from finishing my aeolian shawl and relatives are coming and the sun shines :)

Just look at the date - Milyen nap is van?

I clicked on wikipedia to check out the news for today and read: "A Japanese multinational conglomerate (headquarters pictured) investigates how some of its customers were accidentally sent back in time to the year 1999. " I said what, and read again, maybe i just mis-translated something... then i remembered what day is :) I love wikipedia on this day :D
And i'm getting better, last year i browsed through most of the page and was totally confused before realizing what's going on. Hehe :)