Maroon 2
Today I went to spend the Christmas money I’d got from Dad and a lottery ticket (the one where you scratch to find 3 same sums of money or three Xs or Os in a row — I’ve never won big, but this time I got 23,50 € which I think is better than nothing).
I bought myself some new clothes (the main reason I dragged myself to the centre). Three tops of which two are actually the same but in different colours (yes, the other really is non-black!). One is a cheat shirt because it looks like there’s a white collared shirt underneath but actually there are only the collar and cuffs sown to the sweater. Spares me the annoyance of layered long-sleeved clothes and doesn’t look too boring. The sweater and the other non-black shirt are dark red or maroon, something like that. Not very me-like, but maybe I’ll live.
I also bought Poets of the Fall CD (Signs of Life). I don’t usually like Finnish bands, so because I like this one I had to buy the CD. I also got Storm of the Century and Big Fish DVDs. They were 2 for 20 €, so after I’d found Storm of the Century (a Stephen King movie, what else), I wanted to find another. I haven’t seen Big Fish but Ewan McGregor is in it; it can’t be too bad.
This I’ve knitted myself
The heel is kinda odd because I misunderstood the instructions but I’m making another pair (this time knee high) and I’m doing it properly now.
I don’t understand knitting blogs, though. They’re really big in Finland at least. In case you’re interested — which I truly hope you’re not — I’ve finished perhaps 15% of the first knee-high sock. How thrilling.
Happy Winter-een-mas!!!
[Update Jan 14 ’06] At Vera’s request, I present: the almost-knee high sock
I didn’t have the patience to go on with the leg part. 
It’s more deformed than the short sock because I had to start with more stitches (loops) and improvise the rest. [/update]
How is that PotF album?
I only have a few complete songs, but I think they’re okay. Signs of Life sounds familiar; is “Illusion & Dream” on there?
I guess that was easy enough to look up… I do have a few songs from that album. The way you said it, I thought it was a new album.
Oh, I noticed you had “The Longest Journey” in your Finished list, but it wasn’t a favorite. How did you like it? The sequel, “Dreamfall” is due out in Spring and I’m kinda starved for adventure.
Yeah “unfortunately” it was only Poets of the Fall’s old album. I had listened to the songs quite a while and because I like them so much, I wanted to get the CD.
Thanks for letting me know about the sequel to Longest Journey! I hadn’t heard about Dreamfall.
I should check that Finished list. I often forget to add games to it
I think Longest Journey was alright. I’m not very good at “collect and combine” games which is probably why it isn’t marked favourite. Unfortunately the ending didn’t work on my computer for some reason. I remember it was quite a long game, too?
Oh yeah, I saw the Vampire Masquerade: Redemption at a store but the box said it doesn’t work on XP. I have to do a little research if it could work with the compatibility mode because I’d really like to play it.
Ooo.. cool :)! Wow, you got quite a bit of stuff hehe =].
nice knitting! I never had lessons on it.. it seems fun too .. maybe I should do that in my spare-time (if I have any these days).
the colour is nice =] what colour is the knee-high sock? =D
The knee high sock will be the same colour — I bought too much of it! I already finished the 1st knee high sock and I haven’t even finished the first “ball” of yarn yet. I don’t know what I’ll do next. I don’t think I want a third pair of socks…
=O that’s cool =).
Do you have any pictures of the finished product? I would love to see =D!
LOL. hmm.. maybe do some mittens or a hat? ; ) (depends on how much ball of yarn you have left xD!)