I’ve dropped 4 stitches now. It’s weird doing it on purpose. Especially because this yarn doesn’t want to drop. Go figure.
I love the colours, they’re what originally drew me to the yarn. It’s all sorts of blues and greens and it reminds me of BC and the ocean and all the green grass and tress. There’s not much green here. It’s a bit sad. Living downtown, I at least don’t have to look at the country around here. It’s beautiful in its own way, but I’m used to seeing the ocean, or forests, or just something GREEN. Here, you have the Rockies on one side, which yes, are spectacular, but not the ocean. And on the other sides it’s basically flat as far as you can see. I know when I was in Banff, right in the middle of the mountains, the views were amazing, but I did feel boxed in.
It’s a bit of the same feeling with all the skyscrapers, but at least I can’t see the endless brown landscape. I can at least pretend there’s green out there. I can’t quite pretend I’m back in on the coast though, there’s no salty sea smell, and also no green trees. Even downtown in Victoria or Vancouver there’s green. Not that I don’t like it here, it’s just different.

It’s just the right type of knitting for me right now, I have barely any free time, and I need something simple. Today is my day off for the week, so I’m just going to sit and knit and watch TV. And oh, is there plenty of TV to be watched.

We rented two movies last weekend, and haven’t finished either. We have Strings, which is AMAZING. We started it, but were both so tired, we dozed off. This is in no way a reflection on the movie though. There is also Joyeux Noel, which I can’t wait to watch, even if it isn’t Christmas anymore. I think the movie is about more than Christmas.

And then there’s all the Christmas/Boxing Day DVDs. As I’ve said, I have all 11 seasons of MASH + the movie. We also bought Season 1 of the new Doctor Who, I have the Princess Bride to watch, there’s Deadwood on my computer, I bought Patrick Dead Like Me season 1 and we’ve been watching that… so many.

Oh, and if you haven’t seen Heroes, WATCH IT NOW. OMG, SO GOOD. We’ve watched all 11 episodes of that in the past few days, and it is a great show. Of course, now we have to wait for them to start airing again. January 22nd, my friends.

So I think that even though I have 1 day off a week (and 5 12 hour days a week) for all of this month, I think Clapotis may have a chance of being finished.