As you can probably imagine, I wouldn’t exactly call myself a Hootie fan. Nonetheless, I can’t resist their cover of R.E.M.’s “Driver 8″, even if they do butcher the words, which they do. Were I a cynic, I’d say it’s just the song. I’m not a cynic. Not usually.

Anyway.

We’re back from Portland. I gotta say, my husband takes care of me. I want an ethernet cable, I get an ethernet cable. I want relaxing, I get relaxing. I want yarn, I get yarn. I didn’t get much yarn this time. I didn’t come close to finishing the Besotted Scarf. I don’t have a whole lot of time for knitting right now. Or beading, for that matter, but that didn’t stop me at Dava. Portland’s craft resources knock me down.

Speaking of yarn, I came home to my second care package from my One Skein Secret Pal. The lass is spoiling me rotton.

I did come home with a lot of stationary, though, because I’m sick of not having an appropriate notecard when I need to lay my hands on one. Red Horseshoe Paper has a new fan.

Let’s see. The Chemistry Set has a Livejournal feed here.

I’m not looking forward to the rest of my week. I should probably get some sleep so that I can deal.

In other news, I need some red crushed velvet. And a little bit of elastic.

I got my Secret Pal 8 buddy today, so I’m wondering if someone has me yet. There’s a questionnaire to answer and post. I’ve made a separate page for my answers, so as to not scare off the disinterested with a lengthy post on, well, yarn and the other odd crafty bit.

If you’re interested, you can read it here.

So, there’s this swaps thing. Believe it or not, I try to keep the crafting talk around here somewhat reigned in, as I know there are a lot of not-crafters who read this. But I’ll be participating in a couple of swaps soon, and swaps require blog participation so that one’s secret buddy can do their research. So there will be some swaps-related posts flying around here and there in the coming months. Non-swappers and comics nerds, please bear with me, I love you.

Secret Pal 8