Technology rocks!

Thank you to everyone who helped or at least offered to help me work through my blog questions. I just had to do a little more fiddling and I got things all straightened out.

My internet at home was broken tonight but I got adventurous and tried to fix it--going from moping on the couch and thinking how I could just go to bed early to importing all my old entries from my old blog in about 45 minutes. It was amazingly simple! I decided to look through my old posts a bit and it was like looking back through an old high school yearbook or something. Here are my favorite moments:

My first attempts at lace, or the good old days when I had enough empty space in my apartment to take a blog picture with no clutter blocking the light or crowding the subject.

Maniacally knitting up a skinny scarf for a ball where most people were way too drunk to even notice. I did love that Jetsons-esque hairstyle, though.

Then there was the life-changing Clapotis, which seems to have symbolically marked my transition from knitting awkward ugly things that either didn't fit or were totally impractical to being able to make things that I use and love!

Knitting my favorite socks on the southernmost and the northernmost islands of Japan all in one lucky summer!

..and lots more in the recent past that I'm not feeling nostalgic about yet.

New music!

Has everyone heard about Jack Johnson's new CD? Probably, since I am generally two steps behind when it comes to what is new and cool. But I just got a copy of this today and I'm loving it. Even though it is lullabyes for kids, Jack Johnson is great and he even covers my favorite White Stripes song, We're Going to be Friends (it plays at the beginning of Napoleon Dynamite, I think).

Bright colors!

The last item up for discussion is this Kureyon yarn, color #165, that I picked up in Tokyo a few months ago. My mom and I saw it crocheted up in a chevron scarf and we both thought it would be such a fun project to learn crochet. "You can find an easy crochet chevron pattern anywhere," my mom told me confidently. I quickly bought into that, got the right sized crochet hook and hopped (or rather dragged) home with my new finds. But I can't find a crochet chevron scarf pattern ANYWHERE. Am I missing out on some kind of secret crochet resource or something? I'm starting to think I might have to cave and just knit a scarf with it, so if anyone can point me in the direction of a good pattern (ahem, MUM?) please do.

That's all I've got for good things today. One not so good thing is that I have to be at work in the morning (Saturday). I might have been better off without the internet tonight!