vacation, all I ever wanted...

I think my dad has some Go-Gos albums (the actual vinyl!). I should try to talk him into making CDs of those for me.

Anyway, I'm only working two days this week, and then I'm on holiday from Wednesday, which is my birthday, until next Tuesday, since Memorial Day is conveniently on Monday.

I will be getting some projects off the needles (more pictures!), and probably casting on new ones because spring does that to me, and I may even venture to the nearby lake to do some public knitting to prep for World Wide Knit-in-Public Day in June. I will be catching up on Lime & Violet's podcasts (hey, I could put a bunch of those on my ipod to listen to at the lake, couldn't I?). I will re-listen to the latest podcast from Sticks and String because the yarn tour at the Sydney Easter Show with Sally was hilarious. I will be hopefully getting a manicure from my sister, and I'm having an odd urge for red hair color too - possibly from reading too many entries on Vickie Howell's blog, whose hair I love; and her crafts too, of course. I will get a bunch of reading finished. I may bake something and make something else in the crockpot all in the same day, or maybe over multiple days. And I have an acupuncture appointment in the middle of the day on Thursday.

And the thing that makes me take a big gulp and shudder and wince, besides my birthday, is sending my novel/thesis off to some agents. I want to do yet another revision on it, but that's likely just procrastination.

Who needs to actually travel anywhere with all of the above going on?

And since Joe-the-office-roomie already did a review of the new Star Trek movie, and he does those review thingys better than I do, I decided instead to point you to a flickr page of knit Shaun of the Dead dolls in honor of Simon Pegg who plays Scotty so well in ST.