Conversations at home

[cjsmith]

Background: My sister-in-law knits. I do not.

Rob: [looking at mail] You got some kind of envelope or something.
Me: Um, that certainly narrows it down.
Rob: It's handwritten. It's from a person, not a company.
Me: I got mail from a person? Huh...
Rob: It's one of those yellow padded envelopes.
Me: ... OH I KNOW what that is! It's YARN!!
Rob: Like we really needed some of THAT.
Me: It's pretty. I'm going to give it to Rosemary.
Rob: [relieved] Oh, okay.

Heh. He had exactly the stereotypical reaction to yarn coming into the house... and he's not even partnered to a knitter. I could hear his eyes rolling from the next room. He and my brother should chat. :-)

Comments

[ame-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh it arrived! Do you like it? Do you think she will like it?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It arrived! I will open the envelope tonight!

Ooh fun!

[spindle-rose.livejournal.com]

He certainly did have the sterotypical reaction. You should have heard Dave's when I got home from Sock Camp after three (eek) visits to the camp store0.

Speaking of socks, I'm bringing two more pairs for you. These are two 100% wool pairs I knit for myself and then managed to shrink with not careful enough washing. Now they don't fit me, and you're the only adult I know with smaller feet than mine. It's more fun to hand them over to someone else than to try to figure out how to make them longer again.

Re: Ooh fun!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

EEEE! More SOCKS! I will, um, probably not wash them properly either, but I'm totally happy to take them and wear them until I goof. Thank you! And now you get some yarn in trade. Don't tell Dave. ;-) (kidding - he reads this, so it's too late)

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

If he were to talk to Eric or Paul, Rob would be saying "KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!"

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Them too? Y'know, there needs to be a club, a social group of probably-mostly-guys with this shared concern. :-) Rob can contribute his frustration with my quilting fabrics.

[juverna.livejournal.com]

*laughing* This post, plus the comments, says it all. Awesome. :)

In my house, the big Problem Purchase seems to be shoes. Girly shoes. Which, again -- so stereotypical (on both sides) that I'm a little embarrassed to even allude to it here.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*laughter* I'm spared the Girly Shoes issue myself, but I hear ya! It's a good thing we (on both sides of whichever issue) love our partners, isn't it? :-)

And now, for some reason, I'm reminded of a quote from Lance Armstrong's autobiography. He'd tell his then-wife not to do something-or-other stereotypically female, and she'd look back and say "Lance, marry a man." Perfect. :-)

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

YARNYARNYARNYARNYARN!!!!

I'm working on my first sock... I will overcome it...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I hear the challenge is to knit the second identical sock. Apparently that's less fun than knitting the first one. Me, I think knitters should go around wearing two completely different nifty socks. Why show off only one example at a time? :)

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

And the learning curve on sock #1 is, of course, much steeper, which definitely contributes to its, um, uniqueness.

I've learned lots of new vocabulary so far though: frogged and LYS, for two.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

What's LYS?

Me, I wonder how anyone can ever make two swatches the same size on different days. If I (re-)learned how to knit, I'd get one giant Christmas stocking and one little Barbie doll anklet.

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

Local yarn store (took me a number of iterations to figure that out)