  What a life.  I'm almost certainly going to be let go either this week or next,  and,  with the Mate unemployed as of three weeks ago,  we're in deep,  deep trouble.
 See,  this is what happens when your blood family decides it needs to fall apart;  nobody to help me!  But my family by choice,  urlLink Kitten ,  urlLink RtW ,
 and my urlLink Clan ( Scottish,  not KKK,  people!  are there for me,  and we'll be ok.
 On good news,  I've learned to use my sewing machine,  thanks to urlLink Kitten .  I made a urlLink teddy bear !  Purple and green plaid,  lumpy and bumpy and mine.
 Ok,  so he's a bit Frankenstine monsterish,  but he's mine and I love him.  I'll put a picture up for Mr.  Bear eventually.  Had a good time in general.
 Checked out the new LYS,  Anacapa Fine Yarns,  who's website apparently isn't in the Google search engine yet.  Neat store,  though small,  and has a nice variety of yarns,
 though heavy on the scarf yarn.  I don't blame her;  scarf yarn sells,  and a new store is hard enough to open.  Good news?  She's carrying urlLink Lambs Pride .
 Yes!  Bad news?  No urlLink Cascade 220 .  That's ok;  urlLink Rob and urlLink Matt at urlLink Threadbear are still my main suppliers,  I think.
 And once things get settled down over there and the Thready Bear project gets going,  I'll make Mr.  Bear a sweater.  I want to learn to do lace,  and I wanted to support the new store,  so I bought a magazine (
Interweave knits)  that has a simple lace pattern in it.  Madli's Shawl by Nancy Bush:  " Estonian lace in a shawl that's fun to knit.  We'll see about that.
 I know I can get free lace patterns on the web;  hell,  urlLink Wendy put together a urlLink page of them .  But I wanted to support my local store.  The mag also had two more things I want to do;  the "
Knot a Knitted Paper Bag"  and the " Fair Isle Bag"  both fun looking and things I would use.  Anyway,  urlLink Photobucket is down,
 so no pictures,  but I'll leave you with a Meme.  Gacked this from urlLink Marie Copy this list of literature classics ( or at least relatively agreed- upon canon,  regardless of how one defines a "
classic"  and embolden the ones you've read.  Seeing the movie doesn't count!  Like Marie,  I've read 25.  Strangely enough,
 ( or not)  it's a different 25.  The ones that are in italics I have read part of but not finished,  for whatever reason.  Edited to add:
 actually,  26.  I forgot that we read " A Tale of Two Cities"  in high school.  Beowulf Achebe,
 Chinua -  Things Fall Apart Agee,  James -  A Death in the Family Austen,  Jane -  Pride and Prejudice Baldwin,
 James -  Go Tell It on the Mountain Beckett,  Samuel -  Waiting for Godot Bellow,  Saul -  The Adventures of Augie March BrontÃ
 Charlotte -  Jane Eyre BrontÃ  Emily -  Wuthering Heights Camus,  Albert -  The Stranger Cather,
 Willa -  Death Comes for the Archbishop Chaucer,  Geoffrey -  The Canterbury Tales Chekhov,  Anton -  The Cherry Orchard Chopin,
 Kate -  The Awakening Conrad,  Joseph -  Heart of Darkness Cooper,  James Fenimore -  The Last of the Mohicans Crane,
 Stephen -  The Red Badge of Courage Dante -  Inferno de Cervantes,  Miguel -  Don Quixote Defoe,  Daniel -
 Robinson Crusoe Dickens,  Charles -  A Tale of Two Cities Dostoyevsky,  Fyodor -  Crime and Punishment Douglass,  Frederick -
 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Dreiser,  Theodore -  An American Tragedy Dumas,  Alexandre -  The Three Musketeers Eliot,  George -
 The Mill on the Floss Ellison,  Ralph -  Invisible Man Emerson,  Ralph Waldo -  Selected Essays Faulkner,  William -
 As I Lay Dying Faulkner,  William -  The Sound and the Fury Fielding,  Henry -  Tom Jones Fitzgerald,  F.
 Scott -  The Great Gatsby Flaubert,  Gustave -  Madame Bovary Ford,  Ford Madox -  The Good Soldier Goethe,
 Johann Wolfgang von -  Faust Golding,  William -  Lord of the Flies Hardy,  Thomas -  Tess of the d'Urbervilles Hawthorne,
 Nathaniel -  The Scarlet Letter Heller,  Joseph -  Catch 22 Hemingway,  Ernest -  A Farewell to Arms Homer -
 The Iliad Homer -  The Odyssey Hugo,  Victor -  The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hurston,  Zora Neale -  Their Eyes Were Watching God Huxley,
 Aldous -  Brave New World Ibsen,  Henrik -  A Doll's House James,  Henry -  The Portrait of a Lady James,
 Henry -  The Turn of the Screw Joyce,  James -  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kafka,  Franz -  The Metamorphosis Kingston,
 Maxine Hong -  The Woman Warrior Lee,  Harper -  To Kill a Mockingbird Lewis,  Sinclair -  Babbitt London,
 Jack -  The Call of the Wild Mann,  Thomas -  The Magic Mountain Marquez,  Gabriel GarcÃ a -
 One Hundred Years of Solitude Melville,  Herman -  Bartleby the Scrivener Melville,  Herman -  Moby Dick Miller,  Arthur -
 The Crucible Morrison,  Toni -  Beloved O'Connor,  Flannery -  A Good Man is Hard to Find O'Neill,  Eugene -
 Long Day's Journey into Night Orwell,  George -  Animal Farm Pasternak,  Boris -  Doctor Zhivago Plath,  Sylvia -
 The Bell Jar Poe,  Edgar Allan -  Selected Tales Proust,  Marcel -  Swann's Way Pynchon,  Thomas -
 The Crying of Lot 49 Remarque,  Erich Maria -  All Quiet on the Western Front Rostand,  Edmond -  Cyrano de Bergerac Roth,  Henry -
 Call It Sleep Salinger,  J. D.  -  The Catcher in the Rye Shakespeare,  William -
 Hamlet Shakespeare,  William -  Macbeth Shakespeare,  William -  A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare,  William -
 Romeo and Juliet Shaw,  George Bernard -  Pygmalion Shelley,  Mary -  Frankenstein Silko,  Leslie Marmon -
 Ceremony Solzhenitsyn,  Alexander -  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Sophocles -  Antigone Sophocles -  Oedipus Rex Steinbeck,  John -
 The Grapes of Wrath Stevenson,  Robert Louis -  Treasure Island Stowe,  Harriet Beecher -  Uncle Tom's Cabin Swift,  Jonathan -
 Gulliver's Travels Thackeray,  William -  Vanity Fair Thoreau,  Henry David -  Walden Tolstoy,  Leo -
 War and Peace Turgenev,  Ivan -  Fathers and Sons Twain,  Mark -  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Voltaire -  Candide Vonnegut,
 Kurt Jr.  -  Slaughterhouse- Five Walker,  Alice -  The Color Purple Wharton,
 Edith -  The House of Mirth Welty,  Eudora -  Collected Stories Whitman,  Walt -  Leaves of Grass Wilde,
 Oscar -  The Picture of Dorian Gray Williams,  Tennessee -  The Glass Menagerie Woolf,  Virginia -  To the Lighthouse Wright,
 Richard -  Native Son 
