So whatcha think about this? I ordered a vanity plate.
I KNOW!
I live in California, and it’s the ultimate cliche. (Okay, I already have one, but now that I’m so excited about my new one, I’m going to get rid of WRTRGAL. That’s too much of a mouthful. And everyone thinks it reads WaterGal. They stand in parking lots and yell, “Hi, WaterGal!” I’m over that. And it feels a little (a lot) pretentious.)
But the new one? Hold on, you’re gonna love it:
IYARN
Get it? Get it?
Yarn = Fiber.
Yarn = Tale.
I KNOW you don’t need to be told that. But I like to spell it out.
It’s so silly, I know, and it’s doing the Great Grammar Wrong of verbing a noun (like I just did again). It amuses me, though, and ain’t that the point?
I yarn. Why, yes. Yes, I do.
Working on a Koigu sock (thanks, boys!) that I gotta get finished as a last-minute gift, and I’ve started fiddling around with another cardie — gonna design this one myself. Nothing special, but it feels good to finally be working without a pattern. That’s been my goal for a long, long time, to make a sweater using nothing but my tape measure and some multiplication tables. It’ll probably turn out crap, but it’s nice to play. (And even cooler, for the first time EVER, I remembered to take in all the skeins I hadn’t used in my last couple of projects, and after they were cashed in, this new sweater yarn cost me twelve dollars!)
Happy Sunday! It’s a good, shiny, rainy life.
Love IYARN! Did you read Wendy when she had a knitters’ license plate contest? She got so many she had to draw for a winner. Yours makes me think a little bit of YEARN is in there too, but I may be projecting. Reminds me of a fellow INFP/poet friend who has WNDRER and is happy for it to connote wonderer and wanderer . . .
Of course Rufus loved your sweater! How could he not? So glad the sisters are reunited, and I look forward to watching your progress on yet another sweater!
LURVE it…can’t WAIT to see the designed by RACHAEL sweater….I’m first in line for the published pattern y’hear?
I’m knee deep in tissue paper and the cats are LOVIN it…what a zoo.
Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Your sweet support means SO much.
spin those yarns, darlin’
OK, it’s Monday morning, and look what I missed over the weekend! I am in LOVE with your ribby cardie! The colours look fantastic on you, and it fits perfectly! Congratulations! I’d be wearing that every day if I were you. Oh, except that I’d also want to wear every other awesome sweater you’ve made. Also, I’m coveting your evening with the darling Rufus.
IYARN! Hilarious. Was YARNGAL taken? I actually did think “Water Gal” when I first read your other one. And thought, “Huh?”
Oh, I love it! If I had a car, I’d be totally jealous of those plates!
It took me a minute to figure out what a vanity plate is. 🙂 It is very fun!
Awesome plate Rachael 🙂 If I were to see the plates I would think, “Now there is a cool chick!” And of course I would try to SEE who the cool chick was.. And if you noticed I would wave, mouth “Hey you are one cool chick!!” 😉 Wondering if you will get any of that 🙂
That is so cool that you are designing your own cardie! I’ll look forward to seeing it!
Monday and a couple of music-related poems on Poetry Daily made me think of you. Happy Monday! Check them out at http://www.poems.com/today.htm
The second one is a villanelle . . .
I lived in Kansas for a while and I got a vanity plate there too. It was only $35. Mine said “AACR2” which is only meaningful to librarians, as it is the acronym for a very essential cataloging manual. Nobody ever got it.
When my boyfriend and I were first together, he went on a long tirade about how vanity plates were about the stupidest most horrible thing a person could have. See how he changed his mind on that?
Enough about me…IYARN is totally awesome!
I *LOVE* “IYARN.” It’s perfect. Perfect!
Why is it that seemingly everyone in California has vanity plates? Rhode Island too, or maybe it’s just that everyone *I* knew from RI had one. I love yours, and I don’t think verbing a noun is so bad, as long as you recognize you’re doing it. Although I prefer “verbifying”.