I have finally figured out how to copy the URL to May's earworm playlist. It struck me after talking to someone the other day that not everyone knows what an earworm is. An earworm is a song that randomly gets stuck in your head. It's fun if you can infect someone with a tune.
It's here on Spotify if you fancied listening to it, It's just a record of the songs that seem to go through my head. I can't promise they'll always be traditionally earworm like (in other words, cheesy), but they are genuinely the songs that get stuck in my head.
As an aside, did you know that one of the most common earworms isWitchita Lineman by Glenn Campbell? Heh.
Incidentally, one of my own earworms probably comes from hearing all about Rebecca Brooks getting herself arrested for perverting the course of justice / phone hacking. The track is Paper Lies by Marillion. Of course :)
Just thought I would come and share. It's not complete yet, so come back and have a listen later on in the month if you fancy it.
Friday 18 May 2012
Thursday 17 May 2012
Oh dear
I keep on meaning to write here, but I get distracted. I am so busy these days. Work is utter, utter madness and it's doing it's best to totally send me a bit bonkers. I have moved to Nottingham with the fella, but am still working in Nottingham as I didn't manage to get the transfer I wanted. As work is thin on the ground, I couldn't just afford to jack in work, especially is the fella is a student nurse. So, it's a case of commute to work and college while looking for work.
I am keeping myself sane with a LOT of knitting and reading. I've been rereading the Robin Hobb books that I have. Only thing is, I left book 1 of The Liveship Traders at work on a Saturday and by the time I'd gone back in on a Wednesday after a bank holiday weekend, the book had gone and nobody claims to know where it is. I reckon it's been binned 'cause I can't find it and the bit where I'd left it had been tidied.
Grrr. I know it's my fault for leaving it there, but who would bin a book? Madness. I am taking a break from that while I figure out what happened to it and whether I'm going to get another copy, so am reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies instead.
I have visited a couple of yarn shops in Nottingham. The first, I went to a few weeks ago. It's less than a mile from my house and tiny. The lady who owns it seems awesome though. I may try and get to the knitting group she goes to once I've started work in Nottingham. The second, I found by accident as we were visiting one of the larger Tesco Express stores - we needed to top the fella's phone up (he's on Tesco mobile and if I buy the top up at a Tesco store, I can use my staff discount - £9 will buy him £40 worth of credit!). I spent a while chatting to the lady and it seems she's not long been open - 2 months or so. She's slowly building up stock, but she has a lot of the luxury yarns there. I ended up buying a skein of Fyberspates scrumptious laceweight in a dark blue / petrol colour. It's gorgeous but expensive. £15.95!, but then there are 1000 meters in the skein, so that's a really fabulous shawl.
I also have a mad idea to spin for a blanket. A round blanket. Using the exact same pattern that I'm using for my handspun shawl (Vortex, on Ravelry if you're interested). I was thinking that I'll do 8 different colours and do a section in each colour. We shall see though :)
I was also thinking that I seem to have this thing where I have at least 1 earworm a day and I thought it would be interesting to track them, so I am creating a playlist on Spotify that has all my earworms in for every month. Obviously, this month will be a shorter one as I started late, but I have had at least 3 songs meander through my brain today so we'll see. I note that I can share playlists via facebook and twitter, but I don't know if I can get a direct link for them so I can stick it here. Would be interesting though! I will share at the end of the month on Facebook and then see if I can get the direct link off there :)
In the meantime, I am off to make it up to the fella. Apparently I was shouting at him in my sleep last night but I have no recollection of this. Ooops. In my defence, apparently I was telling him to stop snoring. Seems legit to me though :)
I am keeping myself sane with a LOT of knitting and reading. I've been rereading the Robin Hobb books that I have. Only thing is, I left book 1 of The Liveship Traders at work on a Saturday and by the time I'd gone back in on a Wednesday after a bank holiday weekend, the book had gone and nobody claims to know where it is. I reckon it's been binned 'cause I can't find it and the bit where I'd left it had been tidied.
Grrr. I know it's my fault for leaving it there, but who would bin a book? Madness. I am taking a break from that while I figure out what happened to it and whether I'm going to get another copy, so am reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies instead.
I have visited a couple of yarn shops in Nottingham. The first, I went to a few weeks ago. It's less than a mile from my house and tiny. The lady who owns it seems awesome though. I may try and get to the knitting group she goes to once I've started work in Nottingham. The second, I found by accident as we were visiting one of the larger Tesco Express stores - we needed to top the fella's phone up (he's on Tesco mobile and if I buy the top up at a Tesco store, I can use my staff discount - £9 will buy him £40 worth of credit!). I spent a while chatting to the lady and it seems she's not long been open - 2 months or so. She's slowly building up stock, but she has a lot of the luxury yarns there. I ended up buying a skein of Fyberspates scrumptious laceweight in a dark blue / petrol colour. It's gorgeous but expensive. £15.95!, but then there are 1000 meters in the skein, so that's a really fabulous shawl.
I also have a mad idea to spin for a blanket. A round blanket. Using the exact same pattern that I'm using for my handspun shawl (Vortex, on Ravelry if you're interested). I was thinking that I'll do 8 different colours and do a section in each colour. We shall see though :)
I was also thinking that I seem to have this thing where I have at least 1 earworm a day and I thought it would be interesting to track them, so I am creating a playlist on Spotify that has all my earworms in for every month. Obviously, this month will be a shorter one as I started late, but I have had at least 3 songs meander through my brain today so we'll see. I note that I can share playlists via facebook and twitter, but I don't know if I can get a direct link for them so I can stick it here. Would be interesting though! I will share at the end of the month on Facebook and then see if I can get the direct link off there :)
In the meantime, I am off to make it up to the fella. Apparently I was shouting at him in my sleep last night but I have no recollection of this. Ooops. In my defence, apparently I was telling him to stop snoring. Seems legit to me though :)
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