G. Knerd

I’m super behind on a lot of things lately, not least of which is this blog.  As it turns out, when you decide to do three major home improvement projects in a week, it ends up being three weeks of working on said projects at every spare moment.  Actually, technically I’m still not done, but what’s left is mostly cosmetic and I’ve been putting it off.

Just as I was finishing up the home improvement, though, I had a concert run with my choir which took up all of my spare time for another week.  And since The Blanket Thief proposed in May and we’re planning on getting married in September there’s plenty of stuff to do and worry about in that area as well.  Not to mention, work continues to be extreme.

All of which is a long run up for my apology for not posting as often as I should.  I swear, I’ll try to post more often…in fact, to that end I’ve installed an app on my phone that claims I’ll be able to post from anywhere.  If you’re reading this, apparently it works.

Next post to contain an actual picture of the Wedding Blanket – I’m almost 15% done with the second panel!

Things have been a bit…er…hectic around here lately.  A few months ago, I got the brilliant idea that I would take a week off of my real job that people pay me to do and spend the time doing Home Improvement tasks.  (The capitalization is important, for that’s the scale of the improvements we’re talking.)  Not to be satisfied with simply painting the walls or cleaning the house (Cleaning?  Seriously?  Have we met?), I instead opted for painting the cabinets, refinishing the stairs, and retiling the shower.  It’s worth keeping in mind, for those who haven’t actually been to my house, that there is one shower/bath combo, one staircase, and the door opens to the middle of the stairs (so it’s not like you can just live out of the bottom floor for a few days, because it’s not possible to leave the house then).  And, as if it weren’t crazy enough that I wanted to do all three of these things, I decided that I would just get them all over with and do them at once.

Yeah, apparently you’re not supposed to do that.  Funny how no one told me that until after I’d destroyed my entire house.

The way the Blanket Thief tells his friends about it is to say that I’ve taken away his ability to feed himself, walk through his own house, or bathe himself.

Also, that week I took off work?  Ended Monday, and (surprise!) not one of the projects is done yet.  I have high hopes that, eventually, at least one of these projects will drop off the radar (either by being finished [preferable] or by being “good enough”).  In theory, I should be able to shower by Saturday, at least.

It might occur to you that none of this has anything to do with knitting.  You’re very astute.

Eventually, I think people will probably wonder: What does “G. Knerd” mean, anyway?  I could let it be a mystery, but I don’t think it’s a very good one, and I’d rather save those mystery credits for stuff that’s actually worth the suspense.

G. Knerd is short for Gnittink Knerd.  “Gnittink” is really just “Knitting” spelled backwards.  At the time I came up with the name, I was unreasonably tickled by the idea that the word “Knitting” would be a palindrome if you just left off the first and last letters.  We’ll not speak of how much time I spent giggling as I tried to explain it to my friends – there’s good evidence that maybe I shouldn’t try to name things, especially late at night.

So that explains the “G.” part, but the “Knerd”?  Well, at the same time I was giggling about the “Knitting” becoming “Gnittink” thing, I also started thinking about how “Knitting” starts with a ‘K’, but it’s a silent ‘K’…and how often do you see a silent ‘K’, anyway?  And then I thought about how I was really a nerd (no, really, have been for a very long time, and proud of it), and I thought to myself, “Well, wouldn’t it be neat if I added a silent ‘K’ to “nerd” as well?  It wouldn’t change the pronunciation, but it would make it kind of awesome.”  (Yes, I know, I shouldn’t be put in charge of naming things.)

And thus was “G. Knerd” created.  I’ve used the persona a couple times here or there, I’m on Ravelry with it (although I don’t spend much time there), I’ve tried experimenting with blogging with it before (with minimal success, mostly due to lack of time and  proper camera equipment), but I’ve never really commited.

Until now.  I’m going to do this blogging thing for real this time.

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