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[kittydesade]

So, I went to McKay's today, which turned out to be kind of a mistake and kind of an awesome thing as usual. I stayed under budget! I did not get the fucking Sandman vol 3 from the ... whatever editions, the ones with full color rainbow spines? that I saw on the shelf because I thought I had it, and it turned out that was the one that I thought I had that went missing somewhere along the line and now I'm kicking myself because do you know how hard it is to get a fucking complete Sandman unless you buy it all at once? VERY VERY FUCKING HARD.

So there's that, but mostly I came away satisfied. And then I got home and looked at my mess of a bookshelf and went no this won't do, and started wiping everything down, reshelving it, alphabetizing, and figuring out what could be turned into used bookstore credits. A partial list of the weird shit I found on my bookshelf now that I've gone looking through it again:

An 80 year old collected Shakespeare
An indeterminate old complete Shakespeare that as far as I can tell dates back somewhere between 80 and 110 years old. Um. (This is when my brain turns into Indiana Jones and starts screaming IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM.)
Multiple copies of the Satyricon O.o
The Golden Bough I thought I didn't have and failed to get
A whole bunch of Terry Pratchett and Tad Williams I'd put on my Kindle Wishlist apparently because I wanted them in digital rather than dead tree form. Huh.
A shitload of dust that is still up my nose
Way more folk tale books than I thought I had. The predictable areas, though. Western Europe. The British Isles. Grimm.
My grandmother's old Russian textbooks. Anyone want some REALLY OLD Russian textbooks?

I also have plans, okay, more immediate push for plans of another floor to ceiling bookshelf. At least. And possibly we'll knock off the chair rail upstairs too and put on that bookshelf so that the gaming books have a place to live that isn't so ugly. Actually, given that I did clear three shelves on the non-fiction shelf due to moving a lot of the hardbacks upstairs and the ancient falling apart French architectural oversized books (they really need to be restored but ahahahahahahah with what money) the gaming books can probably get their shelf first, and then the one in the office. Look, I like me some floor-ceiling bookshelves, what can I say.

So. Now I've got a shitton to read before I go searching down the rest of my wish list. Let's see how long that resolution lasts. Heh.

The house is still a wreck. Needs cleaned. Something we'll work on over the course of the week, I guess, and onto next weekend. Now that I still have far fewer deadlines to try and meet. At least, the ones that aren't self-imposed, and even those can be extended. Self. Do you hear me? (Of course I don't hear me, I'm going to freak out about deadlines and meeting them anyway.)

ETA: Okay, so as winter comes on slowly and inexorably I thought I wanted a Ravenclaw bathrobe. Now I realize what I actually want is a Ravenclaw smoking jacket. So much more glamorous for lounging around and reading. I mean, I also want a bathrobe too, because it'd probably be warmer, but still.

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[recessional]

...damn now I want a Ravenclaw cardigan.

[kittydesade]

There is a serious dearth of Hogwarts House clothing for those of us who want to play pretend in a less shiny and loud fashion, I feel.

I mean, I suppose one could look for the right color scheme and sew on a patch or two if one were so inclined. But still. You'd think someone would have tried to make money off of this by now.

[untonuggan]

There's a magazine of knitting patterns (Unofficial Harry Potter Knits) that had a big dust-up because it's unlicensed. I think they renamed it for a bit to something surely-it's-not-Harry-Potter, and it looks like now it's only available in the US? Though there are a number of Harry Potter patterns on Ravelry; mostly there's no take-down issue as long as you're not making tons of money on them...

[kittydesade]

We had that one in the store! I missed the dust-up though, eek. I've been looking through the Rav ones, about half of them are for scarves.

[untonuggan]

I have it, but a lot of the patterns are pretty but not things I'd actually knit? Like, "too complicated for where my brain is right now" or "hahahhahaha I'm not knitting a sweater in sock weight I tried that and nooope not ever happening" or "that is cute but I would never wear it."

In terms of shiny fantasy-related patterns that I want to knit (but whyyyy did I pack the book already whyyyy), look very doable, but is not directly HP-related, I am very excited about Woodland Knits. The designer also has some fun-stand-alone patterns on Rav...I think they did the beekeepers' quilt too that was really popular a couple years ago? Not sure. Also also, there are patterns that designer did for Hogwarts charm bracelets. Just saying. On Rav.

[kittydesade]

A lot of that magazine's patterns end up either complicated or "you want me to knit how many yards of yarn ahahahahah" or both. Magazine, magazine company? Something, we got a Downton Abbey knits, too.

I shall have to check out that designer! I mean, first I really really need to get some things off needles. But then I shall check out that designer, thanks. :D

[longmagpieroads]

Downton. Abbey. Knits.


...pretty sure I just heard all of my knitting people go NOPE really loudly in my general direction.

[kittydesade]

Downton Abbey Knits. Including at least one overblouse/cardigan type thingie done in lace-weight yarn. Many many hundreds of yards of it. SO MUCH NOPE.

[longmagpieroads]

so shiny, so much nope.

[longmagpieroads]

Smoking jacket. YES.

I would be fine with a Ravenclaw or Slytherin one. *nods* I'm still looking for an actual decent dressing gown to lounge about in, but that smoking jacket could serve same purpose.

:-)

[kittydesade]

We can blame the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes-es for my fascination with smoking jackets. Apparently that makes me a srs intellectual. I want one.

;-)

[longmagpieroads]

We need them for Dragon*Con next year.

[kittydesade]

.... hosting writing seminars in Ravenclaw smoking jackets? I would be so there for that.

[longmagpieroads]

We should definitely Do The Thing.

[kittydesade]

I shall tell my mother that for Christmas I would like a blue and (silver? bronze? are we going with book or movie colors?) smoking jacket. I bet we can even find a pipe somewhere to pretend to smoke.

[longmagpieroads]

I'm good with either movie or book colors. You pick.

I will have to add that to the christmas/birthday list myself. ;)

[kittydesade]

Let's see what options are more readily and inexpensively available in smoking jackets! I mean the bathrobe has the movie insignia, but that's the bathrobe, which strikes a whole different note. XD

[longmagpieroads]

Ravenclaw Arthur Dent?

[kittydesade]

..... so what I'm hearing is next year we cosplay Ravenclaw Arthur Dent and Gryffindor? Hufflepuff? Ford Prefect.

[longmagpieroads]

I can't decide which one is better for Ford. LOL.

[kittydesade]

We've got until next year, plenty of time to decide! Whoever has the biggest shoulders, which might be Ali, gets to be Zaphod Beeblebrox, because extra head.

[longmagpieroads]

Hee. Or Mike.

[kittydesade]

... I would like to hear this conversation wherein you convince him to be Zaphod Beeblebrox in a Harry Potter bathrobe teaching a writing seminar.

[longmagpieroads]

I doubt I could (Aaron would do it but Aaron would do it mostly to screw with Mike LOL) but it's fun to imagine.

[kittydesade]

Oh yes. Yes it is.

I'm still going to look for that smoking jacket and pipe and possibly bits of a suit to tailor so I can be a Ravenclaw gentlelady of leisure.

[longmagpieroads]

that would be awesome. I think I might try and do something similar.