Trash Towers Dictionary

a/c - art crap. CK's fond term for the means of assuaging my addictions.

BSD - Been Seen Done. Devised while travelling the Great Ocean Road on CK's first Australian trip. Every lookout point was as fabulous as the previous and we got a little bit magnificenced out so rather than pull in we would shout BSD and keep driving.

Now general usage for when a situation is over or beyond repair.

bob - noun. Princess Curly- Wurly's word meaning all sweets, chocolate and yummy things.

blurry - (pr. to rhyme with hurry) Sth African/Zimbabwean term and my favourite polite swearword. Means kind of like bloody but usuable in mixed company. See 'Feck' & 'Eejit'

eejit - Irish term meaning 'idiot'. Suitable for use in polite company. Used by my Aunt Marion.

feck - Irish term used by my Aunt Marion so it cannot be rude!

ho-ho -(pr. with a short o). Zimbabwean word for bugs.

lani - (sp?) Sthn African word - means posh, expensive, elegant, stylish.

La Villa de Lamaca - (translates from Ital. as The houseof snails. My 'green' house out in the garden with all my a/c (ref: above) stuff in it. Built by CK and Babyman for me. CK lost his fingerprints over it. I cannot actually get in there at the moment!

lubbard - derived from 'beloved'. Devised by my then two y.o. son b/c unlike his sister he could not say 'Mother Beloved'. Usually prefaced by a noun.

OfStEd - Office for Standards in Education. Bossy civil servants who would like to see every child in formal, full-time education from birth.

Q.I. - Quite interesting.

terence - sobriquet applicable to all small children. Originated with one 'borrowed' child who could not pronounce ' terrorist' .

TG - exclamation. Thank God! An interesting choice for the dictionary of a recovering Catholic but is a phrase used by my Irish family and is now deeply fixed in my conversational repetoire. (reference also PG - Please God).

TGTH - The Great Trip Home. Alt. known as 'How I spent Christmas and N.Y 2008.









Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Finishes Hitlist 2010

As was pointed out to me in the comments of the previous post BIG things are now expected on the finishing front. And to aid me in actually hitting my finish target I have constructed a hitlist.

1. Pink Quilt (begun 2009 with pieces courtesy Emma Scrapbag and Maria) - only binding required.
2.Picnic quilt. top all cut out and 3/4 pieced.
3. Travel quilt. top complete, need to identify and make back.
4. baktus scarf - halfwaythrough and Ihate it. pattern is fine but HATE the wool I am using. It is just yukky colours.
5.Christmas table runner Yay a finish!!
6. Birthday quilt - this is a joint effort but I received my first piece of fabric for it today - yippee!
7. 'Earth tones' and crinkled, buckled heavy linen quilt. 2/3 done, need to find binding and put it all together
8. Two (yes 2) pair of sock - 1/4 of the way there.
9. JeBoDan - knitted tiger. About 1/2 done and am loving him.

Obvbioulsy this list doesn't preclude any bouts of Startitis that may occur but will be pretty happy if in December I can see all of these crossed out. We shall see what eventuates.

11 comments:

wonderwoman said...

woa, thats quite a list - very exciting on the birthday quilt front!!! I'm too afraid to do my list yet - am gearing myself up to it!!

xxxx

Thimbleanna said...

That's a very ambitious list Trashy -- but I know you can do it -- you already have one great finish and it's only 2 weeks into the year!

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...

That's quite a busy list Trashy! The way things are going in Locketland I'll be pleased to get anything done! Me x

Moogsmum said...

Hooray for the sock progress! Your list looks about as daunting as mine - and I've added at least four projects to it since I wrote it.

Good luck and just think of how cosy you're going to be, snuggled up under all those quilts!!

xxx

Gina said...

I don't think I dare make a list of all my unfinished stuff... I've got a sweater still on needles that I must have started 30 years ago. Do you think it will have come back in fashion one day?

Frogdancer said...

My advice is to ditch number 4. If you don;'t love it then it's a waste of time. Just cut your losses and spend your time on things that you DO love.

My sewing machine is still not working properly. This time next week I'll be back at work and there's 4 quilts that I want to make.... (sob...)

Joy said...

Was the wool expensive for #4??? If not I'm with Frogdancer, get rid of it (would that count as a finish???? LOL). Big list Trashie, but I have every faith in you ;o).
Hugs,
Joy :o) ... who knit the first row on her first sock 6 months ago and hasn't looked at it since :o/.

Joanne said...

they say the first step is to acknowledge you have a problem... and go from there ;-)

冷淡 said...

Every why has a wherefore.........................................

Miss Jenn said...

Impressive!!!

lauren said...

i am LOVING the word "startitis"!!! i am prone to SERIOUSLY bad bouts of that!!! :)

ps: i already find your finish-rate--and scope of projects--MOST impressive...bordering on intimidating, actually. if you get to finishing EVERYTHING i will have to slink away quietly* and cry.


(*quietly for ME, i mean; let's face it the normal definition of that word is NEVER going to apply in my case!) :)