I have a love/hate relationship with Sundays. Hate, first, because I get total Monday-blues; but love - I speak to Charlene and Hugo on most Sundays, and get to relax with Ian watching 24 or playing Warcraft.
And that was nerd-revelation number one: Warcraft.
Yes. I know. It gets worse.
It's revelation time. You already know I cross stitch, but it's about to get even grannier in here people: I'm going to learn how to crochet.
The fabulous Craftzine blog pointed me to a post at Crazy Daisies, where Heather is going to run a crochet tutorial come Tuesday, updated weekly. I've gone and invested in the proper kit (if the actual process is half as fun as the shopping was, then AWESOME), which you can see below:
Yarn
Needles
Tape measure
All packed away in a box to keep Ian from strangling me with lilac yarn in my sleep.
So come Tuesday it's all go! Very excited about this - it's something my mum never taught me and I've been seeing small crafty projects that I'd love to start, but I just don't have the skills in a lot of cases. I want to brush up on a lot of things I once knew and haven't touched in ages: knitting, machine sewing, lino-cut and printing, loads; it's a good start.
In a very progressive step of self-acceptance, I'm telling you this. In an equally big jump back, I'm not importing the posts on this blog as notes on Facebook anymore - I think I can deal with you nerdy blog-reader types knowing the real, secret, cardigan-loving person I am, but I'm not sure that girl I worked with once two years ago and don't quite remember really needs to know all this. So, uh, half self-accepting then.
So anyway, here's Hugo after I told him I play Warcraft and am learning to crochet:
(Loving Charlene's "who IS this kid?" face!)
This is a 
I crochet! I do not cross stitch and I do not play this Warcraft thing that you speak of. So, yep, I'm probably a nerd :-) I also can knit, but I like to crochet much better. It's easier for me to find dropped stitches.
And yes, the actual crocheting is at least twice the fun as the shopping for the yarn and goodies.
Together in nerdiness :-)
Woo hoo! UNITE!
Oh my word that's so cool. I love crafty things but suck at them - I'm the only person in this universe that picks up stitches when she tries to knit. When I tried to knit a jersey it was a waist 6 and a shoulder 16 - beautiful! I decided to reinvent the slouch top fad!
If you're feeling REALLY patient you can try and teach my school-for-the-gifted ass how to crochet (such an urge to pronounce it as CROTCH-IT!)
Look forward to seeing your crafty wares on show xJen
I thinking you might be turning into Pix.
I hate sundays. They are the biggest waste of a day. You're caught between the come down of the saturday night and the pending doom of monday. I don't think their could be a worse day of the week if I tried. (although sundays when not single were not quite as bad so their might be something else going on)
I'm not Pix I'm me! But hey, the more nerds the merrier.
I think you think that people in relationships never do anything else than 'something else', Ade :)
Actually by something else I honestly just meant stuff like watching tv, cooking dinner, going to the movies or just having someone else to be with.
Honestly, I swear.