My first memory of wool was when I was little, maybe five or six, my mom brought home a garbage bag full of hideously filthy wool, with ticks & sticks & hay. We sat down to card it, while we watched the Wizard of Oz, which I was seeing for the first time. I loved the feel of lanolin, I thought the wool was a mite stinky though. In college I picked up spinning. In my final year of getting my masters degree, listening to three hour lectures, I took spinning up again. In my second to last quarter, I bought my early graduation present to myself -- a spinning wheel. I find it soothing. I love listening to the whirr of the flyer, the rhythmic motion of the treadle, and watching something come together out of something so unlikely as loose fibers. I do knit, mostly because I have to get rid of the stuff I spin so I can spin some more. I can crochet, but I like the double sticks. I don't know why, really. As some around me might say I guess that's just "how I roll."

I've been playing guitar since I was about 12.   I learned to play on my mom's classical guitar.  For my 15th birthday, my parents bought me a steel-string dreadnaught (is that redundant?  It might be!).   I played whatever I could get my hands on/mind around.   I took classical guitar for two years when I was 17 & 18.  I played with friends in college.  After I graduated, my playing dwindled off.  I'm very pleased to say though that in the last year that I have started playing again.  In September '06 I started, from the very beginning, with classical guitar again.  I love to play other stuff when I have other people -- it's a community thing for me.   But classical is all for me, to me, my own. 

• LiveJournal -- this has the same content as My Beeswax here, although I do have friends only locked posts as well there.

• MySpace -- I started this to get in touch with a friend from high school.  I'm so glad to have her in my life again, but I don't really maintain it.

• LibraryThing -- this is by no means a complete listing of my collection.  I try to remember to add stuff to it, but frankly, the thought of adding everything is kind of overwhelming... being a librarian-type, I have a ridiculous amount of books.

• Flickr -- this has a different selection of pictures than my gallery.  I keep both the gallery on this site & the stuff on flickr kind of rotating.  Honestly, I'm uncomfortable in front of cameras & have spent a good part of my life without a camera.  I love my digital camera now, but I still frequently forget to take pictures, or upload pictures, etc, etc.

• del.icio.us -- randomly collected bookmarks.

• Bloglines -- stuff I read regularly, occasionally, and in-between.

• The Husband's LiveJournal -- do I really need to detail this?