Month: June 2006

High School Memories ……

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thank God for Maryse otherwise I’d have nothing!

Fill in the blanks about your senior year. The longer ago it was the better.

1. Who was your best friend?: Mary & Tina

2. What sports did you play?: no sports – I spun the rifle in the marching band. one time at band camp….

3. What kind of car did you drive?:My parent’s old wood paneled Ford LTD Station Wagon – with those flip up seats in the way back.

4. It’s Friday night, where were you at?: making out with my boyfriend, probably somewhere in Valley Forge Park.

5. Were you a party animal?: no. really!

6. Were you considered a flirt?: I don’t think so. maybe.

7. Ever skip school?: yes.

8. Ever smoke?: yes.

9. Were you a nerd?: I don’t think so, but probably very, very close.

10. Did you get suspended/expelled?: I am alive today aren’t I? If I had been expelled, my parents and grandmother would have killed me.

11. Can you sing the Alma Mater?: I don’t think there is/was one.

12. Who was your favorite teacher?: Ohhh, Mr. Rittenhouse. Way cool biology teacher. Mary, who had him for another class, and I used to leave each other notes wedged up underneath the lab table. He knew the whole time and once even took them out, got a red pen and corrected any grammar and spelling mistakes and then put it back.

13. Favorite class?: greek myths.

14. What was your school’s full name?: Upper Merion High School

15. School mascot?: viking

16. Did you go to Prom?: yes

17. If you could go back and do it over, would you?: no. It was great and all, but no.

18. What do you remember most about graduation?: anticipating Senior Week. Which entailed all the graduating seniors renting houses at the shore. I cannot believe we did that – that anyone would rent us a house.

19. Favorite memory of your senior year?: senior week. I think – I will have to consult with Mary and Tina who have far better memories that I.

20. Were you ever posted up on the senior wall?: ???

21. Did you have a job your senior year?: Yes, I worked all through high school – fast food, DQ, camp counselor in the summers.

22. Who did you date?: I dated one guy all through high school and into the beginnings of college, with only a little break here and there for dating other guys. It was mostly that one and I sometimes wonder what he’s doing now.

23. Where did you go most often for lunch?: our school had repealed their open campus policy and so we ate in the cafeteria.

24. Have you gained weight since then?: oh yeah.

25. What did you do after graduation?: Went to Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA

26. When did you graduate? 1981

I’m knitting p*ssy ….

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A funny thing happened last night and when I called Cara to tell her about it she said I should totally blog it. She said, “if you don’t blog about it, you’ll be such a p*ssy” (can you believe the mouth on that girl?)

And now Kay has agreed with her.

So here goes …..

Last night I was at a friend’s house and I was working on Kiri. (take a moment to look at the picture in yesterday’s entry). I told her about my post yesterday and how I thought it looked like something clogging the bathroom drain. But I’m hoping it will block out.

My friend does not hold much hope for the blocking process but agrees that it looks exactly like pubic hair. Furthermore now that she has gone through menopause, a little ‘bush toupee’ wouldn’t be a bad thing. That after The Change, things had gotten a bit sparse and gray. ahem

She puts on her best Australian accent and says I could start a business with these things – knit them and market them to middle aged women with the name ‘Outback Bush Wigs’.

at which point I suggested ‘Down Under Rugs’

and then we peed our pants.

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After yesterday’s post where I detailed everything I wasn’t knitting, Margene asked what exactly was on the needles.

When we left off, I had encountered a bit of weirdness in the Irish Diamond Shawl pattern charts. I exchanged emails with Wendy. Bless her heart, she took the time to look at her shawl and the pattern and sure enough, there is an extra stitch on the one side. The pattern is not centered exactly and is off by one stitch. Right now I am mulling over whether I am just that type of crazy to let this bother me ….. combined with the fact that after all this staring at pictures of this shawl I am not convinced I will use it. So that project is marinating.

Yes, it has been three short days since I had my knitting spring cleaning and already I have a project on hold!

During this whole thing, I cast on for Kiri using some Rowan Kidsilk Hace (in villian!) that I had in my stash ….

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please tell me that this will look beautiful in
the end and not at all like something I pulled from my bathtub drain!

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Do you remember last week when I told you I was going to have a cathartic spring cleaning of my knitting bags? How I said that all the clutter of unfinished projects and things floating around in the knitting bags was clouding my mind?

Well, I did it! I finally finished the Diagnoal Rib socks – great pattern by the way. I will definitely be knitting another pair of those.

I ripped out the minimal progress made on the Chinese Sweater. This pattern and I have been on shaky ground since the moment I cast on. I like the pattern. I like the yarn. I just don’t know if I would wear it. So out it came.

I also ripped back an almost completed project! This is a bit of a shocker and perhaps the most cathartic thing of all.

I started this aran sweater jacket years ago. It was May of 2003. If you followed that link you will see that by January of 2004 it was already doomed – that it hadn’t been worked on in months.

What was the problem you ask? prepare for admission of insanity ….. I cast on knowing full well the thing wouldn’t fit. Did you hear that? I knew it wasn’t going to fit and I cast on for it anyway. It was a part of my dieting plan. Kind of like those cookie jars and fridge magnets that talk to you and tell you to quit eating? My plan was to knit and diet at the same time, thereby providing motivation! brilliant, no?

So of course, it sat in my knitting bag for years. Last summer when Chelsea came to visit I gave her a tour of the stash and the knitting bags. I dragged this thing out from behind an armchair where I had hidden it. The knitting bag itself was covered in dust.

After only a minute or two of looking at it, Chelsea pointed out that even if it did fit, it wouldn’t look good. That it had bobbles and popcorn stitch, all over it. That adding ½” to my perimeter or anyone’s for that matter, is probably not a good idea. She wondered what was the matter with me anyway?! She’s a smart one, she is.

So I felt much better about not knitting the sweater and shoved it back behind the chair. I also kind of forgot about it.

Then I got the book Big Girl Knits. Even if you’re not a big girl, this book is great for the info on shaping and measuring. Definitely worth reading no matter what your size.

In the first couple of chapters they had a line in there that has been sounding like a gong in my head ever since I read it. It all has to do with choosing patterns. They advise you to ask yourself it you want the sweater in the picture, or the lifestlye that the model seems to be living.

Do I want the sweater or the lifestyle the model seems to be living?

That just slays me. And got me thinking ……. I think what I liked most about the aran sweater/jacket was the model’s hair.

And there is no amount of bobble stitch or popcorn stitch that is going to give me untamed and touseled red curls.