company’s coming!

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Jen, Xavier & Cara are coming for a visit – lunch and swimming and knitting! I made a quick trip to the grocery store for provisions ….. Cara went to the store for a razor.

I suppose instead of poking fun, I should just be grateful. ; )

with a twist ….

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In her post today, Cara mentioned that things seem to be quiet in blogland. And it’s true, I’ve noticed it too and I’ve also been feeling it myself.

As the temperatures start to climb, I seem to have less and less to say. Well, that’s not exactly true, as you’ll find if you call me on the phone. I should say, I seem to have less and less inclination to type it all out. And it’s not that I don’t want to blog – I do! I do!! (you’re not getting rid of me that easily). Maybe having a hot laptop on my thighs is like knitting a woolen afghan.

All the sunshine and balmly breezes are making me a bit languid. A bit gin-and-tonics-on-the-porch-ish.

man, that sounds good.

and another thing – would it be wrong to have chocolate cake right before Ye Olde WW Weighe Inne?

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

so Ann, how was your day in the City?

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I must say that Cara has done an excellent job detailing our adventures. Go over and read her post and then come back here.

Okay, so we really did have a great day walking all over the place and laughing it up. But here are a Few things I would like to say on the subject:

She left out the part about all of us trying to find each other in Penn Station. Even with cell phones fully functioning, it was a bit tricky. Particularly funny and creepy was Cara sneaking up behind me and ~~really~~ sort of freaking me out and then the both of us having the damnedest time finding Kay. She’s wily, that one.
I do not walk slowly. Cara told everyone that walking with me was “dude, like when you are driving 85 mph and then get stuck behind someone going 60 mph and if feels like you are going 20 mph.” In her analogy, I am the one going 60 mph. This is NOT slow. It is just not freakishly fast.
I had no idea where we were for most of the day. We went to Purl, I thought we were at the Point. My discombobulation was so great I didn’t know we were lost in the rain in SoHo until I read about it on Cara’s site this morning.
I only sort of called her squares crap. When you’re looking at beach pictures on her site with 43 year old eyes, you might wonder out loud what that crap hanging from the beach umbrella is. You might also be on the phone with the beach goer when these words spring forth from your mouth. When you get a better look at these squares you will agree that they are most definitely not crap, not some kind of weird seaweed that has attached itself to her beach umbrella.
I would also like to restate for the record how great it was to hang out with fellow knitters and bloggers! I got to meet Bakerina (yay!!) who is even better in real life than she is on her blog, I chatted on the phone with Snow who has a deeper voice than I had imagined. I also met Katy a new-to-me blogger and her fabulous sweater. That girl can knit. And of course the Belle of the Ball, Wendy herself!