According to Yahoo, this is my horoscope for today ….. how did they know I love pie?

Everyone is just going to have to forget about the way things used to be. For reasons yet to be explained, the old ranks and memberships no longer apply. Under the club’s new definition, everyone gets an equal slice of the pie. Remind anyone who resents the change that you’ve been doing it his or her way for far too long. If certain members don’t like the new way of doing things, send them on their way. You may have to change the password

I came across this list on Two Cats and a Girl.  The idea is you are to see how many of these 200 things you have done.  I have done 88 — perhaps I’m not too boring for my blog afterall …..

01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula.
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said ‘I love you’ and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights
16. Gone to a huge sports game
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby’s diaper
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Ridden a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer.
49. Visited all 50 states
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to "Let’s Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don’t regret it.
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn’t have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95. Gotten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest

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Last year, December 17 to be exact, I posted a picture of my family’s Christmas stockings. They are a Grace Ennis design and have been a part of our holiday tradition for as long as I can remember.

I have a very talented cousin. You name it, she can do it and she can do it well. Such talent she has! She is a very clever girl. However, she claims she cannot knit. She says she is a spaz. She claims that she tried to learn once and just could not get the hang of it.

This, of course, is crap.

The point of all this – she wanted a pumkin hat for her son. You remember those, don’t you? I knitted a bushel of fruit caps during the summer. This cousin refused to learn how to make one herself. In exchange for my knitting the cap, she agreed to graph out some more designs for our Christmas stockings.

I had completely forgotten about our bargain. Because she is honorable, as well as talented, these arrived in my mailbox the other day.

Now, someone needs to get pregnant.    not me!

And because honor runs in our family …. in yesterday’s comments Sharon asked for it and here it is!

things I would have shown you today if I wasn’t too lazy to go and get the camera and take a picture:

1. my chipper/shredder — now that the leaves are falling, I am spending a lot of time with this beast.  I have a love/hate relationship with it — hate that I need it, but love that I have it.

2. cowl/scarf type thing I knit from a kit purchased at Rhinebeck.

since life here at purlingswine has been mostly devoted to yard work, I have little in the way of knitting fodder. 

Content yourselves with yet another funny email I received (thank God I have funny friends!):

THIS SHOULD END ALL 3 BEARS STORIES

Baby Bear goes downstairs and sits in his small chair at the table, he  looks into his small bowl. It is empty. "Who’s been eating my porridge?", he squeaks.

Papa Bear arrives at the big table and sits in his big chair. He looksinto his big bowl, and it is also empty. "Who’s been eating my Porridge?", he roars.

Momma Bear puts her head through the serving hatch from the kitchen and yells, "For Pete’s sake, how many times do we have to go through this with you idiots?  It was Momma Bear who got up first. It was Momma Bear who woke up everyone in the house. It was Momma Bear who made the coffee. It was Momma Bear who unloaded the dishwasher from last night and put everything away. It was Momma bear who went out in the cold early morning air to fetch the newspaper. It was Momma Bear who set the damn table. It was Momma Bear who put the friggin cat out, cleaned the litter box, and
filled the cat’s water and food dishes. And, now that you’ve decided to drag your sorry bear-asses downstairs, and grace Momma Bear’s kitchen with your grumpy presence, listen good, cause I’m only going to say this one more time.

"I HAVEN’T MADE THE F—ING PORRIDGE YET!"