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that’s the sound of me snoring……

It’s a gray, windy, rainy day here and after D#2 got off to school, I went back to bed. Just to watch the morning news and weather report. The next thing I know, it’s 10:30.

good grief – I can’t remember the last time I slept in like that. It has completely frigged up my schedule, which means less time for blogging. That’s okay – not much to say anyway. Because of it’s size, my Kiri shawl has stopped looking like a crotch and is now looking a bit … Hassidic. By the way, did you read Julie’s comment in that post? She told me to google the word merkin. Who knew blogging could be so educational?!

And another thing — a few of you have posted high school pictures. Do you know that that frickin meme drove me deep into my photo albums – every single one of them. Which of course was a little weepy seeing how cute my girls were. Still are. but you know what I mean.

So there was some soft sobbing.

All trying to find a certain picture of me in my band uniform spinning a rifle …… haven’t turned it up and now it’s driving me crazy. I just saw it when I painted my room (that’s where I keep the photo albums) and I remember tucking it away. But where??!!

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 ….

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