wild thing, you make my heart sing

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I think this blog is turning me into a big boring goody two shoes. I will admit that I teetered precariously near this status before the blog, but now it’s official.

First I quit smoking. Now I am eating healthy, which for me means no drinking either. What next? no cursing? no nights of debauchery?? no wild sex with strangers????

f- that sh-t man.

ha! for me the wild life would be not caring about the ring in my bathtub, the weeds in the garden. I am a big yawn it’s true.

and soon I will be a stylin slim yawn! What a great response I have had to the contest with mystery prizes! And if you are reading this for the first time, where the hell were you yesterday? huh? To save you the agony of scrolling to yesterday’s entry, here are the details: Send me an email (purlingswine (at) yahoo (dot) com) by 5:00 p.m. EST on May 2nd with your name/email/blog (if applicable) and the words “weigh to go” in the subject line. easy peesy!

I have consulted ~~some~~ one great mind and she has said that the prize should be ……. are you ready for pure genius at work?

Yarn.

where does she come up with this stuff? that girl is brilliant.

So yarn it is! And since this is in honor of my Journey of 100 Steps, I will be putting some Trekking XXL in the prize basket along with a few other delights! : ) I didn’t even notice the irony of the XXL until I just typed it. tee-hee.

word play …. just another part of my wild streak.

a contest!

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I am having my very first blog contest to celebrate a 10 pound weight loss! although at the moment I am officially down 9.6 pounds, I am fairly confident that by next week the other .4 will be off.

What will the fabulous prizes be? hmmmm, I don’t know. I really haven’t thought this through. Vicki just had a contest and it seemed like a great idea ….. don’t worry, I will come up with something and it will be good. I swear. And knitting related, of course!

Send me an email (purlingswine (at) yahoo (dot) com) by 5:00 p.m. EST on May 2nd with your name/email/blog (if applicable) and the words “weigh to go” in the subject line. That’s all there is to it!

Posted by ann

Here are some pictures of the Diagonal Rib Socks I was working on during our weekend of driving. I am using StR in Petroglyphs. I like this pattern and I very much like how stretchy the rib stitch is. I am not sure I like how the colors are pooling, but everyone who sees them really likes what the colors are doing. It seems to be a fact of life with space dyed yarns that this is what happens. oh well, what can you do?

Interesting how all the colors seem to pool on separate sides of the sock, no? I wonder if the same thing will happen on the 2nd sock. As I knit these things, I wonder about the mathematics involved the yarns, both self striping and space dyed. I mean, there has got to be math involved, right? Truly, math is involved in everything. But then I can feel my brain starting to fizzle. Then I quickly switch topics because I don’t want to hurt myself!

I don’t think that the yarn is doing the pattern stitch justice. Here is a closer look. Another great pattern from Ann Budd ……

On the homefront, there is not much news to report. D#1 has one more week of classes and then finals begin. It is hard to believe that her first year of college is almost over. gah! She is hoping to find a summer job on campus so the good times can keep rolling on. She says it’s not that she doesn’t love us, it’s just that she really loves college! D#2 is studying hard for upcoming AP exams – she is giving herself an ulcer! When Cara was here, she couldn’t believe the freakish amount of studying. Kids need to loaf around more!

This morning I am hosting a birthday brunch for a friend. Very poor planning since tonight is my WW weigh in. Or, maybe it was a stroke of genius ….. I am not sure what the scale will say tonight. This weekend, I got a tad carried away with snacking in the car and the street festival had fried dough, which my religion dictates I must always eat when available …… furthermore in the past I have been an every-other-week type of loser, so we shall see.

ABC Along …. G!

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I think I am behind on this “along”. I was thinking all last week about what could be my G and couldn’t come up with anything. Our weekend trip provided some good G …..

on the way home we stopped in the Corning Glass Museum. This is a stop I love to make – the shop is great and I usually find a Christmas present or two ….. and yes, I have already started my shopping!

The thing is, glass is really hard to get a picture of, especially when it’s hanging in your kitchen window ……..

blurry little rooster stained glass
I just remembered, I found this at Rooster Hill Winery

I also go some new kitchen glasses. I really like their size – not gigantic, but not teeny either. If I were to serve a bunch of knitters some iced tea, do you think they would fight over which glass they got?

and the rear view!