01 March 2006
Yes, I'm back
I'm home. I got in at midnight, home by 1 a.m., in bed around 2. I'm bushed people. Yet I did work today. I must be crazy.
The trip was great. Now that I'm home I'm cold, because it was, like, 70 degrees every day there. And on Tuesday, when it rained a bit, it was still warmer than it is here. Alicia, my best friend, looks great, especially only 1 month after having a baby. She's amazing. 4 kids. Not easy. The new baby is so handsome, he's my new boyfriend. And yes, there's pictures, I've just been too tired to download them. And Alicia took a lot too, so I'll post what she sends me when I get them. The kids (from now on refered to as things # 1 through 4) are brilliant, all of them. Thing #2 (her eldest son) was getting over a cold, but he's just the most amazing 3 year old I've ever met. How many of you know a 3 year old who can actually hit a thrown baseball, and we're talking that he can connect, hit it straight, and FAR. He can also throw a football - spiral and everything, and catch one too. And tell you all about dinosaurs, and count, and he can do almost the whole alphabet in sign language. Plus he's just cute. Thing #1 is too smart for her own good. I did start teaching her how to knit. We got her a book/kit at Barnes and Noble on Monday night, and I showed her a few things. By Tuesday morning before school she was casting on, on her own. Thing #3 is jealous of her new baby brother, and tries on a fairly regular basis to "take him out." But she's still a charmer. And is using sign language to tell you what she wants, and she's not even 2 yet. (They hired a lady, who I met and really like, to come in 3 days a week in the mornings to help Alicia get everyone off to school and stuff, and this lady is teaching #3 sign language.) I mean, hell, its only possible to do so much when breast feeding and that kid eats like every 1/2 hour!
I did get quite a bit of knitting done this trip. I'm almost finished with a pair of Bearfoot Mountain Colors socks, I just have to put in the afterthought heels. And I started another pair of toe-up 2 socks on 2 circulars with afterthought heels in Lorna's Laces Jungle Stripe on the plane home. I have decided to name these socks, The Socks that Barney Shat. You'll understand when I post pictures.
I came to the realization that I have seen more movies while travelling than I have at home. So I've decided to start Sarah's Unplanned Travelling Movie Review. I'll use a set of 5 double-points to rate. Never mind what size! Recently seen: Cinderella Man (on the bus-twice to New York) and Walk the Line (to and from Las Vegas). Originally I hadn't planned on seeing either of these movies. I don't like Russel Crowe or Joaquin Phoenix. But I give them both 5 DPs. I haven't stopped singing Johnny Cash songs yet! Needless to say, Walk the Line made me realize EXACTLY what I want for my birthday - the entire Johnny Cash (and Johnny Cash/June Carter) collection on CD, and an I-Pod. I'll go into further filmular detail tomorrow, when I'm not cross-eyed with jetlag.
Must sleep again. Now.
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17 November 2005
New word of the day
Seen on Craftster.
Vedgie. Its a cross between a wedgie and, well, you think about it.
Used in a sentence it'll make you giggle. (And for Christine, it may even make you blow snot)
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12 June 2005
Of Fireflies and Taxes...
I bet you're expecting a poem of some sort. But no. I was just thinking about the fact that I saw fireflies in the trees again tonight and that my quarterly estimated taxes are due.
Actually, I kind of miss the 2 trees that were taken down recently. Last year there were fireflies galore in them and I would sit outside and just look at the trees lighting up. It was beautiful. There's not as many fireflies this year. Maybe its the heat?
I'm not going to expound on taxes. Why bother?
In good news today, Conan started going up and down steps again. And running.
I finished the front (or maybe its the back?) of Orangina today, and cast on for the back (or is it the front?). I've finished 2 repeats of the lace pattern so far....
And yes, I know that Honfest was yesterday. And no, I didn't go. It was too hot. But I DID go to Cloverhill with Peggy and bought some SoySilk. And then we found a new bead shop nearby and I bought some beads for the Lace and Agate Scarf. Of course now I'll have to figure out what yarn I'm going to use for the scarf itself.
Anyway, its back to the grindstone tomorrow. Poop.
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03 June 2005
Sometimes I hate people, but sometimes I dont.
Sooooo........
I just got off of the phone with Ms. DevilDoll herself. I had been trawling the Craftster boards obsessively, as I usually do and came upon this post. Enough people said her site was really cool, so I took a look. And it is.
So, anybody out there want to take a guess at what I do for a living? Blogging? Nope. Knitting? Nope. Dog-sitting? Nope. I'll give you a hint, I work for the family business....Give up? I am something called a Manufacturer's Representative. A what, you say? I am an independent sales rep for companies who make products that they want to sell to stores, and that those stores want to sell to YOU. And some of those companies I represent make scrapbooking supplies. And I've been trying to convince my daddy-o (who is also my boss/sales manager) that we should pick up a stamping line. So, I shot off a little e-mail to Ms. DevilDoll, telling her how much I like her stuff and that I'd be interested in selling it here in Baltimore if she's interested. Given the fact that she called me like right away, I think she is :). Always nice to talk to a fellow Craftster. She's one of the people that I don't hate.
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