Archive for February, 2006
Things to say to your Teen while knitting for the Olympics
As a public service, I thought I would share with all KO parents of teens the lines I have used to keep the child (aka Dobby) at bay while trying to
complete the project from hell my KO project in case you are having trouble coming up with snappy brush offs:
- I’m not really here, you are imagining me.
- helloooo figments of your imagination cannot actually speak so move on.
- um ripping here! No I do not care that your friend’s eleventeen year old third cousin fourteen times removed is marrying a 65 year old millionaire who owns a…waitaminute he owns a sheep farm in upstate NY? Which friend, again?
- Mommy can’t talk until Monday.
- I said, don’t talk to me until Monday!
- I’m sorry, do you think I joke when I say “don’t talk to me until MONDAY“?
- YES THIS COMING MONDAY.
- Listen, if you talk to me again I’ll lock you in your…ohwait I can’t, you don’t have a DOOR!! muahahaha!*
- There’s no talking in the Olympics!
- What do I look like? Your caregiver? Go buy your own milk!
- NO you cannot watch ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’ (ugh. gagme.) Mommy is watching Pride & Prejudice and Darcy is on camera right now so BACK. THE HELL. OFF.
- Two words: Frozen. Pizza.
- You want to sleep over at your friend Erin’s? SUUURE!!! (the problem now is…I’m not sure if she meant the boy Aaron or the girl Erin…oopsies) (KIDDING, PEOPLE! …mostly)
Thank you all for your words of encouragement – they are much appreciated! I’m sure you all can understand that I haven’t been answering you all individually because my hands are permanently attached to my Addi’s ;o)
The mistake, for those who couldn’t see it, was that I skipped an ENTIRE row of the chart so I had wonky diamonds. It shall all become clear when I post photos of the completed sweater…sometime next freaking month.
*We live in an old house and don’t have a door that will fit her room so she gets a curtain. We could probably get her a new door however, she’d freeze to death in the winter and it’s a lot more fun to say “Privacy is a privilege!” than to try to install a door ;o)
Tags: Olympic Knitting – Day…what freaking day is it, anyway?!
You know what? THIS is not something you want to wake up to find when you have a little over two days to knit a freaking sweater:
Yep, it’s a glaring mistake.
Guess what I got to do while drinking my coffee this morning?
On a positive note, the body of the sweater is done:
and BLOCKED thankyouverymuch.
And, even though I had a setback, here is what I had to show for my day’s efforts:
I finally got my copy of The Opinionated Knitter and let me tell you it is freaking hard not to drop everything to read it. FREAKING. HARD. It took no less than two weeks from ordering it on Amazon to get it so this is a Herculean effort, people. Maybe I’ll read it in bed while I let these puppies do their work:
I love these things – I bought them from the Knitting Fairy last year when my wrists first started hurting and ohmyGod I love them. Wait. I already said that. Ohwell ;o)
I’m hoping after Sunday I’ll have lost the manic look I’ve been sporting since about 9:30 this morning (see above) and RR will sit next to me on the couch again. He moved on me tonight – something about being afraid for his personal safety or some such crap. Pansy.
Faschizzle my Twizzle
Oh don’t tell me I’m the only person who’s thought that while watching Olympic Ice Dancing…
How COOL that we won silver!! (if you want to see what we won, you have to highlight the word, I don’t want to ruin it for those who have TiVo and haven’t gotten around to watching it yet – not that we aren’t all bombarded with updates constantly, I just don’t want to be responsible.)
Olympic knitting continues along at a pretty good rate. I’ve finished the back and am now starting on the front (armholes, that is) and THEN I have to do the sleeves. I picked up two new Addi’s at Webs today so I can do two at a time. As stated previously I found out on Friday that I have this week off so hopefully I’ll finish. I’d better wrap this thing up soon because I’m getting glared at by my DFS. Apparently she is feeling a little neglected – I fear there may be a revolt soon.
What was that? …oh yeah, Roger brought me to Webs today (he even went IN and WALKED AROUND with me!! I think it might have been because he needed to pee, but I like to think it is because he wants to see mecca where all his money goes one of the best yarn stores ever)…and here I was thinking you all wouldn’t notice my mentioning that…not only did I want to get the Addi’s but I wanted to buy yarn. FOR A GOOD REASON! My co-worker was in a pretty bad car accident last week that involved her needing brain surgery (I don’t have all the details – I do know she’s home now and has most of her faculties and won’t be back to work for at least a month) and because of the surgery they shaved her head. She’s young-ish (mid-20’s) so I’m sure it’s affecting her pretty badly (both the surgery and the loss of hair) so I’m going to knit her an Odessa to try to lessen the GI-Jane effect. I picked up two balls of Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino in black today which I hope is the correct gauge or I’m going to have to go back (oh the horror!). Okay now that I checked it (to get the link) I see that I needed a dk yarn – great. I’m going to have to do freakin’ math. Or some fudging. Or something.
What? You want to know what? Who won…?
OOOOHHHHH that’s right! I had a bit of a quiz going on yesterday, didn’t I?
Okay the answer to the question was:
Eight of you got it right! Good job! I used a random number generator to choose the winner and….
Vicki aka Knitorious gets the Grand Prize!
I wish I could give out prizes for persistence – Mary Ann tried four times to no avail. I’m sorry you didn’t get it, Mary Ann :o(
And the winner of the comment prize is…
Congrats to both! Please send me your mailing addresses – your packages will be going out in the mail within the next few days (I’m on vacation, remember? *grin*) Thank you all for playing – and thanks so very much for all your comments :o)
I must go and knit now…
