JessaLu Knits (and Spins!)

ETA: I’m enjoying your stories so much I’ve decided to leave this up for another day - you have until Midnight Tuesday (EST) to leave a comment/story to be entered in the drawing. (I’m also too exhausted to write a good post - I was up ’til 3am yesterday trying to get my comments to email to me…then found out that WP won’t email comments that you leave yourself…duh!)

Welcome to the new JessaLu Knits! I decided to move to a shorter url and, since I was moving anyway, to begin using Wordpress as my blogging platform. I love Serendipity but it has its limitations. Those of you who link to me, my new link is http://www.jessaluknits.com (see how easy that is? I’m just happy I don’t have to remember how to spell ‘courtesans’ anymore *g*). ;o)

So, as I mentioned, it is my blogiversary! I’ve been doing this for two years now, can you believe it? As they say, time flies when you’re having fun ;o) I’m so glad I started doing this in February 2005. It has brought me great joy and great friends (who can also be great enablers) and it has challenged me to ‘up the ante’ with my knitting. I see the beautiful work that you all do and it motivates me to do better. I’d like to thank you all for your readership and your friendship over the past two years - and I’m looking forward to many more!

To celebrate this momentous occasion I decided to have a contest - and since it’s my blog and I like to be amused I decided to pull out my favorite meme from long ago (I don’t remember where I saw this last year, I apologize for my faulty memory):

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don’t speak often, please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL MEMORY OF YOU AND ME. It can be anything you want–good or bad–BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you’re finished, post this on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON’T ACTUALLY remember about you.

Whomever leaves a comment (THOSE LEFT WITH a fictional memory will be entered twice) will get their name put into a hat for either a skein of sock yarn or a hank ‘o roving - winners choice :o) What are you waiting for? I can’t wait to see what you ‘remember’ about me!

p.s. If you post this on your blog, let me know!

p.p.s I’m still adding stuff to this new place - I’m sorry for the buttons and links that are still missing…

p.p.p.s. You also don’t have to change your RSS feed bookmarks - Feedburner rocks!

75% of the occupants of chez ‘Lu had a wonderful V-day (I’m counting the dog too although every day that she gets breakfast, dinner and a nap is a good day for her) - 25% spent the day proclaiming, “This day SUCKS!” or “I HATE this day!” at regular intervals (between long telephone conversations) because the weather prevented Whipping Boy from taking her to dinner. I think we finally managed to convince her that it didn’t matter if she went to dinner on February 14th, 15th, 16th or any other day as long as the person taking her to dinner cares about her all year long. Finally. Thank God.

RR worked his annual miracles including coming home early:

From V-Day 2007

Making sure I had flowers (though I think the UPS driver had a bit more to do with that than RR did):

From V-Day 2007

And taking over chef duties for the evening:

From V-Day 2007

What a guy - AND he puts up with me loves me all year long, too which makes what he does for me on V-day the whipped topping on top of the ice cream sundae that is our life together ;o)

…now if I could just get him to shovel the rest of the driveway life would be perfect!

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Thank you again for all your well-wishes, they are very much appreciated! I am 100% better, which I proved today by shoveling out my Jeep and cleaning it off - RR would not listen when I tried to convince him that since the thing has full-time four wheel drive I didn’t need to dig it out since it can drive through anything - including 8″ of snow. ;o) I am also back to knitting which I shall prove tomorrow with photos!

P.S. For some reason my blog platform will not allow me to upload photos so I am trying out the new Picasa albums…hopefully they don’t suck.

While recouperating from trying to kill myself moving the couch I was gazing at my sock yarn stash (because I do
that…while in a haze of pain - and sometimes when not) and my two skeins of Lorna’s Laces in the Bittersweet colorway were staring back at me with intent and purpose. It finally dawned on me that they wanted to wish everyone a Happy V-Day in their own special way:

They (and I) hope you like it :o) Have a great day, everyone!

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An update on my horrific
injury: I am doing much better - those stick-on heating pads are magical. Seriously. Thank you all for your well-wishes, they are very much appreciated and just as magical as the heating pad and the 4-ish Advil I may have taken :o) What happened was a combination of several things: a) Large Couch (see photo below); b) Weakling ‘Lu; c) Stronger
than He-Man RR who moves stuff like this daily and sometimes forgets that his girl is a weakling (not his fault, I try to not act like a weakling in his presence very often if I can help it); d) Inch-thick coating of ice on front step that went unnoticed until…I was ON the ice and sliding and dropping and fumbling and…pulling my shoulder muscle…and whining.
Don’t forget the whining - there was a lot of it. THEN at 3am this morning the dog fell off the bed - on RR’s side (*I* think he pushed her, he won’t admit to a thing…) and when the dog fell off the bed I shot up in bed to ’save’ her - you know, because I can fly over a queen size bed while wrapped up in 6 layers of covers in under two milliseconds. Apparently my subconsious didn’t get the memo regarding my loss of superpowers the night before. When I shot up in bed I wrenched the SAME. MUSCLES. and then had to stay in the uncomfortable position of lying on that side because the dog, for some strange reason, would have nothing to do with RR and only wanted me (*I* think it is because she was pushed. Again, he won’t admit to it*). She decided the safest place in the bed was wrapped around my left ankle.
Literally. So I will be spending V-Day on the couch with my laptop catching up on my Bloglines because FINALLY typing isn’t excruciating - yay!*please do not be angry at RR - I am joking about the pushing. Remember, sarcasm means love in our house ;o)

So - wanna see the couch?

It is much darker without a flash - and prettier ;o) It fits really well with the red walls and the best part? It’s comfy - and cheap! Yay!

Even better - the old couch has left the building :o) Easily. In one piece ;o)