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November 26, 2004

Ooh-de-lolly

Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope everyone had a great Turkey Day.  Mine was ultra delicious.  I've had the week off (yay vacation!) so I have gotten a ton of knitting done!  Yee!  This was the first chance I had to take some pics and actually post!

Skull-o-rama

My knitting project for the Man-Along is really getting somewhere now.  This is my first shot at intarsia and (don't hate me) - I kind of like it!  Isn't that sick?  Everyone has been trying to scare me away from it....but it's kind of neat!  Just tricky!  And if I love anything...it's a challenge.  BRING IT ON!  So, here's where we stand right now:

Skullysleeve

SWEET!  Jamie is psyched...and frankly....I can't blame him!  I cannot wait to see this on him!  So, this is the first sleeve - intarsia is done, just finishing the length of the sleeve now.  And then on to the next!  If I keep my pace, I will have this done in time for our anniversary (12/29) and will be an excellent prezzy!

Bobbi a Bo Bo

And another -along project!  My project for the Bear-along is done!  Ack!  I meant to take progress pics, but the damn imp knit himself up so quickly there was no chance to record the steps for posterity!  2 nights and his butt was knit.....  I've been told he looks like Mr. Burns' bear from The Simpsons.  Thus the name...you shalt be called BOBO!  At least until someone else names you.  :)  I will knit at least one more of these for Xmas prezzies.  Soooo sooooft.

Bobbibobo

Our new friend Bobo was knit using size 15US needles, Blue Sky Alpaca's Bobbi Bear pattern and Reynolds Regal Alpaca Regal in Brown and Charcoal.

Where's my Booty?

Well.....here's a picture of

Emptyspace

where the booties I knit for Michelle would be if I remembered to take a picture.  So....I'll have to make her bring them to SnB on Tuesday so I can get a shot of them for they are so cute and TINY!!!

:)  More later....promise.

Posted by Sarah at 5:23 PM | Comments (3)

November 19, 2004

I've been a Bad Girl.

Yikes.  Sorry for long time = no post.  Thigs have been very hectic around here!  I am about halfway done with the first sleeve of Skully (pics forthcoming - I swear!), need to block and fringe one of my mystery xmas prezzies, and have started up a couple of xmas scarves.

But all of those got set aside this week for yet another project.  On Monday I decided to knit my friend Michelle a pair of little blue baby booties for her baby shower on Saturday.  (Have I ever mentioned that I seem to be a real glutton for punishment?)  So...knit knit knit away I have all week.  Every day at lunch and every night on the couch.  And guess what?  THEY'RE ALMOST DONE!!!  Yip!!!  Just 20 more rounds and some ribbon through the yarnovers and we have some serious booty.  I'll take pictures when I finish them completely (translation:  expect photos and 12:56pm tomorrow - 4 minutes before the shower begins....)

My sister Heather is coming into town tonight (Yeeee!) and she is staying until Tuesday morning (Wooooo!).  We have lots planned....  Target, IKEA, football, and lots and lots of knitting.  duh.

I definitely need it after a rough couple of weeks.....  First, my headlight goes out in the Mazda.  Not so bad, right?  Except it took me 3 stores to find the correct headlight... grr.  Also purchased some super heavy duty windshield wipers at the time as mine were very much dead.  (Rain had become my nemesis.)  Still - not bad, right?  Just your everyday car maintenance.

Then, about a week later, I get pulled over.  Ack.  This man with a gun and a serious expression informs me that my registration has expired.  Ack Ack.  How is this possible?, I ask him.  I am always on top of this kind of thing!  I never received anything in the mail, I swear, I swear!  And why?  Because they apparently sent the renewal information to my address of 2 YEARS AGO!   So, I plead with the officer to please let me drive the rest of the 5 minutes that it will take me to get home....and not to TOW the car as he keeps saying he is supposed to.  He took pity on me , thank Jeebus, and I headed back home.  With a $93 ticket in tow.  Yup.  And then on Saturday morning at the DMV, I was charged $95 for the late registration.  Ack Ack Ack.  That's right, they had the cohones to charge me for their mistake.  But - all over.  Feelin better.

'Till I get woken up in the middle of the night to be told that my sweetheart - while borrowing the car to go to his bro's house - got a flat tire and had to put that wimpy little donut on.  I immediately knew that I had zero time before the weekend to get the tire looked at.  So, tomorrow it is!  And do I ever hate that little wimpy donut tire!!!  Eek.  Stress.  Deep breaths.  In.  Out.

So.  I am praying that this little tire of mine can be repaired.  Rather than having to be REPLACED.  Ack Ack Ack Ack.  We here in the Land of Stitch are about to face a severe fiscal crisis.  What's that?  Oh yes.  Deep breaths.  In.  Out.  Indeed.

So, after an unavoidably stressful morning tomorrow (fix tire, take Heather to Target to buy Michelle a shower gift, get asses to shower) I will feel pretty damn good about myself.  Can't wait.

I will post lots of pics this weekend - knitting updates and I am sure we will have some goofy baby shower shots.  :)  I have a feeling that seeing Michelle's reaction to the shower will make all the stress disappear!!!   I can't wait!

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November 12, 2004

Countdown

Thee little listy-dealers are always floating around and I never fill them out....  Figured what the hell?  A diversion is a diversion! (I am lovin the colored text on Typepad!  Yee!)

Ten movies you'd watch over and over:
1.  The Great Muppet Caper
2.  Popeye
3.  The Fifth Element
4.  Empire Strikes Back
5.  Fellowship of the Ring
6.  Yojimbo
7.  Silence of the Lambs
8.  Death to Smoochy
9.  Tampopo
10. Diamonds are Forever

Nine people you enjoy the company of:
1.  Jamie
the bune!
2.  Danielle
but she has disappeared into the abyss called "Medical School"
3.  Caitlin
4.  Heather
5.  Mary
Gotta include the sisters!
6.  Leonard
Umm...i just like Leonard.  He's silly.
7.  Eva
8.  Anne
9.  Michelle
Scissor Squad... REPRESENT!

Eight things you're wearing: (what a scandalous question!!!)
1.  my hair in a ponytail
2.  my favorite 'nana Republic jeans...
3.  a bunky sweater that I wish I knit myself.
4.  hot pink converse sneaks
5.  Hello Kitty tank top
6.  Striped knickers
7.  on everyone's nerves....
8.  moisturizer

Seven things on your mind:
1.  War is sad.
2.  Living in Canada.
3.  I have to register my car.
4.  Why is liberal considered a bad word?
5.  Yeah - and feminist - same question...
6.  What more I could have done in this past election year.
7.  Xmas presents.

Six objects you touch every day:
1.  Jamie's beard
2.  the fuzzy ones' water bowl
3.  my knitting bag
4.  the couch
5.  the kitchen counter
6.  my tempur-pedic pillow

Five things you do every day:
1.  Tell the bune that I love him.
2.  Snuggle the Kyra dog.
3.  Give the kitties kisses - well, as much as they will allow it...
4.  Something creative....knit or sew or something....
5.  Take a shower (who wants to be smelly?)

Four bands (etc) that you couldn't live without:
1.  Elliott Smith
2.  Radiohead
3.  Tori Amos
4.  The Beatles

Three of your favorite songs at this moment:
1.  Kings Crossing - Elliott
2.  A Case of You - Joni Mitchell
3.  Martha My Dear - The Beatles

Two people who have influenced your life the most:
1.  Mum
2.  Pop

One person who you love more than anyone in the world:
1.  Ummmm......the bune.....duh.  (sorry everyone else - you are all a close second....)

Posted by Sarah at 11:12 AM

November 11, 2004

Yup. Dead On.

You Are a New School Democrat

You like partying and politics - and are likely to be young and affluent. You're less religious, traditional, and uptight than most Democrats. Smoking pot, homosexuality, and gambling are all okay in your book. You prefer that the government help people take care of themselves.

What political persuasion are you?

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November 9, 2004

Oh my God.

If I had $48,000.00 I'd be living in this right now.....

http://pageuser.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/auction/87637183?u=%3ahellokittytarget&aucview=0x34

Posted by Sarah at 3:47 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

November 5, 2004

Let's try to feel better....

...and by better, I mean let's dig through the trash to find something valuable to take away from the nightmare that was "Election Day".

Here are a couple of things I have found comfort in:

The only time I start to feel motivated and productive again is when I hear from others with like minds...and I then I remember I AM NOT ALONE!  There are LOTS of us! 

So - may I ask if any of you have found anything happy in the last few days?  Wanna share?  Let's share!!

P.S. I will get back to my knitting at some point soon.... but not this week....

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November 4, 2004

The Day After

So.... I feel terrible. Everyone around me feels terrible. :( Disheartened is not even the word. Depressed. Terribly depressed. That's a bit closer.

The worst part is that I know I will eventually feel better. It is inevitable. It will happen. And that makes me even more depressed for the moment. I don't WANT to feel better. When we feel better, we become apathetic. Complacent. Indifferent. I don't want that. I want to remember how angry I am. How frustrating it is that there are so many people in this country that voted for an idiot. (And I mean an idiot. That man can barely tie his shoes and he has his finger on the button. Again. Great.)

I can't quite figure out what to do next. And neither can anyone else from what I've seen. I mean, what can you say when you see a country divided into blue and red the way we just did? From the final picture, all I can surmise is that we should have let the South go when they fought us to. Why not? They are their own entity anyway at this point. I feel like the Northeast is it's own country.... All I can say is Thank God I live above the Mason-Dixon. And I am ready to go further North at this point.

I am hearing some talk that terrifies me. Yes, friends - even more terrifying than the idea of a Republican incumbent being re-elected with a Republican Congress and Republican Senate - with word that 3 Supreme Court Justices are possibly stepping down within said incumbent's next term. What on EARTH could scare me more than that? The notion that the Democratic Party must start leaning back to the middle and even a little to the right to grab Middle America's votes next election. No way. No how. No backwards thinking homo-phobe who likes his women barefoot, pregnant and silent is going to determine how MY political party acts and/or thinks. THIS is where America and I start to get into a tiff. If I am that much of a minority in my views, then I simply don't belong here.... I want to stay - I want to fix it. I want to make things better. And then I realize how many people don't want that at all. They prefer to be scared. They want everyone to have the same moral and religious beliefs that they do. They have a vision of the perfect 1950's America where women and minorities know their "place" - and people who aren't the same as everyone else - they either keep quiet or suffer some pretty nasty consequences. With all the progress I felt this nation made between 1992 and 2000, you'd think those small minded people would have shrank in number. But, give us a good ol' boy thumpin' a bible in the White House and they spread like a disease.

I haven't made up my mind on what to do next. Jamie suggests not to make any rash decisions until we calm down a bit. I know he is right. We both have decided that our jobs aren't conducive to our beliefs, though. He can't with a clean conscience build houses for rich Republicans and I can barely stand walking into the corporate building I work in.... these jobs pay our bills, but we're going to have to find a better way. Lots to think about.

I cried on my drive home from work last night. Not something I had expected I would do. I got in the car at the end of my day, and promptly turned the radio off. The last thing I wanted to hear was another gloating Republican (got to hear that all day in the office building - no sir, not on my way home). I started to drive and it all just hit me. Like a brick in the face. It wasn't until that moment that I realized how emotionally connected I had been to the election. How much I really believed was riding on it. How upset and terrified I was that the bad man wasn't going bye bye. I realized that nothing was going to change. It had been decided and no matter how angry I got, or frustrated, or even how much sense my points made, nothing was going to change the outcome. And it really hurt.

And it still does. :(


P.S. If you need to cheer up, go here. This gave me a good laugh.

P.P.S. Something else to make you feel a little better. Or at leas more productive with your anger.... Let's Impeach Bush. Thanks to Libby for posting this link on her site. It made me feel a whole lot better all of the sudden... like - oh yeah! we could do that!!!

Posted by Sarah at 12:24 PM | Comments (1)

November 3, 2004

Disgusted.

Absolutely, throroughly disgusted.

I don't even have the words yet. Maybe tomorrow.

In the meantime, I encourage you all to go here and check out your options.... I said from the beginning of this race that if the popular vote went for the village idiot, I was out of here. The way I am feeling right now, I'd like to leave tonight. I'd drive through Massachusetts on my way to blow some kisses to Kerry.

I just can't believe it. I'm so depressed.

Posted by Sarah at 4:59 PM