Q: Aren’t you being a bit hasty in rejecting my item?
A: Maybe! So let me go ahead and get a well-reasoned, insightful, rational second opinion from some other GMs.
GM opinions.
1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
“…is concerned. Slam its tail in the door of the milk truck, and…” Me Talk Pretty One Day by Davis Sedaris, waiting to become a bookcrossing book.
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?: a half of a bagel.
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?: “Heart of Gold” from the Firefly DVD collection.
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is: 12:15
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?: 12:11
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?: cars from the busy road we live on.
7: When did you last step outside? what were you doing?: Two minutes ago, to pick up the mail. We got a package for my daughter from her grandmother. It contains the stuffed animals my daughter accidentally left at Nana’s on her last visit.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at? http://www.tomatonation.com
9: What are you wearing?: Loose black pants, a loose knit (not by me) burgundy top, ankle socks and tan canvas sneakers.
10: Did you dream last night? Yes.
11: When did you last laugh? hard? A half hour ago. I was sending a care package to Jadzia, and when the post office guy stamped the box, it totally caved in. We riffed on the yarn engulfing the post office when the box went through the machine. But being nice and having a good attitude got the guy to take it in back and re-pack it for me. Yay!
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?: a large world map, an Appalachian Trail calendar, a white board with the names of all my wedding couples and their various states checked off, a poster of a Camille Pissarro print, a picture of myself and my husband, and my two Addy awards. Go me!
13: Seen anything weird lately?: My daughter stacked a small plastic goat on top of a small plastic polar bear. The polar bear represents a troll to her, for the Three Billy Goats Gruff. In this house, it doesn’t qualify as weird, but I suppose it does in the real world.
14: What do you think of this quiz?: It’s interesting, and a bit stream of consciousness-y.
15: What is the last film you saw?: Hidalgo. That Viggo sure is easy on the eyes.
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?: I’d pay off our debts, mortgage, car, put some money away for my daughter’s college, give some money to relatives who need it, etc. I’m afraid I’m a very practical person about money these days. What do they say? “Time ain’t money if all you got is time.”
17: Tell me something about you that I don’t know: I thought my husband was a total idiot the first time I met him.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?: Free education for everyone.
19: Do you like to dance?: Yes. I look like I’m having a seizure, but that doesn’t mean I enjoy it less.
20: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?: Emily. Although we almost went with Molly.
21: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?: Alexander? Ross? Daniel? Cuthbert? I have no clue.
22: Would you ever consider living abroad?: Sure, if they had proper resources for my child – and if I were a multi-millionaire as above so that I could jet back whenever I wanted to. But truth to tell, I like the place I live.
23: Will you pass on this survey?: Sure!
[Tvini] You know what I love about DR? I’m working, yet I have my hair up in a little girl’s hair tie in a topknot and I’m wearing a mud mask.
[Liadran] If only our “real” jobs allowed that
[Tvini] They frowned on that when I worked at the TV station.
[GM X] I didn’t get dressed until about 5 minutes ago, and I’ve been working since 830
[GM X] Gotta love it.
[Liadran] Still in my jammies!
[Tvini] I think I should LJ all of this. I love the idea of the entire staff of DR lounging around in their sleepwear.
You know what works for me for small finished projects to learn new things? Washcloths and dishcloths! You can pick up some sugar ‘n’ cream cotton or some other kind of all-cotton yarn at Michael’s or other craft shops for fairly cheap. Then you can knit about a six-inch practice swatch and actually have a finished project when you’re done. And you get to use it every day and think about how cool you are for making this yourself. 🙂 Here’s a site with some good washcloth patterns.
The “Grandma’s Favorite” one on page two was the first washcloth I did (totally lopsided, but I didn’t care), I think, and last month a friend came over and saw it and said, “You made this? My grandma used to make these all the time! Brings back memories!” Needless, to say, it made me feel really good.
On a somewhat related side note, I was going through my stash and noticed I had some duplicate things. I was going to sell them on eBay, but frankly, I won’t get more than a couple of bucks for them. If anybody wants them, holler.
I haven’t gone through it all the way, but so far I see an extra package of stitch markers (you put them on your needle to mark the beginning of a row or repeating pattern, especially on circular needles, but frankly a loop of contrasting scrap yarn works just as well), 16″ long size 8 bamboo circular knitting needles (great for hats) and some size 17 wood knitting needles – perfect for chunky scarves. Also, two skeins ofSirdar Wash ‘n’ Wear cotton dk yarn and no, that’s not my auction. Besides, my yarn’s aqua. This is the dishcloth yarn I was talking about above. It’d probably make great booties, too. I don’t think they even make this stuff anymore, that’s how long it’s been in my stash.
Anyway, I’m off to work on a) a wedding for DR and b) a mystery project gift for a friend. I wish it weren’t in that order, but the wedding’s today, so I want to be sure everything’s perfect before I do anything else. I’ll post pictures of the mystery project after he or she has safely received it!
My back’s been bothering me (old college injury), and combined with allergies that’s been making it hard to sleep. So today I apparently dozed off in the waiting room of my daughter’s speech therapist. And curled up in a little ball on the loveseat. And snored. And they had to really shake me to get me to wake up.
Soooooo embarassing.