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The End of An Era 22 Oct 06

Well I suppose it’s official, I’m really an adult now. I mean I would have called myself an adult, what with all the recent “coming of age” events in my life, i.e. graduating college, getting a job, going to grad school. But up until this point, I didn’t really feel like one. But along comes another “coming of age” event, and well this one’s a bit different. My parents are moving, and I was up at their house the other night to pick up some stuff and go through the garage sale pile to claim any good stuff. And I had a “Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore” moment.

It’s just such a bizarre feeling to see your parents leave the house you grew up in; and an even more bizarre feeling when your Mom gives you all the stuff that she saved from when you were a kid…like your pinewood derby 3rd place trophy and your baby blanket. I mean, I remember being a kid and seeing my parents go through this, and I never really thought anything of it until now. I’m not sad per se, I’m really happy to see my parents start this new chapter of life in a new house, it’s just very different feeling. I suppose that for so many years, I’ve acted like an adult, but now I realize that I really am one. Now if only I could convince the clerk in the grocery store of this fact…then maybe they wouldn’t have to get the manager to ok my ID when I buy beer.

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Ewwww…Oily Wool 11 Oct 06

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So last night I attended the Albuquerque SnB meeting, to eat some good food and dessert and get my knit on. Those ladies are a riot too let me tell ya. The usual suspects were there, Scout, Carole, Noelle, Beth, etc., and I also met Cheryl, Molly, and a few others that I’m totally blanking on names now. Crap, I always do that!

Anyway, I was eating my dinner, having a nice time, when I looked over to the empty table next to me where I’d set my knitting stuff…and almost died. The project that shall not be named had a big spot of oily chinese dressing sitting on it. When the server brought my salad, the dressing fell off the plate onto the floor, but I hadn’t noticed that a big glop of it went flying onto my knitting. You can only imagine my horror at seeing a week’s worth of knitting sitting there with oily dressing on it. So I went and rinsed it in cold water on Carole’s advice, and then decided to try getting the grease out with some Dawn and hot water at home on Noelle’s suggestion.

Well, it kinda worked. The dawn did get out lots of the dressing, but there’s still a visible oil spot, and it leaves your fingers greasy when you touch it. I’m fearing that I might have to frog it. I suppose better now than 15 or 20 more rows later when there’s a couple hundred stitches in a round. But if you have any suggestions, I would very much appreciate them. I’m thinking about giving the whole thing a dunk in some hot water and synthrapol, since that’s what I use to scour and degrease my yarn before dyeing, and it works pretty well. At this point, I figure that there’s not much I can do to damage it since it seems destined for the frog pond. Cause I certainly don’t want to gift a project that’s oily and smells like chinese dressing.

Alright, enough wool tragedy. I’ll finish off this post with some pictures of my backyard that I took recently, since it makes me happy :) And I better enjoy it now, because soon enough winter will come and turn it all brown. And if anyone needs tomatoes, I have a tomato plant in the backyard that’s cranking them out faster than I can eat em. Really, please take them from me.

there's plenty more where those came from

come on guys, turn green!

the grass is receding like my hair line

__Oh, and we’re almost to 290 comments, so that yarn will find a home anyday now!__

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The Jumping Schnauzer 16 Jul 06

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Today was a blast. Emma and I did our first major agility event, and it was so much fun. It was the 2006 Show N’ Go, put on by the Southwest Agility Team. It was just a fun event, no judging or scoring, but we got to run 2 different courses, and get a lot of good experience. Emma had a very good time, and so did I. I can’t wait until we start competing for real! Here’s a few pictures, one of Emma getting ready to run, and one of the course that she ran.

In other news, the house is done! I actually started parking my car in the garage yesterday, which was pretty cool. I feel a lot better now knowing that my car is safe from the freak hailstorms that seem to follow me around. And that means that I’ve been able to crank out a lot more knitting now that I’m not spending my evenings cleaning. Not that I wouldn’t do that if I could, since apparently that’s my new favorite past-time, at least that’s what my roomates think.

So I suppose I need to back up my claims of increased knitting with actual results. So here’s the obligatory pictures. I finished my first sock with the Smores yarn, and I also joined the Mason Dixon dishrag craze that seems to be sweeping the knitting blog world by storm. They’re really quite satisfying and quick to crank out.

Well, I better go because Mom (AKA the Knit Nazi…”More Knit for You!”) is pestering me to keep knitting so we have lots of stuff to sell at the artisan fair. Peace Out Knitters.

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Lifestyles of the Young and Geeky 12 Jul 06

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The house is getting very very close to being completely finished and unpacked. Mostly all that’s left is organization, hanging all the pictures and posters, and clearing out the remaining stuff in the garage. I’m so happy that it’s finally almost done, that you get the privilege of a mini tour, yay! And when the whole house is done, I’ll take lots of pictures and put them up so everyone can see what a sweet house it really is. But without further ado, may I present my **office/study/guest room/future knitting cove**:

As you can see, I have no shortage of computers, although that older iMac doesn’t currently work, but it will soon. Now why do I need both computers? I really have no justification, I just like to hold on to them forever. This iMac could be very valuable someday, you never know. (Ok, I just can’t bring myself to get rid of it, no matter how old and slow it is.)

And looking to the left, what is it we have here? Is it a spot for yarn, an actual stash of yarn??? Who knew! I’m actually starting to accumulate something! It’s definitely not much compared to plenty of other knitting psychopaths bloggers, but it’s a start. And I got sweet fabric bins to show it off in :)

hopefully someday it will outgrow these bins

Knitting is progressing well too, I’m nearly done with the sock from Scout’s Smore’s yarn, and then I think I’m going to make some mittens and the other sock of course. I rented the first 2 seasons of The 4400 (which is so amazing it blows my mind like every round on the sock), so that’s given me lots of entertainment to knit by.

Anyway, that’s about it…I think I’m going to make out a list of all the nooks and crannies I get to clean on my day off this Friday before going to bed :-P.

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Ah, Cultural Diversity 10 Jul 06

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Seen in an e-mail today:

You are invited to attend an Asian Leadership & Outreach Committee sponsored Summer Student Luncheon

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Caterer: Panda Express

I almost spewed coffee everywhere when I read that one. That’s like having a Mexican Student Luncheon and serving Taco Bell. Hmmm, I wonder what the Chinese and Japanese equivalents of “gringo” are?

Anyway, funny work e-mails aside, and onto…well not much really. I had a nice weekend, getting in some knitting, amongst all the other house chores. I finally decided to do something about the gigantic bermuda tumor grass growing in my front and back yard. So I commissioned (cough, paid off) my little brother to help me lug my parent’s 4×4 offroading mower (seriously, this thing is like a tank with blades) into the car and down to my house to mow the tumor, I mean grass. Well the grass was still wet from all the rain, and man did that make things difficult. The mower stalled around every 5 seconds (this grass was freaking tall), and we emptied the bag around 15,000 times, but finally it was done and the grass was mowed. Who knew it was possible to have so much “fun” on a Sunday afternoon?

Also, Dallas is now a eunuch, in case you wanted to know. He got snipped on Friday, and is doing very well. It’s always sad to take your dog to have their manhood removed, but it’s for the best, as I don’t want him running around town becoming a deadbeat dad.

Finally, I finished a second cherry/silver 80s beanie, and have started a second baby hat. I’m hoping to grow some extra arms so that I can become a one man knitting machine for this craft fair, but that hasn’t worked out too well yet. Maybe I can teach the dogs to knit…then I’d really be cooking.

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