I've had blogs before...and I've written pretty consistently with my others, but lately I've just been lazy. Never mind all the stuff I have to do. I have another blog which I share with the hubby and usually, I update that pretty regularly, but really, the last time I blogged on that one, even, was early May. It's ironic because I really do have a lot of stuff going on in my mind, in my life -- more than enough blog fodder, and yet, this poor blog has been languishing. Well today won't be one of those languishing days...
So I've been working on the Monkey socks from knitty.com. I've been using Bearfoot yarn from deep inside my stash and it's knitting up lovely so far, but I am getting a little bit bored with the pattern already. Still, I will continue to knit with it because I would just hate to have another UFO.
Do you believe in ghosts? If so, have you ever seen one?
Yes, and thank God, no! I'd freak out too much. Although, I think I've heard my uncle's ghost once, shortly after he died. That was scary enough.
If you were independently wealthy, where in the world would you live?
Submitted by Eileen.New York, NY, of course! Except I'd live in either a brownstone/townhouse or a penthouse apartment on Central Park West. YEAH.
...but that's not the point or the story of this post.
- Losing weight. I find myself thinking about that quite often. I think about it most especially before a time when I will be seeing a lot of people, which, for me will be at the end of June. (Hubby and the kids and I are planning to take a trip to Chicago to see family and friends.) I am most definitely overweight according to the various BMI calculators out there in cyberspace -- but I don't think I look horrible right now, and that might be the problem.
- Blogging. I just really need to keep up with it so that my page doesn't look so damn bare!
- Finding a godparent for my youngest. Still looking. This one has been pretty hard to do. My hope is that he gets baptized before his first birthday. I'm not holding my breath too long, though.
- Finishing more crafty projects (knitting, crocheting, sewing, etc.). My knitting has gone by the wayside, and I would like to finish some things before the end of the year. I was thinking of joining this KAL where you knit 12 things before the end of the year -- doesn't really matter what they are -- they could be UFOs, or stash-busting projects or what. I could probably do 12 if they were all hats. Seriously, though, isn't it time for me to make a sweater? Again?
- Just do stuff to be an all-around better person, all the time. Now, is that really too much to ask for?
If you could go back and change one thing you've done in your life, what would it be?
Submitted by Devinoid.One word: college. I would have chosen a different one.
Show us a secret.
Show us something you don't understand.
I always thought this was pretty, even though it was evil in the movie. Apparently Tolkien made up the language and the script (I think). I guess I don't understand how he came up with all this!
Show us the gadgets you carry with you.
Hey, they all fit in my purse. :)
Have you ever been on either end of an unrequited love?
Submitted by 怒涛の鮫.
Oh gawd yes. Oh hellz yeah. (Sorry to sound teenager-y, but that's what I felt like at the time.) It was on the back side of the horse costume, if you know what I mean. I was the one "in deep like". (I don't want to say love, because that's not what it was.) I was the one that felt like a jackass when I admitted to the guy that I used to like him. And at that point, my "like" was over, but the pain of having to admit it was horrible. I remember walking home from that experience and my roommate saw me crying as I entered our room and crashed on my bed. She asked what was wrong, and I told her my sob story, and I just cried harder. And then she said the best words of wisdom I had heard all year. "Don't cry -- it's just a guy!" I don't know what it was...maybe it was the way she said it, but I bust out laughing. She laughed, too, partly because she was relieved not to see me crying anymore, and confident in her own recently spoken wisdom. So yeah. Moral of the story is: don't ever be the back side of a two-person horse costume.
P.S. Now that I think about it, I have been on both sides, but to be on the wrong side was the one that's stuck in my mind.
