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All I want for Christmas is... for you to share your favorite Christmas song.
Which color do you think best represents you and why?
Submitted by hocuspocus88.
Right this very minute, the answer would be blue, because I feel blue a lot of the time.
Which 5 words would your best friend use to describe you?
Submitted by Ross.
Since my best friend is my husband, I asked him, and this is what he said:
Not sure of a 5th... maybe Filipino?
Haha to the last one...
Also known as: Facebook, Twitter and Plurk are interfering with blogging! Guilty as charged, man. I am totally updating my Facebook, Twitter and Plurk pages way more often than this blog! It's just too easy. With the others you can just write a one-liner to say what you are doing and you're done. With this, there's a little more pressure to construct a finely-crafted piece of personal literature, which, lately, I have little time for, especially since it's a big holiday month. It just seems to get way busier this month, I don't know why. So, I apologize for not posting much.
A tiny bit of Thanksgiving-related content. The rest is ranting content. So yeah, we went to my brother's house this Thanksgiving. I had been to North Carolina previously, but not anywhere near my brother's town, so this was the first time seeing his house. Let me just say I am thoroughly embarrassed and a little more than slightly jealous because my brother and his wife have been living in their house almost exactly as long as we've been living in our house, and their home is fully furnished! Sure, we have a couch and a leather chair in the living room as well as other random pieces of furniture appropriately distributed about the house, but each room is incomplete as far as the decor. At my brother's house, each room seemed to be a furniture showroom that spoke, and each room said to me, this is what your house could look like if it were furnished. It was comfy and homey. A homey home. They even had their Christmas tree up and the fireplace on! Now, I have had friends and family over to our house here in Georgia, being only slightly embarrassed at the sparse decor and clean laundry sitting in piles on the plastic-covered carpet of my oldest kid's room, and the two fireplaces which, because of their non-use are now glorified gravel holders. But I got over it long enough to have people over. I sucked it up. I let people look at my closets as I gulped. There's worse things than this, I thought. It takes time, I told myself, to furnish a house. It takes time to get the furniture you want. After all, it took 12 weeks for that leather chair we have (which I love, but 12 weeks!?!?) to arrive. It takes time to get anything done -- let alone furniture shopping -- with small children in the house. After seeing my brother's house, I thought to myself: I just don't ever want to have people over at the house again until it looks like a freaking furniture showroom. But that, dear friends, is not realistic. Who knows how long it'll take before we can get furniture. We thankfully have a roof -- a beautiful roof -- over our heads, but do we have a nice homey home like my brother and his wife? I just don't think we're quite there yet. With that sad, but all-too-true thought, I remembered some of my mom's advice to my aunt upon hearing that her daughter's future in-laws (a.k.a. pretty rich people) could visit her small apartment "in the 'hood": Just make your house neat. It'll have to do.
We were supposed to go to this thing called "Christmas in Central Park". (Yes, there is a Central Park in Georgia!) It's kinda like a street fair with Christmas-themed events, shops, etc. Plus there is a Santa Claus ready to take pictures with the kiddies, which is my main reason for going there. (Trying to avoid the mall, here!) When we got there, we realized that we had to take a shuttle bus from the parking lot of the park to one of the main buildings where the event was being held -- and we wouldn't be able to fit the kids' strollers on there! Really sucked. So we totally skipped out on that event (boo to them for not mentioning the shuttle bus in the ad) and decided to go to the mall instead. We went to the Picture Place for the heck of it. I had never taken the kids to get professional pictures taken so I figured it would be interesting. Well the kids were restless as heck, even though they had all had a nap. We waited and waited, and by the time it was our turn to take the pictures the kids were just running around the photo area and just didn't want to stay still. The photographer wasn't that great either. I would have thought that he (and the place in general) would try to distract the kids with toys or noisemakers or anything like that. No such luck. So he ended up taking one picture, which we never picked up because we didn't want to wait for it. Thank goodness we didn't pay for it beforehand. (They have a no-sitting-fee policy, whew.) They made us reschedule for today, but I don't think we're going to go. I think I may just have to really try hard to get the kids to sit still in our living room for a picture. Oh well!
What would you attempt to do if you knew you wouldn't fail?
Submitted by Beautifully Broken
Write for many, many major (read: big circulation) American magazines. Write a non-fiction travel-related book. Work from home. Take my kids on a train trip across the U.S., and maybe Europe when they get older. And maybe my husband too when he takes a day off from work. All that...and become famous, too.
(Well, technically it's not today but today I am willing to admit this!)
...I bought Noro Silk Garden -- again. I had so much trouble with my first sweater in Silk Garden that I had said somewhere (in a forum or a blog post or something) that I would not use Silk Garden again. Then came the WEBS closeout sale. Man, can I be a sucker for a yarn sale or what? I have this beautiful pattern from Perl Grey called Imogen, and I thought, why not buy yarn for that? So 12 skeins later (of discontinued color 47), I am ready to use it again. So yes, I am eating humble pie/putting my foot in my mouth because I am taking the plunge again. Hopefully it's a nicer experience this time around than last. It should be. Last time, I ignored knitting a gauge swatch and the first sweater came out too small. This time, I may do Imogen, or I may do Poppy from the Yarn Play book. Whatever it'll be, I'm sure it'll be a lot better than my first Silk Garden attempt. BTW, that first sweater? I had such a hard time with it, I nicknamed it "Stupid Sweater."
While driving, what's your biggest pet peeve?
Submitted by Alexandra
People who don't signal before changing lanes. I don't know why but that bugs me every time.
