Knit and the City

Why I love my job.  Reason #22:

Sometimes being able to drive whatever is available on the lot works in your favour!  Vvvvvrrrrrroooooommm!

Good from far.  Far from good.

This is Just Dotty completed with alterations to make it almost fit.  I'm really glad those dots and circles provide camoflague as to what is really going on!

Dirty deets in the photo album!

We also have a very happy birthday girl showing off her prezzie.

I hope she makes me some cookies!

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Presenting 'Cabin Monkey'!
OMGoodLord...it could be back up and working!  That only took a month!
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Now while I compose a valid post I shall leave you with my Proust Questionnaire.

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? 
Being at the cabin with no chores or anything to do other than read and knit and spend time with my family, the pets and the guy.

2. What is your greatest fear?
Being constricted and restrained.  That and the dark.  So trapped in a coffin and buried alive would probably freak me the hell out and I would die of fright.

3. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Katharine Hepburn.  Okay, she was a fantastic actress and she's dead so I make her historical.  I love that she never seemed to take crap from anyone and always spoke her mind.

4. Which living person do you most admire?
My mom.  For all the hardships she's overcome and managed to keep it and us together.

5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My lack of self confidence.

6. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Arrogance.

7. What is your greatest extravagance?
Ongoing or one time?  Yarn and fabric, ongoing.  Car, one time.

8. What is your favorite journey?
The drive down the 101 Highway along the Oregon and Northern California coast.

9. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
This is a tough one.  My initial reaction was Charity because people seem to take themselves very seriously for a day of charity work.  It's hard to explain.  I feel that charity should done quietly and consistently for something you really feel strongly for and not taken as an opportunity to brag to everyone how good you are.

10. On what occasion do you lie?
I really try not to.  Except to myself about how much I smoke.

11. Which living person do you most despise?
Anne Coulter and Paris Hilton.  Waste of space and air.  I do believe Paris can't help it and she's just dumb.  Ms. Coulter seems smart enough to know better. 

12. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
My gnarly toenails.

13. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Exactly and Fuck. 

14. What is your greatest regret?
That my marriage failed.  If it didn't I wouldn't have question 15, however, it makes me sad that I couldn't help it.

15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My darling Jim.  My soulmate, the one I have loved since the moment I saw him.

16. When and where were you happiest?
I have to say that right now my life is shifting course that is sizing up to be the happiest.

17. Which talent would you most like to have?
The ability to dance well and not trip over my feet or fall on my ass.

18. What is your current state of mind?
Relaxed.

19. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My lack of self esteem.

20. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
In the past, the abuse.  Currently, nothing.

21. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Turning out as well as I did without psychiatric care or medication.

22. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it
would be?
A retired racing greyhound in a loving family.

23. What is your most treasured possession?
My mother's charm bracelet.

24. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
The addicts on the Downtown Eastside. 

25. Where would you like to live?
Here in Vancouver in a nice house I can afford with a large yard.

26. What is your most marked characteristic?
My self esteem is having issues with this question because the answer is beauty.

27. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Kindness.

28. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Same.  Kindness.

29. What do you most value in your friends?
That they love me for who I am.

30. Who are your favorite writers?
Carl Hiassen.  Stephen King.  Margaret Atwood.  I realize I should name a classic book author but I can't think of one I've read out of high school.

31. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Ferris Beuller.

32. Who are your heroes in real life?
Men and women who serve for the greater good.  Doctors, paramedics, servicemen and women and the like.

33. What is it that you most dislike?
The smell of secondhand cigarette smoke.  I know, I'm a smoker but nothing disgusts me more.

34. How would you like to die?
Quickly and painlessly as possible with a chance to say goodbye to my loved ones.  I don't want a long illness and have my family suffer more than they have to.

35. What is your motto?
Everyday and every way I release all my inner resistances to health, wealth, happiness and a joyous life.

 

Typepad, you are driving me bonkers!

I have been trying to post about my gardening exploits and some other silly and funny things but there was an upgrade to the compose editor and it has made the posting of the blog and of pictures a truly frustrating experience!  They tell me they are working on it.  We shall see.

Meanwhile, there's been some freaking cool stuff being made here!  Let's see if I can post pictures in the blog painlessly...

Uh, yeah utter frustration.  Typepad, I hate you and your stupid upgrade.  Check the All Sewn Up 2008 album for some new FO's!

Sometimes being able to drive whatever is available on the lot doesn't work in your favour.

The girls will be okay.  If you wish to read about what happened when the raccoon attacked and the aftermath you can do so after the jump...

Raccoons are Evil.
Last night the girls were attacked by a large and very angry raccoon.  We all still have our limbs attached but they have some serious bites and gashes and tears to take care of.  Thank god the Guy was home and could beat this thing off of them.  Send some white light for them please.
I'll keep you posted.  And divulge the whole story when it ceases to make me sick to my stomach.

Dewd, I think I missed the meme memo...

1) What was I doing 10 years ago?
Embarking on my life with my new man.  Well, my old man, well, you know!

2) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today (not in any particular order):
Rewrite some contracts at work.
Buy a satellite radio system.
Eat.
Blog.
Watch some TCM.

3) Snacks I enjoy:
Kasugai and me peanuts (Japanese snack that's peanuts coated with a crunchy sort of seafood flavoured crunch and rolled in nori bits)
Pumpkin seeds.
Sunflower seeds
Popcorn.
Raw veggies and dip.

4) Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
Buy the Greyhound Ranch and give all the homeless greyhounds a place to stay till they find their forever homes!  With an enclosed and covered giant turn out play area!
Build the Craftorian Gothic mansion on the island.
Travel.
Buy a house in Vancouver.
Uh, I think all my money's gone already!

5) Places I have lived:
Haarlem, The Netherlands
Rogers Pass, Glacier National Park, B.C.
Cloverdale, California
Cloverdale, B.C.
Cold Lake, AB

6) Jobs I have had:
Equipment Control Specialist
Waitress
Karaoke Hostess
Pooper Scooper
Film Rental Mogul

7) 6 peeps I wanna know more about:
(I won't hold you to it but...)
Miss Wendy
Mousie
Miss Mandy

Access to 'The Cute' denied!

See?

I think it came out a little big!  This is Ribbed Cabled Bolero and It's a definite do-over!  Somehow came out larger than expected.  Deets in the photo album!

There was something that turned out pretty good!
PJ pants for Lil Sis!  Whipped up in about an hour!  They fit and she loves them! WooHoo!

Typepad is giving me issues today.  I better log off before I hurt it....Underlining everywhere!  WTF?




















 

R.I.P.  Oskar Madison Van der Weken Roussy

















We'll miss you.