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She's Got a Way

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... a way cool haircut! :) I even took a picture of it so y'all can see. -----> Luigi cut off about three inches of hair, and gave me some fun layers. Add a little mousse, and presto! Instant curly mop! It probably would be a bit longer if I straightened it, but this is more fun. The best birthday card I received this year came from Kelly's mom, who captured the essence of my dating life with a mutated chick and his mate (see below). "Carl wasn't exactly what Mindy was hoping for... ... but he was Jewish." My mother will love it. Biggest purchase of the week: tickets to SPAMALOT ! I'm so excited! The traveling company will be coming to DC in June, so as long as Marc's gonna be in town, we'll go. It won't be the NY cast (Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce, etc) but I'm sure it will be fantastic. I'll have to watch Holy Grail again at least once before I go to the show.

Pressure...

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Ok, so.... I didn't finish my scarf in time for the closing ceremonies. No medal for me. But if I didn't actually *watch* the closing ceremonies, does it really mean it's over? heh. Pam finished her scarf, Dani finished Thorn (aka Rose) and Carolyn made multiple kitty beds . So at least some of my teammates earned their medals! I will keep working on the scarf -- it's still fun to do -- but I accept the fact that, like Bode Miller and Michelle Kwan, my Olympic experience wasn't all it was meant to be. Oh well. My birthday, on the other hand, was FABULOUS, "possums"! First, I have to say that the first person to wish me a happy birthday was in fact my baby brother on Friday night (it was already Saturday afternoon in Sydney, after all!). And he sent me a text message on my cell phone, too! What a good kid. :) So, in the back corner of Aria Trattoria's indoor patio, under the hot hot hot lamps (which we made them turn off), a dozen of us gathered for

That's not her style

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... or rather, that's not something I want her to wear. I'm talking about the raglan hoodie sweater. I think because I didn't know how to do the right kind of seam decreasing when I made the pieces of the hoodie, it just didn't come out right. So, here's a picture of the nearly-finished sweater. --------------> And now (with a bit of sobbing), I will take apart the seams and frog the front and back down to the armpits, and make straight side seams like the sweater I made for Hannah last year (see below). I'll probably do the stripey sleeves, too, maybe with the hot pink that I was going to use for the pocket. (maybe I'll keep the pocket?) In Olympic news, my scarf continues to grow -- it's now about 27" long... I have until Sunday to finish for a medal. :) I wasn't too sad not to have gone to Vegas for the weekend. The thing I missed most was time with Samantha, Jae & Teri. Otherwise... I hung out with my friends, I cleaned my apartment

Get it Right the First Time

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... or frog it and start over. :( As Dani would say, "reading is fundamental." My advanced reading skills were not enough to keep me from knitting an extra row on my second and third triangles, so by the time I was done, I was making a hexagonal... placemat or something. UGH. Pulling out the two triangles wasn't as hard as picking up the top row of the red triangle, unknitting a row, and starting again! So, I have started again. I knit a triangle the other night, it took about 90 minutes. At this rate I might be done in ... April? It's about 15" long, so only 45" more to go. But at least I'm on the right track now. That's the good news. The bad news is that the family vacation to Vegas didn't happen this weekend... Dad has a bronchial infection that is keeping him from sleeping (and mom too) so we stayed home. :( But, on the plus side, I got a vacation day back (still took Friday off! Yay!) for use later in the year. And, having eliminated the ru

Got To Begin Again

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The Olympics have started! (both the knitting and the Torino events) :) We decided that our team should be called "Team It's All Her Fault". It's a long story, but mostly it's because Dani is the one who taught a lot of our other teammates to knit, and on top of that, we tend to blame her for *everything* whether it's her fault or not. So here's our team logo. We gathered at P's house last night to watch the opening ceremonies from Torino (VERY COOL, although some odd moments -- and what's with the German team's coat colors? Yeccch!) We had chinese food and brownies and wine, and started our Olympic projects. Of course, we all had to pick our Olympic "crushes" -- the athlete that we will follow through all of his events. But, during the parade we saw a female luger from the US Virgin Islands (the only athlete from USVI at the games) who is known as " Grandma Luge " -- she has been in every Winter Olympics since 1988! (that

Ain't No Crime

Yes, ok, it's been a week since I blogged anything. This was a pretty boring week, generally... not much I thought anyone else would want to hear about. But here are some tidbits. [Today is Amy's birthday, I hope Rob took her out someplace nice! Happy Birthday, Amy!] I had to un-sew the seams on Samantha's sweater... (the next time I decide I want to make raglan sleeves, somebody SHOOT ME! ugh) I will spend some time this weekend sewing the parts back together and hope that it looks better the second time around. Also on my to-do list is a duckie for Hannah Rose Davidson, whom I hope to meet very soon! And, because USAir and AmericaWest have no clue what to do for people who have actually *paid* for tickets, my flights to/from Las Vegas for Prez weekend will now be in and out of BWI, rather than Dulles. UGH. Expedia has been calling and emailing me in near-panic mode to make sure that I know that my itinerary has changed. At least they're paying attention! On the p