Wahoo it's Friday! I won't have to come into the office at work for any of next week. I am thrilled to get a break from the office. Today I had my 3 hour glucose test thingy and passed. Ding! The finger pricks weren’t any fun but now it's over and I can leave those memories behind me. I had to sit in the doctor’s office for all that time so I worked on the Nashua Cardi. Well I did a successful bobble row, but then disaster struck and when I went into the ribbing for the bottom half somehow I was missing 10 stitches. I am wondering if somehow when I did the bobbles I decreased and didn't know it. Not sure how that could have happened, or I didn’t increase enough on that other row I hated. I also admitted to myself that my gauge was to large and I needed to go down a needle size.
RIP IT RIP IT! So I did, right there in the doctors office. I ripped the whole thing out. The prospect of starting over isn't too horrible but I might try to finish the hedgehog or something else first. I'm also going to soak the yarn before I reuse it because it's cotton and oh-so-kinked and not pretty looking.
So because I have no photos for you I thought I would finally do that 7 random things meme. I have had at least 2 people tag me but I hadn't gotten around to it until now.
1) I am legally blind without my glasses. Even worse they don't make contacts strong enough for me so I can't actually pass a drivers exam with my contacts in. However I drive with just my contacts in. Apparently I'm a rebel. When I was 4 or 5 I used to have to watch a yoyo that my mom tied to the kitchen door-frame and watch it swing side to side and back and forth to help me eyes get stronger. I am in no rush to get eye surgery as my eye doctor in VA of 28 years (Yes I just said he's been my eye doc for 28 years!!) told me I should let the "demographics work out" and the longer I waited the better the procedure would be. So I am waiting and in no rush.
2) In High School I worked for Nickelodeon at a Paramount owned them park. i got paid to dress up in a florescent orange flight suite and slim people and push pies in their face and dance on stage. It was some of the best summers of my life. Kennon and Kel came one year and the tall one picked me up after the show and spun me around and his manager yelled at him because if he had dropped me I could have sued him apparently (wtf). Also those two boys ate all of our popsicles and never flushed the toilet. One of them is now on Saturday Night Live, I think the shorter one.
3) My father and mother met in California in the 60's and my dad is a photographer. He has photographed Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Beatles, and pretty much anyone else you can think of from the 60's and 70's that was a major rock and roll singer. My dad still owns all of the negatives. It's not as easy to make money on them as you would think and all he has ever wanted is to get a book published. He is still working on that goal. He has told me that one day I will inherit all of the negatives (I hope that doesn't piss my sister off hah!).
4) I was born in California. My father was born in London so I am first generation American on my father’s side, my dad could never run for president. My mother was born in New Jersey and her parents both died before she was 21. I adore my parents, they are wonderful. I fight with my mom all the time, but we never end a conversation in anger and I talk to her several times a week. I think on some level we both actually enjoy arguing with each other.
5) My husband proposed to me inside a video game, yes we are that geeky. Or actually HE is that geeky haha! We met in Art School and had the same classes together. We dated for 6 or so years before we got married.
6) I grew up with a "Leaning Disability" and my high school recommended I not take the 3rd year of math (which would have required getting a lesser diploma). Despite the fact that I hated math I refused not to take it, and I did pass (probably with a D or C) and I got the normal diploma. My grade point average was 2.7, same in art school (my AA) and at 24 when i went to college to get my bachelors I graduated Cum Loud! I simply couldn't pay attention as a child, very easily distracted. I spell horrifically (still do) and my bad memory didn't help any. In 7th grade I was on 5th grade level math and college level reading. I have always been an odd one when it comes to that stuff. Luckily I was raised by an amazing mother who always told me I was extremely bright, but that I didn't do well in a conventional education setting (and she was a teacher after all).
7) No one in my immediate family did any sort of crafts when I grew up. When I visited my grandmother in California I never saw her craft and she never discussed it. After she passed away we found loads of handmade Afghans and lots of sewing supplies. Her sister (my great aunt) has told me that she used to make knitted suites for her back when she was my age. My mother always tells me I must have gotten my crafty skills from her. I wish she could have taught me to knit. My sister and mom are very supportive of my crafting but they both tell me time and time again how they don’t understand where I get the want to do it from because neither of them has the slightest inclination to try knitting or sewing. My sister has done scrapbooks for her sons so I think that does count! However, they all think it’s very neat that I knit and love seeing my FO’s.
