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Almost done! 61-80

• I would love to have a yard.  (we have next to nothing)
• I love strawberry and spinach salad.
• I love pens….my current favorite (for 3 years or so) is the set I get at Staples…. Sarasa bold. 
• I am a fontaholic, can’t have enough of them on my computer.
• Sometimes I flip through a book to find out if someone dies.  It doesn’t ruin the book for me most of the time…I hate the suspense of not knowing.
• I’m a sucker for presentation when shopping. I will love the way something is packaged and have to walk around with it for awhile to ask myself if I really like the item or if I like the way it is packaged.
• I do not like profanity.
• I have to eat Oreos the same way every time.  Take it apart.  Dip the side without the filling in milk, eat little bites.  Then dip the other side in milk and repeat.  Then go to the next cookie.  I don’t get how people can eat the whole thing at once.
• I used to be the stilt champion in the neighborhood at my grandma’s house.
• I used to be the hula hoop champ in my own neighborhood.
• I used to have an inflatable hoop slip.
• When I got my one and only speeding ticket, I thanked the officer and went on.  I was driving to see my then fiancé, now hubby, and it was a beautiful spring day and I was just happy.  I still made the 3+ hour trip in a little more than 2 ½ hours.
• My friends used to call me Parnelli Jones.  Now my kids think I drive like a grandma.
• I love Ravelry and spend too much time there. There is just so much information it’s hard to leave.
• High school was very painful for me.
• We have had 3 short-term exchange students from Japan.  The first one became like a daughter to me and I am sad that we have kind of lost touch.  I used to tell her…”I see the moon and the moon sees me.  The moon sees someone I long to see.” That is the only thing that brought me comfort when she left.  She has visited again 2 different times.
• I do not throw up.
• I love cherries.
• My grandpa used to serve coffee to my grandma and my sister and I in bed on Sunday mornings.  I love this memory and my husband has brought me coffee in bed many times because of it.
• Did I say I have the best husband ever?

Almost the end of a mixed-up week…I’m ready.

I have an FO!  I love it, too!  I am not thrilled that it is looser than I like, but really…as a friend said:  “it’s a hat”.  Its a good idea to get perspective sometimes.

Can you see the little spray of white tassel on the top?  I will take another picture later, but how cute is this?  We visited our favorite little spot tonight so hubby helped me get a picture but we couldn’t get rid of the shadow because it was hard to get it to hang off the fence.  I think he wasn’t too thrilled taking pictures of knitting but he’s a good sport.

I made good progress on the pink hat.  It’s going to be really cute, I think.  Soft, fuzzy pink…old-fashioned, I love it. 

We got a call from the newlyweds that they were at the bookstore and we were just heading there.  It was fun meeting up with them but the only table was under the domed ceiling so we could barely hear each other but I bet others heard every word we said. I hate that part.

When we got to the car, look what I found!

My beautiful white baby yarn!  And even worse than that….the car door was unlocked and my keys, camera, and cell phone were sitting in plain sight on the seat.  I sometimes get in trouble for asking if the door got locked but maybe I need to do it anyway.  haha  All was well so no problem.  I need to get some of those things back into my purse anyway so I accept responsibility there. 

Ok, headed to Ravelry to see if anyone is playing there.

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I’ve finally been knitting for the baby.  On the weekend I made the little football hat from Itty Bitty Baby Hats. 

I need to make the little football to be appliqued on the front and then make the tassle and it’s done.  It would be done now but I forgot my yarn at home. 

That led to starting the Marshmallow hat from the same book.  I love this hat! 

Today mama-to-be entered her third trimester!  Today that baby is blinking it’s little eyes and has eyelashes!  We get our weekly update and it has been so fun knowing what is developing when.  It weighs about 2 3/4 pounds.  I can see it rolling in her tummy now and have had lots of little kicks when I put my hand there.  My grammie friends keep telling me there is nothing like this.  When I feel that little sweet pea moving around, I don’t even have words to explain how excited I feel!

On to other news.

I have taken the big step of deciding to try the Secret Pal 12 Swap.  I had nothing but trouble trying to pay my $2.50 fee (an ingenious idea to help cover for those whose pals drop out) but I’m all set to go.  The questionnaire is linked on the page tab above.

Yesterday I got to go in the theater that I’ve watched with such interest.  It is going to be beautiful. We walked over to see the marble tiles and the fellow working on it said since we’d been watching all these months, we should get to see what’s going on. 

I have been so mixed up this week on my days.  Yesterday hubby called to see if there was anything he should get for my mom to eat for dinner.  She comes to our house on Wed. nights.  I couldn’t figure out what he was talking about as I’d been wondering what the little imp and I would eat for dinner since it would just be the 2 of us.  Turns out all day I thought it was Thurs.  That really threw me.  Then this morning I woke up and laid in bed thinking about what to wear to church, looked at the clock and saw it was 8 a.m. already and the imp was still sleeping so knew the next 30 minutes was going to be rushed and hoped he would cooperate.  I knew hubby was already gone to set up for worship.  Then I started thinking about not remembering working all day the day before.  It took me a long time to realize it was only Thursday.  Does anyone else get disoriented when there is a holiday?  Part of it is being over-tired, too.

When I was leaving work tonight, mama-to-be called and asked if I would like to eat dinner with them.  The imp was there already so we ate pizza and came home.  No dishes, no figuring out what to fix or get.  Nice surprise!

And now, a relaxing evening ahead! 

ETA:

I saw this on RK’s blog and had to share it, too.

Not only that, but there’s another fellow who has been making quite a name for himself over on his blog… Dan Drinker is someone I visit a lot.  His brother has been making a documentary of his life and there is so much to see and admire in them.

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I give up.  I cannot make it keep numbering.  This is 41-60. 

1.    I do not like to fly, I do not like big cities, I do not like being far away from my kids….so everyone I know was shocked when we were deeply moved to go to New York on a mission trip to help with the cleanup after 9-11.  The kids were even more surprised when I called home from the top of the Empire State Building and was screaming into the phone, “You won’t believe how beautiful it is!”  What they said to me was “What WE can’t believe is that you are UP there at all!” Loved it.  

2.     My heart’s desire is to go back to New York .  

3.     I saw the Beatles on August 25, 1966 in Seattle .  Their last concert was August 30, 1966.  My ticket cost $6. I can still remember what I wore.  

4.     I met John Wayne twice and was in his movie McQ, but ended up on the cutting room floor.  Hubby was in the band that did make it into a scene.  Our family now owns the building part of the movie was filmed in.  

5.     I love diamonds.  

6.     I hardly ever tan even when I try.  I can’t stand lying in the sun and am really scared of tanning beds (even though my brother owns a tanning salon).  

7.     I am left-handed.  The only things I can do right-handed are iron and knit.  

8.     The first fish I ever caught was a baby shark.  My grandma promised me that someday that pole would be mine and this year I got it.   

9.     The year the Portland TrailBlazers won the world championship, hubby and I went to the airport after he got off work at 2am and waited until 6 am for them to arrive home from Philadelphia .  We happened to be in the right place and shook hands with all of them.  I loved Maurice Lucas and actually stood in line at Lloyd Center for hours to get his autograph.  

10. I blush easily because I embarrass easily.  

11. I’m a people watcher and I love to figure out what their lives are like.  

12. I wonder how many times I am right.  

13.  I get an earache almost every time I go to the beach. Love the beach but like to sit in the car to avoid said earache….even happens on a warm day if it’s windy.  

14.  My favorite flowers are Sweet Peas and Hydrangea.  

15. I love Cheetos  

16. I love Diet Pepsi but am trying to limit myself to very little.  (doin’ pretty good so far!)  

17. I could cry at a stranger’s wedding or watching a cruise ship leave even if I didn’t know anyone on it.  (I did that once)  

18. I love to play games…mostly spades or word games.  

19. I do not like pastel pink and blue together…for other people they are fine but I do not like it.  

20. I am the oldest of 4 siblings. 

For some reason, every now and then one of the keys on my keyboard stops working.  It has done it since I got it and it isn’t that something is in there…but today it is the K so excuse if I miss it.  I have to punch and punch it.

First of all, I would like to remember those who have given their lives for our country.  It’s good to stop and reflect.  I watched several old movies today about wartime (the old romantic kind) and some of them were poignant to say the least.

It’s funny, I forgot about much of our weekend until I loaded my pictures from my camera.  Gosh, that’s kinda scary.

Remember my daily pictures of the theater quite awhile back?  Well, for months and months all I could see was the big board fence that covered the whole front of the building.  (Remember when we had our big storm and the whole fence left? )  Well, this weekend we had our first weekly street market (that was a lot of Ks!)  and the guy who has promoted it and worked at bringing it all about is the guy who is restoring the theater.  So……..

This is while they were cleaning the area but it’s nice to be able to see.  It won’t be ready until the end of the summer but at least now the view is nice.

Friday night was date night and we were very pleased to get a call from mama and papa-to-be asking if we’d like to meet them for dinner at Red Robin.  Once again we split a burger and had great company.

Can you see the back of the boy’s head in the background?  That silly kid was putting the special salt in his milkshake! blech!!!  The boys at the table next to him were even worse.  They seemed to need attention.  One of them asked the waitress something to which she replied “go for it” and he went to an empty table that hadn’t been cleaned yet, took what looked like a grilled cheese sandwich, all eaten but the crust, and sat back down and ATE IT! gag gag gag!

Saturday was really nice…weather-wise and fun-wise.  I had 3 people who spent much of the day hanging out and knitting.  We walked down to the street market and got Costco Kraut dogs and ate them at the sidewalk table.  There were lots of people there and about 40 vendors.  I didn’t get to look too closely but it seemed to be a hit.  Of course, I left my camera in my purse so I didn’t get pictures.  Made a new friend while knitting, though, and had fun.

I did knit this weekend but no pictures yet.

When I got home Saturday we decided we needed to get some things accomplished at the house so we headed off to Home Depot.  We kind of forgot we were in the Jeep (altho the car would have been worse) and overbought.  I wanted flowers for the porch and hubby wanted to finally spend his gift cards he got for Christmas and his birthday last July.  Before we went there, we saw that they had a patio set for cheap and we ended up with that, too.  Hmmmmmm, how to get it all home….

I held the big flower pot and rose tree in my lap but the back of the jeep was rather full.

And there was one little boy surrounded in the back!  I kept asking him if he was till there because the box was behind me and I couldn’t see him at all.  He loved it.

Yep, he is sure he was a big helper.

Yesterday was kind of a rest day.  We just have to on Sunday or we feel like we never slow down.  The little imp and I did not make it to church and I am not happy about it.  He has been a bit of a trial to me this week and already ruined one day.  We were totally dressed yesterday to go and without warning he just quit cooperating.  I am not sure why it was too much to put on shoes and socks, especially when they were right there, but I did not have the desire to force the issue.  He loves church, loves Sunday school…but turned a deaf ear to getting on those shoes and socks.  So, we stayed home.  I next to never do that but he was out cold and we missed first service which we are used to attending.  He was cheerful when he got up but maybe he just wasn’t really in gear. I don’t know…but I did not care to spend another day bummed out so we stayed home.  He did see me crying and I think he felt bad, I didn’t make a big issue over it, I don’t think I needed to.

The rest of our day looked up though so enough said.

Late last night I started cleaning out my corner of yarn.  No small chore.  Every basket seemed to be connected because somehow those balls of yarn seem to jump from one place to another.  I was kind of intrigued while I untangled them all.  How in the world to they do it?  As i worked, I thought well, this must have passed this way before as I followed the maze.  I broke off very few of them but took time to save most of it.  It was kind of fun taking the challenge.  Hubby and I went to Walmart-Home Depot-Walmart to get something to put it all in.  Now when we get some extra room upstairs it is ready to go.  Finished.  woohoo! 

In the midst of it, we had the girls and hubbies over for a barbecue.  The little imp and I caught a glimpse of a visitor across the street.

I know the deer are pests when you have a beautiful yard, but they are so beautiful themselves.  We watched it watch us, then slowly cross the yard and continue eating. 

A dear friend knit baby a sweater and told me to give it to mama-to-be some day when she needed it.  We were all sitting around the new patio table, it was peaceful, and I just felt like it would be a fun time to give it to her.  She’s never met Nancy but in the short time I’ve known Nancy, I feel like she has become a real friend.  I cannot tell you how blessed I am that she would do this for my grandbaby! 

I didn’t get a picture of the pleased Daddy.  I will take a better picture of the sweater.  Hmmm, how can I do that? It went home with them.  Take my word for it, it is adorable!  If you are on Ravelry, check it out at memegreen’s page.  It’s her own design and she is going to get it out of her head and onto paper.  It has 3 buttons in the front and is just so cute.

Tonight hubby brought home strawberries and get a load out of how huge they are!

That is a regular size Fiestaware cereal bowl!  Mary had to remind me how to do the straw trick to get the centers out of the strawberries and it worked like a charm.

And now I am going to get a little imp off to bed and head there myself soon.  Hope you had a great weekend!

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First of all,  I am progressing on the Francie sock.  I haven’t had a lot of time to knit, but when I do, it moves along pretty fast.  I’m loving this and have loaded A Tree Grows in Brooklyn back onto my iPod although I am trying to finish Howard’s End first.

It’s hard to show the shaping on the bottom of the foot at this point but next time I’m sure it will be worth a look.  I really like that this is a fairly easy knit but there is enough to keep interest.  I have to say even thought I have used this yarn before, it seems thicker this time.  Maybe it’s the ribbing.

Today I had the little imp with me at work for awhile.  He isn’t wild about being here but he does enjoy one little chore.

will he knit, too? from Sherri Knits on Vimeo. 

Future knitter?  If not, a great assistant anyway.  He loves it and does a good job!

Before this, he was actually writing messages to his brother that said, “Let’s go”…hoping he’d get rescued.

Good news here.  Remember many months ago when hubby’s guitar got stolen from our church?  He didn’t want them to replace it for awhile in hopes it would show up, he loved that guitar and they are not easy to come by.  Well, he finally decided it was time and “just happened” to find one listed at a store in Seattle.  The church immediately called them and purchased it.  He had the choice of dropping everything and heading to pick it up or to wait until Saturday.  Guess which option he took.  haha.  He was outta town in nothing flat.  I’m so happy for him.  They only make 50 of these a month to sell worldwide.  He had sold 2 good guitars to get the stolen one.  Anyone who knows about guitars (not me) knows that 2 guitars of the same model will not feel the same and he had really looked for a “good fit”.  He decided no matter what, he was getting this guitar and if it didn’t work, he’d sell it and keep looking.  Funny, they increase in value unlike a car.  However, not surprisingly….it is a fit! I am so happy for him and all I will say is that it is being kept locked in a secure location.  grrr. 

I’m hoping we get something accomplished this weekend.  We’re recovering from weddings and I need to get some kind of order restored to our house.  The bride isn’t anywhere close to getting moved out of her room but little imp will inherit the room.  We can start getting geared up for that and shovel out the corners of the rest of the house.  My stash will move upstairs to the room the imp vacates.  Yahoo!

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I didn’t knit all weekend or on my day off yesterday, but today I got a chance to work on the Francie sock again.

I would be farther along but I forgot my pattern at home today.  I’m a little farther than this now, the ribbing along the gusset is showing.  Usually I would have all the heel stitches on one needle and instep on the other, but this time it just wasn’t working.  I had quite the mess getting the needles shifted, it’s always nice to get a little entertainment value out of my knitting!  As the ribbing grows, though, it is looking interesting.  This is the part I have been waiting for.  The decreases are not done along the gusset but on the bottom of the foot (a la Cat Bordhi?)  Loving this sock!

This morning, #1 son and I were watching Leave it to Beaver (our new fun morning activity together) and we heard the microwave door slam shut.  We looked at each other and jumped up to see what was going on.  The imp was making himself nachos.  He grated the cheese “just like mom” and got the chips on the plate and did a great job of evenly spreading the cheese.  The smile was priceless.  I had made him some yesterday for a little surprise and I guess it was a hit with him. Ahhh, getting more and more independent every day.  This is good.

The mama-to-be had an interesting time with her best friend’s 4 year old daughter.  “How is that baby coming out?”  “Yes, but *how*”  Then as she drank water….”Is the baby getting rained on?”  We have laughed and laughed.  Then she started asking where will the birthday be?  At church?  At Chuckee Cheese?  This is one smart and persistent little girl.

Back to the knitting before bed.

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My list continued:

• I hate conflict.  (But then, who does like it?)
• I’m very ticklish and get physically sick if someone tries to tickle me…it’s not one bit funny to me.  It’s even very upsetting to me if someone pretends to tickle me.
• I love, love, love electronics…my laptop, my iPod, my Palm Pilot, my digital camera, my cell phone.  I usually know the day my cell phone can be upgraded…and get to the store the day of or as close to it as I can.
• I feel things deeply.  Sometimes this is good, sometimes not…I am kind of an all or nothing kind of person.  I am a mercy person and have to work hard to not get caught in someone else’s problems but rather to be a help to them.
• I love the kind of friends that know when to cry with me and when to tell me the hard things I need to hear.  Both things are appropriate at different times and I strive to be that kind of friend myself.
• When I got married, hubby was in a rock band and we used to travel around the northwest.  It is funny to me to see people’s faces when I tell them that because our lives are nothing like that now.
• I love going to Mariner’s baseball games.  I really, really, really love Stitch n Pitch (which originated with the Mariners, by the way!)  Now how can you go wrong with knitting and baseball at one time?
• I like to stay up late at night, I hate mornings (although I love getting up when it’s still dark out and seeing daylight come. I’m just no good by about 9 am!)
• I think my kids are just about the best.  They each are so unique and I love watching them grow and learn and become who they are meant to be.  I feel the same way about my sons-in-law and my daughter-in-law-to-be (not official yet, but will be someday soon)
• I have vivid dreams and usually remember most of them…much to the dismay of my husband.
• I’m very shy but when I am comfortable with you, I have a hard time not talking too much.
• Parties are very, very difficult for me and I feel really unnatural when talking to people I know when in that setting.
• I don’t like extreme temperatures.
• I have a hard time to see myself in a positive light so I am finding this list very difficult because I am trying to be more positive about myself.
• When my friends correct me, I may have a hard time hearing what they are saying to me, but it almost always will sink in and then I need to do something about it.
• I am a rule follower.
• I am a terrible liar and you can tell by looking at my face if I try to lie.
• On the other hand, I hate to hurt anyone’s feelings so this can be very difficult for me. 
• I dislike “fake” in relationships.
• I ice skated in Central Park (New York City!) and it was one of my biggest accomplishments because I tried to not skate but a friend made me.  I’m glad she did.

Yesterday was almost miserably hot.  It was 92 outside and 90 in the store.  It is a mystery to me how it could be so cold (snowing 3 weeks ago) and nothing in between even though we warmed up a bit after the snow.  Today started out really warm but the temperature started dropping this afternoon as the marine air started coming in.  It’s still beautiful out tho.

Even though I had no sleep and baked all day, we still went on our date.  It’s kind of hard to miss that.  Hubby wanted to take the Jeep so picture this.  I actually wore a skirt to work yesterday and getting into the Jeep was not a pretty sight. haha  We had the top down and it was really quite a pleasant drive.  We ate dinner at Red Robin, split a hamburger and ate outside. Peaceful. 

Since I was so tired, I didn’t have the energy to do anything so we headed to B&N.  I found this beautiful magazine called Artful Blogging.  I decided to bring it home and so I bought the little imp a book on Prince Caspian, too,  since he was going on a date with big brother and girlfriend tonight to see it.  They have a tradition.  (we’ve heard all week how many days and knew that yesterday it came out but that he’d see it today.)

Anyway, he woke up at 6:45 and was on his bed talking to himself about Prince Caspian so I got up and told him to go get his book and sit on his bed and read that until everyone else had to get up.  We’d gotten woken up twice last night by the Jeep alarm blasting.  Sometimes if a car drives by too close it goes off.  That was at 2:45.  I realized that I was awake for good so I got up and took my Bible out onto the porch to read awhile, then I brought my laptop out.  I looked up the magazine I brought home and was shocked (!!!) to realize I had paid $14.99 for it.  Don’t ask me how I could go purchase it, sign the slip, and not ever know how much it cost?  I guess I really was tired. Oh well, I will probably not buy another but I have a lot of good reading to do.  Mostly it reinforces what I’ve been thinking about how blogging really does change your life and what I read was good.

I didn’t last long last night, we headed home early.  It was the perfect time to be driving towards the coast.  The little bits of wispy clouds were so pretty with the setting sun turning them kind of a cantaloupe color.  The air was so fresh and sweet. I love the smell of pine needles on a warm day.  I felt so at peace and full of gratitude.  I was able to pray about my frustrations I’ve been feeling and felt so positive about knowing all is well.  I really have been feeling such love from so many people and that helps, too.  Thanks for the emails and comments, it means more than I can really say.

I knew today would be really quiet at the shop, our first really nice Saturday in a long time and shopping don’t really mix.  I did have some fun people in today, though.  One was a friend of a friend and we had a great visit.  I had one friend come knit with me and I had another friend bring her granddaughter in so I could french braid her hair.  I used to do her mama’s hair when she was the same age.  Now that feels weird.  Regretfully, I couldn’t find my camera because I wanted to take a picture of her mostly because I didn’t have a mirror so she could see the back of her hair.  When I got home, hubby said he saw me put it in my purse last night and it was indeed in my purse.  oh well.

I made a little progress on my Francie sock.  I started the heel this afternoon.

I guess it isn’t visibly much farther than the last time I showed it, but it is longer and I had the heel out of view….too late to go take another picture tonight.

I left the shop for a bit this morning and bought myself a portable external hard drive for my laptop.  I have got to try to clean this off a little bit, it is so slow and I have way too much stuff on it.  I cleared off 2,700,000 kb just getting rid of some mp3s and pictures.  I plan to get the rest off here after I am sure the drive is working.  I do hope that helps some.  It was on clearance and I had a coupon so it was a really good deal!

The little imp went to spend some of the day with the mama-to-be.  They sat in her new pool for awhile….she bought a kiddy pool last night because heat and pregnancy wears a body out.  She said she went inside and when she came out, he was sitting in her willow tree.  A few minutes later she couldn’t see him but she could hear him.  She hollered for him and he said he was “right here”.  She looked up and he was quite a way up the tree!  She asked how he planned to get down and he got a little nervous.  I said, “I bet you didn’t feel much like climbing up there, did you?”  since her hubby was not home.  She said no, she didn’t feel much like trying to catch him either.  She talked him down but it’s funny how doing things in reverse was a lot harder.  When she started telling me about it, I did ask if his feet were on the ground before I heard the story.

I can only laugh.  If I had been there I’d have probably made him fall out of the tree when I started freaking out.

I’ll probably post my next installment of my 100 things tomorrow.  I just read my first to hubby.

Have a great weekend!

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I’m not dragging along hanging my head, I really am fine…but what I love is that people stopped to pray for me! 

God has never failed me yet and He’s not going to do it now. 

I got my Ravelry order today!  I ordered it last Saturday afternoon, very shortly after the store opened.  I’m really bummed that I did’t get the canvas bag, I really wanted one and do hope they get more in.  But I love the bag I got!  I also got the t-shirt but I didn’t take a picture of it.

And see my cute pin?

I got the daily dose of fiber tshirt, too…and I love the color!