Stephieface

So, I’ve been reading alot of knitting blogs lately, and I have to admit that I’m sort of jealous. I mean there are mad bloggers out there who know one another, I feel like the new kid with funny hair and glasses. The things that most makes me jealous are the Memes or whatever they’re called where you’re tagged with a questionaire to answer then you tag someone else and they have to answer. This prays on two things, one is my love of questionaires and giving personal info out to the public for no reason whatsoever, and two is my constant need to be involved in something to the point of old lady extreme proportions… or as hubby says I’m too “God Damned Nebby”.

Therefor this must conclude one of two ways:
1. I wait however long it will take to get a friend to Meme me or whatever else its called and pray to god I’m not asking to be groped in some new hip urban way
2. Practice PreMemeculation, that is, I’ll just answer the questions and play pretend that I have blogging friends who care.

Obviously, I go with Option #2.

Here was a neat one I saw so here goes:
TEN random things you might not know about me
1. I grew up in Manassas Va. During the Civil War the battle of Bull Run here was so good they had a sequel.
2. I am allergic to bees, and only found that out when I turned 23.
3. I took alot of art classes in school.
4. I also subsequently skipped alot of school.
5. You know those sappy commercials on TV that are rumored to make people cry and you wonder aloud what retard would ball her eyes out at a commercial about a one legged kid and a one eyed dog? I would be that retard.
6. I am an absolutely horrible housekeeper, but refuse to admit this to my husband because he can never be right damn it, I refuse.
7. I say Pop not Soda (but I grew up where its Soda not Pop, now when visited by friends from the old haunt I’m accused of becoming a Northener.)
8. My husband and I hated each other over a period of nine years before we got together and found out we clicked.
9. I am the only one of my siblings, parents, and/or grandparents to currently live outside of Virginia.
10. I secretly enjoy sappy love songs and will play them when no one is around, when people are around I play punk, hard rock, or try to convince them I’m depressed by playing Staind.

NINE places I’ve visited
1. New York
2. Florida and Key West
3. Ruins at Tulum in Mexico
4. Georgia
5. Niagra Falls
6. Canada
7. Jack Daniel’s Distillery
8. Disney World
9. Graceland, home of the pimpest man in the universe

EIGHT ways to win my heart
1. Buy me jewelry
2. Talk to me about books
3. Pretend your interested when I talk to you about knitting
4. Write me poetry
5. Act silly with me.
6. Let me buy you things
7. Call me an odd pet name, like Stinky
8. Admit that Yes, Gerard Butler is hot

SEVEN things I want to do before I die
1. Learn to spin yarn
2. Travel to Ireland
3. Own a house like in my dreams
4. Watch my kids grow up and menance society
5. Be thin again
6. Be able to stop saying “Someday” and actually do it
7. Take a nice vacation with my husband

SIX things I’m afraid of
1. Horror movies
2. Big Aquariums with large glass displays that will break and drown me/release the man eating shark to get me.
3. Messing my kids up so that they’ll blame things on me in therapy
4. Being alone
5. Getting fat
6. My neighborhood and all the horrible people that live in it

FIVE things I don’t like
1. Haters
2.Anime that doesn’t make sense (wait, did robots just come out of his head? And now she’s fighting them with a guitar?)
3. Anything prissy girlie
4. Shorts
5. Anything that makes me feel uncomfortable wether it be crappy socks, cheap bras, stalker exes, or whathaveyou.

FOUR ways to turn me off
1. Blame me for everything
2. Steal my things and turn them in for cash
3. Be pushy about everything
4. Say I knit too much

THREE things I do every day
1. Read blogs about knitting
2. Knit
3. Play with my babies, Sam, TJ, and Chris

TWO things that make me happy
1. My husband, and my kids
2. Knitting

ONE thing on my mind right now
1. How will I get the things I need sewn for this weekend done in two days with a messed up sewing machine?

So there you go. If you want tagged, let me know and I’ll tag you as long as it doesn’t involve touching- I just don’t swing that way.

No its true, different versions of their “Whip It!” song flow through my head when I’m reconning sweaters… it makes it more fun. “When you’re too cheap to buy yarn….. You must Rip it!”

So a bit back I posted that I bought some sweaters for reconning. After a few hours of inhaling balls of fluff from badly washed sweaters I have two lovely balls of yarn waiting for something to do. Here you go:
This would be from the sweater that I mentioned Tj rubbing his face all over. After taking it apart into its seperate pieces for unraveling, I didn’t have the complete heart to make the little bugger wait until I knitted something up. So, I gave in to his cute green eyes and puffy cheeks just waiting for a rubbing and gave him a sleeve. He sleeps with that sleeve. Yes, I am a bad mom for taking a shortcut, sue me. The white thing there is the tag so i can rememember what its made of and have the washing directions available. I usually loop them and thread the yarn through them and just knit that way so I never lose it. The colors in the pic are pretty much true to life, its a rayon acrylic mix. I think I was lured in by the softness of it rather than the colors- just so you don’t think me style impaired.

The second yarn is a magic 8 ball yarn, since the sweater was striped. I didn’t even notice until I ripped out the tag that it was 100%merino wool. Yay me! I think the reason that the sweater was at Goodwill to start with was because the previous owner may have accidently felted it a bit, or just shrunk it a bit. It was weird pulling the stitches on this yarn because you had to tug. In any case, its soooo soft in pretty colors. I may knit me some mittens from this, and they won’t match each other since on the sweater none of the stripes were the same width ever. That should prove fun though.

So except for an agitated nose from wool fibres being flung into the blue by the unraveling, and the little balls of yarn all over my floor- I think I did a good job. So for Sweater Recon Jobs #3 and #4 I give it a success!