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Something fun

A fun meme Nathania had on her blog:

1. Go to www.photobucket.com (don't sign in)
2. For each question below, type your answer in the "search" box and hit ENTER
3. Use only the first page of hits that come up and select a picture. If no matches are found to your search query you can revise your answer.
4. Copy the html for the photo you select and paste it in your post.

 1) What's your first name?

2) What's your favorite food? 3) Where did you go to school? 4) What's your relationship status? 5) What's your favorite color? 6) Who's your celebrity crush? 7) Who are you listening to right now? 8) Favorite movie? 9) Favorite book? 10) Favorite Disney Princess? 11) Favorite drink? 12) Where's your dream vacation? 13) What's your favorite dessert? 14) What do you want to be when you grow up? 15) What do you love most in life? 16) One word to describe yourself? I had to add a few questions to even this out at twenty.  It is too much fun to try to find something from some of these words! 17) One word to describe your style? 18) What's your ideal home? 19) What's your favorite mode of transportation? 20) What are you passionate about? Who's next for this little meme??

I made someone's day!

I have enjoyed finding new blogs through the "You Make My Day" award that has been floating around.  But I have to say, I really didn't think I would be inspirational to anyone.
RosieKate says that I've made her day!  What a wonderful compliment:)  She enjoys seeing what I've been knitting.  Well I gotta tell ya she has beautiful knit ideas herself!!
Now to nominate 10 blogs that I read daily and find inspirational.
Some of these have been nominated by others, but they still inspire me so I have to nominate as well:

Marisol:  I love her knitting energy, color sense and community works!  I really hope to meet her in person one of these days:)

Tammy:  A local knitter that I have met in person.  I love what to read about what she and her daughter are knitting and spinning these days.  It's inspirational to see how close they are!

Stephanie:  The Yarn Harlot is inspirational on so many levels!  I have learned techniques from her, laughed as I've learned from her mistakes and found so many projects I've wanted to take on.

Jenn:  I'm so happy to have found Woolgirl!  She has been very dangerous on the shopping front, but I love the yarns I've found through her.  I have been inspired by those yarns to create fabulous footwear:)  I also love how she structures her blog.  I hope to meet her in person before she disappears from my city;)

Jane:  I love reading this blog!  Jane has beautiful ideas for knitting, goes on great trips and visits fabulous festivals.  I enjoy vicariously living in the south through Quiddity!

--Deb:  My vicarious life on the east coast resides here.  The amount of sweaters she knits is an inspiration in itself!  The beauty and techniques used are wonderful to read about.  Deb's writings about spinning were instrumental in getting me back to my wheel.

Lynne:  Her creation of the Special Swap has been a great inspiration to me.  I love getting to know ladies through this swap.  Lynne really cares about people and her blog shows it:)

Nathania:  I've been reading her blog for a few years now.  I feel like I know her as I've watched all the wonderful changes that have happened in her life in recent years.  She is a very special lady!  We were both part of a scarf swap a few years ago.  I treasure the scarf she knit for me.  If I think of just one way she inspires it would have to be her love of her family:)

Debby:  This is a daily read that is very inspriational.  Her support of the colitis foundation is wonderful!  And her generosity to other causes (both financially and just leading us all to them) gets me active:)

Margene:  Last and definitely not least!  Her photos, her spinning, her 365 days of blogging, her knitting (of course) and her writing inspire me to keep on keeping on:)

Some of these ladies I'm going to tell that I tagged them, but a few I am just going to surprise when they read this next;)

Fun and the creative

Saturday nights at Nostrana always have a theme.  We like to have fun to make it through a busy weekend.  This week was Doctors.  I chose to be the psychiatrist.  But we had a list of every medical doctor that each employee chose to be for the evening.  It is silly fun. 
However, this brought on all the other "funny" doctors out there.  Here is how far we got in our list through the night:

Dr. Bronner
Dr. Pepper
Dr. Brown (soda)
Dr. Ruth
Dr. Laura
Dr. Phil
Dr. Dre
Dr. J
Dr. Doolittle
Dr. Zhivago
Dr. Strangelove

I am forgetting a few here.  leave me some comments of more doctors.  It was pretty funny that every so often during the night one of the cooks would call out a random dr. name he had just thought of.  Also, when the servers weren't quickly picking up food you would hear "is there a doctor in the house".  Pretty silly I know but we loved it!

I went for the exercise instead of the knitting today.  DH really wanted to go for a bike ride, but my hand has been bothering me lately (hobby and work using the same motor skills is a problem sometimes).  I talked him into a walk so we headed accross the river and down to our favorite breakfast place--Cafe Du Berry.  Best french toast in Portland.  As nice as this was I had planned to meet Tammy and her daughter over at Mabel's today.  It is hard to fit everything in.

This evening I am taking a Crewel class at Twisted.  I'm excited to get some embroidery under my belt.  And completely be chance I ran across this site today--Renaissance Dying.  Beautiful colors of crewel wool as well as knitting yarn and embroidery thread.  All dyed using natural plants.  I've dyed and gone to heaven (get it--gotta have my daily bad joke).

One week until the Guts and Glory 5K!!  Check out the prize page and let's try to get two more drawings before next Sunday:)

A stolen meme

This was over at Jane's Place.  I like the idea of checking back in a year to see which I may have done or not done...and will I still never do?

"here's another meme.  I thought it would be fun to do this one, and then look back in a year or so and see if I've actually accomplished any of the things I've said I'll try, or done any that I've said I won't."

I'm actually surprised how many of these I've already done.  Some it was just so long ago I've forgotten.

Meme

Legend:
Stuff I've done/am doing
Stuff I'd like to do
Stuff that I'll probably never do

I-cord
Garter stitch
Knitting with metal wire
Afghan
Shawl
Stockinette stitch
Socks: top-down
Socks: toe-up
Knitting with camel yarn
Mittens: Cuff-up
Mittens: Tip-down
Hat
Knitting with silk
Participating in a KAL
Sweater
Drop stitch patterns
Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn
Domino knitting
Mobious band knitting
Slip stitch patterns
Knitting with banana fiber yarn
Twisted stitch patterns
Knitting with Bamboo yarn
Two end knitting
Charity knitting
Knitting with soy yarn
Cardigan
Toy/Doll clothing
Knitting with circular needles
Baby items
Knitting with your own handspun yarn
Slippers
Graffiti knitting (knitting items on, or to be left on the street)
Continental Knitting
Designing knitted garments
Cable stitch patterns (incl. Aran)
Lace patterns
Publishing a knitting book
Scarf
Teaching a child to knit
American/English knitting (as opposed to continental)
Knitting to make money
Buttonholes
Knitting with Alpaca
Fair Isle Knitting
Norwegian knitting
Dying with plant colors
Knitting items for a wedding
Household items (dishcloths, washcloths, tea cosies...)
Knitting socks (or other small tubular items)on two circulars
Olympic knitting
Knitting with someone else's handspun yarn
Knitting with dpns
Holiday related knitting
Teaching a male to knit
Bobbles
Knitting for a living
Knitting with cotton
Knitting smocking
Dyeing yarn
Steeks
Knitting art
Knitting two socks (or other small tubular items) on two circulars simultaneously
Fulling/felting
Knitting with wool
Textured Knitting
Kitchener Bind Off
Purses/bags
Knitting with beads
Swatching
Long Tail CO
Entrelac
Knitting and Purling Backwards
Machine knitting
Knitting with selfpatterning/selfstriping/variegating yarn
Stuffed Toys
Baby items
Knitting with Cashmere
Jewelry
Darning
Knitting with synthetic yarn
Writing a pattern
Gloves
Intarsia
Knitting with Linen
Knitting for preemies
Freeform knitting
Tubular co
Short rows
Cuffs/fingerless mitts/armwarmers
Pillows
Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine
Rug
Thrummed knitting
Knitting on a loom
Knitting a gift
Knitting for pets
Shrug/Bolero/Poncho
Knitting with dog/cat hair
Hair accessories
Knitting in public

A little late on this

Tagged by Jane...last week (sorry Jane) THE RULES: Each player of this game starts with the ‘6 weird things about you.’ People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says ‘you are tagged’ in their comments and tell them to read your blog.”

1. I am the worst slob at home except for my bed.  I always make my bed as I get up in the morning.  I am so happy to get into a well made bed at the end of the day.
2. I am (probably not surprising) a total sleepoholic.  A good 10 hours...I could sleep for 12 no problem!
3. I am a big pack rat.  Every time I clean things out I fill the place right back up again.  This has definitely carried over to the yarn area over the last couple years.  I blame that all on the blogosphere.  I don't want a project to disapear when I might want to knit it someday.  yikes!  listen to me.
4. I hide jelly bellies in the car.
5. When I really get laughing I start sounding like Horshack from Welcome back Kotter.  Remember him?  I only started doing that after seeing that show when I was little.  But the laugh just never went away.
6. I love owning bright accessories (like knit socks) but rarely wear bright clothing.  I am trying to break out of that.  I got into an orange kick last year.  However, I am realizing I have worn either black or brown for a month now.

I'm not sure if there is anyone else left to tag!  So if you grab this let me know so I can come read yours:)

Interesting

considering I have never been to Minnesota before.

What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central   "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent.  If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary.  Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
The West
The Midland
Boston
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The South
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

A little meme

courtesy of --Deb
5 quotations that might describe me (at the moment at least)

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.     Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West (1892 - 1980)

Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC)

I may have to revisit this next year to see what describes me most.

Haven't memed in a while

Saw this over on Katia's site.  Have a few things to do still.  And I'm happy I haven't done a lot of them.
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said ‘I love you’ and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa --been there but didn't go up
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg — how about a glacier???
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne --several girls need to stop laughing now...Gina
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight --now that is a funny story
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse --parcial
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 10 provinces
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign --it was a very long time ago
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your cds
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers --wasn't posing, but I got nude with strangers yesterday
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River --funny, DH will be doing this in a couple weeks
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Had a one-night stand
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror. --only in the audience;)
96. Raised children.
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Created and named your own constellation of stars
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an illness that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane Kinda.
109. Petted a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach --disgusting but true
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146: Dyed your hair
147: Been a DJ
148: Shaved your head
149: Caused a car accident
150: Saved someone’s life

Italia! Italia! Italia!

Yes, I will admit that France played the better game...well up until Zadane's little head butt action.  But we all saw who was up on that podeum!  Wooo Hooo  We decided to forego the craziness of the Italian cafe and bar action.  We sat at home with our boy (and the second footie ) to cheer together.

A little Saturday sky action on a Sunday afternoon. I wasn't able to get outside with a camera any earlier.  It was a lovely night.  I wish this photo showed the moon better.  Not quite full, but certainly acting like it (if you know what I mean).

A happy little foot

This little footie isn't quite done but it was so excited about that win by Italia it needed a bit of a racing stripe.  The fact that the game was somewhat uneventful for the first (well entire) part of the game gave me time to learn the different short row heel/toe technique that Alison uses in her footie pattern.  It was confusing until I worked the whole heel.  Now I love it!  I will still use the short row wrap and turn technique I always have for longer socks, but this is perfect for an anklet.  Really seemless.  I'm looking forward to seeing it on the toe as well.
Yesterday ended up being quite a day back in history for us.  We copped out on the same party as last year.  Ate Mexican down the street (at least at a different place this year) and passed the same neighbors (even had the same conversation) as we went and stood on the same bridge to watch the fireworks.  From this bridge we were able to see 4 different big firework shows and several nice ones that people had snuck in from across the Washington border.  It was great.  I think I even had the same allergy attack on the way home as last year.  I'd be very happy to continue this day into next year as well.  A very restful and calm Fourth! 
It was so clear last night, but today it's quite gray.  I'm expecting a busy lunch and dinner.  I think I'll be quite happy to have rested up.
Today is a birthday day for this sweet ole guy! Happy Birthday Dad!!  This is the first one in a while we won't be playing together.  He is saving up any travel time for his present to himself...a month trip to the Amazon in August.  This has been a life long dream of his.  I'm so excited he's doing it!!