ok maybe to me at least… and i know that sandra is a baseball fan as well. how can we get other ballparks to do this? i’d be in hog heaven.
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stitch n pitch in seattle
happy friday everyone!
btw: what do you do when you’ve been tagged by someone that you’ve tagged too? i won’t have to do meme again will i? lol.
joy has tagged me for meme so here it is… but before i start, i tag the bloggers that joy has not yet tagged (since i don’t have too many blog buddies yet): lily, marjorie, peggy, killa cali christine, rowdy rhode island christine. if you’re reading, that is. if not, it’s ok too 
5 things i miss from childhood
If you want to participate the chain-letter part works like this: remove the blog at #1 from the following list and bump every one up one place; add your blog’s name in the #5 spot; just check to make sure the links are still attached if you copy n’ paste.
1) Ellen’s Nest
2) The Farmette Report
3) Nepenthe’s Misadventures
4) dynamiteknits
5) purly brites
reaching into the memory banks…
1) coloring & drawing. for some strange reason, being able to color within the lines brings back fond memories… just picking up those crayons and coloring away… and sometimes having a marker that matches to outline the parts in the right colors. maybe i miss that a lot since it was the beginning of finding some sort of creativity within me — or just discovering that b/c i always had to color within the lines, i would become an anal-rententive, detail-oriented person 
2) weekends. my mom worked at night so that someone would always be home with us… and pulled overtime at the hospital on weekends as well. so on the weekends, my dad would take my brother and me out to the park. we’d throw the baseball around, play basketball, hit tennis balls against the handball wall. ride bikes. see saw. he’d push me on the swing. and when we got tired, the three of us would walk to brother’s pizzeria on horace harding expwy and have a slice of pizza (mine was always with extra cheese). if my mom got home in time to meet us, she’d come too and try to tell my dad that extra cheese pizza was bad for me. hee hee. i got my way anyways.
whenever i go back to NY to visit the parents, i always stop in to have a slice at that same pizzeria… and sit on the same stool. the only differences are that i’m older now, the man who owns the place is now bald, and my feet can touch the ground now when i’m sitting on the stool.
3) wearing stupid dresses. ok maybe i don’t really miss wearing the dresses that my mother made me wear. especially since i was and still am quite a tomboy. but what i did like about wearing dresses is trying to figure out how to mess them up so i wouldn’t have to wear them again heheheh. like the time i decided to sit on an escalator while i was going down (to see if i would fly up at the end)… nope didn’t fly. my dress got stuck in the teeth of the escalator instead. boy, was my mom unhappy with me… but hey, i never had to wear that dress again
4) reading in the dark. more like sneaking to read in the dark after i got put to bed. i’d crawl over to my nightlight and read my books as if they were some sort of passage to a different world… between my “choose your own adventure” books, “the babysitters club”, as well as any and all mythology, fables and fairy tales i could get my hands on, i devoured the written word as if i was starving for food. granted, this is probably the main reason why my eyesight is so poor. but i loved reading back then, and still do now (although i don’t read as much as i wish i could — there’s just not enough time!)… literature is so powerful.
5) white castle. which is still “what i crave”. i lived in jackson heights for a few years (when i was about 5-7 yrs old), and we lived 3 doors down from the white castle on northern boulevard. so instead of getting happy meals i got white castle kiddie meals… the boxes were in the shape of the white castle, so i used to put my she-ra toys thru the castle (since i didn’t have a real castle for them). my my, how we used to use our imagination when we were young…
so i started a new project before i finished the seams in the scarf or laceup cami. and before i finished the trellis and lace leaf scarf. it’s the honeymoon cami using the golden siam from art fibers. i shoulda skipped out on the twisted rib edging since you can’t really see it with this yarn… but i don’t feel like frogging. it’s knitting up nicely though — the yarn itself isn’t even, it feels more like a handspun variety prob b/c of the fact that it’s 100% silk… so i just tug a bit harder on the yarn when i get to the thicker part and it seems to be even so far. i won’t post a pic until it’s done tho since this one just looks like a blob of stitches on my circulars… it won’t do the piece justice until it’s finally done.
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oops sorry, my kitty did that.
thank goodness they don’t get into my yarn.
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btw, do you think that this shawl would look good without the fringe? i would like to make this in either silver or white for my cousin as a personal wedding gift… what do you think? or, any other recs for a wedding gift shawl?
okay, so she’s gone for a bit, but here’s the recap of the last few days.
Thursday: picked up joy from SFO. i was late. traffic sucked donkey doo. but that was ok — it looked like she was quite preoccupied with knitting her new england foliage clapotis. and it was ok too b/c we headed up towards the city and went to art fibers. she bought a bunch of stuff. i came home with this:
could this possibly be the honeymoon cami yarn i’ve been waiting for? i’m itching to cast on but must finish my WIPs first.
after art fibers, we were starving, so we walked towards the ferry building to have lunch here. i’ll let her fill in on the details, but i must say — lunch was DELICIOUS.
after that we just drove back to my ‘hood and watched the episodes of knitty gritty that i had saved for her on my tivo. joy brought me some yarn as well as “payment” for her accomodations while she’s here in the bay area (are we finding our way back to a barter economy?). but yippee for me, more purple yarn: knit picks alpaca cloud in Iris and some Manos in a dark purple (yay! a hot lava cardigan for me!)
when we got hungry, we headed up to berkeley for some indian food and beer… which caused joy to pass out due to food coma and exhaustion from the time difference.
friday: dragged joy to the gym for a spinning class with me. not spinning yarn — stationary bicycle spinning. the first time is always the hardest and sure enough, she was tired again. but we got some frozen yogurt and i thought she would be fine, but the headache set in, so i let her sleep it off until it was time to get ready to go to her friend’s wedding… which was fun despite the fact that we didn’t really know anyone there (aside from the bride & groom).
saturday: joy left to drive down to San Diego. i went to another wedding — 2 wedding in 2 days is a bit much — i am still quite tired. especially since it was SOOOOO hot out. but as tired and icky as i felt, i came home to find my copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince waiting for me in my mailbox. so i started reading…
and reading…
and reading.
i didn’t stop until it was done.
the time of day at which i finished the book was 6:30am Sunday morning.
i am still tired… but it was definitely worth it
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