Alito Appointed.
What's wrong with these people? There go all my rights...
1.31.2006
Lost weekend.
This weekend was both awful and fabulous, but I won't get into the awful part too much. I will say that I left work at noon on Friday because I was feeling, well, awful. I woke up with a sore throat, and it just got worse from there. I vegged on the couch for the remainder of the day, while slipping in and out of consciousness, and forever contemplating picking up my knitting, but never actually doing it. Sometimes you're just too sick to knit. Am I right?
Anywho. I wound up not going out Friday night and I left poor Jen to fend for herself at the pub. I'm so bummed that I missed it, but I was way to sick to go out and play. After a long night of something I'd rather not talk about, I wound up in bed around 1 am, but not before finishing some slipper booties I made for my mom for her birthday while watching Silence of the Lambs. (I'll post the pics tonight). I messed with this pattern (she picked it out), and borrowed some size 13 dpn's, SIZE 13 DPN'S!!!!, from Nancy at SnB Thursday night. It was my first ever sock like pattern, and although I was freaked out when I got to the point where the heal turns, Dani reassured me that everything was going fine, and that it would all come together in the end. It sure did, and I got two (not of equal size) chunky maroon booties to prove it. Turns out, my mother loves them, and I'm quite proud of myself for getting them done so quickly.
As for the missing mitten. Well, it's still missing. I searched high and low for a total of about 6 hours last week, and it's just nowhere. Total bummer. So I started on a new one. Booooo. Did I tell you I'm never knitting anything on size 2 dpn's with sock weight yarn again? I'm not. I don't think my hands can take it. Cramping. Ouch. I'm hoping they'll be done by the end of the week. We'll see how motivated I am.
Oh! So my secret date with Anthony went like this:
Unfortunately, I was still feeling very under the weather, but I wasn't going to let anything stop me from going forth with the things I had planned for this day. We definitely needed the alone time together and it was totally worth it. I love that man so freekin much I feel like shouting it from the roof tops. Constantly. Anywho, this is how it unfolded.
We set out around 11am. We headed to Best Bargain Books on Hospital Rd in Patchogue. We spent a good hour or more there. Anthony picked up an Idiot's guide to Chess or something like that for one of his buddies that he's trying to teach. I got a huge Marilyn Monroe book with amazing photographs for my mom for her birthday.
After that my plan was to go to the movies, but nothing was really playing at the theatre I had a gift certificate to, and it was such a gorgeous day that sitting in a dark theater didn't really sound too fun. So we headed into the town of Patchogue and stopped at the good will, and two other thrift shops. Anthony bought this awesome beige corduroy blazer with the elbow patches. He looks soooooo good in it. He calls it his professor jacket. So cute.
We then headed over to my most favorite sushi restaurant, Mizu Sushi, in Bayport. It was good because I had a gift certificate that Scott got me for my birthday that I kept losing, so I finally found it and used it. We ate edemame, a house salad with ginger dressing, tuna carpacio, and I got a couple of crunchy rolls and he had a sushi dinner with a variety of sushi and a california roll. We were stuffed.
We then headed up to Port Jeff, but first stopped at Selden Thrift, which was on the way. We didn't buy anything there, but they did have a cute little blue corduroy backgammon board. Back into the car, and heading north on 112 we almost passed Northern Thrift, but quickly decided we should hit one last thrift shop before making it down port. We browsed for a bit, but didn't buy anything there either.
We got into port jeff around 5 and had an hour to kill before the opening reception for Gallery 4222's new show, so we decided to walk around town. We stopped in the smoke shop up there and I bought a bunch of empty cigar boxes (I LOVE THEM!!) for a buck each, and the money goes to charity! I was siked! We browsed through the little mall-like place they had there and contemplated painting some pottery, but it could have gotten a little expensive, and neither of us were out to spend that much money. We left there and headed up to the used book store where I bought two Anias Nin books that I didn't have and Anthony bought his 85th copy of Cosmos by Carl Sagen. Seriously, he has so many copies. I started reading it a couple of nights ago, and I can see why. We still had a few minutes to kill so we went to Starbucks where I had a Soy Chai tea latte and he had some sort of red tea. We decided to do Newsday's 6 star suduko puzzle, and we wound up messing up the first one, so Anthony bought another paper and we wound up finishing it, which was not an easy feat. It was the first time I had ever done one of those and I am now completely obsessed with them. I did yesterday's 1 star in under 5 minutes (I know, it was only 1 star). Anthony got a 1924 penny with his change and he looked it up on the internet and found out it was worth way more than one cent. That's always fun!!
We finally made it to the art show around 7:30 and it was quite a reception!! Scott, John, Ester-Marie, Pedro, Yukito, Daryl, Alex, Stelios, Chris Cooke, and many others all had one piece in the show titled "Interpreting the Self". That gallery is really quite classy. I'm so proud of my friends for opening and maintaining such a wonderful space. They're all going to be famous someday. Really.
We were home around 9:30 and just exhausted from the day. We watched the end of Forrest Gump and I proceeded to cry my eyes out. Seriously, how can you not cry at the end of that movie. I was weeping. We were in bed by 11, and if it weren't for some rowdy sweet 16 party going on at the American Legions hall across the street, it would have been the perfect end to the perfect day. Stupid hooligans shouting and fighting in the street until 2:30am. Sometimes, I'm not so siked to live on Main Street.
Sunday was my Mom's birthday. We had a pizza party and cake. Anthony brought her flowers, how adorable is he? It was a fun night. Dayquil was my best friend this weekend, and Tylenol Sinus has quickly stepped in for the past couple of days. Unfortunately, my head still feels like it's going to explode, so I'll keep you updated if that does, in fact, happen.
Back to work.
Anywho. I wound up not going out Friday night and I left poor Jen to fend for herself at the pub. I'm so bummed that I missed it, but I was way to sick to go out and play. After a long night of something I'd rather not talk about, I wound up in bed around 1 am, but not before finishing some slipper booties I made for my mom for her birthday while watching Silence of the Lambs. (I'll post the pics tonight). I messed with this pattern (she picked it out), and borrowed some size 13 dpn's, SIZE 13 DPN'S!!!!, from Nancy at SnB Thursday night. It was my first ever sock like pattern, and although I was freaked out when I got to the point where the heal turns, Dani reassured me that everything was going fine, and that it would all come together in the end. It sure did, and I got two (not of equal size) chunky maroon booties to prove it. Turns out, my mother loves them, and I'm quite proud of myself for getting them done so quickly.
As for the missing mitten. Well, it's still missing. I searched high and low for a total of about 6 hours last week, and it's just nowhere. Total bummer. So I started on a new one. Booooo. Did I tell you I'm never knitting anything on size 2 dpn's with sock weight yarn again? I'm not. I don't think my hands can take it. Cramping. Ouch. I'm hoping they'll be done by the end of the week. We'll see how motivated I am.
Oh! So my secret date with Anthony went like this:
Unfortunately, I was still feeling very under the weather, but I wasn't going to let anything stop me from going forth with the things I had planned for this day. We definitely needed the alone time together and it was totally worth it. I love that man so freekin much I feel like shouting it from the roof tops. Constantly. Anywho, this is how it unfolded.
We set out around 11am. We headed to Best Bargain Books on Hospital Rd in Patchogue. We spent a good hour or more there. Anthony picked up an Idiot's guide to Chess or something like that for one of his buddies that he's trying to teach. I got a huge Marilyn Monroe book with amazing photographs for my mom for her birthday.
After that my plan was to go to the movies, but nothing was really playing at the theatre I had a gift certificate to, and it was such a gorgeous day that sitting in a dark theater didn't really sound too fun. So we headed into the town of Patchogue and stopped at the good will, and two other thrift shops. Anthony bought this awesome beige corduroy blazer with the elbow patches. He looks soooooo good in it. He calls it his professor jacket. So cute.
We then headed over to my most favorite sushi restaurant, Mizu Sushi, in Bayport. It was good because I had a gift certificate that Scott got me for my birthday that I kept losing, so I finally found it and used it. We ate edemame, a house salad with ginger dressing, tuna carpacio, and I got a couple of crunchy rolls and he had a sushi dinner with a variety of sushi and a california roll. We were stuffed.
We then headed up to Port Jeff, but first stopped at Selden Thrift, which was on the way. We didn't buy anything there, but they did have a cute little blue corduroy backgammon board. Back into the car, and heading north on 112 we almost passed Northern Thrift, but quickly decided we should hit one last thrift shop before making it down port. We browsed for a bit, but didn't buy anything there either.
We got into port jeff around 5 and had an hour to kill before the opening reception for Gallery 4222's new show, so we decided to walk around town. We stopped in the smoke shop up there and I bought a bunch of empty cigar boxes (I LOVE THEM!!) for a buck each, and the money goes to charity! I was siked! We browsed through the little mall-like place they had there and contemplated painting some pottery, but it could have gotten a little expensive, and neither of us were out to spend that much money. We left there and headed up to the used book store where I bought two Anias Nin books that I didn't have and Anthony bought his 85th copy of Cosmos by Carl Sagen. Seriously, he has so many copies. I started reading it a couple of nights ago, and I can see why. We still had a few minutes to kill so we went to Starbucks where I had a Soy Chai tea latte and he had some sort of red tea. We decided to do Newsday's 6 star suduko puzzle, and we wound up messing up the first one, so Anthony bought another paper and we wound up finishing it, which was not an easy feat. It was the first time I had ever done one of those and I am now completely obsessed with them. I did yesterday's 1 star in under 5 minutes (I know, it was only 1 star). Anthony got a 1924 penny with his change and he looked it up on the internet and found out it was worth way more than one cent. That's always fun!!
We finally made it to the art show around 7:30 and it was quite a reception!! Scott, John, Ester-Marie, Pedro, Yukito, Daryl, Alex, Stelios, Chris Cooke, and many others all had one piece in the show titled "Interpreting the Self". That gallery is really quite classy. I'm so proud of my friends for opening and maintaining such a wonderful space. They're all going to be famous someday. Really.
We were home around 9:30 and just exhausted from the day. We watched the end of Forrest Gump and I proceeded to cry my eyes out. Seriously, how can you not cry at the end of that movie. I was weeping. We were in bed by 11, and if it weren't for some rowdy sweet 16 party going on at the American Legions hall across the street, it would have been the perfect end to the perfect day. Stupid hooligans shouting and fighting in the street until 2:30am. Sometimes, I'm not so siked to live on Main Street.
Sunday was my Mom's birthday. We had a pizza party and cake. Anthony brought her flowers, how adorable is he? It was a fun night. Dayquil was my best friend this weekend, and Tylenol Sinus has quickly stepped in for the past couple of days. Unfortunately, my head still feels like it's going to explode, so I'll keep you updated if that does, in fact, happen.
Back to work.
1.30.2006
Things that make me poop.
I know you don't really care, but I need to know why this is happening.
Why do bookstores make me have to poop? Why?
The only link I've found that discusses it (doesn't explain it though) is here.
At least I know I'm not alone.
Why do bookstores make me have to poop? Why?
The only link I've found that discusses it (doesn't explain it though) is here.
At least I know I'm not alone.
1.26.2006
This is just crazy.
I don't know whether to cry or to scream or to do both, simultaneously. I seemed to have lost the other mitten of the Broadstreet Mitten pair I've been working on, for what seems like forever, for Anthony. The glove part was finished, all the 85 ends weaved in, and all that needed to be done was the mitten flap. I finished the other glove, flap and all, and was ready to start the other flap when I noticed the mitten was missing. The worst part is that it's the right hand mitten. The one that the pattern tells you to just "reverse the pattern" for. I already knitted the thing twice because the first time I placed the thumb gusset in the wrong spot. I frogged the ENTIRE MITTEN, and started over when I figured out how I was supposed to knit it. Now, seeing as I did this about a month ago, I have forgotten how I did this. I know that I'm going to mess it up again. Yep, that's right, I'm knitting a-whole-nother mitten.
This is crazy. I searched for over 3 hours last night and the missing mitten is nowhere to be found. I'm afraid I might have thrown it away when I was moving in. There were just so many boxes, and papers, and crap scattered about our apartment that I fear it got thrown into something and mistaken for trash. How could this be possible? I've been asking myself the same thing. Over and over. There is no way in hell I would throw out this mitten. I've worked way to hard on it. I clearly remember taking it out of my bag and placing it on top of my dresser. That was about 2 weeks ago. It just vanished. I guess the moral of the story is to always keep your knitting project together at all times. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Oh, the best part is that I can't even start the new one because I could only find 4 of the 5 #2 dpn's that I need. Booooooooo.
This is crazy. I searched for over 3 hours last night and the missing mitten is nowhere to be found. I'm afraid I might have thrown it away when I was moving in. There were just so many boxes, and papers, and crap scattered about our apartment that I fear it got thrown into something and mistaken for trash. How could this be possible? I've been asking myself the same thing. Over and over. There is no way in hell I would throw out this mitten. I've worked way to hard on it. I clearly remember taking it out of my bag and placing it on top of my dresser. That was about 2 weeks ago. It just vanished. I guess the moral of the story is to always keep your knitting project together at all times. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Oh, the best part is that I can't even start the new one because I could only find 4 of the 5 #2 dpn's that I need. Booooooooo.
1.25.2006
Scheduled outage at 4:00pm pst.
What an odd time to schedule an outage. Why don't they do it in the middle of the night like most sites? Strange.
Jen and I received our Knit Picks yarn to make our Knitting Olympics things. I'm so super excited about it, that I had to hide the yarn so that I don't begin early. Jen said that we're allowed to knit a swatch before the flame is lit, so she took hers to work with her. I think she's learning some of my impatience. Anywho. I got the Knit Picks Shine in Cream for the Knitting Olympics surprise I'm making for my sister, and in Apricot for the Picovoli I'm going to make myself, hopefully, before summer.
Now, if I could only find the other glove to finish Anthony's Broadstreet Mittens already. I will be so happy when I finish these suckers, and I vow never, ever, ever, ever, ever, to make them again. What a headache.
On the home front. I'm broke, and by the end of the week I have to buy my maid of honor dress for my sisters wedding. Booooooo. I've been super stressed, but last night I took a half hour, took a bath, listened to my iPod, drank a glass of red wine, and relaxed. It was definitely needed.
Oh!! I'm also planning a surprise date for Anthony and I this Saturday. I'm super excited, because it looks like we can do about 4 things that doesn't require spending any money. I'm super savvy. I really have to stop saying "super" so much. I'll tell you how it goes after the date. I don't want to give it away in case he reads this.
I'm thinking that potato chips and dip is not the best choice for a dinner entree. I definitely should have eaten at least a can of corn or something last night. My belly is quite angry with me today.
The left over chips were from our crazy Housewarming Party this weekend. Check out the very few pics I took. I couldn't even tell you what I did most of that night. I just remember drinking a 007 out of a 24oz mug, then playing beer pong, followed by flip cup. Lots of drinking. I also remember losing at darts, continuously cleaning the floor under the leaking keg bucket, changing into jeans, cleaning beer off the walls, showing off my backgammon board, telling everyone that my dad made our bookshelves, dancing at 4am, and checking in on Jen every 10 seconds after that until I went to bed at 6am. Good times. If I were you, I wouldn't miss our next party. Stay tuned for details.
Jen and I received our Knit Picks yarn to make our Knitting Olympics things. I'm so super excited about it, that I had to hide the yarn so that I don't begin early. Jen said that we're allowed to knit a swatch before the flame is lit, so she took hers to work with her. I think she's learning some of my impatience. Anywho. I got the Knit Picks Shine in Cream for the Knitting Olympics surprise I'm making for my sister, and in Apricot for the Picovoli I'm going to make myself, hopefully, before summer.
Now, if I could only find the other glove to finish Anthony's Broadstreet Mittens already. I will be so happy when I finish these suckers, and I vow never, ever, ever, ever, ever, to make them again. What a headache.
On the home front. I'm broke, and by the end of the week I have to buy my maid of honor dress for my sisters wedding. Booooooo. I've been super stressed, but last night I took a half hour, took a bath, listened to my iPod, drank a glass of red wine, and relaxed. It was definitely needed.
Oh!! I'm also planning a surprise date for Anthony and I this Saturday. I'm super excited, because it looks like we can do about 4 things that doesn't require spending any money. I'm super savvy. I really have to stop saying "super" so much. I'll tell you how it goes after the date. I don't want to give it away in case he reads this.
I'm thinking that potato chips and dip is not the best choice for a dinner entree. I definitely should have eaten at least a can of corn or something last night. My belly is quite angry with me today.
The left over chips were from our crazy Housewarming Party this weekend. Check out the very few pics I took. I couldn't even tell you what I did most of that night. I just remember drinking a 007 out of a 24oz mug, then playing beer pong, followed by flip cup. Lots of drinking. I also remember losing at darts, continuously cleaning the floor under the leaking keg bucket, changing into jeans, cleaning beer off the walls, showing off my backgammon board, telling everyone that my dad made our bookshelves, dancing at 4am, and checking in on Jen every 10 seconds after that until I went to bed at 6am. Good times. If I were you, I wouldn't miss our next party. Stay tuned for details.
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