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February 05, 2005
Our blogs, our selves
My blog was sick. Now I am. You may have noticed that for the last week nearly two weeks there was no posting, no commenting, sporatic email. That had to happen when there was a ridiculous photo of me posted, didn't it! I'm catching up on the email I owe, so please be patient if you haven't heard from me. Things are more or less back in working order now
Here's the last two weeks in a nutshell:
Tuesday - Sarah gave me Sweethearts (which I ate right away so you'll have to go to her site if you really want to see a photo of them).
Wednesday - I won a contest! I never win contests! Looby Lou asked people to identify a poem and I did! I asked for haggis, but she suggested old-fashioned Scottish sweets instead.
I met Kim (who you may have seen in the comments) and Trish (who I found out reads, but doesn't comment as far as I can remember) and their husbands (and mine) for a really great dinner with good wine which I drank enough of to babble incessantly. Kim brought me all this:
the world's biggest box of Cheerios so I can eat breakfast, gigantic plastic bags to continue my new yarn organization obsession, muffin papers so I can teach the French that muffins don't have to be chocolate and they are not the same thing as cupcakes, and candy corn because they aren't all melted together.
Don't you love the beautiful, clean packages of yarn? I think I should do this with all of my yarn, or would that just be scary? And sorry for the crap photo. It was dark out.
Thursday - I had a lovely tea and delicious scones with Auntie M, who was delightful company.
Friday - I got Knitting on the Edge in the mail (you know what it is so I won't bother to link) and read it in the laundromat with Sarah.
Frog and I took the Eurostar to London to hang out with my cousin. I took 2 knitting projects with me but only knit for about 3 minutes of the trip before falling asleep.
Saturday - We discovered a great love of crumplets. I didn't knit but I bought a ball of Rowan wool cotton that I really needed to finish Laura. I heard someone say "Gov-ner" for real - not in a film and not joking.
Sunday - I bought crumpets and cranberry juice to bring back. Still no knitting.
Monday - Ate crumpets. I worked on a couple patterns and felt like I got amazingly little done even though it took me all day
Tuesday - Work, work, work.
Wednesday - Worked my butt off again and got a lot done, including some seams on the Laura sweater. I just need to attach the second sleeve. Went to bed with chills and aches and a fever.
Thursday - Called in sick. I never call in sick. I wanted to take advantage of this unexpected day off to get some stuff done, but in order to do so, I would have had to go to the other side of town to buy a ball of yarn that I needed. Walking across the street to the pharmacy was difficult enough. I had to miss knitting with Kim and Trish. whatabummer.
Friday - I was so sick I couldn't do anything besides sleep and whine.
Saturday - According to my host, my blog should be cured. And I feel a bit better thanks to anti-biotics. I might even be able to knit today and Frog said he'll go get my ball of yarn so I don't have to move.
Posted by kate at February 5, 2005 11:47 AM
Comments
do hope you feel better, and hope to get to see that peruvian wool in person :)
oh yes please teach the french that muffins don't have to be like LEAD either.
and can I tell you that I am SO JEALOUS about the cranberry juice..... and that they have bagels over there too :) I have a friend coming in later this week ona a last sec work trip and I am sooooo psyched! IMPORTER :)
Posted by: stinkerbell at February 7, 2005 07:06 PM
There have been some serious illness going around. I hope you're feeling better. Nice getting together with you.
Posted by: Auntie M at February 6, 2005 08:47 PM
Happy to have you back, Kate! It sounds like you have been quite busy...How are the shoes working out for you? :)
Posted by: Anne-Caroline at February 6, 2005 06:31 PM
Cheers and speedy recoveries to you! I finished my clapotis this week, and I love it muchly! I wore it to a wedding and got many many compliments on it. It is the most satisfying and fun pattern i've done so far, and I think I might start another today....Bravo!
Posted by: peth at February 6, 2005 03:44 PM
Announcement:
I have started Clapotis in Colinette Tagliatelli.
I was worried about you - you were gone a long, long time. I'm sorry you're sick. My little boy has a cold and is going through tissues like mad. We're making Howard Hughes jokes.
Do you need anything from Seattle?
Posted by: patti at February 5, 2005 11:17 PM
Glad you're feeling better. Welcome back!
Posted by: heather at February 5, 2005 07:57 PM
I love Knitting on the Edge! I just got it too! Sorry you were so sick. ;-(
Posted by: Jenny at February 5, 2005 06:24 PM
Hope you're all better soon and you get lots of knitting done.
We are having Haggis for lunch on Thursday, wanna come?
Posted by: yvette at February 5, 2005 05:46 PM
Hope you are feeling lots better by now. That is one nice "Frog" to go get your yarn for you.
That yarn pic - nice stuff! Oooh, can't wait to see what you start.
Nice stash too of American products!
Terry in SF
Posted by: terry at February 5, 2005 04:32 PM
icky sickness... I think it must be the season. not to mention that the constant cloud cover doesn't help the motivation either... some days I think I could just go into hibernation.
(and hell, I haven't posted in so long either, I need to get on it this weekend!)
Posted by: kim at February 5, 2005 03:15 PM
glad you are feeling better!! was starting to get worried - missed reading your blog.
after you teach the french about muffins - I'm gonna move there and get them all addicted to BROWNIES and then I'm gonna teach 'em how to make toll house cookies!!!
Next time I come to Paris I guess i'll have to bring lots of cheerios - i like the honeynut ones myself but you seem like a classic cheerio girl.
Posted by: michelledBrooklyn at February 5, 2005 03:04 PM
Yarrrrrrrrrnnnnnn...yum. Lucky you.
What a relief to see the blog works again! And muffins are definitely not cupcakes. Actually, I've never used papers for muffins...but I have for cupcakes. With muffins I just dump the batter right into the muffin tin. And then later, I make my husband wash the pan ;-)
Posted by: Lee Ann at February 5, 2005 02:56 PM
Missed you terribly. I'm glad you're on the mend. How nice of the frog. Give him a hug from for that.
Posted by: valentina at February 5, 2005 01:20 PM
Glad you're feeling better. The new yarn looks lovely!
Posted by: julia at February 5, 2005 01:02 PM
