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September 20, 2003
Almost Forgot
I finished Jake's sweater, you can see it on my knitting journal (really cute picture).
<a href="http://www.shriekofnature.com/intheround">In The Round</a>
Posted by DebC at 01:18 PM
September 12, 2003
Hello? This is 1982 calling and I would like my dress back.
I opened up an email from my sister Kim yesterday and lo and behold was a picture of us taken just before our dates took us to my senior prom! I had to laugh with the unexpected pleasure of that teenage memory.
I dated this guy Shawn for nearly two years. He went to our rival highschool, I had met him at biology camp. I was this odd mix of geek, shy and outgoing and he was my perfect match. I was pretty much a good girl as a teenager although I am sure my attitude was more than typical. It never occured to me to drink or smoke or sneak out. My mother told me that girls who let guys "go all the way" would immediately have a bad reputation, with the whole school knowing. I figured a bad reputation must be far worse than no reputation at all so Shawn and I never groped below the neck. Ever. Did I say ever? Never. We would kiss and slobber and breathe funny for hours and hours (like two or three hours at a time). We desperately wanted to do ANYTHING else but neither of us could possibly be the one to initiate so we didn't. Eventually, this got old and we decided around the start of our senior year, to break up. No tears.
Unfortunately, this meant no date for senior prom. I didn't think it was that big of a deal really. The friday prior to prom my mother announced, "your cousin is coming over". This was definitely not normal, this was my very, very smart and beautiful cousin Valerie (almost exactly the same age as me) and we did not *hang out*. ??? "Oh, she's bringing a dress over". ???
It turned out that my mother had master minded my prom event. She called Valerie and borrowed a formal dress for me. But wait, that isn't all. She called my ex and made him take me to prom. Made him. He brought a corsage that matched, folks. Did you ever wish for the earth to open up and envelope you back into her bosom? I did. My mom may be about a half foot shorter than me but she is a force to be reckoned with, so after some initial pouting (and secret thrilling), I went to the prom with my exboyfriend, his bestfriend and my sister.
We had a blast.
(My sister Kim is in blue and I am looking positively HOT in maroon LOL)
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the Dancing Queen
Friday night and the lights are low
Looking out for the place to go
Where they play the right music, getting in the swing
You come in to look for a King
Anybody could be that guy
Night is young and the music's high
With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
You're in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance...
You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the Dancing Queen
You're a teaser, you turn 'em on
Leave them burning and then you're gone
Looking out for another, anyone will do
You're in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance...
You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the Dancing Queen
(ABBA, Dancing Queen)
**post script: We ended up going to Disney World the next day but that was the extent of that. Shawn promptly boinked the trampiest girl (by all accounts not just mine) at their school and, wait for it.............................married her.
Posted by DebC at 08:15 PM | Comments (7)
September 01, 2003
Busy Little Bee
One (and only one) good thing about working nights at a very slow hospital is that I can knit like a fool. Seth has just started to allow me to knit for brief periods at home but mom+sitting=nursingxfeet in face=no knitting.
This weekend, I finished two sweaters. One is a <a href="http://debcodding.com/Jamiesweater.jpg">beautiful baby sweater</a> for a coworker. I used Sirdar Silky Look, which is an absolute dream to work with. I had used it to make the <a href="http://debcodding.com/sweater.JPG">same sweater (different stitch though)</a> for Seth when he was born.
The <a href="http://debcodding.com/bronwynsweater.jpg">other sweater</a> is for a little girl that was born prematurely this summer. I adjusted the pattern to make the newborn sweater bigger and accidently made it about 12 months size. Hopefully she will double in size by November hahahahaha. I rummaged in my immense stash of yarn and found this awful multicolored baby yarn from the days when I used crappy yarn for crotcheting. As pleasureable as the Sirdar yarn was to work with, this yarn was horrible. The sad thing is that I have about a dozen or so skeins of different colored/weight cheap yarn in my stockpile. I decided after this project, not to foist it onto anyone else.
I am now finally (!) going to make a sweater for Jake and then for Eli. Jake has been patiently (and not so patiently) waiting for his turn. He even picked out this really neat yarn that ended up being used for a <a href="http://debcodding.com/stripesweater.JPG">sweater for Seth</a>. I tried to resize that pattern for Jake but only got a <a href="http://debcodding.com/blueandgreensweater.jpg">4T out of it</a>, so back to the drawing board (I really like that pattern though).
So five (there was one misfire) sweaters in 6 months. Not bad at all.
Posted by DebC at 12:10 PM