The Soapy Knitter

Posted By Rosi G. on January 6, 2009

Happy new year, folks! I wanted to do an end-of-’08 recap and all that but seriously, my needles were on fire last year and when I thought about blogging about the 87 FO’s I had, the various projects frogged, those hibernating and the new ones on the needle, I gagged. Ya’ll know how to hit me up on Rav already right? If not, check out the sidebars. Do I sound bitchy? Sorry, I don’t mean to be. LOL

Now, if any of you know how to set up the Ravelry FO gallery page on self-hosted WordPress blogs such as mine, email me because if you hook me up with one of those pages that all I’d have to do is change the date on the code to reflect the current year, then I’d hook you up with a NICE ASS goody box.

So, everyone at some point has blogged about a secret project. I don’t think I have as of yet. Until now. The recipient doesn’t want to know what it is so I’m forced to keep it a secret.

It’s for a baby though. I can at least tell you that much. The yarn: Berroco Comfort. The thing will have a couple of stripes somewhere. I purchased 5 colors of the Berroco so I could figure out what set of colors to use. I’m stuck again. That’s where you come in, dear reader(s).

The main color will definitely be the dark pink.  I’m undecided on the stripes, tho.  Should I make it dark pink, light pink and gray OR dark pink, natural and chocolate?  Please vote in the poll below.

Oh, I do have a few of FO’s to show you.   One is a sweater but it needs buttons.  The others are socks and gloves.  I’ll blog about those later.

Ciao for now!

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Posted By Small Tiger aka Misty on December 24, 2008

The humans, they have gone mad.  They leave the domicile for hours at a time.  They return laden with many bags.  The larger humans wait until their spawns have gone to sleep.  Then they bring out giant rolls of colored paper of some sort and begin to wrap this paper around oddly shaped and numerous boxes.

They’ve put up a fake tree in the main living area of the domicile.  They have hung large baubles on the tree to disguise the smell of plastic.  They think they are fooling me into believing I am home in the wild, where I truly belong.  It is not working.  I, Small Tiger, can detect the imposter tree without much effort.

I have decided to play along with their games.  I have created a cave from the covered boxes.  The humans look for me while I watch them from my vantage point.  They will never find me here.  MUAAAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Posted By Rosi G. on December 19, 2008

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears
With their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning

… Uphill…

BOTH ways

Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
There was no way in hell I was going to lay

A bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it

And how easy they’ve got it!

But now that… I’m over the ripe old age of
Thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my
Childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it but you kids today you
Don’t know how good you’ve got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet.. If we wanted to know something, We had to go to the damn library and
Look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write
Somebody a letter, with a pen!

…Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

There were no MP3’s or Napsters! You wanted to
Steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ’d usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

We didn’t have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you
Were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it!

And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school,
Your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you
Just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn’t have any fancy Sony Playstation video
Games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games
Like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘asteroids’. Your guy was a little square! You
Actually had to use your Imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or
Screens, it was just one screen
Forever!

And you could never win.. The game just kept getting
Harder and harder and
Faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that
Was only m-net And there was no on screen menu and no remote
Control!

You had to use a Little book called a TV Guide to find out what was
On! You were screwed when it Came to channel surfing! You had to get off
Your ass and walk over to the TV to change the Channel and there was no
Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons
On Saturday Morning. Do you Hear what I’m saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK
For cartoons, you spoiled
Little rat-bastards!

And we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
Something up we had to use the stove .. Imagine that!

If we wanted Popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing
And shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids
Today have got it too easy.
You’re spoiled. You guys wouldn’t have lasted
Five minutes back in 1980!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

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