... because Jacquie is bored. She told Jen and me yesterday morning, "You two either need to update your blogs daily or learn to restrain me!!!!" (meaning restrain her from spending money on buying a wheel). Well, I don't know if Jen and I can do this... And it's too late now anyway - Jacquie bought a Lendrum yesterday - with every extra imaginable. Welcome to the dark side, Jacquie! ;-)
But honestly, I don't really have much to blog about this week. I started Gale's Sonnet Cardigan, and it knits up beautifully. I'm past the first armhole on the body and am now knitting along on the back part. It's a very easy pattern and shows off Gale's handspun very nicely:
Last night at Knitch I got many compliments on the yarn. Jane, Sandy and I were contemplating what I could say to Gale so I wouldn't have to part with the cardigan. One suggestion was to tell her that my house burned down. Not to worry Gale, you'll get your cardigan, I'm just joking. ;-)
I went to work really early this morning so I can leave early this afternoon. I wanted to make sure I had enough time to finish all my work stuff before the long weekend. THREE DAYS FOR KNITTING... and cleaning up the fiber room. (I think Hubby has heard this about a brazillion times now... It is time to spring into action...)
And this was the view I had from the car at a traffic light, coming down the exit in Midtown from I-85:
I know it's blurry, but taking a picture without a flash that early is hard to do... And now it's all super-foggy:
One of my coworkers laughed so hard this morning, she had to ask me for a tissue. When I asked her why, she directed me to What did The Office do for Summer Vacation?. (My favorite one is the place-settings lady.) So I had to send her the link to The Landlord, and while I was on their website, I found the following video. (It comes with the disclaimer - and they REALLY mean it -"This video is not considered safe for work. Seriously. S**ua**y explicit content. Some material may not be suitable for persons under 17"):
Is that really Danny DeVito??? OMG...
And here is something else to tickle your funny bone. Hubby is an avid reader of News of the Weird and he frequently shares some weirdness with me. Here is one this week's lead stories...
East Dublin, Ga. (in July), and Athens, Texas (in August), sponsored their own versions of Redneck Games, with events such as mud-pit belly-flopping, seed-spitting and making armpit music (Georgia), as well as (in Texas) "red-neck horseshoes" (played with toilet seats), a Spam-and-jalapeno-eating contest, a mattress chuck, men bobbing for raw animal parts in tomato paste, and the ever-popular coed butt crack contest. Wrote the San Antonio Express-News: "There was something strangely arresting about watching 10 serious-faced guys grind away at pink bricks of Spam while Steppenwolf's 'Born to Be Wild' boomed from the loudspeakers."
Now, Jen, doesn't this sound much more fun than going to Callaway Gardens for Hot Air Balloons? ;-)