Oh... do you know...

.. the happy dance.. the happy dance... the happy dance.. can you see the happy dance?  i've finished soldier socks...

they were way closer than i thought to being done.. and now they are done done done done done.... done done...

i am awaiting legs to make two more pairs... perhaps in the waiting i will have time to finish a few christmas projects... i got a fortune in my fortune cookie that said, "  they will be grateful that you cared enough to make it.." let us hope so...

music today... hmmm let me go look...   October Project nd their singer Mary Fahl singing two songs... Return to Me and Going Home... just go listen... 

a quote: 

"you are not a killer..."

(well apparently, in the end, you are..)

We Gather Together....

... to ask the Lord's blessings....

... a clue ... not really....

... more like... to eat too much turkey... to sit at a table to eat til we groan... From stuffing to gravy the portions are too crazy.. we really should make less, but that would make us moan... (parody over back to reality now...)

This holiday over all others is all about the food... and while i enjoy cooking, i don't enjoy being pigeonholed into making specific meals because of a specific day on the calendar.

But turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes and cranberry relish and pumpkin pie it is... so stop by if no one in your neigborhood is making the same.....

always....

the week of thanksgiving and i have not one list made, not one piece of food in for the holiday.  Perhaps i ought to pull my head out of my ample backside and get a shove on.  

I will make my lists.  I will prepare to brine my turkey. I will make a pie or two.  I will do all the things i do to make the day pass.  And it will not be a day to think.  I will not think that day.  There will be football and i will hear the band playing down the street at the field.  I will not think of other football days... of other band days... of wind so cold you needed coffee in your hands just to keep them warm and you actually toyed with the idea of sinking your hands INTO the cup for warmth. ... Of kids ready to bolt to their friends from the very first course of your meal.  Of so many cars in the driveway that you parked down the road... I complained about it all .. then... would that my mouth had stayed shut and i could have seen the scenes like Ebeneezer Scrooge.  So that i could have savored them.  

So i will prepare for the holiday.. and i will not think that day.  However, Til that day, i cannot promise... 

quote:  it's all about the quote...

"...what about me... will... you... marry.... me?"

what about now?

The travelers are where they are supposed to be - i have heard it on good authority - so i will be waiting for updates from the field so to speak.

'Tis cold here - but to be expected for November i expect.. 33 f right now.  fires in the fireplace last night - warm and toasty.

This week will no doubt be dedicated to the holiday du jour.  It will be a bit smaller than usual but tis a holiday nevertheless so snap the heck out of it and get a move on.

music - new to me - not new - Daughtry - What about Now... love the song  - i thank youtube as i always do.

Knitting content?  i am trying to stay away from knitting content because i HAVE TO FINISH SOLDIER SOCKS.  I ordered myself a lovely stole/shawl pattern from Pandosu at A Few STitches Short. - her blog is listed to the right but you can clickie too.. called Sherwood - i have been waiting patiently for her to finish it so i jumped quickly to make it part of my collection.  It will have to wait. i have miles to go before i sleep.  The photo is courteously and with all due credit from her site - you will see it there but i thought she might not mind me inspiring you here too... 

you want a quote.  i am sure you do.  

"what if it was 5 years.. 4 years.. 2.. what conversation would we be having then?"

turn it back please...

... can superman please spin the earth backwards?  because it doesn't appear to be pretty these days....i want a step back.. i want it to be more than a minute though.. can superman spin it fast enough to put us in a different place in time altogether?

.. or maybe a dr. who alternate universe?  where things don't go wrong and people aren't lost.  

...off in search of something to look at - i've not posted a pic in a while... but posting in the meanwhile...

i'm only a man in a phoney red sheet looking for special things inside of me...it's not easy to be me....

Hello... there is lots of time ...

...to shop for thanksgiving.. holy hannah (thornton)!  the supermarket is like a crime scene waiting to happen.  And that is just the parking lot.

I am exhausted from trying to just get a few things.. i guess i had better make a list and get with the program 

as to the rest... yes.. i'm doing it... do me a favor and don't ask how.. there is a wink there you just can't see it....

8... no maybe 3 days a week...

So back i am --- and missed a day or two.. rl aka real life does have a tendency to get the in way.. who knew?

So it's wednesday and i've been forced to watch holiday commercials this week.  you all know the ones i mean... with the touching music and the cute/adorable/beautiful/pensive people in them.... can i lobby for a channel that won't show them, please?  thank you - i will carry on now (haven't i just been?)

knitting content.. knitting some fingerless gloves for myself as i have been unreasonably cold of late.  started them yesterday, finished one - will finish the other today.  Then.. the next and definitely thing will be to finish the soldier socks and get them on their way.  this is ridiculous now, they should not be lingering this long.  

other content?  nah... dinna think so laddie..

and a quote....hmmm... in honor of the 4th anniversary...

"i don't wish to possess you - i wish to marry you because i love you..."

Starting over...

another monday... but i missed the weekend... so i must start the count as one day running... didja miss me in those two days?  maybe thought i was gone again?

freefall can be a dangerous thing... no one needs tell me that... 

but i am posting! so take that, freefall...

i will finish my pair of soldier socks this weekend. when i do i will be in a better frame of Soldier Sock mind.  I would like to find someone who likes to knit csm with regia stretch... but have not so far.  I can get a pair of feet done in no time flat (if i am not in freefall i repeat chagrined) so we would definitely have more feet for soldiers...

I would also like to work concurrently with a few christmas projects - a simple shawl or two, some gloves and mittens.  I usually do not do that, but rather get started on socks and just keep going.  But i have need of such things at this time of the year.  I think i have a group of friends who do appreciate the handcrafted and do not consider it the homemade...

Music?  I may have never posted this song... but i am posting it now...I have the new heebies for Coldplay and there is not one song of theirs i do not seem to gravitate to... so the older one but nevertheless a good one - Fix You  - i know once i hear it i play it in a loop.

Notice i am not speaking of the holidays...approaching as they are.  Can they go away?  will they?  It is odd that the one time of year that i once treasured over all others is the one i want to fall off the earth's face now.  "children laughing, people passing, seeing smile after smile..." yeah, smile after smile.

A quote.... not that anyone is checking... lol

...I will do this thing and we will be together...

freefall

doesn't take much to make it happen... 

... freefall or downfall or just plain leave it all alone...

...i have posted ... 4 days running... but not running now i am standing still - letting it all run by me....

knitting content... the best i can say is i've answered some ravelry posts...

music content... hmmmmmm nothing new for the day... the love  theme from Somewhere in Time is Rhapsody on a Theme of/by Paganini by Rachmaninoff... on a day such as this... might bring a bit of peace...

tv content... go watch spooks... i've said it before and i will say it again.  i don't know how many other ways i can say it...

a quote?  you want a quote too?  

the secret belongs to another

three days in a row - new record

Three days straight of posting... three in a row... three on a match... see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil... there is a wink there you just can't see it...

The play i went to see last night was outstanding!  Irena's Vow, with Tovah Feldshuh - scroll down for a link and some information.  There is a lot of buzz surrounding this play and talk it will be going to Broadway.  If you are local to NYC 

and can get to it before the extended run ends on the 25th - do it you won't be sorry.  

So... knitting content... no evidence of work being done as i was not around last evening.

Music content?  hmmm again... not a lot to say.. although the old song Greased Lightning from Grease seems to be playing round and round in my head these days.  lol

Photo content?  You want another one?  okay will do ...

did you say you wanted a quote?  okay... 

He was her brother...  (easy peasy lemon squeezy)

comments?  anyone? bueller?

told you i would!

so i am back... two days running.. bet i have lost whatever momentum i might've had previously.  But i have news!

I am heading into the city tonite to see Irena's Vow with Tovah Feldshuh, in limited engagement down at the Baruch Performance Center on 25th and lex.  I am ready to see something again - having done a bunch of musicals of late and ready for a straight play.  Sounds interesting and I love watching TF perform - she totally immerses and IS the person she plays... I am finding i love that in actors (can you say Lucas North?)

I've found out that the baby to be is a girl.. so now i will do my magic and try to get a sweater going ... lol and you all can see how well i am doing with knitting these days.  I will attempt my best...

... tv - have you watched the wonder that is Spooks/MI5 this season?  Have you not somehow been sucked in?  The series is back to one-offs but still carries a thread throughout.. Lucas North (RA come on you know it) has been returned from 8 years in a Russian prison.  He's been tortured - physically and mentally by those people who would have information from him.  He is damaged in some ways we have not been privvy to yet... in some ways the tip of the iceberg is just showing. ... do yourself a favor and if you are able - watch it on Monday nights.  if you are not legally able... work on it... there is a wink there you just can't see it.  it is massively good.. massively well written and superbly acted.  Just do it, willya??

music.. today i take a break from music in favor of the above TV program.  Want a taste? Want to "wet your beak?" Go and watch the fan vids here.... and you decide.  You are not even allowed to see or hear the tight dialogue or suspense the actual directors provide ... do it, you won't be sorry...

so i'll post... i'll post!!!!!

I have not posted in nigh onto a dog's age, i would guess. And what exactly have i been up to? Let's see. I have been working on things around here. I have been held captive by a OH who one day worked for a international brokerage firm with the initials ML and the next day didn't. Yes... I say.. held captive for ... well... suffice it to say over a month now... and there are days when i am sure i am on my last nerve...

we went to a lovely destination wedding in New England this weekend. The weather for the wedding was cr*p on toast, but the wedding was lovely regardless. Got to see Son the Elder and his bride - and several of their friends... it was a lovely weekend... lovely=adjective of the day... and if i post a picture or two i will add them here later...

i knitted socks all the way up in the car.. am to the toe decreases on sock number 1 and now 1 1/2 inches from the same on sock number 2. I picked up a pattern while i was away for a shawl made out of... Tahki Donegal Tweed - i think it will be nice if i do actually get around to making it... there is no picture - it is a shop pattern... so if i ever DO make it - i will post a picture here..lol

music? a new song came at me today - it is called Shattered by Trading Yesterday who now apparently have a new name now... which escapes me... so go and watch and listen and you will like it i will bet...

want a quote:

"what about me? will you marry me?"