Go Eagles

This weekend was my 10-year High School Reunion - Holy Crap! I was a class officer so I was on the planning committee.


Hi! Welcome back Class of 98! Be sure to wear your nametag!

We had a pretty good showing considering everything else going on at this time of year, including a pretty big F-No State game down at the Rosebowl. Yes, it was like High School, but yes, it was cool to see everyone. I, however, will NOT be on the 20 year planning committee. Too much stress this time around!


Me and my fellow class officers. I was Secretary, if anyone was wondering.

This was definitely needed at the end of the night. Along with a big plate of Chicken Strips because it was 1145pm and I was STARVING. My diet loved that.
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I haven't really need knitting lately, but I suspect it has something to do with the fact that it is September 30th and it's still like 95 degrees outside.

Adorbs!

One of my dear friends sent me this photo last night of her youngest daughter wearing the sweater I knit for her last year:



I can't wait to have a baby so I can cover her/him in handknits!!!

Katy vs. the Wii

Our neighbors are going to totally hate us.


PS - Not bad for a mid-week spread, huh?

GAME ON

Mr. C and I usually IM during the day (to keep my eyeballs from exploding from looking at HTML code & database junk all day), and sometimes the conversations are a bit dull. And then there was today.

MC: i forgot toothpicks
Deals: its ok
Deals: I'll look for some
MC: but I did buy something else
Deals: whats that?
MC: it's a surprise
MC: think of it as exercise equipment
Deals: hmm... give me a hint!
MC: you'll like it
MC: you want it, though you may not realize that you want it
Deals: a flat stomach?
MC: it may lead to that
MC: we can compete at some things using it
Deals: did you get a wii?????
MC: would that make you happy?
Deals: uh... yeah!
MC: don't ever let me shop at Costco alone again, you never know what I'll come home with!
Deals: YAYAYAYAYAYYAAYYAYYAAA!!!
Deals: Wii Fit?
MC: yes
MC: it also has a Mario game
Deals: awesome!!!!!!!!! WINE AND WII NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
Deals: This is really going to cut into my knitting time

Party's Over

Not a fun thing to wake up to this headline on a Sunday morning:



You know, it's not that one shouldn't be totally surprised when a #10 team beats a #21 team, but this may have been the biggest heart-breaker game I've ever been to. I woke up hungover, with a raw throat from yelling for 3 hours straight, and had to read this on the National news. BLAH ON YOU BADGERS.

However, I am vey excitied to welcome back a season of tailgating fun and shenanigans.




(Click for larger of the Badger pinata)

Where Were You....

7 years ago?

I was 21 years old, in college, living in the sorority house. I was President at the time and we were just starting all our preparations for fall rush, so everyone had just come back to campus and we spent the night before rocking out at our favorite local pub.

I woke up at 5:50am to my phone ringing. Thinking it was my sister up the road at Cal Poly getting revenge on me for my 4am drunk dial, I rolled over and put my pillow over my head. Then the phone rang again. and again. Finally I picked it up, and my mom just said "TURN ON THE TV". I immediately called my sister and [amazing] she answered, and I relayed my mom's words to her.

I remember it was right about 6am when I walked out to the dining room and there were about 5 other girls sitting there watching the news. We were the only ones awake in a house that slept 48. Then, as we sat there, we watched the 2nd plane hit and then the subsequent collapse of both buildings. I'm still not sure at what point we all came to terms with the fact that this was not an accident. The group huddled around the TV eventually grew to about 40 girls around 9am. I canceled rush practice for the rest of the day. Some girls cried, some girls got mad, and I remember feeling that I needed to put on a strong face since I was the fearless leader.

I'll never forget sitting outside on our patio with a few of other seniors later that day, talking about what life really meant to us while making little red, white, and blue ribbons to wear under our badges when rush started a couple days later. Word had spread that the new UCSB gymnastics coach was on one of the planes which brought the story even closer to home. Somewhere in IV, we heard another sorority practicing some cheesy rush chant/song and we all couldn't believe it.

I will never forget that day.

Dogs, Cakes, and Roses

I got a nice little surprise this weekend. M's grandmother was at a yard sale, and she scored me a whole lot of vintage knitting needles for $1. However, I am probably the most excited about this set:



It's a Boye set from 1974 according to the back of the pouch. It has 5 sets of dpns, sizes 1,2,3,4,5 and 3 sets straight needles (missing sizes 1 & 3), along with a darning needle and 2 small holders. I love it!

This did not come without a price, however. As I was sorting through all the needles on the living room floor, Matt lept off the couch to check on the sprinklers in the yard and landed directly on a size 3 dpn. In his toe. About a quarter inch. I freaked the eff out (I'm going to be such a great mother, huh?) Luckily it was nothing some gauze and a few beers with dinner couldn't fix.

Besides that, the rest of the weekend was filled with NO OBLIGATIONS, and lots of happy houring and lounging around. Here's my sister enjoying some college football, wine, and the company of the doggy cousins.



I knitted.



and baked.



Nothing overly complicated - Just some Pilsbury Yellow Cake with Fudge frosting. My step-brother was in a car accident a couple weeks ago (he's ok, minus some gnarly injuries to his hand that we're confident he'll recover from), and just hasn't been able to get his appetite back because of the pain medication. We had him over and he mentioned that for some reason these cupcakes sounded good. How could I say no to that? This is all that remains after he left. There were 24 to start with!

That was last weekend. A really great time doing a whole lot of nothing. Unfortunately, this is a week full of a whole lot of things :(. However, I am hoping to get Rambling Rose finished up. I've just got the yoke and bands left. Just in time for the weather to go from 103 to 93. That's practically jeans weather.

Ciao

09.02.08

What a freaking weekend. It was nice and long, oh yes, but with very much packed in. Friday night Matt and I had a nice little date night, complete with mucho vino. Saturday we bummed around and did little jobs here and there around the house - then ate Gyros and Yogurt Salad on TV trays while watching this awesome Rock Doc on VH1. I stayed true to my word to try and finish up these loooooooong overdue projects and made significant progress on my used-to-be-Marilyns-NSSC.

I've abandoned the pattern and am going for a longer, swingy-er version.

Then on Sunday we got up super early and headed down to Santa Monica for a friend's wedding.

I've never been to a Chinese wedding before, and I was super impressed by this:

Coolness.

So through a series of events, we wound up meeting my sister at the Four Seasons, which completed the LA Experience. I drank ridiculously expenive wine while Matt drank Scotch and smoked a cigar. And rocked the aviators. Till 3am.

What a smokin' hot husband I have.

FINALLY, on Monday we dragged ourselves out of the SUPER comfy bed at 8:00am so we could get back to the 'No and watch the Bulldogs take on Rutgers on our home turf. Luckily we won so we didn't have to regret speeding down the 99 fwy at 11am for nothing.

So now it's Tuesday, I have a million things going on at work, Aunt Flo decided to visit today, and I am EX-HAUST-ED. Someone send the pity police.

The end.