From the monthly archives: January 2006

Proclamation of intent

By On January 31, 2006 · 2 Comments

I’ve been debating it for a while and despite logistical concerns (I’m going to be out of town during part of the event) I have decided to join. It’s official! I Cheryl Kemp, being a knitter of sound relatively sound mind and knit fit body, do hereby declare my intent to participate in the [...]

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What do these things have in common?

By On January 26, 2006 · 3 Comments

What do my seemingly random topics today have in common? Nothing really, they actually are pretty random, except they’re all from today. My recent knitting has been BOR-ING! My brother in law was here last weekend and informed me that my nephew had confiscated his Christmas hat. I finished another one while he was [...]

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Geekin’ out

By On January 24, 2006 · 3 Comments

I generally :heart: :heart: technology, but sometimes it gets the best of me. Like yesterday. And today. I’ve set up a home network before…no big deal. This one is a little different though in that the laptop connects wirelessly and is also a member of a different network. Still, both PC’s running Windows XP, which boasts [...]

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Quads

By On January 23, 2006 · 1 Comment

Normally I don’t like memes, but it’s for sweet Mer and it’s her first one, so I’m complying.

4 jobs that you have had in your lifetime
–pizza cook
–counselor at a weight loss center
–Victoria’s Secret salesperson
–graduate student (yes, in some cases, it IS an actual job!)
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Drunk with Brooke Shields

By On January 19, 2006 · 3 Comments

I did something last night that I haven’t done for a while…I got into bed after midnight but had to get back up because I was “spinny”. That last glass of wine really did me in.:wine: So what was the monumental event that caused me to over indulge? Brooke Shields. AAlthough she was not [...]

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Training for the Olympics

By On January 18, 2006 · 4 Comments

I’ve been sitting here for the last hour trying to figure out an appropriate pattern for :usa: the Knitting Olympics. Yeah, I saw the challenge right after Stephanie posted it, but I just thought “right, not doing that!” Until I saw all of the other knitters agreeing to the challenge…I’m not sure if [...]

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CA bound!

By On January 13, 2006 · 6 Comments

:plane:Normally I don’t announce when I’m going out of town…you know, that whole thing about some crazy knit blogger coming to steal my stash while I’m away. . This time I’m leaving Jim behind though so he’ll be here with my two very scary dogs to guard the goods.

A friend has an anesthesiology conference [...]

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To frog or not to frog…

By On January 12, 2006 · 7 Comments

Is that the question? Not really. I’ve already decided. As much as I hate frogging, I’m just not happy with the pattern on this scarf. Sometimes I feel like we knitters think if we just keep knitting, we’ll start to like the offending object more later. Although I haven’t done a proper study on [...]

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JenLa: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…

By On January 11, 2006 · 7 Comments

Here it is…finally. My second of the series “top 10 reasons I love _________ (insert blog here)”. My first was Crazy Aunt Purl. I was a little shy at first, but professing my love freed me! I can now announce my long distance blog stalk love without hesitation. I’m so ok with it now [...]

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Self Portrait Tuesday

By On January 10, 2006 · 6 Comments

This month’s challenge: “Explore the cross over between self portraiture and family photography. This challenge can be as simple as revisiting old family snap shots – to tell a story.”
My story here…I wasn’t a very happy child. From left to right: me, brother, sister, cousin, cousin, sister.

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