Just Let Me Finish This Row! So I�ve stolen this MeMe, and the rule is that YOU CAN ONLY TYPE ONE WORD for the answers! It's really hard to only use one word answers, believe it or not. 1. Where is your cell phone? Purse Hmmm, interesting, yes? Having to come up with meaningful words (beyond good or fine is a challenge too. There were so many things I could have put down for �dreaming�, because my dreams are a feverish hallucination of acid-dropping standards, so I just had to put �storks�. There�s a meaning behind the whole storks thing (in fact, it�s a private joke between me and Hubster) but I�m not going to put it here. Neener! Speaking of Hubster, I�ve been wondering if I�ve been spending enough time with him or lavishing enough attention on him (boffing aside). I�ve been so preoccupied with my knitting group and knitting in general, as well as Weight Watchers and obsessing about everything I eat, that I�m not interacting enough with him. I�m not sure. I do however, believe that he�s slightly miffed because I haven�t been knitting on things for him. I tend to knit � of items for me, and the other � go to other people, but Hubster has only received one knitted item from me the entire time I�ve been knitting � a pair of foofies I knitted for him when I first started knitting. Now, to be fair, that�s the second pair I�ve knitted for him . . . the first pair were an unmitigated disaster, made with the wrong yarn that when washed, turned into a floppy pair of camel feet with no elasticity whatsoever, and I seem to remember that they smelled a bit. Hubster�s feet rarely smell, so I�m not sure what he may have stepped in. The second pair of foofies turned out quite lovely, although he may be sad that I didn�t make pom-poms for them like his mother always put on the foofies. I can�t make pom-poms. Pom-poms are my unmitigated knitting disaster number 2. It hurts to talk about it. Now of course, I have been working on the squid hat. Well, no, I was working on it until about 6 weeks ago, when I finished the last tentacle (of 10!) and I unceremoniously dropped the tentacle into the pile on the dresser and threw myself into knitting about eight dozen dishcloths. Dishcloths are good projects for me � they satisfy my need to �finish� things. The squid, however, needs not only attachment of the tentacles (10 of them! The feeder ones are nearly 30 inches long!) but also the building of the actual body that grows out of the top of the head (it is too a hat!) There is also the project of the �Jedi Jacket�. I made one for myself last summer (all 80 pounds of it � it is one solid, warm, and dense creature) and Hubster looked at it with longing and wished he could have one like it, but of course, in Jedi brown. Therefore, he could actually claim Jediism as his religion, since he would then have the proper trappings. My only problems with this are: 1) Hubster�s more of a Vulcan then he would ever be Jedi, and 2) The damn thing takes a lot, a lot of knitting. I have the yarn for it, though. Ohh, do I ever have the yarn. A good corner of my yarn stash is taken up with Caron�s Simply Soft Brown and a lovely Mushroom blend made by, oh, who cares. It will take about 18 skeins of yarn to make the thing, so now you can see how much of my precious yarn stash is devoted already to this project, and shouldn�t that be enough for him at this point? That doesn�t even take into account the 3 or more skeins of yarn it will take to finish the squid hat (which actually came from the stash, and wasn�t specially bought for the project, a distinction which other yarn harlots will definitely be able to understand) which, once gone, will make so much more room for the yarn that the Hubster doesn�t exactly know about yet. That is, the stuff that�s under the bed in the guest room, but we�re not going to talk about that anymore. It�s all there. These projects for the Hubster are on the dance card, and they will, they will, be attended to. Just let me finish this pair of socks, okay?
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