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| 4 things... |
| 12.15.05 (8:23 pm) [edit] |
FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE:
1. Stablehand/groom on the thoroughbred track in Calgary.
2. Schwan's Sales
3. Revenue Canada
4. Shithauler/truckdriver.
FOUR MOVIES YOU CAN AND DO WATCH OVER AND OVER:
(FOUR? I can name like 12? but four it is)
1. Lethal Weapon
2. Secondhand Lions
3. An Affair to Remember (cary grant version)
4. Arsnic and Old Lace
FOUR CITIES YOU'VE LIVED IN:
1. Calgary, AB
2. Langley, BC
3. Prince Albert, SK
4. I've only lived in these three cities, the rest of my life has been in the country.
FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH:
1. CSI
2. Criminal Minds
3. Big Brother
4. Cold Case Files
FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION:
1. Vernon, BC
2. Davenport, IA
3. San Diego, CA
4. New York, NY
FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY:
1. Darkthrone
2. Google
3. All of my blogroll.
4. Internet Movie Database, while not daily, on a regular basis.
FOUR OF YOUR ALL TIME FAVOURITE RESTAURANTS:
1. Edo's of Japan
2. The Golden National (peking/cantonese)
3. Taco Bell
4. Trio's Pizza
FOUR OF YOUR FAVOURITE FOODS:
1. STEAK.
2. VENISON/ELK/MOOSE STEAK.
3. NANAIMO BARS
4. TOMATOES
FOUR PLACES I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
1. The middle of nowhere, on a horse.
2. Camping.
3. Camping on horseback.
4. Riding horses for a living.
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| Another "only me" moment |
| 12.05.05 (7:00 pm) [edit] |
I'm baaaccckkkkk....
Aren't you glad? :P
Suffice it to say that life has been there, and we'll go on from there, 'kay?'
Today, at lunch break, I found myself with a dilemma worthy of 'only me' status. I'm working on a sock, in Opal of some no longer remembered colourway. (so don't ask ;P) I've been working on these for myself only recently, having finished up a pair or two for the girls. So having a lull before their feet grow over night, again, thought to make myself a pair. I picked up the Opal in the second wave of the first craze, however. It's now properly aged from being in my stash for about 2 years and needs to be socks.
A couple of things about these socks. They're gonna be YUMMY. I really like this colourway and the way it seems so random but actually has a subtle patterning after all. The blues, the purples, the creams, coffees, browns and greens... YUMMY I tells ya...
See? (insert pic of half completed sock)
The second thing, about all that random colour stuff above? Everyone who knows me, and sees these in progress asks if they're for me. Yes, I proudly state or mumble or nod as the case maybe. Of course they are, they reply. Now they are larger than the socks I normally knit, given the whole #4 and #5 thing, but... Hmmm... why do they all think that a random mishmash of colours somehow suits me...
I have a series of questions like that... some that just make me wonder, and some that really make me boggle at the out and out rudeness of some folks.
Anyway, back to the dilemma. Since I usually make socks for #4 and #5, I pretty much know that 3 sequences of the colour band repeats in Regia or Confetti will fit #5 and 6 bands will fit #4. However, here I am with a barely discernable pattern, no idea how many of them will fit my foot. The dilemma? I just started being in this lunchroom. I don't know these people. Do I take off my shoe and sock and try on this new sock for length or do I try to figure out some body part to body part ratio that will allow me to measure without being an utter philistine?
I opted for quick trip to the washroom for those who are wondering :P. But it got me thinking. I measured my hand against the top of my foot, ankle to toe and lo and behold that matches... no more 'moments', no more squirming around the front seat of the car, trying to get my shoe off to measure and no more chilly feet.
I'm going to get a measuring tape now, and see what other body parts correlate... you know I always thought those sayings were just rumours... didn't you?
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