Road Trip down the west coast (it is acceptable to do this in a number of smaller road trips)
Be on the price is right (being in the audience is acceptable)
Procreate
Procreate (again)
A real vegetable garden that i plant myself in the back yard
Chickens...that eat my compost
Learn how to live so the house is not a complete wreck
Off-the-Continent travel
Unicycling...and knitting...at the same time
Get a knitting pattern published (in print)
Get a knitting pattern published (online)
Go on an out-of-country midwifery adventure
Pay off store loan
Build a midwifery practice of at least 20 births per year
Learn to spin, or at least try
Gainful self-employment (Gainful being the key word)
Make the fabulous flower quilt
Start a retirement plan
Belly Dancing- do it
Make a sweater
Make an afghan
Adopt a lasting exercise regimen at least 30 min 3 x a week.
Reduce my resting pulse rate to 80 or less
Replace my lawn with one of those kinds of lawns that you don't have to mow. (No, not astroturf, like a groundcover plant.)
Remember to take the cloth bags to the grocery.
Make a family tree
Finish the hallway walls of photos
Get rid of the motorhome
Lower my footprint so that it only takes one Earth to sustain a planet of people like me.
Knit one of those starts as a circle sweaters
Become a CNM
Neither own nor wear a powersuit. (So far, so good)
Dance in Thriller (bonus goal- as a pregnant or baby-wearing zombie!!)
Buy a house
Maintain a healthy weight.
Make/participate in a Home Birth float for the 4th of July Parade.
Have a Christmas tree with ornaments and stockings in my house.
Begin an Altzheimer's prevention regimen.
Make priorities and set limits so that I am not overworking. (It's ok if I'm doing it now, and for about another year or so, but it's a temporary thing and I don't want to be doing it when I'm 40!)
Knit enough socks so that I can wear handknit socks all the time!
Friday, February 13, 2009
40 Before 40
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
New Years Resolutions 2009
1. Do not get any moving vehicle violations. (2008 not such a good year for this.)
2. See 15 babies born.
3. Pass all the classes I am planning to take.
4. Keep in touch with friends. My goal is to call one person I have sort of lost touch with every month. (Attention out of state people: be expecting a call!)
5. Meet my ambitious monthly savings goal.
6. Turn off the TV before I get really tired so I can read some every night.
7. Finish my 40 before 40 list before I turn 30. (Finish making the list that is, not doing everything on it.)
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Christmas Meme!
Wrapping paper, hands down. I enjoy wrapping presents (possibly because I used to get paid like a quarter per package to wrap my mom's which can really add up). I also enjoy unwrapping presents and I think it is much more enjoyable to unwrap a gift than simply reaching into a bag. Also, you get to shake the box and try to guess what it is, with bags, you just look inside right away. I don't like the waste that comes with wrapping paper, I use newspaper sometimes, and reuse paper I get on gifts that is in good condition.
2. Real tree or Artificial?
Real, although I do not put up a tree at my house. Where would I put it? I am simply too busy and my house too messy for my own tree right now, but I always help my parents pick out theirs and put it up.
3. Why are you willing to answer these questions?
I am tired of writing a paper.
4. When do you take the tree down?
There are 12 days of Christmas!!! I have pretty rigid beliefs when it comes to Christmas decorations: they should not go up before thanksgiving, the tree really shouldn't go up until mid-December and it shouldn't come down until after January 6th (12th day of Christmas, Epiphany)
5. Do you like eggnog?
Sort of. I usually have some silk nog every year, but I like it in small doses.
6. Favorite gift received as a child?
Umm....I was surprised by that Nintendo and the little trampoline was fun...funny how I don't really remember the presents.
7. Hardest person to buy for?
My dad.
8. Easiest person to buy for?
My mom, she likes nice stuff and girls are just way easier all around, you can't get away with giving a boy fancy soaps and lotions most of the time!
9. Do you have a nativity scene?
No, no decorations at all really, see above about the tree.
10. Do you send your card by mail or e-mail?
No cards. Waste of whatever.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Probably these sweater skirt sets I got from my aunt and grandma in 6th grade. They were fantastically '80s and sparkly and just awful, would have been ok if I was 8, but not 12. I only wore one of the sweaters once when all my other clothes were dirty and I got made fun of! Probably would be a great find for a college kid at the thrift store now.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie?
Harry Potter (If they aren't Christmas movies, why are they always playing them at Christmas??)
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
Whenever I see something that screams someone at me I get it and save it for Christmas or their birthday, if I don't have anything I wait until the last minute, just hoping something will jump at me.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Yes and I'm sure I will again.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
Corn and Beans and chex mix....and Leftovers (which is when it is acceptable to put chex mix on top of your Christmas dinner, not at the table.)
16. Lights on the tree?
Yes, if I had one.
17. Favorite Christmas song?
Santa Claus is a Black Man
18.Travel at Christmas or stay home?
Travel, but not far.
19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer’s?
Absolutely
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Um, no tree, no topper.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
Both, and more. The more rounds of present opening the better, and that goes double for Christmas dinners.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?
Traffic, and working late.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color?
I like miniature knitted things
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?
Favorite what?
25. What do you want for Christmas this year?
See the list
Friday, November 21, 2008
Adventurous Knitter?
Ok, how lame is it that I haven't posted for like 6 months and when I do it's a silly list?? Basically I've has been very busy and I still have to post about my summer vacation and that will be a long post and I just can't take all that pressure!!
Bold = Have already tried this
Italicized = Plan to try this
Unemphasized = Have no desire to try this
- Afghan
- I-cord
- Garter stitch
- Knitting with metal wire
- Shawl
- Stockinette Stitch
- Socks: Top-down
- Socks: Toe-up
- Knitting with camel yarn
- Mittens: Cuff-up
- Mittens: Tip down
- Hat
- Knitting with silk (sari)
- Moebius band knitting
- Participating in a KAL
- Sweater
- Drop stitch patterns
- Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn
- Slip stitch patterns
- Knitting with banana fiber yarn
- Domino knitting
- Knitting with bamboo yarn
-Twisted Stitch Patterns (are hard with my backwards knitting grrr)
- Two end knitting
- Charity knitting
- Knitting with soy yarn
- Cardigan
- Toy/doll
- Knitting with circular needles
- Baby items
- Knitting with your own handspun
- Slippers
- Graffiti knitting
- Continental knitting
- Designing knitted garments
- Cable stitch patterns
- Lace patterns
- Scarf
-Publishing a Knitting Book
- Teaching a child to knit
- American/English knitting
- Knitting to make money
- Buttonholes
- Knitting with alpaca
- Fair Isle
- Knitting items for a wedding
-Norwegian Knitting
- Household items
- Knitting socks on two circulars
- Olympic knitting
- Knitting with someone else’s handspun yarn
- Knitting with dpns
- Holiday-related knitting
- Teaching a male how to knit
- Bobbles
- Knitting for a living
- Knitting with cotton
- Knitting smocking
- Dyeing yarn
- Steeks
- Knitting art
- Fulling/felting
- Knitting with wool
- Textured knitting
- Kitchener BO
- Purses/bags
- Knitting with beads
- Swatching
- Long tail CO
- Entrelac
- Knitting and purling backwards
- Machine Knitting
- Knitting with self-patterning/self-striping/variegated yarn
- Stuffed toys
- Knitting with cashmere
- Darning
- Jewelry
- Knitting with synthetic yarn
- Writing a pattern
- Gloves
- Intarsia
- Knitting with linen
- Knitting for preemies (unintentionally)
- Tubular CO
- Freeform knitting
- Short rows
- Cuffs/fingerless mitts/armwarmers
- Pillows
- Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine
- Rug
- Knitting on a loom
- Thrummed knitting
- Knitting a gift
- Knitting for pets
- Shrug/bolero/poncho
- Knitting with dog/cat hair
- Hair accessories
- Knitting in public
- Double knitting
Friday, July 18, 2008
The Green Zebra
If you happen to be in Chicago, you should consider going to eat at the Green Zebra (especially if you are a vegetarian). We went there for lunch and I got the most awesome BLT. The "B" is actually mushrooms which have been magically transformed into this sort of dried, chewey, barbequed mushroom awesomeness. Also, the food presentation is so spectacular that I just had to take a picture.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Book List
These are the 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users.
Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school (I turned them blue instead too), italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read them for school in the first place, put !! next to the ones you mean to read...someday.
I don't consider myself well-read, so I was kind of surprised that I had read a lot of these.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina -too boring, even on tape
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22!!
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary!!
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre!!
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies!!
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma*
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods everyone loves it, I just couldn't get into it
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha got in an airport to read on an airplane
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales (intend to finish)
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World*
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch!!
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984*
Angels & Demons*
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility*
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Miserables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune!!
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short history of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita!!
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye*
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit*
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth* I highly recommend this one
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Today I'm a reposter
1. Where is your cell phone? ………….. purse
2. Your significant other?…………………London
3. Your hair? ………………………………....barrette
35. Who will re-post this?……………………..reposters
