Reader: Sin of the week, 1/27/08

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Sin of the week, 1/27/08

I regret to inform you that I have no spectacular crimes to report this week.

I could, of course, give a run down of all the minor crimes, but I am already bored with the idea of listing all my hateful thoughts, moments of impatience, and cookies ingested. I didn't even drink too much on my birthday (despite much encouragement from friends, waiters and busboys and the entire upper west side).

So today I am going to shake things up a bit and describe a sin I am planning on committing this afternoon: I am going to the yarn shop (again) and while I am there, I am going to surreptitiously take a picture of a pattern grid I need to complete a certain long overdue project. Yes, I should buy the book. Ordinarily, I would, but I already own the book. The difficulty is that I can't look at it because it is at Buzz and Leta's and I don't have time today to go all the way to NJ today. So I am going to, uh, "steal" the pattern.

So the big excitement of my weekend will be swiping a needlework pattern. Could my life be any more thick and ordinary?

(I am going climbing after church tonight. I'll try to fall dramatically so as not to be so profoundly dull. Thank you).

7 comments:

P said...: Please don't go splat and break any bones on our account!

Fauxhawk got crazed and couldn't pick up the goods on Friday (ARGH), so I am hoping (praying) that they are still there. Will update you on Monday. xo; January 27, 2008 at 1:00 PM
EmmaL said...: I don't have a sin to report here in the comments this week either. I just don't have one. I was too preoccupied and upset with everything going on. Anyway, I'll try harder next week to do something really terrible!; January 27, 2008 at 3:41 PM
Nick & Lizzy said...: Well, I hope they'll let you BLOG from JAIL! ;-); January 27, 2008 at 4:39 PM
nicole antoinette said...: Ooo rock out with your bad self.; January 27, 2008 at 7:50 PM
LizLSB said...: Stealing a needlework pattern is such a cute sin. Other than secretly imagining what it would be like to smack a student, I guess I have no mentionable sins this week. Does digging up daffodils from an abandoned house count as stealing? Oh wait; gluttony. I made Garlic Chicken for dinner tonight and ate so much I'm in a roasty toasty garlic coma.; January 27, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Bee said...: Hi! I have tagged you on my blog :); January 27, 2008 at 8:39 PM
Anonymous said...: Oh you brazen copywrite infringing criminal! Except, since you already bought the book, it seems like "fair use" to me.; January 29, 2008 at 1:32 AM

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Who are these people?

Bibi - God bless the guy who gets Bee. I can't even think of anything obnoxious to say about her. She can eat pasta without gaining weight, she can run the ridges at Gertrude's Nose with no fear, and she is by miles the best climber of all of us. She's going to Kili with us. Hell, she'll be leading.
Buzz Elder Brother. Cross me at your peril.
Jib computer wizard, entrepreneur, stand-up comedian, stand-up guy I can count on to catch a movie and hold hands in the dark without it having any meaning whatosever. Every woman needs a man like Jib.
Joe - locquacious, flirtatious, 40-something hiking buddy - also, ex-manfriend of Pax.
Larry, WPITW - climber, hiker, badass (not in the good way, either). At a given moment, at least half of us are not speaking to him.
Liam - My nephew, whose favorite words are "noing," "Bobby," "dumptruck," "job-site" and "Daddy." He also says "obstreperous" "pulchritudinous" and "Nina" upon request.
Merry - Australian BFF spends the summers on a yacht, nannying for a celebrity couple with two children. She lives in a brownstone and she has a chauffeur. And we have no idea who she works for.
Newsy has been my friend for about 22,000 hours. Or more. I don't have a calculator. She has about 3423% more professional and personal commitments than I do, and yet she still finds time to think about me. I find this astonishing. If you knew her, you'd be astonished, too.
Pax - climber, hiker, corporate warrior, used to date Joe. Sticks by Larry in spite of his horribleness. None of us understands this.
Skatey- he rides a skateboard. He can dance. He can throw a frisbee and he's not bad at karaoke, either.
Sri - Bengali princess who, aside from kicking my ass at climbing, and aside from being a smokin' hiker, brought down the evil empire of Larry and also once told me that "even girls' are turned on my breasts." Also never turns down "one more round."
Supajewie - Long distance drinking buddy, just about the only person I know who "gets it". And no, she's not Jewish. It's a long story.
Tex - is what happens when you take a normal man, add alcohol, subtract common sense and tact, and then buy him another drink.

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