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Monday, February 4, 2008

Snow and socks

We had one hour of snow this morning before it turned to rain:

I made socks this weekend. The big one is for my dad. The small one is for Liam:

I made another pair of socks over Christmas, but those are wrapped up and will go in the mail this week.

I have yet another pair on needles right now, and those, when they are done, will go in the mail, too.

Also, sorry I am so boring lately. Work has started and as I mentioned yesterday (sort of), I am not feeling like myself. Perhaps later I will publish the Grip post.

6 comments:

Em said...: You don't need to apologize for being boring especially since I can't imagine that ever being true. I hope you feel like yourself again soon.; February 4, 2008 at 11:49 AM
ByJane said...: Are you a speed knitter, one of those people whose fingers fly, sorta the equivalent of the speed reader who do do War & Peace in an hour or so?; February 4, 2008 at 3:34 PM
UrbanHippieMama said...: whoa... what a view!!! i don't think you're boring at all... you can't sustain edge-of-your-seat-suspense or laughing-your-ass-off all the time... you gotta give us a little break once in awhile!! this is the natural "winter"...the cycles and seasons of blogging. (rolling eyes at my cheesiness...); February 4, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Jennifer Griffin-Wiesner said...: The sock photo is so touching. Nice.; February 5, 2008 at 9:43 AM
Nina said...: Em, little did I know I would have a catastrophic computer failure just to jazz things up a bit. I'm going out to sell plasma later. Good times!

Jane, I am pretty fast, yes. But I also can happily knit for hours and hours and hours. So I can turn out a pair of socks in a weekend, easily. Oh, and hi! Nice to see you. :-)

Urbanhippiemama, I hope it's just a blogging season, as you say. Heaven knows I have very little to say for myself lately. Oh except for telling people how much money just magically flew out of my wallet. Ouch.

Jennifer, thanks! I have to mail the socks to my dad. And I have other socks to mail, too.; February 5, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Anonymous said...: HOW do you make socks?! I'm jealous of your skillz. I've been knitting 6 years now, and I'm just beginning to get brave enough to try something other than a dish towel or a scarf. Is it really hard? I want to learn to cable this year too!; February 5, 2008 at 10:29 PM

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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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