Knitting Progress But No Proof

Posted on by K H · 6 Comments

First… some business matters. Fluffy Knitter Deb pegged me for a meme so here it is….
1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag five people to do the same

My 23rd post’s fifth sentence is…..

First of all, I just checked Woolneedlework.com and their prices on Noro Silk Garden are almost half of what I paid.

So.. now I must ping people?
Now my problem… I don’t seriously think that I have five people who regularly read this blog! But… here goes.

I ping….
Kathleen who will have no time to complete this prior to trotting off to Paris.
Ann
Sue
Pam who will have to untangle herself from all the cable wires to get this done.
Shelley

Hey… I got five. Whodda thunk it!

I have been knitting and I have pictures to prove it. But… said pictures will not download to charming computer. A fight ensued and the Mac is calling the camera dirty names and the camera is telling the Mac to “talk to the hand”. This is a job for Hubby Tech Support!

So… you’ll have to take my word for it. I finished the front of Rogue and the two shoulders. I’m trying to get my courage up to start the hood but she freaked me out by telling me to pick up stitches right off the bat! I thought I would be knitting the hood sans sweater and attaching later. No such luck.

So, without photos… I can torture you with questions I have about the universe that I just can’t seem to figure out.

Question 1:
Topic: Meme
What is a meme???? I have seen that word on several blogs and I know its something everyone answers, etc but does meme stand for something (is it really m.e.m.e.) and how is it pronounced… is it meeeeeem or me me (as in Mimi or “pick me, pick me, me, me, me, me)? I have actually been thinking about this a lot thus showing that my brain really is rotting from all of the useless information held within.

Question 2:
Topic: Wellies
How are wellies sized? Do you wear shoes with wellies or do you take your shoes off and wear wellies instead? If so, what do you do with your shoes? If you do wear your shoes inside your wellies what size wellies do you buy? For instance… Anna Grace wears a size 6.5T in shoes. So… does she wear a 6.5T in wellies and that will be designed to fit over a 6.5T shoe OR…. do I have to figure out what size wellies will fit over her shoes. And finally… do kids really not wear wellies and if I buy her wellies all the other toddlers will think she’s a geek? In Florida we don’t wear wellies because our rain comes all at once and would instantly fill our wellies… in addition hot feet + wellies = bad idea.

Question 3:
Topic: Washington Huskies (see, I’m trying to be a good sport and learn a little something about N.W. football although if they ever play FSU I’m stickin’ with my loyalties!)
OK… the question….

If Notre Dame had a coach that had sent their football team into near about obscurity and they then fired that coach… and at the same time….
The Washington Huskies had risen to the top of the BCS and then plummetted to the point that no one even knows they exist so they fired their coach….
Why oh why would the Huskies hire the guy that just trashed the Notre Dame program thinking he could do great things for them? Did no one check his references??????

Question 4:
Topic: Blogging
How come I’m the only person in the blog universe that can’t figure out how to type in a strike through font, how to change the color of a single word, etc. I am an intelligent person. I am computer literate. Why is this blogging thing so “out there” for me?

I think that is enough for one session. Any suggestions, answers, thoughts?

Dana is coming home this weekend. I should try to clean the kitchen floor before I go to bed but…. its looking unlikely. Tired. Very tired. My Claritin has abandoned me… ME…. who has stood by it for all these years…. it abandoned me just as the oak trees started dropping pollen. That would be the oak trees whose hammock I live beneath… yep… my house is surrounded by oak trees that are pollinating and my claritin has told me to shove off. Can’t take Claritin D because it makes me just want to sleep and since I’m the only adult in the house… that wouldn’t be a good idea! So, my nose is making me crazy. Crazy, I tell ya!

Well, I’m off. Hopefully somebody in this household will get the camera working. We’ll see.
Kris

6 responses

  1. Ok here goes—

    1- NO CLUE how meme is pronounced, have seen the Q on a few blogs, no one seems to know the answer or where trhe word comes from…meme is the Sasquatch of the blog world I think!

    2- You wear wellies AS shoes not over shoes so you buy AG’s shoe size as is.

    3- Have no clue about why they did what they did but it doesn’t sound like a smart decision…much like hiring “Brownie” as a consultant to FEMA… both get a big WTdoubleF???

    4- the html for strike is *strike* at the beginning of the word and */strike* at the end substituting the less than and the greater sign for the fore and aft *
    As far as color and font changes, Blogger give you a choice when you are writing your post, I’m sure Typepad has something similar.

    How’s that :)

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  2. Hubby says it’s “meem,” and I’ve read that somewhere else.

    I’ve always pronounced it “me-me,” but it turns out I’ve been pronouncing all kinds of things wrong (Koigu, Clapotis, etc.).

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  3. OK, can’t help you much on the first three (though I have a meme link somewhere… will look). But for changing your fonts (strikethrough, color, etc), since you’re using Typepad, there should be a little list at the top of your posting area. Next to the drop-down that gives you your font size. Do you see the letters BIUSA? B for bold, I for italic, U for underline, S for strikethrough, and A (I don’t know why A) for font color.

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