Whoops, I forgot to do the random number generator last night! But I did first thing this morning, and Beth's number was the lucky one! Congrats Beth! I wish I had one for all of you, but I'm happy to lend my copy out when I'm finished with it (Paige? Kris? Loren?) So Beth, I'll bring along the book this weekend when I'll be seeing you!

Additionally, I wanted to apologize to everyone who has commented for the past few weeks. A) I've been really busy and not replying to email as I should be and B) complicating this, is that my spam filter has not been working right. "Real" emails have been going in my spam filter, and tons of spam has been landing in my main inbox. Since I get so much spam, weeding through and sorting it out can be overwhelming to the point where I quickly scan for "real" mail and delete the whole lot of them in frustration.  I think I have it fixed now, so hopefully my former comment etiquette will return.

.. or a meme and how it relates to the sniffles?

Nan tagged me for a meme over the weekend, but while I expected to complete it earlier this week, I was hit hard with some sort of viral nastiness. So, since my week thus far as been nothing but viral nastiness, I bring you my meme..

Write your own six word memoir. Post it on your blog, including an illustration if you’d like. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to the original post if possible so that it can be tracked as it travels across the blogosphere. Tag at least five more blogs with links. Leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!

• Nyquil
• Sniffling - Sneezing
• coughing - Aching
• Stuffyhead - Fever
• So You Can Rest - or not.

So now I'm tagging, hmm.. Cass, Loren, Beth, Daisy, and KaKi. And yes I know I cheated.. I used way more than six words.

If I weren't so sick this week, perhaps my meme would look different. But being this sick has its benefits. I'm nearly finished with a pair of socks that I started to knit on the way to PA on Saturday. And I finished The Kite Runner (not as good as A Thousand Splendid Suns, but only slightly so).

I know lots of family have been visiting hoping for our pictures of Grammy's 80th birthday party from last weekend, but I haven't gotten around to downsizing them from their original 20+meg size yet. Viral nastiness leaves little patience/energy for sitting at a computer futzing in Photoshop. But I am hoping that Richard will set aside some time before the weekend to show me how to do them as a batch.. all 150 of them so I can upload them to Flickr. I even have some video - my favorite is Danny and Jay playing Guitar Hero (who knew Danny could rock like that?) But the funniest one is the one where I zoom in on the "meter" and watch it quickly plunge to red while they try to do Slayer on "easy mode" - it was hilarious! For an idea of how hard this song is, here is a video of someone playing it on expert mode (omg!) And by the way, I must buy Guitar Hero, as soon as financially possible - I'm addicted.

Only Krissy and Nan guessed, but five were still left last night. And I expected some more guesses by this morning. Nope. So I let it sit all day. Not a one. I mean lots of y'all were looking at it according to my stats...

So were they that hard? Not that it matters, I'm just curious

Now the answers from the movies no one dared to guess, or guessed incorrectly..

“It may sound like I’m complaining, but I’m not. After all, with Your help, I’m starving to death.“ This would be Tevye in "Fiddler On The Roof", talking to God.

“Everybody in this family needs to just calm down and eat some fruit or something.” I chose this line because "Vamanos Children!" was far too easy. Of course, this is from "Signs", totally cheesy when compared to other works by M Night Shyamalan, butI love it. If its on TV, I have to sit and watch. If theres nothing on TV, I'll put in the dvd. Not sure why I love it so much.. but I do.

“I am making a horseth asseth of myselfeth.” That no one got this one, shocks me a little! Elliot Garfield - my favorite leading man! "Goodbye Girl"! Geeeez! < wink >

“Because you thought I was *cocky*, I’m now on a permanent *acid trip*?” This would be Nick Cage to Don Cheadle in "Family Man"

"This is politics at its finest" Robert DeNiro as Conrad (or Connie) in "Wag The Dog"

So, no pictures today. I took some.. of the snow (what is up with THAT Mother Nature?) But I'm far too lazy to open Photoshop.

I saw this on Carole's blog this morning.. and since I'd like to keep the blogging mojo flowing, I grabbed it. I must have been living under a pile of yarn or something because I hadn't seen this (or noticed it) on the blogs until it showed up on Carole's.

The rules..

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them on your blog for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. Looking them up is cheating, please don’t.

Annnd... here they are:

1. "It may sound like I'm complaining, but I'm not. After all, with Your help, I'm starving to death."
2. "That's because my life is as good as an Abba song. It's as good as Dancing Queen." Kris - "Muriel's Wedding"
3. "Everybody in this family needs to just calm down and eat some fruit or something."
4. "I am making a horseth asseth of myselfeth."
5. "Because you thought I was *cocky*, I'm now on a permanent *acid trip*?"
6. "What's the Czech for "Do you love him"?" Kris - "Once"
   
7. "Come and get it! It's a running buffet!" Kris - "Shaun Of The Dead"
   
8. "This is politics at its finest"
9. "Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man." Kris - "A Christmas Story"
   
10. "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." Kris - "Goodfellas"
    

I'm not going to tag anyone, but feel free to grab it!

One more to go. And I'm nearing the halfway point on that one! So I'm not knitting as fast as I would like to on these, but I'm not disappointed with my progress either.

Out of the 20 pictures taken, only these two are worth sharing. The rest were all a blurry flurry of orange and green. So you see, its not just my motivation to blog taking a hit recently.. its also my ability to take decent pictures!

As for that, now that I've mentioned it again.. Its not that I've lost all motivation to blog, but perhaps I'm running out material? Maybe I'm sick of blogging about knitting? Maybe I'm regretting moving all political content to liberalmom? Scratch that.. I haven't been blogging there lately either! Or maybe its just the time of year.

In any case, if someone has some motivation to spare, or fodder.. please send this way.

I haven't even put the memory card back in the camera since I last posted (what was it, Monday?) So I'm breaking my loosely adhered to rule of "blogging pictureless". But hey.. I'm blogging today. That has to count for something, right?

Really, not much going on around here. The winter crud has moved through each of us, one at a time. If "slow and steady wins the race" then germs kicked our ass this winter. Seriously, it seems like forever since we've simultaneously all been "healthy". This past week's flu recipient was Connor. But this was his third really awful illness this past winter - The poor kid just can't catch a break.  He is on the mend however. So much so that he and I ventured out today to do some errands.

Our first stop was a yarn sale. Many of my local knittas knew about this.. it was the big news in yarny circles. Elegant Needles in Skaneateles cleared its stock over the past few months to move out of the building and make way for the building to be remodeled. The leftover skeins over 2,000 of them... reported to be wool, blends,.. even the word "Rowan" was let out of the bag, were donated to St Camillus to be sold there at one.dollar.per.ball.

Regretfully, Connor and I left late. So late, that by the time we pulled in to the parking lot, 30 minutes after the sale started, women walking out told me not to even bother.. nothing was left. I saw at least 10 people carrying out large boxes, and I mean LARGE boxes filled to brim with yarn.  Oh well.

I thought about heading up to Sheep Thrills or Mission Rose, but in the end, Connor and I just headed to the bank, the post office, the market.. then home.

Now before I leave you with my favorite youtube of the week, I need to show you these. Incredibly silly.. but I want them! And squee.. this too! I've long wanted one of these, but every one I've found was well over 100.00!

Now.. on to youtube..

Four years. Wow.

And here I find myself on my fourth blogiversary with absolutely nothing to say. Even my pictures.. meh! I meant to take them earlier in the day, while the natural light was perfect and plentiful, but it just didn't work out that way.

Go With The Flow socks by Evelyn Clark from the Spring 2005 issue of Interweave. If you've been reading my blog for any length of time, you may recognize the yarn. Its Cider Moon Flurry in "Peas and Carrots" which started out as Roza's Socks last September. They just weren't turning out, so I ripped, skeined and washed to get rid of the knit kinks. As soon as it was dry, I cast these on.

The Lucy Bag. Oh my am I excited about this one. So excited that I'm nearly done! Why so excited? I've wanted this pattern forever. Literally. I went to buy it at my then, local yarn store in Madison, Lakeside Fibers, but they never had it in stock. Seriously, as soon as it restocked, it would be gone again. Even online, every time I looked.. out of stock. Finally, on Saturday, I found Mission Rose had it in stock. Its being worked in my fave felting yarn, Patons Classic Merino.

How cool are these socks? Really, just how cool? And how cool is Anna Zilboorg (yes, that Anna Zilboorg!) for coming up with this pattern as an incentive to donate to Barack Obama's campaign! Anna sent me this this .pdf file with additional pictures and information on how to get your very own copy. A great group to donate to the campaign through, is the Ravelry Knitters for Obama group. If you can't manage to get/open the .pdf (it happens sometimes), just forward your email donation acknowledgment to campaignsocks AT swva DOT net, and she'll get the pattern out to you.

I'm working these in Berocco Comfort DK, but its 50/50 acrylic and nylon. Not exactly an ideal fiber for socks. But I also picked up some Dale Heilo (100% wool) .. so a second pair is on the horizon.

Dylan's kindergarten musical. Not the greatest video, as it was taken on our digital camera. A little shaky too since this really rude person in front of us kept moving around and just standing up.. right in the middle of the audience, taking pictures with like 10 different cameras. Richard kept trying to move the camera, hence the shakiness. Anyway, it sure was cute.. and Dylan had a blast.

Meh.. blogging has been last on my list for well over a month now. But I do have a few posts lined up for this week. Really. I've started two pairs of socks. And I finally got a pattern I've been searching high and low for. Oh.. and this week is my fourth blogiversary, so I'll have to blog on that day at the very least!