9 posts from December 2006

Show us an unforgettable memory from 2006.  

Lorelei 2006

For weeks Lorelei got into my lipstick.  It's amazingly hard to wash off.  What you don't see is the lipstick smears on the wall behind her.  Or the lipstick ring in the bathtub. 

I have no lipstick left.  I have one tube now which I bought after her lipstick phase and I keep it hidden in my purse.

And I keep the purse on a high hook; Lorelei also has a purse fetish.

I've been so obsessed with getting 2006 over and gone and rehashing all the bad things that seemed to dominate 2006

But good things did happen to us--great things actually.  I met a new friend, L. and her fiance.  My brother got married.  I got to introduce my kids to their great grandmother.  We went to Myrtle Beach.  I got a proper yarn stash.

All these are great things.  But the good always seems to be overshadowed by the bad.

Fucked up plumbing, two (now three) broken cars, money shortages, job worries, family issues, stress and all that made me depressed and hopeless.

But 2006 is over and it is up to me to make 2007 better.  Looking on the bright side and getting dressed before noon.

How are you ringing in the New Year tonight?

I am not one for rauciously ringing in the New Year.  I prefer to stay away from the drunken crazies.  I hope to have the kids in bed by 9 at the very least 10 and spend a few quiet hours knitting, waiting for 2006 to be FINALLY over.

This year has been very trying.  Murphy (as in that guy that came up with all those "laws") moved in and pretty much stayed all year.  I spent most of 2006 stressed and tired and feeling like the worst mother in the world.

I might be on m knees at midnight praying to all the gods and godesses, wandering and fixed that 2007 is a better year than 2006.  I am turning 30--so I am not sure how that will work out.

Video: Show us some great animation.

The Last Knit 

The link to YouTube since I can't get the video uploaded to Vox--must be some setting on the vid itself. 

It's a great piece of computer animation and a great study into the knitting obsession.

What is one of your addictions?
Submitted by Paperheart.

 Interesting.  I don't have any.  It's a strong moral choice not to get my self intangled like that.  I can do with out my chocolate, my knitting and my internet.

Really I could.  I've gone days without all three.

What were your New Year's resolutions for 2006?  How did you do?

 Blush. They are the same as the ones I have for this year.  Get organised.  Obviously it didn't happen this year.

But this year, I have a plan.  And some motivation...do or die it is this year.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

I am being quite pathetic.  And very ridiculous.  All day I have been contemplating adding folks to my "neighborhood".  I am brand new to the Vox bandwagon.  I have been seduced finally over to Vox by reading the Vox blogs of people that have other blogs that I have read for years and years, before there was even Blogger and we all did this "journal" thing by FTPing and self coding.  But I am not as witty or famouz as them. I'm shy and so have lurked.  Read, but not participated.  Now I like Vox because of the neighborhood and the fun post prompts.  But when it comes to creating my neighborhood: saying "Hi" and introducing myself well I want to run away and lock my door.  (Much like I am in real life.  We have lived in this house for 5 years and we have yet to introduce ourselves to the neighbors.)

Yet I am Birdwell.  Here me roar!  My ego can knock your ego down a flight of stairs.  I need multiple blogs to hold my ego.  Heck HAVING a blog proves you have one hell of an ego. 

Can one be shy and egotistical?

What's something you did when you were younger that you still haven't confessed to your parents?
Submitted by Bizz.

This a hard one.  I have a big mouth and I have a hard time keeping things close to my chest.  If I played poker, I'd suck at it.  After a nice long think, I THINK that the one last thing I haven't confesssed to my parents is that I tricked my Dad into driving us to see my first R-rated movie: Interview with a Vampire. R-rated movies were a big no no in my family.

I already have a half a dozen blogs.  I am a writer and I like to share.  I've been lamenting the loss of my wit.  Maybe if I write more and share more it'll come back--like a little lost puppy.

I am not totally sure WHY I started a new blog on a service.  To rant and rave unbridled--because I doubt I'll tell my Mom about this place.  A lot of the people I regularly have read for over 5 years are now here...and I like the streamlined, no brain design (being very tired of blogspots and bloggers on Blogger that can't design/code their way out a paper bag) and perhaps I hope to find myself a nice neighborhood to peacefully settle down in.  Perhaps I just want to be noticed more.

My concurrent blog will never die--I'll just post here and there--because as everyone who knows me knows, I am a wordy bastard....for a girl.