Gold medalist August 27, 2008 ~ 7:35 am
Posted by Julie in : Craftiness Is Next To Godliness , comments closedThis year’s Ravelympics were a triumph for me: a 200% better showing than I had at the 2006 Winter Games. This year I medalled in not one, but two events:
Short blurb to show that I am still alive. August 20, 2008 ~ 3:42 pm
Posted by Julie in : About a Julz, Random Insanity, Shorty , comments closedIn today’s oh shit I haven’t written anything on the blog in ten days, people must hate me, I’ll put up something short post, I give you…air from my lungs. (Yeah, see, that’s only funny if you’re a Doctor Who fan. The rest of you? I’m sorry again.) I could give you a rundown on things, but mostly that goes like “knit, watch Olympics, knit, eat, knit, drink beer, work, watch Olympics, sleep, don’t knit for a couple of days because I’m lazy, knit” and that’s boring, because if you don’t count the knitting (and not knitting), most of you are doing the same damn thing. Watching the Olympics, surviving, drinking some beer or an alcoholic or caffeinated beverage of your choice.
So instead I give you a fun waste of time: What your birthday says about you. Mine says this:
Your personal ruling planets are Venus and Jupiter.
You have pure and generous aspirations - thanks to the influence of Jupiter. Being spiritual by nature you don’t see success in the material world as the be all and end all.
Your mind is firm and your heart magnanimous. Things don’t ordinarily get you down too much and so you are capable of handling large affairs, Corporate business and projects that others may cringe at! You have healing powers and make people and animals feel at ease in your presence.
Spend some time at the theatre or develop an interest in drama. It will soothe your soul. 30th year on proves lucky.
Your lucky colours are yellow, lemon and sandy shades.
Your lucky gems are yellow sapphire, citrine quartz and golden topaz.
Your lucky days of the week Thursday, Sunday, Tuesday.
Your lucky numbers and years of important change are 3, 12, 21, 30, 39, 48, 57 , 66, 75.
Famous people born on your birthday include Lester Maddox, Deborah Kerr, Truman Capote, Fran Drescher, Martina Hingis and Jenna Elfman.
I particularly like the “30th year on proves lucky.” I am 30 now. That means I am lucky for the rest of my life, people! YES! Perhaps not so lucky to share a birthday with The Nanny, Fran Drescher, but the rest of it will be good! What do your birthdays say about you?
It’s that time again August 9, 2008 ~ 10:21 am
Posted by Julie in : Craftiness Is Next To Godliness , comments closedWe all know I love the Olympics, as well as a chance to engage in lemming-like behavior with my fellow knitters. So I joined the Ravelympics. Similar to the Yarn Harlot’s Knitting Olympics for the winter Olympics in Torino two years ago, the Ravelympics features a million and two knitters (okay, really the count stands at 5,644 Ravelers) doing a billion projects (really, 16,192 projects, but who’s counting besides the Rav moderators?). Due to the sheer number of people we have over on Rav, these Olympic games are much better organized than the first, because everyone wants to pitch in and help. We’ve got events, we’ve got actual teams (based on geography, interest, etc.), and we’ve already got medalists, much like the actual Olympics (I knew I should have gone for hat dash, that shit would have been done already!).
So what am I doing? Well, in between tearing up at the Opening Ceremonies last night (I can’t help it…seeing all those smiling athletes, some of whom have never been out of their countries before and will probably not win medals, amongst the amazing pomp and circumstance? It gets me.) and writing in parentheses, I’m competing in two events, the Laceweight Longjump and the Sock Put. Given how badly I bombed out in the last Olympics (I was the Jamaican Bobsled team, in case you’ve forgotten), I kept my expectations a little more real this year. Knowing that I have Carpal Tunnel and a strong tendency to Plurk all day, I am doing Plain Vanilla Socks (no cables, no lace, just miles of stockinette) and a Montego Bay Scarf (laceweight yarn on size 8s flies). If I manage to get those done ahead of schedule, I’ll see if I can’t finally finish Samng’s Sweater, which has been languishing. My goals are totally doable. And my team? Team TARDIS, baby. Crafting through time and space, the Doctor is our leader, and we have the benefit of a time machine. If we screw up, we can go back and fix it, as long as we manage to avoid ourselves - don’t want to create a time paradox, now, do we?
De Do Do Do… August 6, 2008 ~ 7:35 pm
Posted by Julie in : Reviews , comments closedIf I told you where I was last night, you’d probably be jealous. Yeah, I’m going to tell you anyway. I was at the Elvis Costello/Police show at Jones Beach. Rick wanted to go for Elvis, I wanted to go for the Police, and it all pretty much worked out as planned except we had wanted to take the Oldest with us and couldn’t because she’s in France (the life these kids lead…it just defies belief).
But anyway, the Police outdid themselves last night. This is the third show I’ve seen on this tour, and topped not only their first MSG show last August, but the Halloween MSG show. Seriously…from Sting singing “Allison” with Elvis, to the three members of the Police who came out dressed as Elvis during “What’s So Funny” to the fun Sting, Andy, and Stewart were obviously having playing with each other, it just couldn’t get much better. And then they came out and did an encore. Where they played “Purple Haze.” Oh yeah. I was there.
