Mossy Cottage Knits

Urling, Assing and Icking

While, unlike Franklin, I didn’t do this in public and didn’t adorn anyone besides myself with the unintended results, this morning I did pick up and shake a bottle of Frappucino........after I had removed the top. The top was not on and loose, it was off, it was elsewhere on my desk, far distant from the place where it could have done any preventative good. Thoughts obviously elsewhere, I gave the bottle a vigorous, manly shake and sent a wave, a deluge, a volcanic eruption of thick, sugary, milky liquid pouring out of the wide bottle mouth and all over me and everything around me. I had even, as is my habit, put two fingers over the top of the bottle to hold the, um, “top” in place and yet the message never got from my fingertips to my brain that what I was feeling was the cold, round, glass rim of a bottle that had no top.

I killed the letter “p” on my keyboard. One measly key, but that’s all it takes to force you to confess to the PC technician what you did and grovel for a new keyboard. PppppppppppPPPpp. I grovel well. And thank God for that, or I’d be reduced to writing about knitting and urling. Or I might have to write about “assing a stitch over.” Or “icking up stitches.” Both of which, now that I think about it, I’ve actually done.

Like Erika, I have to make sure that you’ve read Rachael’s Kitty Miracle Story (with the priceless title. Read it twice; I guarantee you you'll get it wrong the first time). I almost feel as if all the knit blogging in the universe should end here and now on this amazing note (which, granted, may or may not have a happy ending but will remain miraculous no matter what). (I also am personally quite miffed at Rachael since, Wednesday, driving home, I misted up three times remembering her story and, Thursday morning, misted up twice. It makes driving a challenge when the road signs go all blurry and watery.)

These 17 more people are marked “done” on the Dulaan 10,000 list. I have about 21 more names to go, and I will have turned over every e-rock and every e-leaf and found every possible e-message in every e-nook and e-cranny that I can. I hope to have those last 21 names updated on the list by Monday.

Danielle
Donna (knitonepurltoo)
Hope Cooner
Janine Bajus
Jayme Stahl
Jean Y.
Jessie Morrow
Kara Moaratty
Kasi
Kathleen Conery
KnittyOtter
MaryB
Otter
Suzanne Treadway
Teresa Cornwell
Victoria H. Gaskell
Zanna

Posted by Ryan at June 29, 2007 11:09 AM