Meet my cousin Robyn:
http://photocoops.blogspot.com
Hers was the wedding I was in on September 18th of this year. Yes, the wedding of the flower-bowl-on-head hairdo. And you guys saw it after it was fixed up! I didn’t get a clear pic of Robyn (or her new hubby Jamie) from my mom when I posted the wedding photos, so here’s one now. Ok, so you can’t see her face, but the pic is still clear. 🙂

She just set up her very first blog so please check it out! Another Montreal artist-type, only what I do with pointy sticks she does with a camera lens. (You know I’m picturing her knitting cables with 2 cameras…never mind.)

So…while listening to CSI playing in the other room…I decided to check out my bloglines. Bloglines, for those of you who don’t know, is a free service that lets you “sign up” all the blogs you like to read, and instead of going to each blog every 10 minutes (if you have internet at work) and looking for new entries, you can go to your bloglines page and see everyone’s blog and whether there are new entries. I recently updated mine, got rid of the entire RAOK list I used to have in there, largely unread, and brought it down to a managble few blogs. I have the blogs from the Montreal Knitters girls, and my cousin Robyn.

Imagine my surprise to see my name there! In her entry on Monday she filled in a quiz called Two by Two. At the end is a question about who you would like to see fill out the quiz…and she put me! Thanks Robyn! I know what you mean about the age difference, although unless time started acting funny, technically it’s still there… 🙂 But I know exactly what you mean. I think as we got older we got closer, so to know more feel free to ask away…or read on!

Two by Two
2 names you go by
1. Jennifer
2. Lou (short for “loser”, which Yannick calls me affectionately. Don’t write in, I call him “Stu”, short for “stupid”. Yes, we do love each other LOL.)

2. parts of your heritage
1. canadian
2. jewish

2 things that scare you
1. spiders
2. crazy people in traffic who could hurt or kill those I love/yannick driving crazy in traffic and possibly getting hurt or killed

2 of your everyday essentials
1. my Palm!!!
2. contact lenses

2 things you are wearing right now
1. my engagement ring
2. my ladybug gold/enamel charm on a gold choker

2 of your favorite bands or musical artists (at the moment)
1. Black Eyed Peas
2. Kelly Clarkson

2 of your favorite songs (at the moment)
1. Addicted – Kelly Clarkson
2. anything on the ABBA Mamma Mia! soundtrack

2 things you want in a relationship (other than real love)
1. trust/respect
2. a best friend with all the goofyness and compassion and fun that comes along with it

2 truths
1. I like being alone a lot of the time [NOTE: Robyn I know a lot of our answers are similar and that I left this one word for word like what you put, but that’s because it’s really true. I’m not being lazy and trying to copy you I swear! See, we have a lot in common!]
2. Yannick was my first and only (and hopefully my last) serious boyfriend.

2 physical things that appeal to you (in the opposite sex)
1. smile
2. eyes

2 of your favorite hobbies
1. knitting
2. reading

2 things you want really badly
1. children
2. to be skinny, but healthy

2 places you want to go on vacation
1. Egypt
2. Scotland

2 things you want to do before you die
1. have a book published
2. give birth

2 ways that you are stereotypically a chick
1. my fiance/father/mother/friends/everyone kills spiders for me
2. I have strong urges to be a stay-at-home mom. Ok, so maybe that’s more maternal than “chick”.

2 things you are thinking about now
1. that some stuff must run in the family since I haven’t had to change many of Robyn’s answers to put my own in.
2. I can’t believe it’s already 10:30 and I haven’t even sat down in bed yet to veg or knit or read or anything, and by the time I do it will be time to sleep and I’ve been exhausted ‘cus my dad has been opening the store at 9 like he’s supposed to which is good for business but means I can’t sleep in any more.

2 stores you shop at
1. Loblaws. I don’t buy clothes usually, I buy food. Hmm..maybe this has something to do with the fact that I’m overweight and dress like a slob?
2. Bureau en Gros. I LOVE school supplies.

2 people i would like to see take this quiz
1. My sister Laura- we were really close when she was little but when she started high school she made her friends and didn’t really want/need an older sister to talk to.
2. Deawn…’cus I want to see where her warped mind takes these questions! (Really, if you haven’t yet, go take a look. But don’t drink any liquids while reading. You have been warned.)

On the knitting front: I’ve finished Bernie’s scarf and only need to wash and block. I’m about 2/5 of the way through the black fuzzy part of Yafit’s jacket, then those gifts will be FedExed away. I’m not letting myself knit anything else until these are both in the mail.

On the wedding front: the hall is booked, the food is booked, the video guy is booked, the band is booked and the photographer will be booked on Wednesday. Anyone wanna recommend good hair and/or makeup artists? Flowers? Amazing. We’ve been engaged for 25 days and so much seems done already!

On the diet front: the Curves diet didn’t work. Yes, I lost 10.5″ so far, but I think it’s more from the exercise than the diet. I lost no pounds at all. Truthfully, I didn’t follow the diet to the letter. There were certain foods on some days that I just don’t like, like ham and cottage cheese (uh, not as one meal) so I’d substitute, for example bacon or plain yogurt. But, yogurt and cottage cheese don’t have the same carb count, etc.. and I think I either didn’t end up eating enough carbs or eating too many. Plus the book only lists very few foods with counts, so you had to always look to other sources for real food items… it just wasn’t very user friendly for me. I want lists: eat this. Don’t eat this. I can deal with that. So, on the advice of my cousin, I’m going to start the GI diet. I know, I know, this is like the 3rd diet I’ve “announced” starting, and my weight is still exactly the same. The GI one seems pretty similar to Montignac, which I did 3 years ago and lost 30 lbs. But then I quit smoking and gained 40. But I also had vague motivation before, and now I have really good motivation. Not only do I want to look really hot on my wedding day, but Yannick won’t let us try to have kids (after the wedding) until the doctor says my weight is good, because it can be too dangerous for me and the baby to get pregnant while overweight. So November 1st (for no other reason than the 1st seems like a good “beginning” date) I will be starting the GI diet. Weight loss will be posted. If weight gain occurs, or if in a few months I announce some new diet to try, feel free to mock and laugh. I will continue to go to Curves though, anywhere from 3 to 7 times per week. The workout is great, and I don’t want to give that up, I really enjoy it now. I just want faster results and their “style” of diet didn’t work for me. (Actually, it didn’t work for at least 3 members of our 20 member group, who lost no weight at all. I’m not sure about their inches. So it’s not just me. Quite a few people complained about it not meeting their expectations, result-wise.)

OH, and Robyn…wouldn’t you use the champagne flutes for..oh, I dunno…drinking champagne? 😉

Meet my cousin Robyn:
http://photocoops.blogspot.com
Hers was the wedding I was in on September 18th of this year. Yes, the wedding of the flower-bowl-on-head hairdo. And you guys saw it after it was fixed up! I didn’t get a clear pic of Robyn (or her new hubby Jamie) from my mom when I posted the wedding photos, so here’s one now. Ok, so you can’t see her face, but the pic is still clear. 🙂

She just set up her very first blog so please check it out! Another Montreal artist-type, only what I do with pointy sticks she does with a camera lens. (You know I’m picturing her knitting cables with 2 cameras…never mind.)

So…while listening to CSI playing in the other room…I decided to check out my bloglines. Bloglines, for those of you who don’t know, is a free service that lets you “sign up” all the blogs you like to read, and instead of going to each blog every 10 minutes (if you have internet at work) and looking for new entries, you can go to your bloglines page and see everyone’s blog and whether there are new entries. I recently updated mine, got rid of the entire RAOK list I used to have in there, largely unread, and brought it down to a managble few blogs. I have the blogs from the Montreal Knitters girls, and my cousin Robyn.

Imagine my surprise to see my name there! In her entry on Monday she filled in a quiz called Two by Two. At the end is a question about who you would like to see fill out the quiz…and she put me! Thanks Robyn! I know what you mean about the age difference, although unless time started acting funny, technically it’s still there… 🙂 But I know exactly what you mean. I think as we got older we got closer, so to know more feel free to ask away…or read on!

Two by Two
2 names you go by
1. Jennifer
2. Lou (short for “loser”, which Yannick calls me affectionately. Don’t write in, I call him “Stu”, short for “stupid”. Yes, we do love each other LOL.)

2. parts of your heritage
1. canadian
2. jewish

2 things that scare you
1. spiders
2. crazy people in traffic who could hurt or kill those I love/yannick driving crazy in traffic and possibly getting hurt or killed

2 of your everyday essentials
1. my Palm!!!
2. contact lenses

2 things you are wearing right now
1. my engagement ring
2. my ladybug gold/enamel charm on a gold choker

2 of your favorite bands or musical artists (at the moment)
1. Black Eyed Peas
2. Kelly Clarkson

2 of your favorite songs (at the moment)
1. Addicted – Kelly Clarkson
2. anything on the ABBA Mamma Mia! soundtrack

2 things you want in a relationship (other than real love)
1. trust/respect
2. a best friend with all the goofyness and compassion and fun that comes along with it

2 truths
1. I like being alone a lot of the time [NOTE: Robyn I know a lot of our answers are similar and that I left this one word for word like what you put, but that’s because it’s really true. I’m not being lazy and trying to copy you I swear! See, we have a lot in common!]
2. Yannick was my first and only (and hopefully my last) serious boyfriend.

2 physical things that appeal to you (in the opposite sex)
1. smile
2. eyes

2 of your favorite hobbies
1. knitting
2. reading

2 things you want really badly
1. children
2. to be skinny, but healthy

2 places you want to go on vacation
1. Egypt
2. Scotland

2 things you want to do before you die
1. have a book published
2. give birth

2 ways that you are stereotypically a chick
1. my fiance/father/mother/friends/everyone kills spiders for me
2. I have strong urges to be a stay-at-home mom. Ok, so maybe that’s more maternal than “chick”.

2 things you are thinking about now
1. that some stuff must run in the family since I haven’t had to change many of Robyn’s answers to put my own in.
2. I can’t believe it’s already 10:30 and I haven’t even sat down in bed yet to veg or knit or read or anything, and by the time I do it will be time to sleep and I’ve been exhausted ‘cus my dad has been opening the store at 9 like he’s supposed to which is good for business but means I can’t sleep in any more.

2 stores you shop at
1. Loblaws. I don’t buy clothes usually, I buy food. Hmm..maybe this has something to do with the fact that I’m overweight and dress like a slob?
2. Bureau en Gros. I LOVE school supplies.

2 people i would like to see take this quiz
1. My sister Laura- we were really close when she was little but when she started high school she made her friends and didn’t really want/need an older sister to talk to.
2. Deawn…’cus I want to see where her warped mind takes these questions! (Really, if you haven’t yet, go take a look. But don’t drink any liquids while reading. You have been warned.)

On the knitting front: I’ve finished Bernie’s scarf and only need to wash and block. I’m about 2/5 of the way through the black fuzzy part of Yafit’s jacket, then those gifts will be FedExed away. I’m not letting myself knit anything else until these are both in the mail.

On the wedding front: the hall is booked, the food is booked, the video guy is booked, the band is booked and the photographer will be booked on Wednesday. Anyone wanna recommend good hair and/or makeup artists? Flowers? Amazing. We’ve been engaged for 25 days and so much seems done already!

On the diet front: the Curves diet didn’t work. Yes, I lost 10.5″ so far, but I think it’s more from the exercise than the diet. I lost no pounds at all. Truthfully, I didn’t follow the diet to the letter. There were certain foods on some days that I just don’t like, like ham and cottage cheese (uh, not as one meal) so I’d substitute, for example bacon or plain yogurt. But, yogurt and cottage cheese don’t have the same carb count, etc.. and I think I either didn’t end up eating enough carbs or eating too many. Plus the book only lists very few foods with counts, so you had to always look to other sources for real food items… it just wasn’t very user friendly for me. I want lists: eat this. Don’t eat this. I can deal with that. So, on the advice of my cousin, I’m going to start the GI diet. I know, I know, this is like the 3rd diet I’ve “announced” starting, and my weight is still exactly the same. The GI one seems pretty similar to Montignac, which I did 3 years ago and lost 30 lbs. But then I quit smoking and gained 40. But I also had vague motivation before, and now I have really good motivation. Not only do I want to look really hot on my wedding day, but Yannick won’t let us try to have kids (after the wedding) until the doctor says my weight is good, because it can be too dangerous for me and the baby to get pregnant while overweight. So November 1st (for no other reason than the 1st seems like a good “beginning” date) I will be starting the GI diet. Weight loss will be posted. If weight gain occurs, or if in a few months I announce some new diet to try, feel free to mock and laugh. I will continue to go to Curves though, anywhere from 3 to 7 times per week. The workout is great, and I don’t want to give that up, I really enjoy it now. I just want faster results and their “style” of diet didn’t work for me. (Actually, it didn’t work for at least 3 members of our 20 member group, who lost no weight at all. I’m not sure about their inches. So it’s not just me. Quite a few people complained about it not meeting their expectations, result-wise.)

OH, and Robyn…wouldn’t you use the champagne flutes for..oh, I dunno…drinking champagne? 😉

Meet my cousin Robyn:
http://photocoops.blogspot.com
Hers was the wedding I was in on September 18th of this year. Yes, the wedding of the flower-bowl-on-head hairdo. And you guys saw it after it was fixed up! I didn’t get a clear pic of Robyn (or her new hubby Jamie) from my mom when I posted the wedding photos, so here’s one now. Ok, so you can’t see her face, but the pic is still clear. 🙂

She just set up her very first blog so please check it out! Another Montreal artist-type, only what I do with pointy sticks she does with a camera lens. (You know I’m picturing her knitting cables with 2 cameras…never mind.)

So…while listening to CSI playing in the other room…I decided to check out my bloglines. Bloglines, for those of you who don’t know, is a free service that lets you “sign up” all the blogs you like to read, and instead of going to each blog every 10 minutes (if you have internet at work) and looking for new entries, you can go to your bloglines page and see everyone’s blog and whether there are new entries. I recently updated mine, got rid of the entire RAOK list I used to have in there, largely unread, and brought it down to a managble few blogs. I have the blogs from the Montreal Knitters girls, and my cousin Robyn.

Imagine my surprise to see my name there! In her entry on Monday she filled in a quiz called Two by Two. At the end is a question about who you would like to see fill out the quiz…and she put me! Thanks Robyn! I know what you mean about the age difference, although unless time started acting funny, technically it’s still there… 🙂 But I know exactly what you mean. I think as we got older we got closer, so to know more feel free to ask away…or read on!

Two by Two
2 names you go by
1. Jennifer
2. Lou (short for “loser”, which Yannick calls me affectionately. Don’t write in, I call him “Stu”, short for “stupid”. Yes, we do love each other LOL.)

2. parts of your heritage
1. canadian
2. jewish

2 things that scare you
1. spiders
2. crazy people in traffic who could hurt or kill those I love/yannick driving crazy in traffic and possibly getting hurt or killed

2 of your everyday essentials
1. my Palm!!!
2. contact lenses

2 things you are wearing right now
1. my engagement ring
2. my ladybug gold/enamel charm on a gold choker

2 of your favorite bands or musical artists (at the moment)
1. Black Eyed Peas
2. Kelly Clarkson

2 of your favorite songs (at the moment)
1. Addicted – Kelly Clarkson
2. anything on the ABBA Mamma Mia! soundtrack

2 things you want in a relationship (other than real love)
1. trust/respect
2. a best friend with all the goofyness and compassion and fun that comes along with it

2 truths
1. I like being alone a lot of the time [NOTE: Robyn I know a lot of our answers are similar and that I left this one word for word like what you put, but that’s because it’s really true. I’m not being lazy and trying to copy you I swear! See, we have a lot in common!]
2. Yannick was my first and only (and hopefully my last) serious boyfriend.

2 physical things that appeal to you (in the opposite sex)
1. smile
2. eyes

2 of your favorite hobbies
1. knitting
2. reading

2 things you want really badly
1. children
2. to be skinny, but healthy

2 places you want to go on vacation
1. Egypt
2. Scotland

2 things you want to do before you die
1. have a book published
2. give birth

2 ways that you are stereotypically a chick
1. my fiance/father/mother/friends/everyone kills spiders for me
2. I have strong urges to be a stay-at-home mom. Ok, so maybe that’s more maternal than “chick”.

2 things you are thinking about now
1. that some stuff must run in the family since I haven’t had to change many of Robyn’s answers to put my own in.
2. I can’t believe it’s already 10:30 and I haven’t even sat down in bed yet to veg or knit or read or anything, and by the time I do it will be time to sleep and I’ve been exhausted ‘cus my dad has been opening the store at 9 like he’s supposed to which is good for business but means I can’t sleep in any more.

2 stores you shop at
1. Loblaws. I don’t buy clothes usually, I buy food. Hmm..maybe this has something to do with the fact that I’m overweight and dress like a slob?
2. Bureau en Gros. I LOVE school supplies.

2 people i would like to see take this quiz
1. My sister Laura- we were really close when she was little but when she started high school she made her friends and didn’t really want/need an older sister to talk to.
2. Deawn…’cus I want to see where her warped mind takes these questions! (Really, if you haven’t yet, go take a look. But don’t drink any liquids while reading. You have been warned.)

On the knitting front: I’ve finished Bernie’s scarf and only need to wash and block. I’m about 2/5 of the way through the black fuzzy part of Yafit’s jacket, then those gifts will be FedExed away. I’m not letting myself knit anything else until these are both in the mail.

On the wedding front: the hall is booked, the food is booked, the video guy is booked, the band is booked and the photographer will be booked on Wednesday. Anyone wanna recommend good hair and/or makeup artists? Flowers? Amazing. We’ve been engaged for 25 days and so much seems done already!

On the diet front: the Curves diet didn’t work. Yes, I lost 10.5″ so far, but I think it’s more from the exercise than the diet. I lost no pounds at all. Truthfully, I didn’t follow the diet to the letter. There were certain foods on some days that I just don’t like, like ham and cottage cheese (uh, not as one meal) so I’d substitute, for example bacon or plain yogurt. But, yogurt and cottage cheese don’t have the same carb count, etc.. and I think I either didn’t end up eating enough carbs or eating too many. Plus the book only lists very few foods with counts, so you had to always look to other sources for real food items… it just wasn’t very user friendly for me. I want lists: eat this. Don’t eat this. I can deal with that. So, on the advice of my cousin, I’m going to start the GI diet. I know, I know, this is like the 3rd diet I’ve “announced” starting, and my weight is still exactly the same. The GI one seems pretty similar to Montignac, which I did 3 years ago and lost 30 lbs. But then I quit smoking and gained 40. But I also had vague motivation before, and now I have really good motivation. Not only do I want to look really hot on my wedding day, but Yannick won’t let us try to have kids (after the wedding) until the doctor says my weight is good, because it can be too dangerous for me and the baby to get pregnant while overweight. So November 1st (for no other reason than the 1st seems like a good “beginning” date) I will be starting the GI diet. Weight loss will be posted. If weight gain occurs, or if in a few months I announce some new diet to try, feel free to mock and laugh. I will continue to go to Curves though, anywhere from 3 to 7 times per week. The workout is great, and I don’t want to give that up, I really enjoy it now. I just want faster results and their “style” of diet didn’t work for me. (Actually, it didn’t work for at least 3 members of our 20 member group, who lost no weight at all. I’m not sure about their inches. So it’s not just me. Quite a few people complained about it not meeting their expectations, result-wise.)

OH, and Robyn…wouldn’t you use the champagne flutes for..oh, I dunno…drinking champagne? 😉

YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!

Thank you Secret Pal! What a perfect way to get home from work…to a nice big envelope with gifties inside! I wish I had a digital camera (or Yannick’s Palm) so I could show pics, but I will as soon as I can. Inside is the most adorably sweet circular needle holder (which are all I ever use, circs that is), a bridal magazine (how you got the only one I didn’t buy I have no idea! I saw it at the store but felt guilty about already having bought about 6 so I left it there…it’s becheret! That, in my horrible spelling of a Yiddish word, means “meant to be”.) and the most gorgeous stitch markers!!! The beaded ones are beautiful and the ladybug ones…they take my breath away!! I’ve never seen those beads before! Thank you so much!!!!!

Thank you also for the wishes about the inches. I’m getting there…slowly.

To the person who sent me the orange envelope- I wish I knew who you were! As for my taste in music, you should see my CD holder! Everything from musicals to Bon Jovi, Linkin Park to Rob Zombie, ABBA to T.A.T.U. Are you friend or family?

To Jan and Brenda and K and Pleutim and Warren- I’m so behind on comments, I put them in a folder to remember to reply and then forget they’re in the folder. Thank you all for your wedding wishes and comments. This is why I love having a blog…

YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!

Thank you Secret Pal! What a perfect way to get home from work…to a nice big envelope with gifties inside! I wish I had a digital camera (or Yannick’s Palm) so I could show pics, but I will as soon as I can. Inside is the most adorably sweet circular needle holder (which are all I ever use, circs that is), a bridal magazine (how you got the only one I didn’t buy I have no idea! I saw it at the store but felt guilty about already having bought about 6 so I left it there…it’s becheret! That, in my horrible spelling of a Yiddish word, means “meant to be”.) and the most gorgeous stitch markers!!! The beaded ones are beautiful and the ladybug ones…they take my breath away!! I’ve never seen those beads before! Thank you so much!!!!!

Thank you also for the wishes about the inches. I’m getting there…slowly.

To the person who sent me the orange envelope- I wish I knew who you were! As for my taste in music, you should see my CD holder! Everything from musicals to Bon Jovi, Linkin Park to Rob Zombie, ABBA to T.A.T.U. Are you friend or family?

To Jan and Brenda and K and Pleutim and Warren- I’m so behind on comments, I put them in a folder to remember to reply and then forget they’re in the folder. Thank you all for your wedding wishes and comments. This is why I love having a blog…

YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!

Thank you Secret Pal! What a perfect way to get home from work…to a nice big envelope with gifties inside! I wish I had a digital camera (or Yannick’s Palm) so I could show pics, but I will as soon as I can. Inside is the most adorably sweet circular needle holder (which are all I ever use, circs that is), a bridal magazine (how you got the only one I didn’t buy I have no idea! I saw it at the store but felt guilty about already having bought about 6 so I left it there…it’s becheret! That, in my horrible spelling of a Yiddish word, means “meant to be”.) and the most gorgeous stitch markers!!! The beaded ones are beautiful and the ladybug ones…they take my breath away!! I’ve never seen those beads before! Thank you so much!!!!!

Thank you also for the wishes about the inches. I’m getting there…slowly.

To the person who sent me the orange envelope- I wish I knew who you were! As for my taste in music, you should see my CD holder! Everything from musicals to Bon Jovi, Linkin Park to Rob Zombie, ABBA to T.A.T.U. Are you friend or family?

To Jan and Brenda and K and Pleutim and Warren- I’m so behind on comments, I put them in a folder to remember to reply and then forget they’re in the folder. Thank you all for your wedding wishes and comments. This is why I love having a blog…

My cousin Caryn is on Global TV’s website!

CARYN LIEBERMAN

REPORTER

Caryn wears many hats in and out of the Global newsroom. She joined the team as an intern in May 2001 and since has gained valuable experience as Editorial Assistant, Line-Up Editor and eventually Producer. Caryn’s dream of being in front of the camera materialized when she became a reporter in Global’s Quebec City office. Her favorite part? Telling people’s stories and giving them a voice.
Caryn was bitten by the television bug very early on. In fifth grade, for her final class project, Caryn took on the persona of Barbara Walters, conducting a makeshift interview. Years later when applying to universities, there was no question – Concordia University’s Specialization in Journalism and Communication Studies program was the one for her. She completed her Bachelor’s degree cum laude.
Reporting aside, Caryn is a former hip-hop dance instructor, art teacher and newspaper columnist. She also enjoys soaking up the city’s cultural scene.

Friday night Julie and Rich came over to play cards. I’m not sure who won the Texas Hold’Em tournament, but I was the first one out. 😦

Saturday I worked then Yannick, me and my mom went to Boccacino’s for dinner. My dad met us there. After dinner we went to a wedding in St-Laurent to check out a DJ for our wedding. Afterwards we went back to my parents’ house to watch my cousin’s wedding video to see what her minister was like, since we can’t and don’t want to use a priest or a rabbi.

Sunday Yannick and I brunched at Tutti Fruitti then went shopping at Winners. I can’t believe I got about 10 shirts!!! All nice stuff though, so I’ll be stylin’. Am I too white to say “stylin'”? Then we went to Jackie and Kevin’s so Yannick could meet Bradley. Julie and Rich were there too. We borrowed J&K’s wedding video to show my parents something more recent, then went to go meet a videographer. We went back to my parents and, even though we were signing with the video guy, showed them J&K’s video anyways so they could see it. Then Yannick, my mom, my dad and their dog all napped. After dinner we went to Bourbon Street to check out a band, which we will be signing tonight.

Today I went to Curves and did my weigh-in. Still not a single pound lost, but I’m down another 4.5″, making a grand total of 10.5″ lost in the last 6 weeks. Then I bought some groceries, and went to the library. I just finished reading Linda Fairstein’s Entombed, a thriller in which everything ties back to Edgar Allan Poe. I tend to obsess, and now decided I’d like to read through his body of work, since he is the established father of one of my favorite genres of fiction: crime/mystery. You want revenge, Poe’s your guy. How sad is it that 90% of what the library had by him was in the juvenile section? He invented ratiocination; the process of deductive reasoning used by every attempt to solve crimes today, and yet he’s religated to cartoon-style drawings of a raven cooing “nevermore” over an over-stuffed easychair. Not cool.

Then I went to J&K’s again, dropped back off the video and hung out for a bit. Now I’m home with about an hour and a half to spare before going to meet my mom to see 2 photographers. This wedding stuff never stops!

I’m exhausted but wanted to mention 2 quick things:

1) I met Bradley today! All 8 lbs 1 oz, 21″ of him! Too adorable, with a Maddox-like mohawk of dark brown hair all over his tiny little head. Poor Jackie’s not having a good time though, so I hope he’s nice and sweet all his life to make this worth it!

2) At the Knitting Meetup on Monkland tonight, we were treated to our very first knitting-themed pickup line! These three old guys came and pulled away one of the tables we were using, without asking, although the only thing on it was my drink, and the edge of my knitting pattern. Apparently they didn’t notice the drink, even after it crashed to the ground and spilled everywhere. No apologies, nothing. Then one of them turned to Karine and said:
“Hey baby.”
She looked at him blankly.
“Hey baby,” he repeated, then, after brilliantly noticing that we were all knitting, he asked her, “did you drop a stitch?”
She looked at him blankly again and asked him to repeat himself.
“Did you drop a stitch?” he asked, “Because there’s one on the floor.”

I kid you not. As proof you can read about it on Deawn’s blog, where it will probably be told much funnier. Much more funny. Whatever.

A HUGE congratulations to Jackie and Kevin, two of my best friends who had their first child at 7:22pm tonight!!! I can’t wait to see him! Looks like it’s a good think I knit that outfit in mostly blues…

To you generous person who sent me the thing…thank you! But why? I’m so curious!!! Tell me something about yourself!!