All I keep thinking of is new stuff to knit or finish. I really, REALLY need a week off to try and clear some WIPs, not that a week would even make a dent. I think I have about 30 wips in various stages from only needing buttons or blocking, to only having a sleeve completed, or something. Now that winter’s back, I really want to work on the Enchanted Forest sweater, as well as work on my Perfect Knitting Bag. I want to whip up a few scarves for myself since I’m ashamed that as a knitter I go out with a store-bought woven one, and a pair of gloves would be cool too. I really want to knit my Noro Tasha Tudor, but did I mention I’m still finishing the Glam Coat and then have my MIL’s Christmas gift to knit before I can think of moving on? On top of that, I came up with a new design today that I’m just ITCHING to knit. It’s too bad the knitting machine can’t do garter, or I’d try to whip that up just to see how it comes out.

All I can think about lately is knitting. Is there a knitting hormone?

In other news, we booked our photographer. Now I’m trying to find good hair and makeup people.

In yet other news, the diet has started. I’m finding it easy to find foods I enjoy. .06 lbs lost so far, but probably water. I won’t get excited until it’s at least a full pound. 🙂

I didn’t ask permission from Jackie or Kevin to post this picture here, but I fell in love with it when I saw it on their Kodak site, so I uploaded it here. He’s so beautiful, and the light is so soft on him. So here he is.

Looking forwards to the weekend and finally sleeping in! Spent most of the workday typing up GI info for my dad who thinks he’ll be trying it too…if only it didn’t limit most of his favorite foods and the coffee he drinks 24/7. This should be interesting.

Didn’t really get to do anything last night. Yannick got home really late so we went for dinner about 9:45. Went to what used to be called Argento’s, not sure what it is now. It’s a resto/bar in a gym off St-Charles, in Beaconsfield. Last night was a costume contest for Hallowe’en and it was really funny to turn around at one point and see a full-grown (read: big and tall) man wearing an exact replica of Mr. Incredible’s leotard. Complete with foam muscles and black eye mask. Entertaining. While Yannick was in the bathroom I read a bit on my Palm. In addition to reading through Poe I want to read all the Sherlock Holmes stories. I’m missing the first one but have the second so started skimming through it. I can’t belive I forgot that Sherlock is a morphene and cocaine addict!

Robyn: I looked at Alyssa’s blog, will add it to my bloglines, thanks! I’m going shopping tomorrow, so will look for the Crispy thing. What aisle is it in? Is it like a rice snack? Oh, and I answered your crochet question in your blog, but the general answer is YES. 🙂

Secret Pal – I admire projects that have real skill required. Actually, I admire anything handmade, but if you mean “admire” in the “ooh and ahh” sense, then I like stuff that looks…I dunno how to describe it. Like, a lot of people love the Charlotte’s Web shawl. I might make one some day, but when I look at a picture of it, I’m not blown away. Show me the Pi Shawl in EZ’s book, though, and THAT I admired. I admire “girl from auntie”‘s patterns with cables. I bought the Rogue pattern a year or so ago but haven’t fit it into my knitting rotation yet. I admired the Vogue Enchanted Forest cardi for the same reason, which is why I’m making it. I like stuff that really looks (and possibly is) difficult. 🙂 I don’t know what my next technique would be, but the only thing I haven’t done yet (I think) is intarsia. I have felted projects on the go and waiting, I bought a Philosopher’s kit which will be my maddening fair isle project, I do cables in almost everything, I have no fear of shaping or even designing. I think intarsia is probably my logical next step. Re: knitting blah moment, I will cast on something that has either color or feel to cheer me up. I love sunrise and sunset colors, fall leaves colors, blue/green ocean colors, or even blue/green/purple/pink angel wings colors. If the colors call to me, I’m happy with it. But, since I’m usually knitting a gift for someone, my ultimate anti-blah knitting project is to knit something for ME!! And the GI diet starts Tuesday November 1st so I’ll be keeping everyone posted!

…my cousin’s knitting! Yay! Baby steps people, first the family, then the world!

Yay Robyn! Re: what stitch: if you’re putting the right-hand needle into the 1st stitch on the left-hand needle from front (side closest to you) and sticking out the back (reverse side of fabric) then you’re knitting every stitch. If your needle goes in from the back and comes out the front, you’re purling. Unless you deliberatly twist each stitch, which could be accidental. I’d have to see how you’re doing it.

Considering the fact that I’m ALWAYS in the middle of a knitting project, if you ever want to come over and hang out and knit, or me come to you, or learn a new technique, shaping, whatever, let me know! The more people I can infect with my favorite hobby, the better!

Oh, and if you ever want, since you live close by, come to the Montreal Knitter’s meetups! Here’s the website:
http://www.montrealknits.blog-city.com/
and here’s the Yahoo group where we chat, arrange meetups, etc…
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/montrealknits/
We meet the 1st and 3rd Wednesday at the Second Cup on Monkland, and the 2nd and 4th Sundays at a coffee shop somewhere more downtown, but I’m too chicken to drive out so I don’t usually go to the Sunday meetings.

There’s also the Montreal Knitting Guild
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/montrealknittingguild/
but these meetings are in the West Island. Only the 3rd Tuesday of each month, though. I go to these too.

It kinda bugged me to call knitting a “hobby” up there, but I couldn’t think of an appropriate word. Any suggestions? It’s more life-changing than a hobby. It’s brought me peace, calmness, a community of friends, an office with more yarn than books (and with me, that’s saying a lot!!), and on top of all that, I get clothes and gifts out of it. I guess it’s not a hobby. It’s my life.

To my Secret Pal: I will never get ladybugged out. As long as there’s always one around my neck, they will be in my life. I wouldn’t, for example, wear a sweater with a giant one on the back, but I do wear them as pins, have them around my house, etc… My dream is to get a red Volkswagon Beetle and paint it to look like a ladybug. I’m just quirky enough to pull it off, and wouldn’t be too embarrassed to drive around in it.

The only ladybug thing I have that I don’t wear is an absolutely gorgeous pin I got from two of my best friends, Jackie and Kevin, as my bridesmaid’s gift when I was in their wedding. It’s completely encrusted with white stones (like rhinestones) and is so stunning…but it’s bad luck. Every time I wear it something horrible happens. Yannick and I get into a huge fight… my dad and I fight at work…I fall and hurt myself…Yannick throws out his back and has to be replaced in their wedding ‘cus he’s in the hospital…the last time I wore it was when the 4 of us went out for dinner, it was the first snowfall of the year and Yannick had to meet me there ‘cus he was late at work. We were in 2 cars after driving back to their house to hang out, and I had my first car accident. You can say it was the snow (my first time driving in snow), or whatever, all I know is I don’t want to risk anything else. I’d love to wear it though, anyone know any Voodoo or Witch Doctors who could do some reverse-curse spell on it? I’m only half kidding.

To Robyn: (again) Hey my blog is now like a letter to you lol. When I was at Loblaws last night I did a quick look for whole wheat stuff. I didn’t buy too much ‘cus Sunday we’re going to empty out all the cupboards and stuff, and go shopping, but I did buy 3 of those Balance pizzas. I think one is Deluxe (with low-fat cheese, low-fat pepperoni and grilled chicken), one is Feta and Grilled Chicken or Veggies, and the last one was (I think) Spinach and Chicken. I think I got one of those wrong, but the point is I found 3 flavors. They are only in what seems to be single-serving size (1 person size) but I can’t wait to try them anyways! What’s the Crispy thing, a rice snack?

To anyone who’s interested in the Bloglines thing, http://www.bloglines.com/ is the website. It’s free to sign up. What makes it really easy to is go here http://www.bloglines.com/help/easysub and follow the directions to download the Subscribe button. I have it, so now all I do when I want to add a blog is go to that blog, go to my links (in Internet Explorer) and one of them says “Subscribe with Bloglines”. I click that and it automatically brings me to the correct page to add that blog to my list. Easy peasy!

Today I called up the pet accessories store near my work. Last Winter I’d knitted some items for them, and after leaving 3 dog sweaters on consignment, I was contracted to do some custom sizes. Those I was paid for. The consigment sweaters were just sitting there. I left them be over the Spring and Summer, because what would I do with wool/acrylic dog sweaters in hot months? Now that it’s getting cool again I decided I wanted them back. My dealings with this store weren’t always smooth and I think I could do better selling them on my own, or through my cousin’s veterinary clinic.

So I called up and spoke with the owner, and told her that I’d be coming by sometime over the next week to pick up the 3 sweaters I’d left with them. There was a pause. “Oh,” she says, “there is only 1 here. We sold two of them this week.” Ok. Kinda convenient that they just sold after sitting there for 9 months, but whatever. I asked, “Were you going to call me and let me know they sold?” Another pause, then a not-quite convincing “Yes.”. I said, “In that case, I’ll prepare two invoices for those sweaters and come by tomorrow to drop them off and pick up the remaining sweater. Will you have the payment for me?” Yet another pause, followed by what I knew would be coming: “Didn’t we pay you for these three?” I reminded her that she had wanted some samples on consignment so she could see how well they did, and ordered stuff afterwards. So tomorrow I’m going to pick up my money, and the remaining sweater. I hope there’s no hassle.

In other news I’m very excited about starting the GI diet on Tuesday. Everything I’ve read so far gives me great hope, and can I tell you about how cool a company is? Robyn told me that Tasty Foods pizza place on Decarie offers the option to have whole wheat crust on your pizza, or whole wheat pasta. I called them up and asked if they delivered to where I work, and when they said yes I asked if they could put a delivery menu in the mail for me, so I’d be able to order from them. Well it wasn’t 15 minutes later when a delivery guy showed up with a menu for me, hand delivered! I thought that was so nice of them! Sure, they are going to get business out of it, but that was really going out of their way!

Robyn- the cd was from you??? Thank you!!! That was sooo nice of you! And fun- sure kept me guessing for a while! If I can ever repay, let me know!!

Secret Pal- the circs case is so pretty- did you make it yourself? I love it!

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…