Today I had a three way with Vicki and Ann. Then Georgie popped in for a few minutes. It was quite the morning. Vicki wrote a very nice post today (which turns out to be a contest – so go- have fun) about how she and Ann quit smoking TWO YEARS AGO. (I’m bursting with pride, by the way!) I’m not sure I remember when I started reading Vicki – she was one of my first blogs for sure. When she first quit, I sent her this huge box of stuff to help her and she sent some of the bounty off to Ann. So I started reading Ann. Her blog was, you know, okay. Nothing special. But I read, because she was friends with Vicki and I love Vicki, so I started leaving her encouraging comments too. Then, that summer, Vicki came to New York and Ann and I crossed our respective rivers to pay homage to the Knitorious One. About 30 seconds into our meeting, Ann let the F-BOMB fly and I knew we’d be friends forever. It was love at first curse word. Since then we’ve traveled together, spun together, made fun together and Vicki gets all the blame.
I left a comment over at Vicki’s that said: “I send you a big box of goodies and you give me Ann.” I was reading the comment to Ann (because I like to read aloud to her all the time – it’s the only way I know she reads the blog) and she said something like – what kind of secret pal swap was that?! And I said, YEAH! It’s the TAKE MY PAL PLEASE Swap. It amazes me on a daily basis that I could be such great friends with a person that takes in shit off the street. Literally.
Seriously though – my life is made SO MUCH RICHER (in the heartfelt sense – these girls have COST me money for sure!) by them. I can’t tell you HOW HAPPY I AM that you both quit smoking. I want you around for a long long LONG time.
Speaking of valuable people in my life – go on over and give Margene and big ol’ HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Have a great day my friend!
In other news, my “real” life (as opposed to my knitblog life) is completely and utterly boring. Yesterday my only goal was to load the tax software onto the computer. I got so carried away, that it turns out I’m pretty much finished them. There’s a couple more boxes to go through – but I’m only looking for one or two papers and then I’m DONE. Much faster than I expected. I’m a laugh RIOT.
Knitting wise, I started the armhole decreases on the back. Hopefully that will be done pretty quickly. YAWN!!!
God help me. I think I put myself to sleep.