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A good, long weekend
Posted on | May 29, 2007 | 11 Comments
I wish every weekend lasted three days, don’t you?
I’m pretty proud of myself. I didn’t kill my mother’s husband and only lost it once – when he was berating me for being a vegetarian. (“I tell you what. 100,000 years ago, people were DAMN HAPPY to eat meat!”) I could give 100 examples of the things this man does to drive me crazy, but I won’t. Just know that I exercised great restraint this weekend.
I hardly knit because everything I wanted to knit required too much concentration. I pulled out my Rambling Rose cardigan and even figured out where I’d left off in the yoke, but trying to follow a chart and carry on a conversation is beyond my skills. We played A LOT of games (Uno, dominoes, Blokus) and I did a fair bit of spinning.
This bowl of predrafted roving is the only pic I have though, as my mom doesn’t know about my blog and I couldn’t think up with a good explanation for why I was outside taking pictures of yarn. Does your family know you blog? I wouldn’t mind if my mom knew, but I don’t want her husband to know. He’d post about wacked-out conspiracy theories and even if I didn’t approve his comments, he’d keep submitting them. I don’t need the hassle so I have to keep the blog from my mom which is sad because I think it’d help her understand when I talk about all these fibery things!
I’ll post yarn pics tomorrow, but in the meantime, the nasturtium seeds have bloomed in yellow, orange and red!
These need to go on a tasty colorful salad!
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May 29th, 2007 @ 11:15 am
You eat flowers?
May 29th, 2007 @ 2:09 pm
I’ve told my family but my aunt isn’t really interested in the yarnish stuff but she’ll look if it tell her I posted cute pictures of the dogs. My mom is so technophobic that she won’t even pump her own gas, let alone look at something on a computer. I showed her my blog once (while visiting my aunt) but she just didn’t “get it.”
May 29th, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
Haha! Boy, that is a great question. My extended family does know I blog, and I know my mother has read mine from time to time. I hope she doesn’t think I’ve misquoted her or anything, ever. If my mother were to blog, well… everybody thinks my mother is fictional, probably because she’s just that amazing that she seems implausible. I have a long history of never saying anything online I wouldn’t want my mother to read, as she has in fact been online longer than I have (and I’ve been online since the BBS era).
My in-laws also read my blog periodically; if there’s anything particularly interesting of a familial nature I try to point it out. And since I’m named Franquemont and there aren’t that many of us, we find each other eventually no matter what… and my whole extended family is fairly used to the idea that I’ll blog about all sorts of things, and used to seeing me take pictures of yarn.
You wanna know what’s MORE of a funny one? My *son* reads my blog. He’s 9.
May 29th, 2007 @ 5:47 pm
In fact, about 60 seconds ago my son asked me if he could start a blog to discuss theories of global warming.
May 29th, 2007 @ 7:48 pm
What a tantalizing picture of the fiber. I hope you will show us your spinning now that himself is away.
I think everyone in my family knows I have a blog. Not a single family member has ever commented on the blog though. My husband reads my blog regularly and even reads the blogs of some of my “real life” fiber fiends (inadvertant typo!?!).
Nasturtiums are tasty.
May 30th, 2007 @ 7:03 am
My family knows I have a blog – and one of my sons reads it regularly. My other son’s girlfriend reads it and tells him about it which I think is sort of funny. Beautiful roving – can’t wait to see it spun up!
May 30th, 2007 @ 7:49 am
Oooooh…Can’t wait to dish. I have to say the comment about eating meat reminds me of, “When I was your age, we walked uphill to school BOTH ways and we liked it!” What a schmuck. Sending off an email now…
May 30th, 2007 @ 9:01 am
Ahhhhhh…..the Joys of Family!!!!!
May 31st, 2007 @ 4:49 pm
I hearby give you permission, the next time he starts in on the vegetarian thing, to say, “You like to eat meat? WELL THEN BITE ME.”
May 31st, 2007 @ 7:14 pm
Blogs can be a bit weird with family hey? I know I haven’t told all my relatives, and we are a pretty close family. I certainly don’t blame you in this situation – sounds like your Mom’s husband is a difficult man.
I do not understand why some people care so much about someone else’s choices re: food.
What possible difference could it make to him if you don’t want to eat meat?? 100,000 yrs ago (since he seems to believe in cavemen) people were happy to club each other to death too — you might be Damn Happy to start with him!
Love the roving!
June 18th, 2007 @ 11:30 am
My immediate family — husband, both sons — know about my blog, and also husband’s brother and wife, but not my extended family. I hesitate to ever tell them because I may want to blog about them one day, and it won’t be flattering. How can BOTH sides of my extended family, which are not close at all, be conservative born-agains? Especially when neither of my parents were? And they all from MN, where the breed is not all that common? sheesh. [/rant]
Love nasturtiums and love your photos. I need to plant some Right. Now.