Late on a Wednesday, A Little Bit of RandomOnly Because It Has Been A While....

• I've thought a lot about blogging lately.
• It just has seemed like so.much.effort to get a post up.
• But.  Six Apart just sucked the yearly fee out of my checking account.
• In honor of that (and to make me feel it is worth it) I decided to put some rambling stuff here.
• One of my favorite British humor movies is Death At A Funeral.
• Chris Rock has remade it and I am not sure how I feel about that.
• I'm hoping that I will like it for its own merit, even though it will surely lack the accent and stiff upper lip-ness of the original.
• Which was perfect.
• If American Idol is giving us the best that the country has to offer then the future of music in our country is not looking good.
• We have had a little bit of rain here recently.
• By a little bit, I mean gallons of it have come through a leak in our ceiling.
• If we don't empty the bucket catching the drips often enough we have to clean up those gallons because the grandkitten thinks it is great fun to push it over.
• These problems are preferable to what thousands of people are going through with flooding and erosion.
• Speaking of weather, this is an early Easter year, the kind that most people have been talking about being cold and very unspring-like.
• In typical New England Fashion, the forecast has us expecting summer to visit with the Easter Bunny.
• In preparation, we have had the annual "time to put the screens on the three season porch" discussion.
• I lost.
• Which means there are screens in place of windows right now.
• Because a typical New Englander believes that summer has come on the first warm day of the year, even if that day is in January.
• Like they haven't lived here their whole lives and don't know that it will snow again.  Really.
• I have been knitting.  Recent knitting includes:
• A sweater that is blocked, almost completely seamed, but still needs buttons.
• A shawl, waiting for blocking.
• A shawl, about 50% complete.
• I joined 10 in 2010. 
• Shawls that is.
• I don't really care if I make it, I mean all 10 shawls, but I have a lot of shawl yarn in the stash and would like to get through some of it.
• Ditto the shawl patterns in my Ravelry queue.
• Another reality TV observation:  The Amazing Race is having an excellent season.
• Did you read A Girl Named Zippy? 
• There is a sequel, She Got Up Off The Couch.
• I LOVED them both and I recommend the audio versions read by the author.
• I usually think it is unwise for authors to read their books, but Haven Kimmel and David Sedaris are definitely exceptions to that rule.
• The following may come as a shock to some, so you might want to make sure you are sitting down and have swallowed.
• For various personal and health related issues (and to shut my nurse practitioner up already!) I have decided to complete my "cleanse" and have.......
• wait for it.......
• given up tea.
• I KNOW IT!
• I cannot explain what these last few weeks have been like.
• You know those ads that talk about smoking and doing all the things you used to to, but getting used to doing them without a cigarette?
• That is my life, except without a mug of tea in my hand, in the car, on the table while I am knitting, sewing, reading, internet surfing....
• Breathing.
• While some things seem unaffected, others might be responding to this change.
• I don't really want to talk about it.
• It makes me cranky.
• I am drinking a TON of water now.
• Water is boring.
• And makes me pee a lot.
• But so does tea.
• I probably have a photo I could decorate this post with, but I'm too lazy to do it.
• Naw, every post needs a photo, right?  Here is one from my childhood.
  
  
• Let's just say that bicycles and I don't have a great history.
• After that I did ride again, the next accident left me with shin bones sticking out of my leg.
• Probably why I prefer hiking to this day.
• I'll walk, thanks.

2010.  Forty-two.  I have more to say.  Who knew?  I'll tell the story of my face battering later this week.  It seems that without an explanation to convince you otherwise you might assume I was the victim of a beating and I'd better not let that thought live in your mind.  I promise, I wasn't.

Comments

[inglesidebelle]

Whoa, Terri! That is one serious shiner. Yes, you look like a battered child. Glad it was only a bike accident. Do tell the story.

[Carole]

No tea for you? I can't even imagine you without a mug of tea in your hand. I hope it turns out to be worth the pain of giving it up.

[lisa]

OMG! No tea?!? How do you do it? Live, I mean...no tea...hm...what do you use your Jenny the Potter mug for nowadays,warm water with lemon? I'm SO impressed.

[Nora]

Oh, my goodness. Poor kid! And I mean both the kid who fell off the bike, and the kid who has given up tea. I thought tea was supposed to be so good for us?

xo

[margene]

I'm still on the floor thinking about the tea. Do you think you feel well enough to give it up for forever? THAT I can't imagine.
My elbows were always a mess from falling off my bike, but I rode it everywhere. Today bikes scare me. I'll walk, too.

[Lynn]

NO TEA?! Oh, you poor baby. My sympathies. Also retroactive sympathies on that bike accident.

By the way, if you take up weaving, you can call all that stashed laceweight weaving yarn.

[Vicki]

Is this giving up of the tea a permanent condition?

[Kim]

Is the no tea helping yet? I remember those routine dumps off of my bike too....I had a matching shiner ;-)

[nestra]

They are using the same actor for the Dad's lover in the new version. That struck me as really odd.

[Kathy]

I think the giving up tea is more shocking than the picture.

[Laurie]

What remarkable randomness. Poor bruised face. Poor bruised tea-withdrawing psyche.

[Judy]

Loved loved loved Death at a Funeral.

Get better so you can drink tea. Oh dear.

[Renee]

Love Death At A Funeral and found the trailer from the Chris Rock version put me totally off. I won't to see it and ruin how much I like the original.

No tea..... now that's dedication. Why? Is it the caffeine in it that you had to give it up?

[diane]

Hey Terry, Nice mug shot.I almost wish there was a photo of at least one of my childhood shiners. I was the classic tomboy.
What's behind the tea thing? Looking forward to photos of the blocked shawl. You do beautiful work.

[claudia]

Is the tea still given up? Perhaps you've thought better of it by now, or did the stubborn kick in?

So many questions....