Thanksgiving

Randomness

10 random things, a meme that I ganked from Kathleen at A Bag of Olives.
please feel free to respond, no tagging.

1. Magazines subscribed to - New York, New Yorker, Architectural Digest, Cabinet, Bon Appetit

2. Aside from knitting, my favorite pasttimes are - reading, cooking, talking about food

3. If I were not an artist (insert your own profession), I would be - a Restauranteur, with a quirky restaurant based on the history of food and eating, or maybe a Mathematician.

4. I am irrationally worried about - Time

5. If I were the opposite sex - I'd be Fabulous

6. The thing I miss most about childhood is - When I stop and think about it I don't miss it. (not the happiest of times for me)

7. I like to collect - That is a very long list - Friends on Facebook to 19th photography to books, books, books

8. Though I’ve never been there, I feel inexplicably homesick for - Brazil

9. I’ve never really liked to eat - Soup, I have a love hate relationship with it. Mostly hate but every once in a while there will be Soup of the Evening , Beautiful Soup

10. When I have nightmares, they’re usually about - falling

What's been going on?

Yep, we have dog #2, Annie. A puppy who at the moment is pestering Mr. Chet. He is a grumpy as ever.

what I've been working on

I've been working on some ideas embellishing the knitting. The experiment turned into this book. and now I'm working on another. It about 5 in. x 4 in.

Post Election

So all of the happiness and joy I have been feeling about the election of Barack Obama as president is tempered by the win of Prop 8 in California.

I've been moping around, complaining (ask Kenyetta) and in a funk, unable to put it into words.
Francis and I don't want to be married, but we don't want to be second class either.

This NY Times editorial helped me by echoing a bit of what I'm feeling.

I'm feeling optimistic

vote today

and remember

1922-2008

Yma Sumac