100 Things About Me

Thank you. Yes. I feel better. Much, much, much better. That was a nasty one.

In the absence of any real content, here’s 100 things about me.

I’m taking a jewelry class Monday night at Let’s Bead in East Rochester. We’ll be weaving a bracelet out of tiny beads. Several years ago I wove, using peyote stitch, little amulet bags from tiny seed beads and charted patterns. My eyes can’t take that detail work anymore. But I still love beads, so I’m going to give this bracelet a whack and hope good lighting and bifocals are enough to get me from one end of the bracelet to the other.

The cotton Schaefer Clapotis is coming along, and with much more speed and confidence than the first Clap did. Did I mention this is a great pattern?

Pictures this weekend. It’s Friday night and I’m just about ready to collapse.

Officially sick

No more “officially” sick than I was yesterday, but as of yesterday, I thought maybe I was just being a whiny chucklehead, and was not sick at all.

Mais non, my little ones. I am officially sick with fever and cough and muscle aches, oh my.

SO…

As a way to amuse myself, I made a list of what I’d do if I won the lottery. And I don’t mean what I’d do if a scratch-off paid $400, but what I’d do if I hit the big one.

1. Pay off all bills. This would take a chunk of the winnings, but if we’re talking millions here, then that’s really chump change.
2. Give my kids each a huge nest egg to start post-college life with. 5 million enough?
3. Each of my parents get a chunk. A mil?
4. Ditto my brother.
5. Boyfriend’s family gets their chunks, too. (BF is pretty much family at this point, so we’d be sharing this windfall.)
6. QUIT MY JOB. Experience life without the constant reminder of mortality. Mine or anyone else’s.
7. Buy a house. Hell. Buy two houses. One here and one somewhere warm.
8. Charity. I’d give mega bucks to animal shelters, both kill and no-kill. Maybe I’d start a no-kill shelter?
9. Charity again. Funds to cancer research.
10. Charity again. Funds to HIV research.
11. Charity again. Big funds to the hospice I work for. A certain percentage to the medical and social work staff (ahem…the ones that keep the place on it’s feet…hello?? Remember them??) to be used for more frequent time off to rest and take care of themselves, and perks like facials and massages and routine oil changes and gas, a paid conference out of state every year for each, and stipends every two years for a new vehicle.
12. Charity again. Big funds to the hospice I work for. This time a fund for patients/families who don’t know where the money for a decent burial is going to come from. Funds for airfare for family to come and say goodbye, if that’s what they’d like. Funds to build a resource center directed at healing — not so much physically as in it’s a miracle; you’re cured! — but healing of the soul, both for the dying and those left behind later on. A list of programs for kids. Programs for parents who’ve lost children. I could go on and on. I suppose a bit of research needs to be done to see that services aren’t duplicated anywhere else in the community (Gilda’s Club, etc.), but now I’m getting w-a-a-a-a-y ahead of myself.
13. Invest and save the rest.
14. Cannot stop at 13. That’s bad luck. Open a yarn/bead/fiber shop. Raise sheep and alpaca and those furry little bunnies in the back (acres). Hire someone to do the care of said animals, as I’m afraid my skills in animal husbandry don’t go much beyond keeping a cat alive. (And if you ask the cat, sometimes not even that.)

I managed a little knitting last night. I need something mindless but pretty to carry me through, so yet another a Booga Bag is a good project. At least it’s better than another scarf.

That’s Noro Kureyon, colorway #213.

I have some beads that I might sew onto it after it’s felted. I have to think about that a little bit further, but here’s what I have in mind, plus turquoise chips.

I have some jump rings and pins that are coppery/natural toned, and some turquoise, hematite, those ceramic beads, and some green glass ones, that I have earmarked for stitch markers. Did I ever mention that I loved green? Or turquoise?

Anyway. Stitch markers. That’s my plan. Will let you know how they turn out.