Day Seven: You know I'm out when I start doing numbered lists.
1. I made one of these yesterday:
It is a gift! (Not my knitting ability. The glove. It's a shame that the recipient has two hands, because I really suck at the "Part Two" when it comes to socks and gloves.)
2. Tonight we're attending a Parent/Teacher conference where I plan to get to the bottom of Meredith's claim that the teacher keeps trying to fight all of the kids. Meredith is a terrible liar, and she always tells this story with a big grin on her face: "Kevin pushed Miss Debbie, so Miss Debbie pushed Miss Sara! And then Miss Sara pushed me, so I had to push Maleena!" Apparently, preschool can be a fairly volcanic place. Meredith also claims that there is never any food or milk at snack time, and that all of the kids just sit on a bench and cry. (Last year she earned low marks in Creativity. Let's see if that has improved.)
3. In preparation for a video interview on Saturday (?) (!!), I'm once again having my eyebrows waxed and dyed tomorrow night. The last time I did the dye thing was way back in April, and at that time the aesthetician tried to talk me into an eyebrow tattoo, which is the last thing I need right now. I don't care how natural you claim it will look, I can pretty much guarantee that the 80 year old gray version of me is not going to look very "natural" with black eyebrows. I can be talked into just about anything. I can not be talked into eyebrow tattoos.
4. I wish I looked like Mariska Hargitay. She's my current "I Want to Be Her" celebrity. Because of this haircut, she scooched Juliette Binoche into second place. (Someday, if you're interested, I will list the celebrities I want to see when I look in the mirror.)
5. I wish I could write like Sarah Brown.
Submitted by
Kathy
at 11/7/2007 3:00:37 PM- I actually wrote a list of celebrities I've been told I look like, not ones I wished I look like, on my old site. The post is ghosting around in cyberspace somewhere, but I distinctly remember Shelley DuVall and Joey Ramone being in the top five.
Right now when I look in the mirror, all I see is Keanu Reeves, circa 1989. Awesome.
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witchypoo
at 11/7/2007 3:01:12 PM- I hear Michael Jackson is making a comeback.
You could call it a Michael Jackson glove.
Or, I lose interest after one glove.
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Deb
at 11/7/2007 3:03:13 PM- Assessed on her Creativity???? Geez, it's rough out there these days. Are little ones also graded on Hunger and Cuteness?
But I'm worried for you about the list. Couldn't you conserve and make that 4 different posts? Don't go all crazy talk one day and use it all up.
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violetkey
at 11/7/2007 3:10:09 PM- That glove is a great color. Good luck on the second.
I agree I like Mariska's hair cut and I wouldn't mind seeing her when i looked at my self in the mirror but I'd want to keep my blue eyes.
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ben
at 11/7/2007 3:16:07 PM- Mariska's scowl on the L&O promo upsets me. It's the last thing I see before I hit 'play' when skipping commercials on the DVR during Heroes. Seriously. It's disturbing.
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Elizabeth Z
at 11/7/2007 3:16:20 PM- Gee, I wonder if our daughters go to the same school (not really, the teacher's names are different). According to my daughter, she spent the entire day yesterday sitting in a corner staring at her toes and didn't eat a thing. And no other kids ever came. And she did not get to mix the paint she was happily trotting off to mix when I left. (When I picked her up she was playing a memory game with
her teacher and 5 other kids. And she'd eaten half her lunch.)
And her teachers push and hit and sometimes even bite, too! She, on the other hand is the picture of virtuousness, and always says "I don't like that" and then goes to play by herself. The truth tends to leak out. (For instance: "Did you do something to him before he hit you?" "Oh no, he just wanted his toy back.")
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kat
at 11/7/2007 3:53:14 PM- i have always said i need more friends who are amputees so i can knit them one mitten or one sock. or maybe they should just get all miss-matched socks and mittens.
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Monkey
at 11/7/2007 4:01:55 PM- You actually DO look like these people- and I think you are much more attractive than Juliette Binoche.
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kristin
at 11/7/2007 4:08:29 PM- I can't wait to hear all about the parent/teacher conference.
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You can call me, 'Sir'
at 11/7/2007 5:19:42 PM- I was thinking this was half of the glove set that you'd wear when you started punching meat in the butcher's freezer in preparation for your boxing match with Billy Dee Williams.
But sadly, no.
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Karaoke Diva
at 11/7/2007 5:28:33 PM- Oh, tell the truth. You know you are getting all prettied up just because you're coming over to my house. ;-)
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dr. dave
at 11/7/2007 5:40:33 PM- Mariska, huh...
... maybe this recent post of mine will make you CRAZY WITH JEALOUSY!
http://doctorsilence.blogspot.com/2007/10/dr.html
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dr. dave
at 11/7/2007 7:31:07 PM- Followup - Yes. Yes, we totally made out, I just forgot to mention that part in my blog.
;)
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jamie
at 11/7/2007 8:05:33 PM- Hey! That's fetching, isn't it? A great knit, so fast!
Sorry, that's as original a comment as I can give ya... we won't talk about how many times it took me to type "original" properly.
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Badger
at 11/7/2007 8:07:14 PM- Oo! I almost have the Mariska haircut, but it does not look even one tiny fraction that cute sitting on top of my aged head. Woe is I.
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Mizmell
at 11/8/2007 9:52:47 AM- I wish I could write like Sara Brown, too. Thanks for the link.
I look forward to the results of the preschool investigation...
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tortoiseshelly
at 11/8/2007 10:36:44 AM- I'm with Jamie. Isn't that the Fetching pattern? And what yarn did you use? (I should probably just look this up in Ravelry!)
Also, love the Mariska Hargitay cut. Wish I could pull it off.
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Amy K
at 11/8/2007 10:52:22 AM- I actually met a gal who had eyebrow tattoos (apparently she was in some freakish accident and lost her eyebrows). I didn't know that they were tattoos until after dinner, when I had been staring at her perfectly sculpted arches, we went to little Vietnam in Chicago, and in an offhand way she said "Oh, that's where I had my eyebrows done. They're starting to fade, I should go back and have them touched up."
At which point I gushed over her perfect, gorgeous eyebrows.
And this is to tell you that no, you still wouldn't have black brows at 80, 'cuz honey, they fade. Hopefully to a light brown, rather than the eerie green that black tattoos tend to do...
Submitted by
FP
at 11/8/2007 11:25:45 AM- Jamie and Tortoiseshelly--Yep! It's a Fetching. I used Alpaca With a Twist Highlander. It looks like mint chocolate chip ice cream. Very pretty.
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Alesia
at 11/8/2007 11:33:46 AM- I spent much of my college years wanting to look like Juliette Binoche in the movie Blue. That was a fabulous haircut.
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Sarah Brown
at 11/8/2007 12:24:56 PM- Aw, that was nice. I wish I could pull off your haircut.
I had those shoes in 1996 too!
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Dooley
at 11/8/2007 7:03:39 PM- JAGS! I went to Jags and asked for this same hair color! I went from overly-highlighted blond to Mariska-esque (say 3x fast). Cost a buttload, but I like it.
Submitted by
FP
at 11/8/2007 7:52:30 PM- Dooley--The girls at Jags are total wizards. May they always continue their commute to St. Louis. Amen.
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Amy in KC
at 11/8/2007 9:28:44 PM- When I look in the mirror I want to see Tina Fey. I do wear glasses, but...
Yeah, I'm going to have to steal that "list of celebrities I want to look like" list idea for my NaBloPoMo post tomorrow.
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