Blog To Do List

i have reached that point where i am so totally overwhelmed by the number of blogs that i must keep up with on a daily basis, that i no longer have time to read them and comment in a timely fashion.  today i've tried to squeeze 5 minute bouts here and there but while i'm actually working, looking away from the blogs, someone else posts something new.  HOW IN HELL'S NAME DO YOU PEOPLE DO IT?  anyway, about 5 months ago (a slight exaggerration), kim posted some interview questions for me.  i still have at least 3 items on my to do list for today before going home, but damn it, i need a break.  work is already getting in the way of my blog reading time, it will not get in the way of my blog posting time.

1. Maryse, you have been keeping your blog for some months now. Tell us a little about what you get out of it.  well first of all, it allows me to rant.  I can bitch and moan about anything i want and no one will look at me like i'm some nutjob.  you may think i'm a nutjob, but you can't tell me i'm a nutjob (well through comments you could but it's funny i don't get many nutjob comments and when i do i delete them -- heh heh).  i also really like being a part of a community of knitters/crocheters.  i've met some really nice and talented people in person and not, who have inspired me and who have motivated me.  i don't know that many crafty folk in my "real" life.   also, one of the things that has happened since i've gotten married is that i don't spontaneously hang out with friends anymore.  we live too far away and in the past couple of years i'm not the only one who has been kidnapped and forced to live in moved to the suburbs.  anyway, with blogging, i kind of feel like i'm hanging out.  blogging has also kept my ebay shopping down.  when i got bored or was creatively trying to avoid work or chores,  i'd do a lot of shopping.  now i read blogs or post.
2. You've been married for about a year and a half, now. You've moved out of the big city and have adjusted to suburban life. Tell us: at the end of the day who gets the foot rub, you or J? And as an unrelated follow-up, please tell us how to say chicken in 8 different languages.  j asks for foot rubs all of the time.  and i usually tell him no, usually because i'd rather be knitting.  i don't ask for any.  i have a foot thing (another reason why i very rarely give j a foot rub).  i don't like feet and don't like it when people touch mine.  go and figure.  and here's my international chicken list:  poulet (french), pollo (spanish), pollo (italian), tavuk (turkish), tawook (arabic), morgh (farsi), ga (vietnamese), kokosha (croatian).   I've also learned how to say chicken in chinese -- ji.    there is an international chicken story.  i'll save it for another time.
3. Do you ever knit or crochet for J? If no, why? And if yes, what do you make and does he appreciate it?  no, not really.  he doesn't wear sweaters first of all.  second of all, if he did wear a sweater, he'd forget he had it on and decide he needed to stain something or take apart an engine and he'd get crap all over it.  he once took a really nice roasting pan (he got it in the  divorce so i didn't care) and used it to mix tile grout.   so i don't make him sweaters.  i did once make him an aran afghan when we were first dating and gave it to him for christmas (which goes to prove that the boyfriend afghan as opposed to the boyfriend sweater is not cursed).  he likes my afghans.  i make a lot of things for the women and girls in his family, and he always makes a point of proudly telling them that i made it.   he's still not clear on the differences between knitting and crochet though (even though i've explained that knitting is done with two, crochet is done with one) but at least he doesn't call crochet, croquet anymore.
4. Ok. So the Sox won the World Series. Big deal. What we'd all really like to know is this: Does Boston still feel as empty as it did when Ally McBeal first went off the air?  right, you're a yankees fan.  well not everyone is perfect. anyway, in response to your question -- it's funny but boston doesn't feel empty at all now that it's finally won after 86 years.  fenway's as crazy as ever.  there was some speculating that boston wouldn't be able to wallow in self-pity anymore once they'd broken the curse, but as long as we've got the big dig to complain about, it's all good.  what i wonder is how does it feel in yankee fan land to give up a 3-0 game advantage in the ALCS?  i mean, that's a historic choke.  even the redsox have never choked like that.  and now to start the season tied for last place with the tampa bay devil rays.   how the mighty do fall.
5. Finally, if you had an unlimited budget and all the time in the world, what one thing would you knit or crochet for yourself? And as a related follow-up: Now that you've thought about it, any chance you'll make it anyway?  i don't think i would make just one thing.  what i would do is buy really expensive wonderful yarn in every gorgeous color imaginable and roll around in it.  i could knit scarves with that stuff and be happy.

Want me to interview you? Here are the rules:

   1. Leave me a comment saying “interview me.”
   2. I will respond by asking you five questions here. They will be different questions than the ones above.
   3. You will update YOUR blog with the answers to the questions.
   4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
   5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.