The Cool Group

since last saturday, my daily visitor count has gone from about 165 per day to 252.  i'd like to think that i've become slightly more popular due to something i may have written or knitted, etc.  but i know it's because i participated in BELLYFEST 2005!!!!!

you've already heard about it.  mrs. itchy yarn in pants was the perfect hostess.  i was horribly late ... i stopped by AC Moore in Framingham to pick up some sharpies on my way and ended up getting sucked into the shoe vortex that is DSW (i'm taking the shoes back by the way) ... but she still left me a lovely note leading me into out back to the knitting den.  there i found melanoma, elisa, ben, and wendy, and a platter of shrimp cocktail and freaky fried egg gummies.  i love shrimp cocktail. the fried egg gummies, not so much. 

i learned 3 very important things that afternoon.

1.  i am lousy at stitching and bitching.  i got nowhere with my knitting.  i'm much better at bitching.  in fact, i can pretty much bitch and do almost anything else,  but not stitch.  thanks to ben and her brilliant idea, i was at least able to avoid coming back from this stitch and bitch in the knitting hole.

2.  it's very good to be number 1 in the yankee swap.  not only did i get to pick first, but i was guaranteed to end up with exactly what i wanted at the end -- princess leia buns. 

3.  i had a wicked awesome good time and hadn't laughed like that in a long time.  i need to laugh more.  laughing is good.

i can hardly wait to do it again.