meyerlemon




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  1. 1. write professionally
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  2. 2. live in New York
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  3. 3. write a play
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  4. 4. Publish a novel
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  5. 5. get corrective eye surgery or lasik
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  6. 6. have babies
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  7. 7. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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  8. 8. be joyful
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  9. 9. Own a dog
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  10. 10. live alone
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  11. 11. Learn to surf
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  12. 12. go on a cruise
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  13. 13. Swim with dolphins
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  14. 14. do disaster relief work with a search and rescue dog
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  15. 15. love myself
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  16. 16. Have fun
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  17. 17. be rich
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  18. 18. Appreciate more
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  19. 19. publish a book
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  20. 20. Fall in love
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  21. 21. do more yoga
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  22. 22. Attend the Sundance Film Festival
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  23. 23. Learn Spanish
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  24. 24. guide my thoughts
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  25. 25. own a Scion xB
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  26. 26. expect great things
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  27. 27. travel more
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  28. 28. be a court-appointed special advocate
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  29. 29. wake up with a smile on my face every morning
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  30. 30. Go on a safari
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  31. 31. go camping
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  32. 32. kiss a police officer or detective...someone with a gun
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  33. 33. get another tattoo
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  34. 34. go to more rock shows
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  35. 35. take more pictures
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  36. 36. Watch a space shuttle launch
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  37. 37. marry a burly man
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  38. 38. be more selfish
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  39. 39. go to burning man
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  40. 40. Ride my bicycle more often
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knit a dog sweater
Untitled 3 years ago

I did this! I used the dog sweater pattern from Stitch ‘n Bitch Nation, and random worsted acrylic. The pattern wanted you to use a hand-wash only wool, which seems… unrealistic, in a dog sweater. I pondered a superwash wool, but you’d still have to treat it as wool, and I just couldn’t see it working.

So, acrylic it was, even though I worried that this might make it not-so-warm. I knit the entire thing on needles a size smaller than suggested, to give it at least a little extra denseness to help make the acrylic fabric warmer, and it seems fairly toasty to me, but then I’m not a dog.

This was not my favorite-ever pattern. It contained quite a bit of shaping for what is basically an all-stockinette sweater for a dog, and the finishing requires both seaming and picking up over a hundred stitches along the edge (neither of these are activities I enjoy very much. Heh.)

But it does look quite cute in the final analysis. Now I just hope it actually, you know, fits the dog, and is a little warm for the little guy.



turn 30 (read all 2 entries…)
I guess it was worth doing 3 years ago

But mostly it was just unavoidable. I’m choosing to pretend that 30 is the new 24. :)



turn 30 (read all 2 entries…)
I DID THIS AND DID NOT DIE 3 years ago

The year you turn thirty is – to steal a line from that fine, fine comedy, “Stacked”, “twelve straight months of crazy”. Much like, say, Y2K (something oldsters like me remember well) you spend all that time working up to it, and when it happens, it’s like ”...oh.”

Anyway, I turned thirty today. I totally had a nervous breakdown earlier, but now that I’m an old hand at the thirty thing, I’m totally cool. Yes!



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