World Wide Knit in Public Day

I am helping to organize the WWKIP day here in Cary NC and I wanted to use this entry to promote it.

World Wide Knit In Public Day
Saturday June 14 2008
Crabtree Valley Mall --food court--
10:00-UNTIL!

Please bring your knitting and good conversation and meet with fellow knitters in the food court

Can't wait to see everyone there!

Also- if you have a Ravelry ID button please bring it. We are going to try to take photos and would like to be able to send fellow Ravelers photos from the day.

100 Things

1. I was raised by my Maternal Grandmother and step grandpa.
2. I was an only child until I was 12. gained a step sister
3. My dad had a son when I was 17, making me a half sister
4. I still love cartoons, like Talespin and Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
5. I am obsessed with baby knitting
6. I learned to crochet before knitting. I learned in 2003/2004.
7. I learned to knit in 2006.
8. I still have the first rows I ever knit..
9. I am obsessed with checking my emails...
10. My husband and I went through school together, elementary, middle & high, but because he was a year ahead of me we didn't officially meet until late high school.
11. We immediately disliked one another.
12. He was my peer tutor in my art class. I always needed help.
13. We became really close after having oral surgeries. Me- tonsils, him- wisdom teeth.
14. Our first official date was out to eat at Applebees and then to the movies to see Austin Powers Gold Member.
15. We lived with his parents for two years while in school.
16. Our first apartment was in Orlando Florida.
17. Our first weekend in our first apartment was when Hurricane Frances beat central Florida.
18. We moved from Orlando to Methuen Massachusetts.
19. In 18 months we went through three hurricanes and 2 blizzards.
20. I can parallel park better than my Husband.
21. We adopted a cat in Orlando that was born during Hurricane Charley.
22. For 2.5 years we only had one car.
23. I have only ever lived alone for 3 months.
24. I am a Nanny.
25. I enjoy teaching infants sign language
26. Potted plants are all over my house!
27. I love to race go carts
28. I hate days under 20 degrees or over 80 degrees
29. I never played ANY sports growing up.
30. In Middle and High School I played the clarinet.
31. I still have some of the steps from marching band shows memorized.
32. I love baking.
33. I enjoy cooking.
34. I hate washing dishes... and loading a dishwasher.
35. I talk in my sleep still.
36. I got engaged in September 2006.
37. I got married April 2008.
38. I had ovarian cysts in middle school and high school.
39. I had uterine polyps removed in March 2007.
40. Because of this I have always been open about talking about my reproductive system.
41. I can drive a car with a manual transmission.
42. I won the spelling bee in my 7th grade year, got sick and my back up had to go to school bee.
43. I have never had strep throat.
44. I have never broken a bone.
45. I have never had stitches (other than my mouth/wisdom teeth)
46. My favorite music is Classic Rock
47. I enjoy scrap booking, just don't have enough time.
48. I will eat icing right out of the bowl.
49. I could eat spaghetti once every week
50. Every day I eat a banana.
51. My favorite tv channels are BBCamerica, History, Science, Discovery, Investigation Discovery and MSNBC
52. I really hate short texting/messaging. Stuff that teenagers tend to type YUCK!
53. I hate to see misspelled words.
54. My favorite kind of video games are games where you shoot and kill , such as Gears of War, Ghost Recon , and then fighting games such as Dead or Alive and Soul Calibur.
55. I am a roller coaster freak! LOVE THEM
56. Get overheated really easily.
57. Which leads to dehydration and vomiting.
58. I own entirely too much lip gloss
59. I watch Lockup Raw at night before I go to sleep.
60. I miss riding a bike.. in the way I did in my childhood
61. I make my own stitch markers for my knitting.
62. I have a picky palette.
63. I love fruit!
64. I like most veggies, but would prefer to eat most uncooked.
65. Snakes freak me out, and my first instinct is to kill them.
66. Anthropology was my favorite class.
67 . Shows about murders and murderers fascinate me.
68. I had eight grandparents.
69. Swinging at playgrounds is so much fun.
70. I don't like coffee from a coffee pot.
71. My favorite alcohol is tequila, mainly in margarita's.
72. Until about 6 years ago I never ate ethnic food.
73. I consider going to a dentist who performs sedation dentistry.
74. In 2005 I got to see the space shuttle take off.
75. Going on long walks with a jogging stroller are a favorite past time of mine.
76. I can change a diaper in under 30 seconds.
77. I watch between 1 and 3 movies a week
78. I have had to walk out of 3 movies, a) Kung Pow because it was dumb. b) Kill Bill Volume 1 because it made me sick on my stomach and c) Pan's Labyrinth because it was a bit too bloody at a few scenes for me.
79. I had braces from 1998 until 2000 which required me to have four teeth removed.
80. I had 5 wisdom teeth.
81. When living in MA I missed being able to buy Pimento cheese in store.
82. I really dislike Panera Bread meals. I love their bagel and danish selection but salads are not that great.
83. I have been to about 15 states in the US.
84. I really want to go overseas.
85. I love to watch Mythbusters.
86. Our living room has about 20 picture frames of all our family and friends.
87. Another TV addiction of mine is Law & Order, pretty much ANY of them.
88. In 9Th and 10th grade I marched in the Disney Electric Lights Parade. Within a year of the last one they discontinued it.
89. My favorite painting is Pablo Picasso's Guernica.
90. One of my favorite artists is Frida Kahlo.
91. Mitch Albom books are amazing and usually quite tearful reads for me.
92. I am counting down the days until the next Harry Potter movie.. and reading through the first four books currently (already finished the last ones)
93. I still enjoy sitting down with a box of crayons and a coloring book- especially when sick or recovering.
94. I have a very strange love of Children's books, especially winners of the Caldecott.
95. When I hear a voice narrating or I see someone in a movie/TV show that seems familiar I immediately run to IMDB.
96. I can't wait to own a home.
97. So we can think seriously abut another cat
98. I am seriously considering knitting baby items and just saving them for my future children.
99. I love walking on the beach late at night
100. I love going to the NC mountains and hitting up the old general stores.

just a 100 random things about me.

enjoy :)

Mrs. Walker it is

So it's been nearly a month since my wedding. That's right, I'm Mrs. Walker now. The term "Mrs" just sounds odd, and I am quite excited to use my new name.

Let's see, what's been going on over the past few months? Hmmm....

1. April 6th 2008- My Wedding

My Bridesmaids seemed to have a curse following them.

Bridesmaid a) had car break down while she was driving to my place so we could ride together to my luncheon

Bridesmaid b) and family flew in from Massachusetts, on SKYBUS! Yep, the very weekend it closed it's doors, shut down all flights etc.

Bridesmaid c) no bad luck until she returned home to NYC, where he pup became ill thus throwing to her a rather large vet bill.

SO yeah, they all had some bad luck. lol.

The day of the wedding everything was cool, calm and relaxing except one thing. I COMPLETELY forgot my wedding veil! Yep, that's right, Ms. organization, right on top of that forgot her veil. Luckily I have awesome in laws and so my father in law (ken) drove over an hour and rummaged through our closet to find it. Apparently after my test hair it got sorta thrown in with other things and managed to be hidden, thus I forgot it and it took him about 45 minutes to find. lol. So yeah, I totally goofed up on that one. Ken really came through on that one, although I know he is still telling people, I just don't know how she forgot that dang thing. Who knows. I was stressed. It was my wedding weekend, I'm lucky I didn't forget my dress.

2. Changing name

It seemed like EVERYTHING had to be changed. I'm not sure that I have quite changed everything yet, mainly internet stuff that keeps popping up and I go OH YEAH! It's exciting but a pain in the rear at the same time.

3. Knitting

I don't have any photos, my camera went kaputz and so I have been unable to take any photos of my current knitting projects. I want a new point and shoot, but have no idea what I will get. We are thinking of purchasing the Canon Digital Rebel SLR. Yeah, big purchase to be done over the next year.

4. Harry Potter

In October I picked up Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on cd and Jordan and I listened to it for a few weeks while driving to and from work etc. Then we saw the movie. Then I thought, hey I can't wait to know what happens next I'll read the next book, Half Blood Prince. Well I picked it up and started reading. The first 300 pages took 3.4 months, the next 400+ pages took less than a week. I know I burned through about 230 in two days and so it was on to the next book, the last book. I read HP and the Deathly Hallows in about 10 days. That's right nearly 800 pages in 10 days. I was a reading freak around the wedding, I think it helped me to relax and sorta get lost and not think about all the things that could go wrong. So now I am currently reading the series, from book 1 to book 7. haha. Very Backwards I know.

5. Baby Boom

In the past month several people we know have had babies- CONGRATS TO YOU- or people have announced they are expecting. As you can imagine I have been rather busy coming up with gift ideas etc. Several things are on the needles currently.

What else? I can't really think of anything. Sad I know. It's been a busy month.

One thing that seems crazy to me is that one year ago this week we moved Jordan down here, which means he's been at Epic for a year! Where did the time go? I've been here for nearly 9 months and it's just crazy. We've been so busy and had so much going on. I'm ready for a vacation, which speaking of...

6. Honeymoon Planning

We are planning a trip to Las Vegas for October. We will probably stay somewhere that isn't super crazy, and in the middle of the strip. I'm sure his parents will recommend something that we will enjoy. The plan is to spend several days on the strip and go to Lake Mead/Hoover Dam as well. Our original ideas were to go to a national park, but with the time of year we are wanting to travel there is virtually nothing open or available at that time, so we just decided to hit up Vegas together.

Well I think I am off to bed. We were in Morganton NC this weekend for a wedding and I am rather sleepy from the driving back today.

Also to look at our online wedding album go to

Photos

for password and user name enter in either my first name or jordan's.

night!