The Big Lug

I’m off to Rochester and Toronto for a few days so I’ll be absent from here and your blogs!
Do you think the men will let me visit here while I’m in town? Isn’t Yarn Harlot from Toronto? Canda? Am I off base? Wow it’s like knit blog sin to not read yarn harlot, I know…I know!

Inspired by Carrie and a 25% off Borders coupon, I bought Debbie Stoller’s The Happy Hooker this Friday. The women in my family all crochet. Afghans, cozies, doilies. They’re all crocheters. My mom crochets afghans and my aunt usually crocets lace doilies or lace pillow cases. My grandmother used to crochet cozies. Toilet paper cozies shaped like poodles. I kind of think that cozies are awesome. In a really kitchy kind of way. I’m not sure if I’d make one, but who knows – maybe there IS a poodle toilet paper cozy in my future.
Here is my first granny square chillin out with my copy of the book…
This weekend was nutso filled with parties. This weekend we leave for Toronto with our friends Shawn and Amy. Then next week?
Maryland Sheep and Wool.
w00t.

Meme instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won’t, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you’ve never even heard of.
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (couldn’t finish it)
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
(His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story – George Orwell
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
1984 – George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
(One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
(The Secret History – Donna Tartt)
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
(Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell)
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Atonement – Ian McEwan
(The Shadow Of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Dune – Frank Herbert
That was a Meme from Chelsea’s site that I’ve seen on others’ blogs. Feel free to partake. I’m not quite sure what this says about me except it reflects a few books on my bookshelf that are actually my husband’s that I have not read. The other thing that this brings to mind is the fact that I love to read, but I have trouble retaining the story. I have read a lot of the books listed but I couldn’t quote them for you or even write a synopsis on some!