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May 18, 2007

friday never hesitates

Here's a print I never showed you before, made in fall 2006. This morning I listed this and a bunch of other new-ish prints in my etsy shop; there are some new t-shirts and other things to come after the weekend, just need to get my photographs all sorted out. So tell all of your filthy rich art-loving friends to go over there and help me buy a spinning wheel, eh?

I got tagged for one of those chain-letter things, the one you've seen going around with the seven random things, and while I usually don't like these things I welcome a little direction to help me compose an entry right now. I gather the rules are you write seven random things about yourself and then tag seven people to do the same; as I can't bear to pass on chain letters I won't tag anyone, but consider yourself tagged if you want to do it, and let me know in the comments if you do (if seven people do that then I'm totally off the hook here). I was paralyzed with fear at first thinking I'd have to come up with seven interesting quirky things that were both unique to me and wildly entertaining to y'all, but then I saw Alison's entry where she just talked about her day and stuff, and relief washed over me. So, here are my seven random things, off the top of my head:

1: Since coming home from Athens last week I've been contacted out of the blue by two childhood chums, one a classmate I haven't seen since grade eight and the other the boy I used to share a crib and all my birthday parties with. Both are people whose names I've Googled (yes, I'm using it as a verb, bite me) in the past and come up empty. All that hard work making myself the number one Jodi Green on the internet pays off! Now if I can just keep up with my resolution to answer e-mails more promptly I might just be able to keep in touch with both of them. Although, now that I know Christian's mom is reading my blog I'm all scared of saying FUCKSAKE as often as I normally do.

2: for my fellow Naruto addicts (you know who you are): last Saturday, on the way from visiting friends in Milwaukee to visiting friends in Chicago, Peter and I missed our exit off the highway. We got off at the next exit thinking we'd circle around and get back on in the opposite direction and get to our exit from the other side, but this was Chicago where such things are not possible and just because there is a way off the highway does not mean there is a way back on. Somewhere in the resulting forty minutes of circling, trying to find our way back to the damned exit from which we had about a five minute drive left to our friends' house, we found ourselves in some street or other and there, walking down the sidewalk, were two Konoha Jounin. No, I didn't get a picture, we were too busy being lost and pissy (nothing a whole lot of Chinese take-out and a hot tub couldn't fix later on, though).

3: I hate grass. This afternoon I filled yet another paper yard waste bag with pulled-up grass that keeps creeping back in amongst our plants and giant weeds. One half of our front yard is covered in a tarp (actually the pool cover from the above-ground pool that came with the house and got dismantled and dragged out of here pretty much the second the sale closed) right now, the half we couldn't get filled with garden plants before I left to go back to school last fall. We're hoping to get that all planted this summer so that next winter our yard can be tarp-free for pretty much the first time since the first year we owned the house. The backyard has had tarps, wood, pieces of metal and various pool parts and garbage (all left behind by the previous owner of our house) strategically places around to kill off areas of grass. The neighbours only think we are the junky people; in reality we have a beautiful and elaborate plan in place. And I'm already eyeing that strip of city-owned grass out front between the sidewalk and the road, and mentally calculating whether the scraps of leftover tarp will cover it all.

4: We live on a very busy school bus corner, and I love sitting on the porch and watching the kids come and go. I could set my clock by the hoarse-throated young mom who walks by twice a day barking like a trained seal at her two kids. In fact, if I can get done writing this fast enough I'm going to take my tea and my sock knitting out there and watch the kids come home.

5: I don't have much of a yarn stash but I do have a considerable amount of sock yarn, or at least it's quite a lot considering how infrequently I actually finish a pair of socks. For some reason, almost all of my sock yarn stash is (or contains) orange. I don't even wear that much orange otherwise, but it's what I gravitate towards every time I indulge in sock yarn buying. In fact, I was in the yarn shop today, wearing orange and brown striped handknit socks, holding a beautiful ball of tweedy orange self-striping superwash wool in my hand and saying to the yarn store lady, "every ball of sock yarn I own is orange". She said, "then get the green!". So I did.

6: I am allergic to milk, ice cream and cheese, but I absolutely love strong, old cheddar. It's the only cheese I can eat without getting a sore stomach. Today after the yarn store I went to Far Flung Foods and got a chunk of my favourite four year old, a treat I indulge in about as often as non-orange sock yarn.

7: I never say in three words what I could say in ten or twelve (y'all might have noticed that about me already). And now I have rambled on so long I've missed the first school bus.

Posted by jodi at May 18, 2007 03:31 PM | categories:  projects

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