The Nita

Happy anniversary my darling. You are the right one for me - more than a little crazy, entirely capable of putting up with my random mood changes, and my stable anchor when I start haring off about things.

I love you.

I live in a home with a man with dual citizenship, who was born and raised in the US.

As interesting as I've found the US election, has been his reactions. To the election. To the "big time" media coverage. To the smaller media coverage. And to the reactions of the Canadians he knows (and those he doesn't).

I continue to hold my hope and keep my fear that the hope doesn't have a strong foundation. It should be an interesting few days, few months and 4 years.

My sweetie thinks I would be sexier with banana walnut scented hair.

Not that I'm indulging him, but okay.

I own shoes now.

And special pants, a bra & the funkiest socks I've ever seen.

And my husband's convinced me that today's a good day as any to start walking.

Whee!

A number of years ago, greensabre27 was telling me his "if I win the lottery" story.

Since then, apparently it's been percolating in my head.

You see - I know a lot of people. Like a lot.

And I have a small requirement (evidently) in my choice of people I hang out with. They need to be smart, and they need to have some talent/skill. Yah - I know. Inspecific. But it seems to work.

Here's the thing. Generally (and sadly, not all the time), when someone says "Hey Nita, I need to do X, how do I do that?" and I don't know the answer, I do know who they could talk to find the answer.

And I get to thinking.

If I win the lottery (thereby assuring us of startup capital), I think I'm going to offer my network of friends a job working for a consulting company.

What do we consult on? What's not working for you? Likely, we have someone who can solve that problem for you.

Rates? It'll depend on how much of a moron we think you are (though I should probably have someone better with words (much_ado, bridgeoutahead, hel_ana, etc, etc, etc comes to mind) word that...).

Laughter - my husband just walked in and said "Oh great - you're making the A-Team"

Heeeheee...that means I get to be Hannibal.

Or Face.

I've always wanted to be Face.

So I've got the first sleeve more or less sewn in - still have about 3" left (need to thread up new yarn to finish it).

woodardp tried it on.

I need to work the collar up a little in pattern before doing the actual collar, but that's no problem. The underarm *fits* and the arm fits him comfortably.

I'm so pleased with myself. This is the first one I designed myself from the get go. It fits (and I learned little details about how to fix things like that in the future), it's pretty, and he's happy.

Hell, if I was actually working on it regularly (on the order of 1 hour per night - time I spend chilling in front of the tube before crashing at the end of the day), I'd have been done a good month ago. I figure there's about ~100 hours of my time in this. I figure I can shave a goodly portion off of that as I get more familiar with doing the math required (and I don't screw up reading the measurements and having to make *3* sleeves).

Yah, there will be pictures when it's done.

I've also done the design work on two more sweaters on my list (leaving 2 more that I know of that I need to source materials and design time for).

If you're ever in Mississauga and looking for dinner, and you like Italian - check out Alioli Ristorante.

bridgeoutahead, the_real_crispy, woodardp and I went there last Saturday before the show on a whim for dinner. I found it through Google's map service.

Dear gods.

It was sooo good. Service was excellent and unobtrusive, with just enough personality to make it interesting. The food was amazing (I had a black & white fettuccine (squid ink pasta & regular pasta pressed together through the pasta maker - beautiful) with baby clams & shrimp, tomatoes, green onions, white wine, garlic olive oil with blackened jumbo shrimp on top - oh gods - sooo good). Prices were decent considering the level of the food & the service. It isn't cheap, but it is totally worth it.

I cannot recommend this place more - it was lovely, and I want to go back.

It's been 11 years now.

Dude.

Given the number of people who questioned our sanity, our committment & what the hell were we doing, I think we've done pretty damned good. You live with "one of the most difficult to live with woman we know" according to some of our friends, and seem happy. I know you're a heck of a Dad to our not-so-wee boy and a really supportive partner. We have our moments, but we've learned how to adapt, adjust and accept things.

I'm proud of you. I respect you. I love you. I like you.

It's a good life. I'm glad you're in it.

My birthday knives - two Japanese handmade knives that finally arrived yesterday. Sorry for the low light quality of the photos. The flash was too much.


They're gorgeous and tonight, I get a chance to use them...e

Bigotry is wrong and all, but I have a beef. Jews control the money, they control who gets into power. Gods forbid you ever actually try to get into their "special" little world. Stupid rituals, stupid rules, and if you make the mistake of falling in love with one and want to convert, there's a line a mile deep of sheer raving bullshit you have to go through before they believe you really want to become Jewish, and sometimes even then, they don't let you.

Offensive as all hell, isn't it?

Do a replace of Jewish for American.

Just because you don't think that you're hurting anyone because you're a Canadian trashing Americans doesn't mean it doesn't hit home. Just because you didn't mean my husband or my son doesn't mean I can read your mind and know that.
I know I am guilty of generalizations as well. Congrats, I'm human. It is one of the things I've been working on improving, because I've watched the internal anger and betrayal my husband has dealt with over the years listening to people who claim to be friends here tearing into "Americans". I have zero intention of stepping back on this now, especially as I have a small boy who doesn't need yet another reason to feel like people hate him for things he has not power over.

If it's offensive with one tag, it's offensive. Period.

*grabs the asbestos undies*

I'm ready.