Thursday, December 06, 2007
stuff and things and a contest
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Hi. Where have i been you say? Hiding under a pile of bags. Wendy and I finished sewing up 30 pocuhes today to add to the 16 yesterday for probably our biggest update in a long time for tomorrow. I don’t know when yet. I’m a little stressed out. I just can’t do it. I just can’t call a time yet. Please forgive me for that. To make up for it. I’m having a contest. To celebrate two things that passed. My five year bloggidty-blog-blog-aversary and to celebrate 3 years of sewing. So first you all want to know the prize don’t you?
It’s LEONA by Ruby Sapphire on etsy
and here’s the info on the yarn:
LEONA Handpainted RUBY Superwash Sock Yarn
Handpainted in Shades of NAVY, BLACK and BRIGHT BLUE
Our yarns are dyed with professional quality acid dyes.
Our RUBY yarn is our softest line of handpainted fibers.
It is a superwash merino wool sock yarn.
This yarn is an excellent choice for the knitter who prefers all natural fibers.
Approximately 4oz./ 114 grams/ 550 yards
2ply light fingering weight
100% Merino Wool
Machine or Hand Wash
Lay Flat to Dry
What do you have to do to win? Any of you who have read my blog over time know i have serious irrational fears. First i will define irrational fear in my terms. It must be something that you KNOW cannot possibly happen, but will only happen one day to you. And just you because you are unlucky and stuff like that can happen. So here’s my list:
1. touching my belly button makes me vomit. Mostly because i have this great fear it will come undone, and my guts will come flying out like one of those joke cans-o-snakes.
2. when someone throws a lit cigarette out their window while i’m driving and i see it, and i drive over it. i close my eyes and wait for my car to explode.
3. i will not ride one of those city busses with an accordian on it. It WILL turn the corner and the 1/2 i’m in won’t follow.
4. i will not walk up open backed stairs. I have to run. I think something will eventually grab at my ankles.
5. my best friend in high school had an old VW Rabbit. It had cherrios sized wheels. One time she was driving fast and said what if my wheels flew off like cherrios?? I always kind of fear little hactch back cars.
Ok so what you have to do is leave me a comment. You MUST tell me one of your irrational fears. Irrational as i defined above. And i will take everyone’s names and draw one to win. I might come up with a second prize too if they are good.
the contest will end dec 15th.
Posted by Jennifer on 12/06 at 11:02 PM ♥ Comments (49)
Comments
2. left this comment on 12/07 at 04:55 AM:
Wow 5 years!
I’m affraid of black beans and refriend beans. The black beans just look like rabbit poop and I can’t bring myself to eat them.
3. left this comment on 12/07 at 07:37 AM:
wow, Wow, WOW! Five years?? That’s amazing… I’m looking forward to the next 5 years!
And I almost hate to tell you my irrational fears, b/c even *I* have to acknowledge that they are insane… (I blame having the poisoned Tylenol thing happen when I was in middle school - an impressionable and drama laden time. And one of the Tylenol victims was the same age that I was, so it did make an impression.)
In a nutshell - I worry about getting poisoned in a crazy way. Intellectually, I know it won’t happen, but still…
Like envelopes. I CAN NOT lick the glue on the back of an envelope. Because someone might have poisoned it. I try to use the self stick kind, or if I have to use the glue kind, I use a sponge. It’s stupid, but there it it. (a fringe benefit of this, though, is that if I ever mail you anything, you know I didn’t drool on it. Which is gross, really, when you think about it...)
I also don’t like to push the buttons in elevators. Not because of the nasty germy thing, which is at least logical! Nope. Because someone might have put poison on the button, and it will absorb through my skin when I touch it and I’ll die immediately, before I even get to my floor.
Oh sweet cracker sandwich - when I just went back and re-read that? I’m freakin’ CRAZY, aren’t I???
4. left this comment on 12/07 at 07:50 AM:
Happy Blogaversary!! :) Five years is amazing!
I totally am with you on the driving over cigarette thing. And I hate driving next to/ behind semis or any big truck because I know that their tire will blow and it will come through the windshield and kill me or something.
But my silliest fear is of balloons. They are fine in the air on a string, but as soon as someone is holding one I know that it will pop and make a really loud bang and I will bite my tongue. Crazy I know.
5. left this comment on 12/07 at 08:26 AM:
I’m afraid of anything that has more than 8 legs. I’m pretty sure they can run faster than me. And that means that they can get me, and I probably can’t get them.
6. left this comment on 12/07 at 08:31 AM:
First, happy blogiversary!
Second, I have a irrational fear about being in large crowds. I’m convinced that something will happen like a fire or a bomb that will cause everyone to become a stampeding mass and I’ll either get trampled or worse, pushed up against a wall so that I can’t breathe or move. *shudder*
7. left this comment on 12/07 at 08:36 AM:
I have a fear that I will be chased by zombies.
8. left this comment on 12/07 at 08:43 AM:
There’s a stairwell in my office that has one wall that is made of glass and overlooks DC (we’re on the 16th floor, the view is pretty nice). There are 2 very thick layers of glass surrounding the stairwell (makes it look all industrial artsy)and just beyond that there’s a space of about 6 feet before the giant floor to ceiling windows. I can’t walk down those stairs because I can literally see myself falling down the stairs, breaking through both panes of glass, flying through the open space and right out the window. Everyone in the company knows about it, and thinks it’s hysterical.
9. left this comment on 12/07 at 08:48 AM:
Happy Blogaversary!!!
My irrational fear also deals with sneezing however it is sneezing while I’m driving. You know you are completely out of control of what you are doing that nanosecond you are sneezing. I just KNOW I am going to wreck in the mid-sneeze.
Two other driving fears are that something will get lodged under the gas or brake just like it did in Stephen King’s book Thinner. Or that a large or poisonous bug or spider will be crawling around me which will cause me to wreck while I am freaking out about it.
The sneezing is the big fear though because sneezing is so commonplace.
10. left this comment on 12/07 at 08:49 AM:
I won’t go in the ocean because I can’t tell when it gets too deep. I’m always afraid I’m going to fall off the Atlantic Shelf into the bottom of the ocean.
11. left this comment on 12/07 at 08:56 AM:
First, Happy Blogiversary!!!!! And Happy Sewing-versary!!! Yay!!!!!
I have an irrational fear of elevators. I’m terrified of getting stuck in one. Perhaps because I’ve been stuck in an elevaor numerous times before (I worked at a museum. The elevator was cranky.) But more importantly, I’m terrified that I’ll be on an elevator and all of a sudden, without warning, I’ll be plummeting towards the bottom of the shaft, the cords and whatnot having snapped.
12. left this comment on 12/07 at 09:37 AM:
i have a fear that a spider will crawl into my mouth while i’m sleeping, and lay eggs in my head. then one day i’ll have a bump on my head and baby spiders will come crawling out in armies. freaks me out.
13. left this comment on 12/07 at 10:50 AM:
The T-shirt “Can’t sleep, clowns will eat me” describes my fear perfectly. I’m terrified of clowns (because I KNOW they all have sharp pointy teeth) and dolls of any kind. I’m terrified that if I have one of them in my bedroom when I’m sleeping at night, they’ll begin walking around, find a sharp knife, and come stab me and then chomp on me with those pointy teeth. At 50 years old, I still run away when I see a clown and refuse to touch a doll. It might come alive on the spot.
14. left this comment on 12/07 at 11:17 AM:
Happy blogiversary!
I also have the can’t-lick-envelopes-because-I-think-someone-may-have-poisoned-the-seal fear.
A few times that I’ve had to, I feel like I’m going to start feeling numb and just keeling over.
I also cannot and WILL NOT put my hand down the sink into the disposal to retrieve anything that fell down there in the fear that it would turn on by itself and chew up my fingers. I guess I’ve watched too many horror flicks LOL.
thanks for the contest! :)
15. left this comment on 12/07 at 11:29 AM:
I bet that Seinfeld episode where George’s fiancée died from the cheap envelopes and wedding invitations did not help either of you with your envelope poisoning fear.
16. left this comment on 12/07 at 11:48 AM:
I like someone else who posted have a fear of balloons popping. Once one was popped near my face and I’ve been scared of them since.
Anyhow, to post a different fear - I have to kiss my hand and touch the visor in the car if I am in the car with someone who drives through a yellow traffic light. I don’t drive through yellow traffic lights when I’m the driver, I actually slow down and stop. Some people who speed up and go through the yellows scare me. So I kiss my hand and touch my visor in the car. I amnot sure how this started, but I feel like it may stop any car who starts going through a green if we’re still going through the intersection, because my car sped thru the yellow - won’t hit us.
Happy Blogaversary!
17. left this comment on 12/07 at 12:29 PM:
I’m cracking up reading (and nodding my head!) with most of the irrational fears. Oddly enough, I ride on an accordian bus to work and used to lift up my dress to play with my bellybutton as a toddler. Did I make you vomit?!!? I’m sorry :)
My irrational fear came to me as I was just giving blood. Every time I give blood, I get scared that if I squeeze the ball they give you to get the blood flowing too hard, the needle will pop out and my vein will burst. I should just ask the nurse if that is feasible ;)
Fun contest, and congrats on your blogivesary. Sorry to hear you’re stressed out, take some time off if you can!
18. left this comment on 12/07 at 01:24 PM:
Five years is a long time, way to go!! I still super love the goldfish bag I bought from your store too!!
Irrational fears? The ocean. I’m afraid that I’ll be on a boat in the middle of the ocean and for whatever reason the boat capsizes and as the boat sinks the current will pull me down with it and I’ll sink for miles and miles where it’s dark and there are sea monsters - the reality is it’ll be really dark so I won’t be able to see the sea monsters and really, I’ll be dead much before that.
But no one will ever find my body :(
19. left this comment on 12/07 at 01:31 PM:
Happy Blogiversary!
My irrational fear is that all my teeth are going to fall out. I blame my orthodontist and dentist for deciding to pull a bunch of my teeth. For awhile, I had about one dream a week about all my teeth falling out. One of my students showed me his loose tooth a couple weeks ago, and I couldn’t look at him the rest of class.
20. left this comment on 12/07 at 01:44 PM:
Happy Blog-a-versary Jen!!!
I have two very strange irrational fears.
First - I am totally afraid of storm sewers on the side of the road. I always picture someone/something reaching up out of these and grabbing me and pulling me down into their lair to eat me or something. When I am walking or jogging on the street I will run WAY around them. I am not afraid if I have my doggies with me though. I am sure that they will protect me.
Second - I know that there are sharks living on the other side of the metal grids at the bottom of swimming pools. If I am swimming over one I totally have to book it to the other side of the pool incase they escape, and eat me. I have no fear whatsoever of swimming in the ocean. You know, the ocean, where the REAL sharks live. :)
21. left this comment on 12/07 at 02:06 PM:
Happy Blog-versary!
My irrational fear— I’m always afraid that I’m going to loose my shoes. I don’t like swings or anything that takes my feet off the ground and doesn’t support them. I don’t like bar stools without runs, forget those “sitting” style rides.
22. left this comment on 12/07 at 06:03 PM:
Happy Blogaversary!
I have this crazy fear that when my husband is driving the road will be super slippery and every time he goes around a corner I have to hold on to the door handle and use my chicken brake. Usually I do this only when the road is wet(like a few drops of dew).
My other irrational fear I have is of spiders. All those legs eeeeewww! Might have something to do with my brother and sister chasing my while holding a daddy long legs spider.
23. left this comment on 12/08 at 12:16 AM:
My fear is deer. Not deer in the woods or anything, like if I saw a deer in the woods that wouldn’t be scary. It’s deer on the roads or near the roads that freak me out no end. Obviously I am afraid that I will hit one, but I am also afraid to see them hit or dead. This is really not good for someone who lives in the mountains. ;) I guess that’s not totally irrational though… maybe I don’t have irrational fears?? Hmmmm.
24. left this comment on 12/08 at 11:20 AM:
One of my many irrational fears developed about a year ago… I really have no idea where this fear came from--which I guess helps in the overall irrationality of it.
I regularly swim laps at the pool in my gym. I can’t be the only person swimming at the pool because I’m afraid that I’ll either swim into a dead body or see one on the ground beneath me. o_O As long as there’s at least one other person I’m fine.
25. left this comment on 12/08 at 11:28 AM:
I don’t understand the stairs fear BECAUSE the basement stairs are like that you go up and down everyday, and I never seen you run up the stairs. You have probably went up and down those stairs at least a million times in your life time. If that does not rid you of your fear then what would, jennifer. just a little sisterly love.
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1. Cairi left this comment on 12/07 at 02:37 AM:
Happy blogiversary Jen!!!! Wow five years is amazing, I dont think I have spoken to anybody else who has bee blogging that long. :)
I share a lot of your fears, my dad once had to carry me down a flight of open stairs because I froze at the top, but its a vertigo thing with me.
Right irrational fear, I hate sneezing, I sneeze really hard and always squeeze my eyes really tightly shut so that there is no way my eyes can fall out.....sad but true I do worry about eyeball popping and how I could put them back