- I finally started another knitting project (I hadn’t knit since March)! This will be a scarf for a certain madre for Mother’s Day. I am using a pattern that has some techniques I hadn’t done before (on purpose, anyway) – yarn over (ko) and knit two together (k2tog), so it’s good to be learning something new! I realized I have to knit much looser so I can do the k2tog. I also realized my fingers are way too rough to work with this yarn – it keeps snagging and fraying it! Grrrr.
- We sent 20 postcards when we were in Mexico, and as far as I know, no one has received them. I feel bad about it, because instead of bringing back gifts for everyone, I thought the postcards would be a nice way to tell people we were thinking about them while we were there. Also… 20 postcards took awhile to write and weren’t very cheap. Ha ha. Maybe they’ll show up someday!
- I am digging xaarlin‘s throwback travel posts from Europe 2002. It kind of makes me want to write some for my trip to Spain in 2002! I have all the pictures, and a journal. I wonder if my journal will be as cringe-worthy as xaarlin said hers was (probably!!!)!
- Did anyone else see or read about the man who lead the Boston marathon for the first mile so his kids could see him on TV (pdf here)? Then fell back and finished the rest of the race feeling crummy because he did this? Anyone else think this was kind of a “not cool” move?
- Remember Cats with Bats? The softball team I was on last spring/summer? The team will not be getting together this summer. I enjoyed playing and looked forward to each game, but it was a lot of work to organize, and another summer night commitment I don’t want this year. As only one person asked me if the team is getting back together, I think most everyone is on the same page! We’ll all just have to get together and do something else, besides lose softball games.
- My new boss brought in a homemade breakfast burrito buffet to welcome a new team member during our weekly staff meeting yesterday! And included vegan options!!! I really like my new boss, and not just because she feeds us!
Link to Random Thoughts Thursday 70
Themocracy
I watched the race and I didn’t see that dad runner at all. Was I really watching then?
It’s probably easy to miss something that happens for under 5 mins 😉
I saw that guy! To be honest, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with what he did. If it was some bozo who wanted to disrupt the race for everyone else, then yeah, that’d be a problem. But he’s a pretty quick runner (2:30 PR) and a pro triathlete, so it’s not like he was just some Joe Schmoe like me who was all, “LOL totes gonna run with Meb!!” I mean, it sucks for him that he had to slog through the remaining 25 miles, because that’s an awfully long time to feel miserable. But as far as ways of getting yourself on TV go, I think he could’ve done a lot stupider things. Personally, I was kind of hoping he’d win it all 😉
There was definitely no harm in what he did, and he is a good athlete, but I don’t understand the motivation to do that just to be on TV for a bit! But you are right, he could have done something stupider, ha ha!
This is my thought as well. Poor race strategy, sure, but it’s all in good fun.
how awesome that your new boss fed you, and I like the scarf you are making!
Thanks! 🙂
I saw the Dad runner but didn’t hear the back story. I guess that was his 15 minutes (or less) of fame. I love your knitting projects!
It sure was! 🙂 I bet his training group in TX got a kick out of it!
Thank you!
mmmm that burrito looks so good! I don’t think it was cool for that guy to race at the front of the lead pack, either. Attention hog!!
I think we are in the minority in thinking that 😉 (about that dude, not the burrito, ha!)
Nom nom burritos! I didn’t hear about that guy…the Boston marathon didn’t really get any coverage over here this year.
Does it typically get coverage there? I watched it online 🙂
Wow, your boss sounds awesome! Homemade vegan breakfast burritos at work sounds like a great way to start the day. That sucks about the postcards 🙁 I always worry about that when I send postcards from abroad.
I have a very slight hope that they will someday show up… someday… ha ha!
I like the colors of your new knitting project and can’t wait to see the finished version. Boo to the post office. 🙁 I hope the post cards all show up randomly soon. I’m glad you like my posts… I’ll have to share more of my cringeworthy journal with you (away from Internet eyes) lol. Now I want burritos for lunch. Thanks! 😉
Thanks! I am hoping to get a lot done on it today!
I want to see the journal and know if it’s as bad as mine! Buah ha ha.
I did not know about that runner. I just he was another elite runner.
I was in San Antonio during Christmas and sent my mother (who was in Mexico at that time) a box with medicine. She received in March. Definitely slow mail.
That is good to know! People started getting their postcards this Saturday, so, over two months later. Guess that is typical!
Ooh, a new boss that you like and that brings you vegan burritos?? This sounds very promising 🙂
Sand volleyball this year? 😛
I am even worse at that than softball! 🙂
Well dammit!
That looks like an AWESOME burrito, and it was so nice of your boss to bring in veggie options!
I got your card, and I feel so bad that I didn’t tell you! (Maybe I didn’t get it when you wrote this??) I’m really sorry! It’s always surprising to me how expensive and inconvenient it is to send postcards these days, like we’re doing it to keep some outdated tradition alive. (Especially with social media now.) Still, I really love getting mail from other places. Your card is on our fridge…so I see it all the time when I…open the fridge for snacks! Thank you so much!
Hee hee, per our discussion, you did tell me! And I also agree – why do they make it so hard to send one? I enjoy getting them as well so I will keep sending them though 🙂 I am happy it’s someplace you see it often! 🙂