Operation baby blanket

Last night at the Lettuce Knit Stitch ‘n Bitch we had a special celebration, we gave Megan (the store owner) a blanket that we had all made for her baby (she’s going to be born around next week). Joyce co-ordinated the whole thing, everyone knit a square and then Deny did the edge with crochet. It was very nice to give her the blanket and I am sure the baby is going to enjoy it a lot.

So that you know, my square is beige, just on top of the one that has the “P”. I did it on moss stitch and used Mission Falls 1824 Cotton in Maize.

The blanket

Photo courtesy of Dani.

New Garlicster recipe

Mister Anchovy has sent his secret recipe for garlic zucchini. You can find it here.

Could this be my one and only chance of getting married?

Over at the Ice Queen‘s lair there’s a competition going on about who should marry Blamb. All my readers should head there and vote for me, MULTIPLE TIMES (OK, you can’t vote twice unless you’re on a different computer, go attack all the computers in your office, condo, etc.)! I hope you enjoy my profile, and there’s a description of me as being a combination of Speedy Gonzalez and Salma Hayek, which I think is very accurate.
VOTE FOR MARIA

I really like this popcorn picture.

Where is John?

John, from hypothesis.ca has been missing from the blogosphere for a while. I tried to send him an email, but after 2 days it bounced back saying it was not getting any reply. Has anyone heard anything from him?

The day I ran into Michael Douglas

It was 1999, I was in New York City on vacation with my parents, my brother and my sister. My mother and I had managed to get rid of my brother, sister and father by sending them to the Warner Store and later to the Statue of Liberty. We were walking on 7th Avenue when a limo stopped about 100 metres away from us. A man got off the limo and started walking towards us. Here’s what happened next:
Maria’s mom: “Isn’t that Kirk Douglas?”
Maria: [takes a good look] “no, it’s Michael Douglas” [thinking: yeah, cool, that’s Michael Douglas, now let’s go shopping]
Maria’s mom: “He’s getting into The Gap” [grabs Maria and pulls her into The Gap]
Inside The Gap
[Maria’s mom starts going crazy, she starts screaming half in Spanish half in English, pulls Maria along and chases after Michael Douglas].
Maria’s mom: “you are the man of my life” [meaning the love of her life, but was translating directly from Spanish, couldn’t think straight]
Maria [thinking]: “Weird, I didn’t know my mom liked Michael Douglas”
Michael Douglas: “thank you” [says something to sales guy]
Maria’s mom [shouting, screaming]: “really, I want to marry you”
Michael Douglas [probably getting scared of the crazy woman trying to communicate with him in broken English]: “OK”
Maria [trying to fix the situation]: “congratulations, your work was great in The Game”
Michael Douglas: “thank you thank you” [approaches the exit and gets the hell out of there]
Maria’s mom [having a fit]: “ah ah ah ahhhh I loooove him”
People at The Gap: “who was that, what’s all that racket about?”
Maria’s mom: “I’m dying, I can die peacefully now”
Maria [approaches window]: “It was Michael Douglas, he’s still there waiting for his ride”
Now all the people at The Gap look out the window, poor Michael Douglas fears for his life, finally the limo arrives and he flees the place.
Maria [to the sales guy]: “what did he tell you?”
Sales guy: “he asked if we had men’s shorts, we don’t so I told him”
Maria’s mom [still screaming]: “I’m leaving my husband and marrying him”

So that’s the end of the story. I had NO IDEA my mom even remotely liked Michael Douglas, let alone was in love with him. Of course now I know. This has been the biggest celebrity I’ve ever run into. He is not THAT big, my grandmother ran into John Lennon in like 1979 (and probably now in heaven, since they’re both dead now). My ex boyfriend ran into Pele and actually played a quick round of football (soccer) with him. My sister TOUCHED The Pope, yep, in Rome (I guess I don’t have to worry, she’s going to pull me up to heaven from hell, where I’m probably going to be).

My dear readers, have you had any run ins with celebrities?

P.S. They didn’t have men’s shorts at The Gap in the middle of the summer? isn’t that just a bit weird?

Cranberry Ginger Ale

I just bought a can of Canada Dry’s Cranberry Ginger Ale (I hadn’t seen it before, I just saw it this past week at Kitchen Table), and may I say that I find it DELICIOUS, too bad they don’t have it in diet or low calorie.

Knitting progress

I am making a sleevless turtleneck from page 54 of Sally Melville’s The Purl Stitch. For some reason I have screwed up a couple of times and have had to rip about half of my work already. Nevertheless, I started doing the decreases and the shapling for the shoulder. The front and the back are exactly alike. It will probably be another 3 weeks till I finish it, but I’m having fun.

My progress so far.

I am using Mission Falls 1824 Wool in Colour 11 (brick red? dark red? something like that). I bought 7 balls but I’m thinking I might just use 6, I’ll see how it goes.

(Thanks to Joyce for lending me the 5mm Brittany Birch needles).

Review of Pride and Prejudice

My book club session was last Tuesday. The book we read this time was Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. I just published a review on the GTABloggers site.
The book we’re reading next is Fluke by Christopher Moore, a 180 degree change from this month’s.

Random Maria Facts

Random Maria Fact #1:
When I was a kid (around 3 or 4 years old) I was on Sesame Street. I was one of those random kids that appeared in the background, playing.

Random Maria Fact #2:
I went to a vampire convention. In 1997, when Dracula (the book) turned 100 years old, I went to the Dracula 97 convention in Los Angeles. I had a great time and learned a lot of things about vampires.

Random Maria Fact #3:
I can tap dance. I took lessons in junior high, unfortunately, the last time I went to my mother’s house I looked for my tap shoes and they weren’t there. Either someone stole them or she threw them out.