Name 10 things

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I have other things to update you all on soon, but here are my 10 things. I just want it noted for the record that I think this will be the very first meme I have ever answered online in the four years I’ve been keeping an online journal. I’m not sure what that says about me other than I used to think myself pretty cool for not posting memes and now just don’t care because I enjoyed myself making this list. I ran out of things that I have done, so started adding things that I haven’t done that most people have towards the end. With no further ado … 1. I am a Type I insulin dependent diabetic using an insulin pump. There are 1.3 million diabetics in the US, only 10% of which are Type I. Of those, less than 20% use insulin pumps. I supposed this makes me a minority within a minority within a minority.

2. I was attacked by a collie when I was four who mauled my face. Imagine my father combing the neighbor’s yard looking for his daughter’s nose. All I have to say is plastic surgeons rock.

3. Every year my family makes molasses on the family farm (on the road named after our family as only we live on said road). The engine that runs said cane mill is from a Model A Ford.

4. I have sung the Star Spangled Banner and God Save the Queen in a variety of churches in England with my high school choir. The combination of those two songs seemed to make everyone cry (don’t even get me started about Danny Boy).

5. I graduated university approximately 2 weeks before my 20th birthday.

6. I have won several thousand dollars in Vegas, cashed out, promptly carried the money to my room and rolled around in it just to know what that was like.

7. I have stood on the east coast and the west coast of the US in the same day.

8. I have never lived without at least one pet in my home (barring freshman year in the dorms when my pets had to stay home, but that doesn’t really count).

9. While I have had a cell phone since approximately 1998, I have never paid my own cell phone bill.

10. I have never been without health insurance (see #1).

String Glorious String!

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It's been a busy weekend but a good one. I'm all pleased with myself at having finished half of my first knitting project (garters). I just need to go home and get the rest of the yarn to start on the second one. I bought all kinds of crafty goodies for my knitting and other string fetishes. I now have some new knitting needles and some very fine orange and black and blue yarn and an eyelet hole maker and a new lucet. I apparently have finally caught up with the rest of the Knowne World when it comes to these crafts, as I know I have tried both knitting and lucetting previously in my life and thrown my hands up in disgust. But I'm two for two so far in that I learned to knit last weekend and I learned to lucet string this weekend. Not sure what I'll tackle next weekend. :) The saga of my cell phone has finally come to rest, I think. My Treo 600 has been possessed for about two weeks now (that would be why I haven't been returning your calls). I finally got my replacement Treo 650 in the mail on Friday. I spent all day on Friday getting it setup. I think it was after midnight on Friday night before I finally got off the phone with them and they had "created a ticket" for me. She said to wait 36 hours before calling back. So at 2pm today I called up and they told me those 36 hours were only Monday through Friday so to call back on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning. That's when we had the "oh, hell no!" conversation. The good news is that my phone had decided to reset itself and give itself a new password. We put it back and it works. My username has a typo in it now because tech support guy #4 can't type, but I don't really care at this point. It just works and that is enough. I'm syncing email and checking web pages from the phone. Hoorah.

Well, the Puddin' is snoozing next to me soundly so I think I'm going shop for bookshelves online. Wish me luck!