I've randomly chosen from over 100 reponses to the New Years contest, and the winner is Sandy, who says:
I have lots of resolutions that I know I won't keep, so I'll just list the ones I do intend to keep.
1. Buy more yarn
2. Knit more socks
3. Spin more yarn, including finishing spinning the yarn for a sweater for my husband.
4. Enjoy the coming year and stop stressing myself so much
Sandy, e-mail me at allison@simplysockyarn.com with your mailing address and I'll ship you our your prize! Congrats!
So last night, my mom and I fully intended to see The Queen. I checked the theater's website early in the day to see what time it showed, and the one-screen theater listed the time as 6:15. So we walk in, get ourselves some popcorn and a $2 bottle of water, sit down, and watch the previews. Then the movie starts. I see Annette Bening, and I realize that the movie we are actually seeing is Running with Scissors, not The Queen, as intended. WTF?! I wouldn't have minded seeing the movie, but my mom wasn't into it, so we left and got our money back. The lady at the front desk was very nice, but didn't seem at all suprised that the website times were incorrect. I'm so sick of getting incorrect information off movie websites. Is it really that difficult to get your information correct? And the sad thing is that I really like this small, independent theater, but it's never busy and I wouldn't be surprised if it closed. Especially if they keep angering the customers.
Because of the extra-long weekend, and the fact that the Post Office wasn't shipping until Wednesday (New Years and then the former President's funeral) I was able to do a bit of knitting and get a package together for my Secret Pal 9 pal- I had to find some way to ignore the fact that I had a pile of boxes (that literally reached the ceiling) that wasn't going out b/c of the PO's closing. I thought that the pair of socks I knit for her would be better given when it's cool out, so I filled a package with the socks (a feather and fan pattern with Claudia's Story Days yarn), a cute tape measure, a cool flowered CD case, and some other goodies. The knitting I did was on the last pair of socks that I've been working on for Chrismas presents. Yeah, I know that Christmas was 10 days ago, but since we haven't exchanged gifts with Joe's side of the family yet, it's all good. Joe's family is coming up here this weekend, so we have kept the tree up so we can celebrate again. Should be good times.
that is pretty annoying - especially since you drive all the way there just to see something in particular! your pal should love the socks and goodies!!!!
Posted by: stacey | January 04, 2007 at 11:22 AM
I'd really like to see The Queen but it's not playing near me anymore. We did go see The Pursuit of Happyness, though, and that was very good.
Posted by: Carole | January 04, 2007 at 11:24 AM
I love how the Feather and Fan pattern looks with the Claudia handpainted wool! I made a pair of Purple Earth and I love them!
Posted by: Alison | January 04, 2007 at 10:04 PM
beautiful socks - and I love that Sandy's resolutions are good for all of us.
Posted by: Teyani | January 05, 2007 at 11:24 AM
No big deal about your Christmas socks, I'm knitting Chirstmas socks as I catch up on my blog reading (I keep tellingmyself if I'd just get off the computer I could finsh these things tonight!). I love your resolutions!
Posted by: Jamie | January 06, 2007 at 08:45 PM
EEEEEKKKKKK. Did you send that package yet?
Posted by: Jenn | January 07, 2007 at 10:31 AM
Maybe it is time to suggest to that movie theater that they adopt a new year's resolution. Better customer service!!
Posted by: B. Rickman | January 08, 2007 at 09:30 AM