Ten Things about me, the High School Version

1.  I knit my first sweater in high school. It was a sweet teal 50's cardigan.  I wish I still had it.
2.  I used to stay after school in the sewing lab just about every day.
3.  Bridget Finnegan used to pass me hilarious notes with full illustration in Mr Stoykovich's Algebra II & Trig class.  Her notes keep coming, and they're even funnier today.
4.  Once a year I get together with my high school girlfriends for a long weekend.  It's a tradition we started about 5 years ago, and we all cherish the event.
5.  My family moved out of district in my sophomore year, but my parents paid tuition so that I could stay enrolled in my same school.  I was a commuter at the age of 16.
6.  I stunk at team sports.  Still do.  Especially if there's a ball involved.
7.  I currently live next door to the home where I lived  in 1982.

8.  Bridget started my love of cartooning.
9.  My second sweater was a bulky garter stitch pullover with a stockinette panel featuring a duplicate stitch deer.  It was my first self-designed sweater.
10.  Apparently I knew where I wanted to be and what I wanted to do from an early age.  It's so good to be here.

10 Random Things About Me

1. I knit.  I sew.  I draw.  I dye. 
2. I tend to go deep into research and discovery on one endeavor at the time, for an extended period.  Sometimes I think so hard I can't switch gears.  I am a monotasker.
3. I have wicked curly hair.
4. I was born in Georgia.  But now I live in New Hampshire.
5. My parents were born in Georgia and Alabama.  But now they live in New Hampshire.
6. I live next door to my parents.
7. I don't like to swim. 
8. I have a swimming pool.  It's an above ground pool, but we set it up on a hill, so it feels like it's a level ground pool.
9. If our pool ever gives way, we need to call my parents quick, because they live at the bottom of the hill.
10. I love cake.

Some folks have a list of 100 things.  I'm going to do them ten at the time on random occasions.  Otherwise nothing else will get done (see Thing 2).

  11.  I have trouble leaving well enough alone.