My secret is out

No, not my top secret knitting project. (The above is as much as you're allowed to see.)

And no, unlike many famous knitters, at the moment, I am most certainly *not not not* with child.

My secret is the "ohmygodohmygodohmygod" post from the other day - remember? Seeing as how I haven't posted much since the kiddos came back to campus it should still safely be there on the right-hand side of things in my 'previous posts' list. Yeah....that one. Well, my secret is out.

I'm in Cast-On

I had posted a comment about a month or two ago offering to read for Ms. Dayne and didn't hear anything back & so figured that she'd been deluged with offers and didn't need me (and my comment was a - gulp! - audio comment where I "umm'd" and "uhhhh'd" nonstop and sounded like a TOTAL git, so I figured that after she finished laughing at me she just hit the 'delete' button & promptly forgot about me and my sad little offer........) and so just wrote it off as a decent attempt on my part & at least I finally tried for once instead of chickening out like I do with so many other things.

But then I got her e-mail! And with her e-mail came a brilliant essay by Kate that was just an amazing ton of fun to read (of course after I listened to it I totally cringed - Minnie Mouse doing a 'Blanche DuBois-type' overly dramatic reading is how I rated myself!) so honestly how could I ever say no, especially to Brenda Dayne - this is the woman who keeps me happily awake after my son goes to bed when all I want to do is tumble into my feather pillows & comforter myself, yet as that is the ONLY knitting time I pretty much get to myself these days I'm totally greedy about it and so cling to it like a shipwreck survivor hanging on to a liferaft....

And so I recorded it & e-mailed Kate (she's funny & nice as well as an incredible writer - go see her blog, too, she's a fantastic knitter to boot!) and then put it in a public place for Brenda to download and started waiting.....and eventually got an e-mail back saying that she was going to download it & take a listen & would tell me if it needed any tweaking, and then all of a sudden WHAM!

I'm in Cast On!

Episode 37: Mill(w)right, to be exact. Of course because I have the brain of a fencepost I never actually told Brenda that I had a blog, and even though she really is a deity of sorts in her own right she is *not* actually omniscient and so didn't figure that all out for herself, so I'm not linked off of her show notes. But I did send her an e-mail trying very humbly (yet greedily) to ask her to link me sometime in the future if and when she has the time/inclination. We all want our 15 minutes of fame, right?

As my knitting content is fairly thin at the moment (don't you hate how work puts such a crimp in your knitting time? It's such a drag that way, huh?) I'll wait to post about actual knitting progress - yes, there is some! - until tomorrow or Monday...

But until then, I will leave you with the immortal closing words of you-know-who:

".......and don't forget, if you're cold, put on a sweater - that's what they're for."