{"id":104,"date":"2010-12-13T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T00:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2010-12-13T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T00:16:22","slug":"getting-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Getting there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown has begun and I&#8217;m right on target.\u00c2\u00a0 Yay!!!\u00c2\u00a0 I have now finished all but the largest gift.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve turned the corner on that one and the end is in sight.\u00c2\u00a0 The finished ones are calmly waiting for me to either box them up and ship them off or stuff them into my suitcase.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m waffling on that, since together they don&#8217;t take up very much space.\u00c2\u00a0 The very few purchased ones are either already at their destination or on their way.\u00c2\u00a0 Check this holiday off as non-stressful.<\/p>\n<p>We survived the company holiday party and had a great time.\u00c2\u00a0 I met several significant others that I was interested in getting to know.\u00c2\u00a0 One is a knitter too, when she can sneak in some mommy rejuvenation time after the little ones go to bed.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping that she and I will be able to get to know each other better through one of the local knit groups.\u00c2\u00a0 Crossing fingers!<\/p>\n<p>I have acquired supplies to make the annual batch of peanut brittle.\u00c2\u00a0 Now if it&#8217;ll just stop raining long enough for it to set up correctly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I also grabbed the ingredients (not very much different from the brittle) for attempting some bacon caramels.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see if those turn out well enough for sharing.\u00c2\u00a0 I tried these once at a bacon-themed knit night, made by one of the knit girls in the group, and have been wanting to try making them ever since.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, the combination of bacon and caramel sounds strange, but is extremely delicious!\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully they will turn out and I&#8217;ll get to spread the experience.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also attempting to keep calm.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a couple of realizations coming to knock me in the head today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first is that 2011 is shaping up to be the year of the weddings.\u00c2\u00a0 One of my best girlfriends got engaged this weekend and asked me to be a bridesmaid.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m so excited for her!\u00c2\u00a0 Then there are the friends who were coming to visit this month, but got engaged and had to put it off until next month.\u00c2\u00a0 And then there&#8217;s my own wedding.\u00c2\u00a0 Yikes!\u00c2\u00a0 Who else?<\/li>\n<li>Second, I am getting old.\u00c2\u00a0 I found my first gray hair today.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s official.\u00c2\u00a0 I know, some people find them much earlier.\u00c2\u00a0 My own guy and my younger brother have had gray at the temples since their late 20&#8217;s.\u00c2\u00a0 I won&#8217;t get any sympathy there.\u00c2\u00a0 At least I noted that it is thicker than my regular very fine hair (yay!) and is that lovely silver-white color that everyone wishes for (yay again!).\u00c2\u00a0 It was also very stubbornly kinked, while the rest had been tamed into orderly straightness.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to have curly, wiry, thick, silvery hair.\u00c2\u00a0 Dunno what to think about that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think some ice cream is in order.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike my friends and family in the eastern half of the country, we&#8217;re warm today.\u00c2\u00a0 Nah nah!\u00c2\u00a0 Then it&#8217;s head down and back to knitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown has begun and I&#8217;m right on target.\u00c2\u00a0 Yay!!!\u00c2\u00a0 I have now finished all but the largest gift.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve turned the corner on that one and the end is in sight.\u00c2\u00a0 The finished ones are calmly waiting for me &hellip; 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