BadMomGoodMom was in town again! We met for lunch today at Squat and Gobble. She was accompanied by her precocious and adorable 11-year-old daughter, TFN. (My acronym, not her real initials. Two points to her if she figures out the reference.)
OK, it's just really cold.
After a yummy lunch, we retired to her car for show and tell. She purchased some nice fabrics from Stone Mountain & Daughter, and Fabrix, and also had some beautiful pieces she had knit and sewn.
So, why are we laughing in the top picture? We are holding a (plastic) rim from her wheel. This is the result of her parking job – she scraped the curb, not realizing she had dislodged the piece. Some passerby kindly picked the fallen rim off the sidewalk and placed it on her windshield.
Thanks to TFN for taking these awesome pictures!
After lunch, they were headed to northern Marin for a couple of nights stay in a friend's summer cottage. While her mom was in the bathroom, TFN said to me, "Two nights in a hut with no wifi. One of us may not come out alive."
Thanks for the laugh, TFN, and I hope you survive the coming ordeal!
oooh, sounds like fun! You look SO cool in your outfit!
ReplyDeleteLooks like y'all had fun. Love all the beautiful things you've made.
ReplyDeleteHow fun! I love TFN's comment. (Actually two days in a cottage with no wifi sounds blissful right now!)
ReplyDeleteGreat sweaters you are both sporting. What is the lovely fabric you used for your sweater? It looks really comfy.
Thanks, Andrea! That is a "popcorn" fleece that FabricMart had on their site for ages. I bought it about a year ago. It is very comfy.
DeleteAndrea, here's the link to the blog post, with more info:
Deletehttp://communingwithfabric.blogspot.com/2011/03/sewing-workshop-cowl-top.html
looks fun
ReplyDeleteI have a corner in my basement that contains a couple of plastic "oops" car parts. I keep dreaming that they're actually usable. Something tells me I'm wrong. That's just to say you're not alone BadMomGoodMom!
ReplyDeleteLooks like it was a real fun time even at the expense of the wheel mishap. I'm still laughing at the daughter's comment! Too funny!
ReplyDeleteShams, I am loving your scarf in these pics! Can you tell me where I could find the pattern; better yet, give me a Ravelry link? Is the yarn you used orange or more coral? (Because I think I want to be a copycat!)
ReplyDeleteOf course, Bunny! I love this scarf and it makes me think I need a fall knitting project or two. Both daughters DO appreciate my knitted items!
DeleteAnyway, I blogged about the scarf here (which includes the ravelry link and before/after felting pics): http://communingwithfabric.blogspot.com/2010/11/holey-scarf-and-another-teagarden-t.html
Me too Bunny! I love copying Shams!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun!
ReplyDeleteWhat a laugh - teenage son actually suffers withdrawal symptoms without wifi. Love your hat!
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had a fun time. Love your hat!!
ReplyDeleteIt was great to see you again!
ReplyDeleteWe arrived home safely with no more missing car parts about 3 hours ago. The wheel cover had already been badly scuffed long ago and I was going to buy a replacement cover anyway. If TFN hadn't ratted me out, DH might never have known.
We both survived w/o wifi, though she asked me what quarks and leptons were. Fortunately, the cabin came with an enormous unabridged dictionary that defined leptons. But then I had to explain what a positron was, and the dictionary gave a mu-meson as an example of a lepton, which meant we had to look that up, too...
And then the reference to positrons reminded me of the time my graduate quantum professor mentioned positronium in class. I, the chemistry major, raised my hand and asked what that was; it wasn't on any periodic table I've ever seen. Yup, it was one of those embarrassing nightmare moments where everyone at the dinner party except me knew what they were talking about. Only it happened IRL.
You are definitely my tribe if you spend most of your day in Unix command line, writing HTML in vi! (I wrote my PhD thesis in LaTeX with vi.) Thanks for sticking up for me when TFN said that I couldn't handle technology. (FWIW, I think I .could. learn how to use the TV, but I just can't be bothered.)
Did you see TFN's ears prick up when we spoke about command line?
BTW, I am wearing Vitamin D http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/vitamin-d
And here are photos of our trip with our guess for the meaning of TFN.
http://badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/2012/08/staged-fight.html
Wow, it looks like a lovely place to hang out, wifi or not. I'll give you another guess, because that meaning for TFN is way off!
DeleteBy the way, I certainly do spend most of my workday in the Terminal app on my Mac. I often have 3 or 4 Terminal windows going at one time. One or two are logged into work and another one or two are on my local machine. I write XML in vi and, in some cases, run perl scripts to generate HTML. Other times I write directly in HTML. I write my blog in HTML as well.
DeleteOne of my favorite UNIX utilities is find. Recently I was interviewing writer candidates and for those who knew UNIX, I would sometimes ask what their favorite UNIX utility was. ;)