First off, I have an important announcement: we're moving. No, not physically moving - I already did that once this year, and have no intention of doing it again. I mean the blog is moving. I've been thinking about this for a while. When I first started this blog way back in February of 2005 I really didn't have any intention of blogging. Mostly I wanted to keep in touch with people from the youth group I was helping out with. Only once I had a blog, I started using it. Flash forward five years, almost
all of those people I joined xanga to stay in contact with have long since abandoned their xanga accounts, but I'm still blogging. And I think it's time for a change. Xanga has been good to me, but you have to admit, it's a little... teenybopper. I need something a little more grownup.
Consequently, starting next month, this blog will be moving to Wordpress. The address is:
http://thatsadancerslegmargaret.wordpress.com.
I've been working hard to transfer all of my xanga blog over. Unfortunately there's no easy way to do it, so I'm doing a lot of Copy and Paste. So far I have the last couple months of this year moved, and the first couple months I ever wrote. It's been fun going back through the old archives, revisiting myself five years ago. So much has changed since then, but so much has stayed the same. I think
the very first blog post I ever wrote is as true today as when I wrote it so long ago.
In other news, yesterday afternoon I ended up giving Rosie a ride out to Wright State. While I was out there it occurred to me that I was somewhat near Fairborn during normal business hours, something that almost never happens, and I could visit
the yarn store. Not that I need any yarn right now, but sometimes it's nice to see the yarns somewhere besides my computer monitor, and maybe I could ask the proprietor if there's another way to start the Queen Anne's Lace Shawl that won't make me want to throw things. So I headed over there and had a lovely time fondling yarns and chatting with the shop owner about all things knitting. As I was checking out (you try to walk into a yarn store and walk out again without buying something. Go ahead. Try it. I dare you.) I told the story of having to rip out my incipient lace shawl and turning to sock knitting to soothe my frazzled nerves. Another customer expressed astonishment that I found sock knitting soothing, which led to me mentioning that usually I do two at a time using one long circular, and the yarn store owner asking me if I would be interested in teaching a class. I was rather taken aback at this. I mean, I haven't been knitting all that long, plus I knit oddly (somehow I taught myself to knit left handed even though I'm not), and ... seriously? Me teach a knitting class? But she seemed entirely serious. So I left her one of my Etsy business cards, and said that another day I would bring my things and show her, and if she was still interested, I would be open to teaching. So... we'll see.
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