I have that long until I have to leave to go get the kids from school. And since today is a rainy day there will be a line of roughly a million cars waiting in the rain. I wish I lived closer to just walk & not waste the gas or the time in line.
Last nights Stitch N Bitch was great fun! I am glad that we are back at the Java Station. We can be as loud & obnoxious as we want. As you can see from Melissa’s post about conversations last night. I got over half of a hat done for one of my nieces. Not bad for being in a group of really chatty women.
Today the rain has hindered my knitting instead of the usual opposite effect it has. I was downtown today doing some things and of course it took much longer than it needed to because nobody in southern california knows how to drive/function in the anything but 70degree weather. Now, I can say that because I grew up in a part of california where rain & snow are a common occurence. So much so that I have driven 4WD vehicles the majority of my driving lifetime, 14yrs 11months 350days and roughly 19 hours. I didn’t include daylight savings or leap years so forgive me please!
Tonight is the Parade of Lights in downtown SB and I am quite looking forward to it. 2 years ago we had the great priviledge of sitting directly across from one of the radio announcers broadcast booths. My son Tyler, who is autistic for those of you that don’t know, was quite a bit more behind for his age back then. His speech wasn’t very clear and defenitly not put together in any way that people other than George & I could understand. So when the announcers had a break in the parade line and decided it would be cute to have little kids come out & sing their favorite christmas tune on the radio live, Tyler bolted out there before we had a chance to snag him back. Noone to this day knows what he ‘sang’ but the announcer wasn’t very pleased with his lack of annunciation capabilities & didn’t even let him finish. I do think he was trying to sing jingle bells but his mouth was all over the microphone and it was really garbled with pretty much no tune. It all happened so fast (and we were quite in shock) we didn’t have time to get pictures or video. That one would have won us the million$$ on AFHV’s for sure! I did feel bad for the announcer when Tyler proudly, but a little embarrased, came back over to sit on the curb with us and we were all so pleased, clapping & whoopin’ it up! The announcer really didn’t know what else to say so he mumbled something & the female announcer with him took over the live feed.
Just thought I would share a very poignant story for the day! Enjoy & Merry Christmas!