{"id":747,"date":"2007-12-05T15:29:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T05:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=747"},"modified":"2007-12-05T15:29:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T05:29:22","slug":"im-freeeee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m freeeee!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the blog blackout. I&#8217;ve been kind of snowed under. Well, busy at any rate.<br \/>\nLast night was Em&#8217;s dance concert. Do you know what that means? That means that I&#8217;m free of dance lessons for the rest of the year! I don&#8217;t have to go to the dance studio 7 times a week. Hip hooray!!<br \/>\nThe concert was lovely, the best yet, I think. Em didn&#8217;t win any of the major prizes this year, but she did receive a special award for having 10 years of perfect attendance. That&#8217;s right, not one missed lesson in 10 years.<br \/>\nHer teacher gave her a lovely gold bracelet with her name engraved on it. See Emily? Up there? Over the moon?!<br \/>\nWe did take time out for a nice relaxing day on Sunday. We had a beach day and headed down to Wollongong.  The weather looked a little bit iffy, but it turned out gorgeous.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3743.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3743.html','popup','width=950,height=713,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3743-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nBeautiful view, and the skydivers were out, enjoying the weather.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3740.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3740.html','popup','width=950,height=713,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3740-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3733.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3733.html','popup','width=950,height=713,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3733-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3751.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3751.html','popup','width=950,height=713,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3751-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nWe had fish and chips for lunch, ad the seagulls came along to check for leftovers.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3732.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3732.html','popup','width=950,height=713,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3732-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI took along my knitting, of course.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3746.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3746.html','popup','width=638,height=850,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3746-thumb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI started the first front of Buttercup.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3752.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3752.html','popup','width=950,height=713,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3752-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nHowever, when I got home I took a good hard look at it, and I wasn&#8217;t happy with it.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3756.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3756.html','popup','width=950,height=713,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3756-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe picots looked a little crowded and messy to me. So I frogged it and started over. The picots are meant to be done every second row, but I&#8217;m doing them every fourth row. I&#8217;m happier with it now, but not totally happy. I&#8217;m not very good at nice, even, tidy picots.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3779.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3779.html','popup','width=950,height=713,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3779-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;m tempted to rip it out again and start over, abandoning the picots altogether. But I&#8217;m too lazy.<br \/>\nDavid came home bearing flowers yesterday.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3764.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3764.html','popup','width=950,height=745,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3764-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"352\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nFor Twinkie, not me. Spoiled much?<br \/>\n15 days until we leave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the blog blackout. I&#8217;ve been kind of snowed under. Well, busy at any rate. Last night was Em&#8217;s dance concert. Do you know what that means? That means that I&#8217;m free of dance lessons for the rest of the year! I don&#8217;t have to go to the dance studio 7 times a week. 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