Girl Who Knits

Twas the night before Christmas and I accidentally deleted all the pictures on my camera.  All the pictures I had taken in the week I had been in Hong Kong. 

Ugh.

I am sick.  This puts a serious cramp in the pictorial tour I was going to give you of this city that I am loving.  Seriously, I think I love it.  But instead I am working hard to take lots and lots of pictures in the last few days I have left so hopefully I will have more to show you when I get home.  I am in Hong Kong for two more days and then leave for Thailand on Thursday.  5 days in Thailand and then I am home and back to real life. 

So despite the picture mishap, I do have a couple to share from my Mom's camera.  But first, I was tagged by Tienne and Lark for the "6 weird things about me" meme.  This really wasn't hard for me.  Perhaps I should be worried about that.  So here goes:

1. I make wishes--every chance I can get.  For example, when a clock reads 1:11 or 11:11 I always make a wish.  That is not really the weird part.  I take the wishes very seriously.  I think about what I am going to wish and word it in a way that I won't regret (Sleeping Beauty really made an impression on me.) 
2. I love falling asleep when other people are around me.   Not any people, but trusted friends or family.  I used to ask my roommate to do her homework in my room while I was falling asleep because there was just something about it that was so comforting and pleasing.
3. I love meat but I have issues with it.  Nothing processed--cold cuts in general are out.  I have a hard time with ham--it seems dirty and slimy.  I like clean meat and really I am the only one who can determine what that means.  I won't eat anything that comes to me looking like its live self.  Cornish Game Hens...out.  I really should be a vegetarian but man I love a good steak.
4. I have a naive faith in and a romantic idealistic take on celebrity romances.  For instance, I really believed JLo and Ben were going to go the distance.  I really did. 
5. I can't ride a bike.  Never learned.  I have tried to a few times but I have a problem with being out of control and balance.  I don't like falling. 
6. When I was little my imaginary friends were slugs.  There was a town called Slugville of which I was the only human visitor.  My interest in slugs stemmed from two things--one, my brother would kill slugs in our front yard by pouring salt on them and I thought that was mean and two, even as a kid I thought it unfair and mean that people only seemed to care about the cute and cuddly animals.  The mayor of Slugville agreed with me.

So there you go.  Weird, eh? 

I will leave you with only few pictures from my so wonderful trip. 

We rode the Star Ferry boat on Christmas day...

to see this amazing skyline complete with fireworks and a laser show.

Today we saw the biggest Buddha I have ever seen...

And just in case you are worried, I am knitting.

Yes, that is the second sleeve of Venezia.  It is finished now, most of the sweater is seemed--it all goes well, I will have a finished post before Thailand.  Happy Boxing Day everyone!

This month has been crazy.  My routine has been shaken up in so many ways--some good some not so good--that I feel like I have barely had time to breathe.  I am beat.  I really don't know how I managed to get myself ready to go on a two and a half week vacation on the other side of the world but I did and after the longest flights ever, this morning I woke up in downtown Hong Kong.

I have never been here before but it is the strangest thing--it feels like home.  For those who don't know, my parents have lived here for the past year and a half and coming into their apartment last night gave me such strong feelings of belonging and comfort that I immediately relaxed.  I am home for Christmas. 

Now I know my blogging has suffered severely in the last month--so has my knitting for that matter.  I am sure my bloglines has hundreds of feeds for me to read.  Also, first order of business for my knitting projects is to finish Venezia.  Once and for all.  I should have been done with this a couple weeks ago but I just haven't had time.  I am half way through sleeve number two.  I brought the whole sweater with me and will be finishing here.  I also started a new project on the plane...I will reveal its identity as soon as I can get how to upload pictures figured out on my Mom's computer.  Then I will be posting pictures of Hong Kong too. 

Finally, for all you who live in Salt Lake City or who plan to visit, check out Your Heart Out.  A work friend of mine and his wife started this blog about the unique shopping and cool spots in SLC.  The photography is awesome and they update almost every day.  You for sure should go check it out.  It makes me want to move to Salt Lake--um, if I didn't already live here. 

Well, now I am going to go enjoy a nice breakfast and maybe go work out at the gym in my parent's building.  Then perhaps I will go explore or shop or read or knit or just chill with Mom and Dad.  Sigh...I can't tell you how much I need this.  It is good to be home. 

I have many guilty pleasures.  Things you would shake your head at in dismay if you heard.  Like how no one, I mean absolutely NO ONE should ever know about the *NSYNC concert I attended.  You see how if this got out people might look at me differently.  Like I wasn't cool or something.  And wouldn't that be a tragedy.

Well, I am going to admit to another gulity pleasure.  I love me some John Tesh.  Not his music or anything (you know from my above admission that my tastes run a bit more elegant) and not his hair (because it it BAD) but his radio show.  Intelligence for your life.  Have you heard it?  I have a couple easy listening stations programmed on my radio.  They are my go-to stations for when I get tired of NPR or more current radio and feel in the mood for something to chees-ily sing along to.  Like Kokomo or any Peter Cetera song. 

So by chance one day, I stumbled upon John Tesh's show.  He is AWESOME.  The music he plays is pretty average but he imparts to his listeners nuggets of wisdom about life and love and health and work--interesting facts about our world to educate us and to make our lives better.  You know what?  I think he really means it.  He seems sincere--like he really wants to help people.  That John Tesh is a good man. 

About a month ago I was driving home and was listening to a few minutes of his radio show.  He was talking about how when we are kids the years seem to stretch and be so full and when adults the years just fly by.  Haven't you felt this?  Anyway, Tesh tells us that the reason for this is that children have a lot of variety in their day-to-day activities.  As adults, we settle into routines.  Like we always drive to work the same way, eat the same breakfast, order the same meals, go home at the same time, etc.  Repetition and routine makes the day go faster.  John encouraged us to make small changes in our daily routine to shake things up if you will. I thought this was interesting so I am passing it all along to you. 

My routine has been shaken up recently but not in ways I am really happy about.  Some good friends quit at work which is sad on two levels.  One, I will miss them, and two, there is a TON of work to do.  The added stress of it all has affected my knitting output.  Where I expected to show you a finished Venezia soon, it will now probably be another week.  But it is coming along and I am really excited for it to be done.  Not only will I have a beautiful sweater but then I can pick projects for my upcoming trip...did I mention I will be in Hong Kong in two weeks?!!!  Because I will.  Talk about shaking things up--I can't wait. 

I guess change is not all bad.  So here's to changed routines and here's to John Tesh.