Same Plaidsneakers, New Location

Plaidsneakers has relocated and is now coming from Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, 1 block from the DC border. Spoilers Ahoy!, but expect a series of transplant-y observation posts.

Like...why no love for the right turn on red. It is very chicken or egg for the newbie. No right on red, because of the crazy agressive pedestrian styles or crazy agressive pedestrian styles require no right on red.

We've had a Mini Cooper for the week, waiting for our car to arrive from SoCal. It is awesome and I will miss it, but the mid-Atlantic speed limits are killing our West Coast driving mojo. This is motoring (only sort of).

Bucket List Update

So we're off to a movie and Cantor's Deli to knock another item off the list today, but we've been fairly successful in the last six months.

Jewish Deli Canter's or Langer's 11/27/10
Walt Disney Hall
Olvera Street
Philippe's 6/19/10
See a movie at Graumann's Chinese Theatre (again...but the kid never has)
LACMA
LAX Restaurant
Randy's Doughnuts 6/19/10
Watts Tower
Studio Tour (but not in Universal)
Watch the taping of a sitcom (hmmm when does Big Bang Theory start taping again won't take under 18 grr) almost 1/27-ish/11 we went to watch The Late Late Show with Craig Fergeson.
Tea at the Huntington Gardens
Doo Dah and/or Rose Parade
Malibu (we tend to do our beach thing farther up the coast) not just Malibu, but the kid surfed Malibu. Yay Surfer's Healing! 6/5/10
Strawberry Festival
Solvang 11/14/10
Catalina Island
Monterey (which wouldn't be a first, we lived and met and dated there, but we've never gotten the kid there)

Not bad...maybe we can get some of the museums in over winter break.

L.A. Bucket List

I find myself considering geographical bucket lists. I suspect they should be made when you are first approaching a move, before new and shiny is overwhelmed by the jaded boredom of a local, unwilling to accommodate the crowds and the cheesiness of local attractions. At the moment, it is both too late for that and something remember for next time. So we have that moving itch at the moment, not sure if it is more running away from or running to...something. It may amount to nothing and work itself out and here we will remain, or perhaps this is the beginning of an adventure, marvelous or otherwise.

So note to self: If and when moving, make a bucket list; local, day trip and weekend trip bucket list. It will get you out of the house, when you are new and haven't met anybody. There certainly won't be new people to meet at home. Maybe the move works out and maybe it doesn't, but you will have made the most of the opportunity in a low simmer tourism way. Well that is more than enough navel gazing, what is on the L.A. bucket list?

Jewish Deli Canter's or Langer's
Walt Disney Hall
Olvera Street
Philippe's
See a movie at Graumann's Chinese Theatre (again...but the kid never has)
LACMA
LAX Restaurant
Randy's Doughnuts
Watts Tower
Studio Tour (but not in Universal)
Watch the taping of a sitcom (hmmm when does Big Bang Theory start taping again)
Tea at the Huntington Gardens
Doo Dah and/or Rose Parade
Malibu (we tend to do our beach thing farther up the coast)
Strawberry Festival
Solvang
Catalina Island
Monterey (which wouldn't be a first, we lived and met and dated there, but we've never gotten the kid there)


to be continued or make a suggestion

Weekend Knitting a Bust

So the plan to knit to Monterey and back was a bust. I knitted the first 4-5 rows of the back about half a dozen times. One time I broke it while trying to loosen up the cast on. A couple of times I found a stitch had gotten away about half way back from where I stopped to check. So I'm going to use a different cast on, which I have used before, but need to look up to jog my memory how to do it. I'm hoping it will provide a bit more stretch that cotton chenille is not.

Deadline Project

The gage drama seems to have settled down. I think going up one needle size and trying to keep the stitches loose will do the trick.

There is a baby boom-let among my friends at the moment, but we're getting to that "it better happen now, if its gonna happen" age. Both babies are due the last week of September/first week of October that is the deadline. Added bonus that should have projects wrapping up about a month into the fall semester, which is when I will probably need to be buckling down.

The first sweater is a little cardigan in a 3 month size with a matching hat. October birthdays in Oregon means sweater weather right away. The car ride to and from Monterey will hopefully be very productive.

Event Fashion Quest Mission #1 Continued

Introducing the replacement dress. The longer skirt will allow hiding insulating layers if necessary, I have a little black cardigan to go over top. I will be prepared to bust out the fashion roots. Fashion+Fleece usually an epic fail, but we are talking about the beach.