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The most wonderful time of the year has what I consider maybe the BEST Holiday of the year: Mother’s Day!

Wishing you all the very best, especially the new Mom’s out there! Seeing you all with your new babes in arms is a joy and a gift I didn’t expect to find online :)

My family is celebrating my Mom’s 5th year of being cancer-free this weekend. It was at this time of the year in 2003 that she went through treatment for Ovarian Cancer and with the help of the fabulous Dr. Wood in Cadillac, MI, beat it! We couldn’t be more thrilled!!!

Happy Mother’s Day to all (Grammas, Aunts too)! And I’ll be in spirit with the Knitter’s for Knocker’s Group as they make their trek for Breast Cancer Research on Saturday…

…I took the picture of the antique roses above in the gardens at Giverny. They are very much like the one’s that lined our back fence when I was growing up and made me smile and think of my Mom when I saw them. One of my earliest memories is of my Mom outside gardening and the happiness that grew…

Like a politician’s stance on the issues, what you see might not be what you get. The front of this piece is turned to the back as I fiddle and flake its look around. I’ve ripped it once; I might rip it again!

The combination of the yarns is working for me and I like the cool contrast of color and crunchy texture. The bodice is evolving…

We have evidence of SPRING! all around the neighborhood and even though it makes my nose run, the excitement and longing for the warmth just builds and builds. I want to Go Sleeveless!

I was running around yesterday in my shirt sleeves and my pale little arms just couldn’t get enough air. Time to pull out the free weights and get some Remedial Tricep action though, the looooong winter made for some droooopy muscles.

I dreamt last night I suddenly had an extra room in my condo. Somehow, even though I live on the second floor, this room was on the first floor and had a wall of glass that opened onto a deck that faced wooded rolling hills. Boxes were cleared out (stage left of dreamworld god only knows where they went) and I put in my weight bench and a step-machine! WHAT is my subconscious trying to tell me??!!! Here I was, in the middle of the night doing Tricep Flies. AH! If only it could happen while I sleep. I always loved those Behavioural Mod Tapes you could strap on and play during the night to quit smoking or learn a lanquage…

This is such pitiful wishful thinking but really, if you ponder yesterday’s entry on PIZZA, it comes as no surprise. Many of us in the wake of an extended winter have what I fondly refer to as “the Pudge” a little poof of a belly, unwanted, unloved, mocked by me when I first noticed it on age 10 on my Aunt P. Now it mocks me back but I don’t have that lovely workout room. I’ll have to carry on in the living room on a mat [in front of the TV snark isn’t there a show called Men in Trees?]. Wish me luck~!

Ooh La La, speaking of luck, over on the Sexy Knitters Club, the Aleita Shell is being voted on as one of their nominations for their next KAL. THANKS SO MUCH, ladies, that means a lot and I appreciate it :)

  Monday Morning Mirth  

Shrimp and Mayo Roll Crust

Now don’t get me wrong. I LOVE my pizza and eat it any chance I get! (Walking around Manhattan at 2 in the morning with a folded slice just could be heaven…)

But I almost was unable to continue writing this post once I found evidence of a trend in pizza edgings that knows no bounds! Check out these Asian versions:

Order some right off the Japan Pizza Hut site using this Menu! Most start at ~2,000 yen+ (how about the Mentai & Potato? or something called the Gorgeous 4?
 
PizzaJack: a blogger more intrepid than I BAKES A Stuffed Crust wonder…
 
what’s on YOUR pizza?