<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419</id><updated>2011-09-28T16:18:52.383-07:00</updated><category term='yoga'/><category term='art'/><category term='Seattle'/><category term='knitting'/><category term='Steve Costie'/><category term='socks'/><title type='text'>Sabrina Blogs About Her Life</title><subtitle type='html'>Oder: Sabrina erzählt aus Ihrem Leben</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-337584728014258913</id><published>2011-09-26T19:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T19:35:46.915-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nepal</title><content type='html'>In short, the latest news is that I am heading to Nepal for 4 weeks in October. Head on over to &lt;a href="http://sabrinaclimbs.blogspot.com/"&gt;my climbing blog&lt;/a&gt; to read all about it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;In aller K&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;ü&lt;/span&gt;rze, meine Neuigkeit ist, dass ich im Oktober f&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;"&gt;ü&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;r vier Wochen nach Nepal gehe. Ihr k&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;ö&lt;/span&gt;nnt Genaueres dar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;"&gt;ü&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;ber auf meinem &lt;a href="http://sabrinaclimbs.blogspot.com/"&gt;Kletterblog&lt;/a&gt; lesen (allerdings nur auf Englisch).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-337584728014258913?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/337584728014258913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2011/09/nepal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/337584728014258913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/337584728014258913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2011/09/nepal.html' title='Nepal'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-1640471585783561157</id><published>2010-12-25T23:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-25T23:24:13.032-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Drinks and Make-Up at the Space Needle</title><content type='html'>Another "40 new things" item completed (item #15)!&lt;br /&gt;I had drinks (AND dinner and dessert!) with Mutti on top of the &lt;a href="http://www.spaceneedle.com/"&gt;Space Needle&lt;/a&gt; on Christmas Eve. We had a wonderful time together!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TRboy99bvoI/AAAAAAAAFRM/HLWG8VK619c/s1600/IMG_0749.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TRboy99bvoI/AAAAAAAAFRM/HLWG8VK619c/s320/IMG_0749.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TRbo1AXvROI/AAAAAAAAFRQ/MD3xLt5bDlo/s1600/Space+Needle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="228" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TRbo1AXvROI/AAAAAAAAFRQ/MD3xLt5bDlo/s320/Space+Needle.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This special evening inspired another event that really would deserve a place on my "40 new things" list. I wore make-up (eye-shadow, mascara, and lipstick) for the first time in probably 20 years!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TRbq8HMY06I/AAAAAAAAFRo/FQR9vsDyLL0/s1600/IMG_0746.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TRbq8HMY06I/AAAAAAAAFRo/FQR9vsDyLL0/s320/IMG_0746.JPG" width="211" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TRbrBwC88VI/AAAAAAAAFRs/PsAS8aUDw5s/s1600/IMG_0741.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TRbrBwC88VI/AAAAAAAAFRs/PsAS8aUDw5s/s200/IMG_0741.JPG" width="158" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-1640471585783561157?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1640471585783561157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/12/drinks-and-make-up-at-space-needle.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/1640471585783561157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/1640471585783561157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/12/drinks-and-make-up-at-space-needle.html' title='Drinks and Make-Up at the Space Needle'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TRboy99bvoI/AAAAAAAAFRM/HLWG8VK619c/s72-c/IMG_0749.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-5712938580185056362</id><published>2010-12-16T22:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T22:39:15.443-08:00</updated><title type='text'>List items #13 and #14: Music</title><content type='html'>I completed item #13 on my 40-new-things list a couple of weeks ago. This may have been the hardest one for me on the list - &lt;strong&gt;Karaoke&lt;/strong&gt; singing! But thanks to my wonderful and supportive friends, I DID IT! :) It took a lot of liquor, but I did step behind that microphone and sang "I want you to want me" by Cheap Trick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HBQ9dm7zaQU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HBQ9dm7zaQU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was so much fun! And thanks to my awesome friends Ken, Matt, Gilbert, Jennifer, and Dylan who came out and rocked with me! That was the best part!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now I completed item #14: Create a CD with my 40 favorite songs of 2010. Well, it's been a great music year for me. I got to see &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/foals"&gt;Foals &lt;/a&gt;at &lt;a href="http://neumos.com/"&gt;Neumos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/motopony"&gt;Motopony&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href="http://www.highdiveseattle.com/"&gt;High Dive&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/theblackangels"&gt;The Black Angels&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href="http://www.showboxonline.com/market/"&gt;Showbox&lt;/a&gt;! And I have been listening to &lt;a href="http://www.kexp.org/"&gt;KEXP&lt;/a&gt; a lot, findings loads of great new music!&amp;nbsp;I wasn't able to limit it to 40 favorite songs. Here is my 2010 playlist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Volume 1: Electronica and Dance Mix&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eggplant by Gui Boratto&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tuff Enuff by Shit Robot&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eisenfunk Quattro Gti by Eisenfunk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Not In Love (Radio Version) [feat. Robert Smith] by Crystal Castles&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Electric Feel by MGMT&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sun by Caribou&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;No Turning Back by Gui Boratto&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Angel Echoes by Four Tet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pong by Eisenfunk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Born Free by M.I.A.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;P.I.G.S. by Holy Fuck&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Snow by The Chemical Brothers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Kids by MGMT&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Odessa by Caribou&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Swoon by The Chemical Brothers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;u&gt;Volume 2: The Rest&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;That's Not My Name by The Ting Tings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get Up by Jonquil&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Basic Space by The XX&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Losing My Patience by Shit Robot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Ghost Inside by Broken Bells&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;We No Speak Americano by Yolanda Be Cool &amp;amp; Dcup&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get Some by Lykke Li&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;When I'm With You by Best Coast&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Undertow by Warpaint&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Spanish Sahara by Foals&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Helicopter by Deerhunter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lover Of Mine by Beach House&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VCR by The XX&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Run the Heart by Sleigh Bells&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Red Socks Pugie by Foals&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Phosphene Dream by The Black Angels&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Seer by Motopony&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sugar Man by Rodriguez&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rope &amp;amp; Summit by Junip&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;He Would Have Laughed by Deerhunter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Blue Blood by Foals&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;10 Mile Stereo by Beach House&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Blue Ridge Mountains by Fleet Foxes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Always by Junip&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Desire Lines by Deerhunter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Telephone by The Black Angels&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I want you to want me by Cheap Trick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Great DJ by The Ting Tings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Infinity Guitars by Sleigh Bells&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div&gt;So I have a little over 6 months left before my 41st birthday. I better get cracking with my list! Anyone know where I can milk a goat or cow?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-5712938580185056362?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/5712938580185056362/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/12/list-items-13-and-14-music.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/5712938580185056362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/5712938580185056362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/12/list-items-13-and-14-music.html' title='List items #13 and #14: Music'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-6095629788942225353</id><published>2010-11-07T11:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-07T11:43:45.571-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Progress on 40 new things</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;UPDATED 11-7-2010!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, it's time to log my progress on the 40 new things I committed to doing for my 40th birthday. Here you go:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wear a party hat while climbing - changed to feather boa and tiara - DONE! (Thanks Anne!)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TEEzEAPx1KI/AAAAAAAAEnw/7n7HmrscTT8/s1600/2010-07-08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TEEzEAPx1KI/AAAAAAAAEnw/7n7HmrscTT8/s320/2010-07-08.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;li&gt;Attend a work meeting wearing a feather boa and tiara - DONE!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TEEtSrI-TkI/AAAAAAAAEnc/r_poTbzbbLM/s1600/IMG_4238.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TEEtSrI-TkI/AAAAAAAAEnc/r_poTbzbbLM/s200/IMG_4238.JPG" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ride a paddle boat at Greenlake - DONE! (Thanks, John!)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TEE090yhWSI/AAAAAAAAEn4/q2aX0CQOb30/s1600/2010-07-081.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TEE090yhWSI/AAAAAAAAEn4/q2aX0CQOb30/s320/2010-07-081.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;li&gt;Send a message in a bottle - DONE! (Thanks Rod and Lee!)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TEE3MnKmC3I/AAAAAAAAEoA/KTRPK7vp_cU/s1600/2010-07-082.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TEE3MnKmC3I/AAAAAAAAEoA/KTRPK7vp_cU/s320/2010-07-082.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fix a major home appliance with my own hands and tools - DONE! (Fixed my clothes dryer!)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TEE5ZpxMhsI/AAAAAAAAEoI/cgvXVUnzLOU/s1600/IMG_4153.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TEE5ZpxMhsI/AAAAAAAAEoI/cgvXVUnzLOU/s200/IMG_4153.JPG" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go for a trail run - DONE! (at Cougar Mountain, no pictures)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Drive barefoot - DONE! (no pictures - that would have been too dangerous!)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Roast coffee - DONE! Thanks Velton at Velton's Coffee Roasters (&lt;a href="http://www.veltonscoffee.com/"&gt;www.veltonscoffee.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TE_FE_k9MRI/AAAAAAAAEqY/DdMgZBdMNZE/s1600/IMG_4333.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TE_FE_k9MRI/AAAAAAAAEqY/DdMgZBdMNZE/s320/IMG_4333.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go skateboarding - DONE! (at Magnuson Park) Thank you, Brian!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get a pedicure. DONE! (at &lt;a href="http://hoasalon.com/Madison.html"&gt;Hoa Salon&lt;/a&gt;) Thank you Lisa!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go salsa dancing - DONE! (at &lt;a href="http://www.centuryballroom.com/"&gt;Century Ballroom&lt;/a&gt;) Thank you Anne, Rod, Loni, Ric, Mabel, and all of the dancers at the Century Ballroom!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Win a Halloween costume contest - DONE! (at &lt;a href="http://www.verticalworld.com/"&gt;Vertical World Seattle)&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Best Group Costume! Thank you Justin, Anne, Monique, and Jayashree!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TNcAiwjgSsI/AAAAAAAAFOE/2nQztpF_SGw/s1600/IMG_4696.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="247" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TNcAiwjgSsI/AAAAAAAAFOE/2nQztpF_SGw/s320/IMG_4696.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Skip around the office.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Milk a cow or goat.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Have drinks on top of the Space Needle.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get a tattoo.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Watch the sunset at Alki Beach with friends and beer.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Plant a tree.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Have a food fight.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Try a new ice cream flavor.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pickle something.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sell something on craigslist.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go to a horse race.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Shoot a gun.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Learn how to tie a Monkey's Fist.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go to Olympus Spa (&lt;a href="http://olympusspa.net/" style="color: #6c82b5; text-decoration: none;"&gt;http://olympusspa.net/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create a new drink and drink it.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sing Karaoke.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go surfing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go clamming.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create a CD with my top 40 songs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ride my bike for 40 miles.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eat a meal in total darkness.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Play Whirly Ball.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-6095629788942225353?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/6095629788942225353/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/07/progress-on-40-new-things.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/6095629788942225353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/6095629788942225353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/07/progress-on-40-new-things.html' title='Progress on 40 new things'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TEEzEAPx1KI/AAAAAAAAEnw/7n7HmrscTT8/s72-c/2010-07-08.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-5170461097258405468</id><published>2010-09-07T07:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-07T07:00:02.256-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Genie in a bottle? / Flaschengeist?</title><content type='html'>I think I just found a genie in a bottle in my backyard! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Ich glaube, ich habe einen Flaschengeist in meinem Garten gefunden!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TIVerqMjfzI/AAAAAAAAExI/c5dRucbzmmU/s1600/IMG_4422.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TIVerqMjfzI/AAAAAAAAExI/c5dRucbzmmU/s320/IMG_4422.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Actually, it was a message in a bottle! But unfortunately, the paper was completely disintegrated so that I couldn't read the message. :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Es war eine Flaschenpost! Aber leider war das Papier ganz aufgelöst, so dass ich die Nachricht nicht lesen konnte. :(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-5170461097258405468?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/5170461097258405468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/09/genie-in-bottle-flaschengeist.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/5170461097258405468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/5170461097258405468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/09/genie-in-bottle-flaschengeist.html' title='Genie in a bottle? / Flaschengeist?'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TIVerqMjfzI/AAAAAAAAExI/c5dRucbzmmU/s72-c/IMG_4422.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-6475060560102704734</id><published>2010-09-06T14:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-06T14:32:13.260-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitting'/><title type='text'>The scarf is done! / Der Schal ist fertig!</title><content type='html'>Finally, I finished my first knitted lace scarf. I love it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Endlich ist der gestrickte Schal fertig! Mein erster Versuch an der Spitzenstrickerei.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TIVbLBkQqFI/AAAAAAAAEw4/rVlUKtwpd9M/s1600/IMG_4413.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TIVbLBkQqFI/AAAAAAAAEw4/rVlUKtwpd9M/s320/IMG_4413.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TIVbLBkQqFI/AAAAAAAAEw4/rVlUKtwpd9M/s1600/IMG_4413.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pattern/&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Muster:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://natalieservant.ca/2009/09/launch-of-chrysler-crown-pattern/"&gt;Chrysler Crown Shawl&lt;/a&gt; by Natalie Servant.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-6475060560102704734?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/6475060560102704734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/09/scarf-is-done-der-schal-ist-fertig.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/6475060560102704734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/6475060560102704734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/09/scarf-is-done-der-schal-ist-fertig.html' title='The scarf is done! / Der Schal ist fertig!'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/TIVbLBkQqFI/AAAAAAAAEw4/rVlUKtwpd9M/s72-c/IMG_4413.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-2673369582067835713</id><published>2010-06-29T09:42:00.018-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-30T11:23:57.295-07:00</updated><title type='text'>40 new things to celebrate 40 years!</title><content type='html'>So it turns out that I have been on this earth for &lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;40 years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; come &lt;b&gt;July 8&lt;/b&gt;. Wow!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And to mark the occasion, I will do &lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;40 new things&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; that day. But I need everyone's help to come up with a list, because 40 is a lot! Post your suggestions as a comment to this blog. The only rule is that it has to be something I can do in a short period of time that day (so I can get 40 things in), it has to be &lt;b&gt;FUN&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;for me (don't make me eat slugs!), something I have not done before (or not in a looooong time, say 20 years?), which you may not know, but take a guess!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, I'll get your started with the list:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go salsa dancing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Skip around the office.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wear a party hat while climbing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ok, your turn! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here is an update on the list generated so far in no particular order (as of 11 am on June 30):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go salsa dancing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Skip around the office.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wear a party hat while climbing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Milk a cow or goat.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ride a paddle boat at Greenlake.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Have drinks on top of the Space Needle.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Send a message in a bottle.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get a tattoo.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Watch the sunset at Alki Beach with friends and beer.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Plant a tree.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Have a food fight&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Try a new ice cream flavor.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go skateboarding.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Roast coffee.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pickle something.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wear high heels to work.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sell something on craigslist.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go to a horse race.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Shoot a gun.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Learn how to tie a Monkey's Fist.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go to Olympus Spa (&lt;a href="http://olympusspa.net/"&gt;http://olympusspa.net/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get a pedicure.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create a new drink and drink it.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sing Karaoke.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go surfing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go clamming.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create a CD with my top 40 songs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ride my bike for 40 miles.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eat a meal in total darkness.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Play Whirly Ball.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div&gt;I don't think I will be able to do this all in a day, so let's expand it to a long weekend! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And things you've suggested but are not showing up on this list, I have either already done or will not do!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-2673369582067835713?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2673369582067835713/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/06/40-new-things-to-celebrate-40-years.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/2673369582067835713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/2673369582067835713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/06/40-new-things-to-celebrate-40-years.html' title='40 new things to celebrate 40 years!'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-8871862229952451687</id><published>2010-01-22T11:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-22T11:07:26.185-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh how beautiful is Seattle! / Oh wie schön ist Seattle!</title><content type='html'>This is why I love living in Seattle - this is the view I had this morning on my way to work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Hier ist der Grund, warum ich es in Seattle so schön finde - so war der Ausblick heute morgen, als ich in die&amp;nbsp;Arbeit gefahren bin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S1n0emo4lII/AAAAAAAACvA/z-jVCjHSFAc/s1600-h/Olympic+Mountains.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" mt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S1n0emo4lII/AAAAAAAACvA/z-jVCjHSFAc/s320/Olympic+Mountains.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This picture is not mine but can be found&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/46991829@N00/423037443"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Dieses Foto ist von &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/46991829@N00/423037443"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;hier&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Mountains"&gt;Olympic Mountains&lt;/a&gt;, west of Seattle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Das sind die &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Mountains"&gt;Olympischen Berge&lt;/a&gt;, westlich von Seattle. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-8871862229952451687?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8871862229952451687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/oh-how-beautiful-is-seattle-oh-wie.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/8871862229952451687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/8871862229952451687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/oh-how-beautiful-is-seattle-oh-wie.html' title='Oh how beautiful is Seattle! / Oh wie schön ist Seattle!'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S1n0emo4lII/AAAAAAAACvA/z-jVCjHSFAc/s72-c/Olympic+Mountains.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-4280554095936987964</id><published>2010-01-18T19:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-18T19:27:39.433-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yoga'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitting'/><title type='text'>More socks and yoga / Noch mehr Socken und Yoga</title><content type='html'>First things first:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Jetzt erstmal...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Birthday Beloved Brother!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Bruderherz!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SqrqjWrnUZI/AAAAAAAABAE/nqDqhf4hwKQ/s1600/Uwe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SqrqjWrnUZI/AAAAAAAABAE/nqDqhf4hwKQ/s320/Uwe.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then...I finished another pair of socks for myself. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Und dann...Ich habe wieder ein paar Socken fertiggestrickt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S1UMQzqGeyI/AAAAAAAACtc/LyWCz6XB6Uw/s1600/IMG_3396.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S1UMQzqGeyI/AAAAAAAACtc/LyWCz6XB6Uw/s320/IMG_3396.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I loved knitting these socks - the &lt;a href="http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer09/PATTsunday.php"&gt;Sunday&amp;nbsp;Swing Socks&lt;/a&gt; pattern is fantastic and I love the colors. Unfortunately, the pretty dark purple came in way too late at the tip of the toes. But there will be other projects...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Es hat total Spass gemacht, diese Socken zu stricken. Das &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer09/PATTsunday.php"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Sunday Swing Socks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt; Muster ist fantastisch und ich finde die Farben total toll. Leider bin ich nicht bis zu dem schönen dunklen Lila gekommen, das erst an den Zehen&amp;nbsp;anfing.&amp;nbsp;Aber ich werde bestimmt was anderes mit dieser Wolle stricken...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;What's next in knitting? I&amp;nbsp; D O N ' T&amp;nbsp; K N O W !!! Well ... of course ...&amp;nbsp;I have ideas! I have been playing with a design for a curtain, yes, curtain for the kitchen or backdoor window. Something in lace because I have never knit in lace before, except for the lace-like pattern in the Sunday Swing Socks. Did I already mention how fun that was? Anyway, the curtain will not be the usual frilly, flowery-kind of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_knitting"&gt;lace&lt;/a&gt; your grandmother knit. It will have to be something modern, cool, geometric maybe? I spent a lovely afternoon this weekend at the &lt;a href="http://www.fibergallery.com/"&gt;Fiber Gallery&lt;/a&gt;, browsing books, chatting with knitters there. It was quite enjoyable and oh so knitterly-nerdy. Wow!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Wie geht's weiter mit dem Stricken? I C H&amp;nbsp; W E I S S&amp;nbsp; E S&amp;nbsp; N I C H T !!! Naja...natürlich...habe ich Ideen! Ich spiele mit dem Gedanken, einen Vorhang - ja, einen Vorhang! - &amp;nbsp;für das Küchenfenster oder das Fenster in der Hintertür zu stricken. Irgendwas mit Spitze, da ich noch nie was in einem Spitzenmuster gestrickt habe (ausser den Sunday Swing Socken - Habe ich schon erwähnt, wie toll es war, die zu Stricken?). Na auf jeden Fall, der Vorhang wird nicht so eine rüschig-blumige &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_knitting"&gt;Spitze&lt;/a&gt;, wie sie deine Oma gestrickt hat. Es muss was Modernes, Cooles, vielleicht Geometrisches sein. Ich habe letztes Wochenende einen netten Nachmittag in der &lt;a href="http://www.fibergallery.com/"&gt;Fiber Gallery&lt;/a&gt; verbracht, wo ich in den Musterbüchern gestöbert und mit den Strickerinnen geschwatzt habe. Es war sehr nett und ach so "strickerlich." Wahnsinn!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now I am into designing my own pattern, which I know nothing about. I guess it helps to use knitting graph paper, which you can get for free online, for example &lt;a href="http://www.tata-tatao.to/knit/matrix/e-index.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;or &lt;a href="http://www.needlepointers.com/ShowArticles.aspx?NavID=1653"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Also bin ich jetzt dabei, mein eigenes Muster zu designen, wo von ich keine Ahnung habe. Anscheinend&amp;nbsp;hilft es, wenn man kariertes Papier benutzt, was man umsonst im Internet ausdrucken kann, zum Beispiel von &lt;a href="http://www.tata-tatao.to/knit/matrix/e-index.html"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; und &lt;a href="http://www.needlepointers.com/ShowArticles.aspx?NavID=1653"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;I also wanted to tell you about yoga.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;I have been going to a yoga class at my &lt;a href="http://www.sacng.com/"&gt;gym&lt;/a&gt; pretty regularly for several weeks now. "Yoga for Athletes" with &lt;a href="http://www.reneedavisyoga.com/"&gt;Renee Davis&lt;/a&gt;. We have been practicing the hand stand a few times. I know I am strong enough. But I am surprisingly uncomfortable with being upside down. This unfamiliar feeling reminds me of my nervousness when I am &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_climbing"&gt;lead climbing&lt;/a&gt; - not quite as bad, but similar. To get over it, I have been practicing by myself today and I am happy to report that I&amp;nbsp;can now do a hand stand (against the wall!). Hooray!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Und dann wollte ich noch vom Yoga erzählen. Ich mache seit ein paar Wochen relativ regelmässig Yoga in meinem &lt;a href="http://www.sacng.com/"&gt;Fitnessstudio&lt;/a&gt;. "Yoga für Sportler" mit &lt;a href="http://www.reneedavisyoga.com/"&gt;Renee Davis&lt;/a&gt;. Dort haben wir ein paar Mal den Handstand geübt. Ich weiss, dass ich die Kraft dafür habe. Aber mir ist es überraschend unangenehm, verkehrt herum, "auf dem Kopf" zu stehen. Das nervöse Gefühl ist ähnlich wie beim &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorstieg"&gt;Vorsteigen&lt;/a&gt; beim Klettern&amp;nbsp;- nicht ganz so schlimm, aber ähnlich. Um über das Gefühl hinweg zu kommen, habe ich heute den Handstand alleine geübt. Und&amp;nbsp;jetzt kann ich den Handstand machen (an der Wand)! Hurra!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-4280554095936987964?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/4280554095936987964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-socks-and-yoga-noch-mehr-socken.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/4280554095936987964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/4280554095936987964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-socks-and-yoga-noch-mehr-socken.html' title='More socks and yoga / Noch mehr Socken und Yoga'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SqrqjWrnUZI/AAAAAAAABAE/nqDqhf4hwKQ/s72-c/Uwe.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-1106667574142647304</id><published>2010-01-14T19:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-14T19:01:33.005-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The baby pants are done! / Die Babyhosen sind fertig!</title><content type='html'>I finished the baby pants for Baby Florance last night. This was a fun and quick project. I hope they'll fit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Die Babyhose für Baby Florance ist fertig! Das hat Spass gemacht und war ein schnelles Projekt. I hoffe, die Hosen werden auch passen. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0_YCP0-FWI/AAAAAAAACsY/bwNfkkV1J0g/s1600/IMG_3394.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0_YCP0-FWI/AAAAAAAACsY/bwNfkkV1J0g/s320/IMG_3394.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The pattern for these pants can be found &lt;a href="http://www.tinybirdsorganics.com/organicwool/newbornpantspattern/Tiny%20Birds%20Newborn.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for free downloading.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-1106667574142647304?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1106667574142647304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/baby-pants-are-done-die-babyhosen-sind.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/1106667574142647304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/1106667574142647304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/baby-pants-are-done-die-babyhosen-sind.html' title='The baby pants are done! / Die Babyhosen sind fertig!'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0_YCP0-FWI/AAAAAAAACsY/bwNfkkV1J0g/s72-c/IMG_3394.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-1601511466388383353</id><published>2010-01-10T17:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-10T17:23:42.041-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitting'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I can finally reveal the secret knitting project! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47;"&gt;Ich kann endlich mein geheimes Strickprojekt veröffentlichen!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0pzxJMOGgI/AAAAAAAACqc/j3Gdz8ss880/s1600/IMG_3361_medium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0pzxJMOGgI/AAAAAAAACqc/j3Gdz8ss880/s320/IMG_3361_medium.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Baby booties and a hat for&amp;nbsp;Zerah's baby boy - due February 14. May they keep the little guy warm!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Babyschuhe und eine Mütze für Zerahs kleinen Jungen - der am 14. Februar geboren werden soll. Hoffentlich werden sie den Kleinen schön warm halten!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zerah and Sean are going to use cloth diapers and, after learning about my knitting addiction, Zerah asked me if I would knit&amp;nbsp;the boy&amp;nbsp;some wool pants to put over the diapers. She picked &lt;a href="http://www.tinybirdsorganics.com/organicwool/newbornpantspattern/Tiny%20Birds%20Newborn.pdf"&gt;Tiny Birds Organic Merino Wool Longies&lt;/a&gt;, which I happily started today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Zerah und Sean wollen Baumwollwindeln benutzen. Und nachdem sie von meiner Sricksucht mitbekommen haben, hat Zerah mich gefragt, ob ich dem Kleinen nicht ein Paar Wollhosen stricken würde, die über die Windeln passen.&amp;nbsp;Sie hat sich die Tiny Birds Organic Merino Wool Longies ausgesucht, die ich heute freudig begonnen habe. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0pylTybwRI/AAAAAAAACqY/kqtrj_7wbB0/s1600/IMG_3385.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0pylTybwRI/AAAAAAAACqY/kqtrj_7wbB0/s320/IMG_3385.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;The reason why I was able to move on to the baby pants is that I finished my Pipi Longstockings! Some of the final stitches were knit at &lt;a href="http://www.honeybearbakery.com/index.html"&gt;The Honey Bear Bakery&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://www.thirdplacebooks.com/node"&gt;Third Place Books&lt;/a&gt; where I met with Wendy the other night. I had never been there before and it turned out to be a nice place to hang out, knit, and have some tea. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Ich konnte mich an die Babyhosen machen, da die Pipi Langstrümpfe fertig sind! Die letzten Maschen habe ich in der Honey Bear Bakery im Third Place Books gestrickt, wo ich mich mit Wendy kürzlich getroffen habe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt; Ich war dort noch nie, aber fand es sehr angenehm, dort zu stricken und Tee zu trinken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0pfaHophgI/AAAAAAAACps/k_SzRXJil9k/s1600/IMG_3377.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0pfaHophgI/AAAAAAAACps/k_SzRXJil9k/s320/IMG_3377.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Wendy finished her first scarf - WOHOO! And is already diligently knitting on a baby blanket for baby boy Florance. How cool is that!?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Wendy hat ihren erst Schal fertiggestrickt - Hurra! Und sie ist schon fleissig am&amp;nbsp;Schaffen&amp;nbsp;an einer Babydecke&amp;nbsp;für den kleinen Florance-Jungen. Toll, oder?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here are the stockings: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Und hier sind die Socken:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0puX_gZ3UI/AAAAAAAACqI/YomkButSWQM/s1600/IMG_3383.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0puX_gZ3UI/AAAAAAAACqI/YomkButSWQM/s320/IMG_3383.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I love them!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-1601511466388383353?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1601511466388383353/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-can-finally-reveal-secret-knitting.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/1601511466388383353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/1601511466388383353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-can-finally-reveal-secret-knitting.html' title=''/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0pzxJMOGgI/AAAAAAAACqc/j3Gdz8ss880/s72-c/IMG_3361_medium.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-7967196140137037004</id><published>2010-01-07T13:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-07T13:30:04.092-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A new laptop!</title><content type='html'>I have entered the modern age! The new laptop arrived yesterday unexpectedly early! Yipee! &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich bin nun endlich auch&amp;nbsp;in modernen Zeiten angekommen. Der neue Laptop ist gestern unerwartet geliefert worden. Hurra!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0V1sHw8rxI/AAAAAAAACoI/xlizPTIGEN4/s1600-h/New.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0V1sHw8rxI/AAAAAAAACoI/xlizPTIGEN4/s400/New.jpg" style="clear: both; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;And it has these awesome features, like a built in camera that can take pictures of you while you work on the computer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Und er hat ganz tolle Sachen, wie eine eingebaute Kamera, mit der man sich selbst beim Arbeiten am Computer fotographieren kann.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0V7xq4HiMI/AAAAAAAACpE/mnCdVI00d5U/s1600-h/P1001070324572.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0V7xq4HiMI/AAAAAAAACpE/mnCdVI00d5U/s320/P1001070324572.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Or you can be creative like this: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oder man kann kreativ sein:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0V5VwAQQzI/AAAAAAAACo0/-wIs6FxFRRM/s1600-h/P1001070327376.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0V5VwAQQzI/AAAAAAAACo0/-wIs6FxFRRM/s320/P1001070327376.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0V5ZaoxA-I/AAAAAAAACo8/JkE_EtMYqlY/s1600-h/P1001070328116.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0V5ZaoxA-I/AAAAAAAACo8/JkE_EtMYqlY/s320/P1001070328116.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;And the new cases for my knitting needles from &lt;a href="http://www.dellaq.com/Accessories.html"&gt;dellaQ&lt;/a&gt; arrived as well! Oh, how I love shopping (actually I don't, but this was all done over the internet - the only way I like it)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Und die neuen Behälter für die Stricknadeln von &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dellaq.com/Accessories.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dellaQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; sind auch geliefert worden! Ach wie schön ist Shopping (nein, eigentlich nicht, ausser wenn&amp;nbsp;ich alles im Internet bestellen&amp;nbsp;kann, wie es hier der Fall war)!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-7967196140137037004?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/7967196140137037004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-laptop.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/7967196140137037004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/7967196140137037004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-laptop.html' title='A new laptop!'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/S0V1sHw8rxI/AAAAAAAACoI/xlizPTIGEN4/s72-c/New.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-5768105709154688061</id><published>2010-01-03T14:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T14:58:36.481-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New Year!</title><content type='html'>Ok, first of all - Happy New Year!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also erst mal ein gutes neues Jahr!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, I finished the first of my Pipi stockings today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Zweitens: Einer&amp;nbsp;meiner Pipi Langstrumpf Socken ist fertig.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/vFit-xD-rDjhmZwPLkmKqA?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/Sz5jdSNQu_I/AAAAAAAACmY/AyMNi4xZ4zQ/s288/IMG_3364.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I don't have a picture of the final product yet, but this will give you a good idea. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ich habe im Moment noch kein Foto vom fertigen Strumpf, aber dieses Bild zeigt den Fortschritt ganz gut.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For New Year's Eve, Steve and I went to a show at the &lt;a href="http://www.tractortavern.com/"&gt;Tractor Tavern&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in Ballard, where we saw &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/markpickerelandhisprayinghands"&gt;Mark Pickerel and his Praying Hands &lt;/a&gt;who opened for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.dusty45s.com/"&gt;Dusty 45s&lt;/a&gt;. It was a great show!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An Silvester waren Steve und ich in der Tractor Tavern in Ballard, wo wir Mark Pickerel and his Praying Hands und die Dusty 45s gesehen haben. Super Konzert! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-5768105709154688061?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/5768105709154688061/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/happy-new-year.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/5768105709154688061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/5768105709154688061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy New Year!'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/Sz5jdSNQu_I/AAAAAAAACmY/AyMNi4xZ4zQ/s72-c/IMG_3364.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-7313676041801524201</id><published>2009-12-28T16:29:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-28T16:34:50.413-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Steve Costie'/><title type='text'>Steve Costie's Art / Kunst</title><content type='html'>I am very lucky indeed to be married to&amp;nbsp;an artist - there is always great original art on our walls, a constantly changing exhibition! And I love it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ich kann mich glücklich schätzen, dass ich mit einem Künstler verheiratet bin. Wir haben immer echte Kunst an den Wänden hängen in einer ständig wechselnden Ausstellung. Und ich finde sie ganz toll!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steve's work can be described as&amp;nbsp;abstract industrial landscapes in a "wide aspect ratio." Steve works on Strathmore drawing paper with graphite or graphite/pastel chalk and&amp;nbsp;erasers (and a vacuum cleaner!). Each of the images is about 14" high by 25" wide and most come in sets of twos or threes as diptychs or triptychs (or as I call them,&amp;nbsp;tryptonites). I personally love the sparsest paintings the best - they illustrate&amp;nbsp;the particular character of Steve's art, which combines&amp;nbsp;precision and dynamic movement. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steves Kunstwerke&amp;nbsp;sind abstrakte Industrielandschaften&amp;nbsp;im Breitbildformat. Steve arbeitet auf Strathmore Zeichenpapier mit Grafit und Pastellkreide und Radierern (und einem Staubsauger!).&amp;nbsp;Die Bilder&amp;nbsp;sind ca. 35,5 cm breit und 63,5 cm lang und die meisten sind in Gruppen von 2 und 3 zusammengestellt als Diptychons und Triptychons (aber ich nenne sie "Tryptonites"). Mir persönlich gefallen die spärlichsten Bilder am besten, da sie den speziellen Charakter Steves Kunst hervorheben, die Kombination von Präzision und dynamischer Bewegung.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is one of my favorite sets from 2001&amp;nbsp;(click on the picture for a larger view). The last one of these three is my favorite. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hier ist eines meiner Lieblings-Sets von 2001 (click auf das Bild, um eine grössere Ansicht zu sehen). Das dritte Bild ganz rechts ist mein Lieblingsbild.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzkZoutaxiI/AAAAAAAAClQ/SHw2AmP3CGU/s1600-h/Steve%27s+Paintings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzkZoutaxiI/AAAAAAAAClQ/SHw2AmP3CGU/s400/Steve%27s+Paintings.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a recent&amp;nbsp;triptych from 2009, which includes some faint pastel color:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hier ist ein Triptychon von 2009 mit leichten Pastellfarben:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzkaZkzUQNI/AAAAAAAAClo/NZSQxAuLBX4/s1600-h/Steve%27s+Paintings1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzkaZkzUQNI/AAAAAAAAClo/NZSQxAuLBX4/s400/Steve%27s+Paintings1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is another triptych from 2007:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Hier ist ein anderes Triptychon von 2007:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzkaFvyCsyI/AAAAAAAAClY/UleJLwfAypw/s1600-h/Steve%27s+Art1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzkaFvyCsyI/AAAAAAAAClY/UleJLwfAypw/s400/Steve%27s+Art1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a diptych from 2006:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Und hier ein Diptychon von 2006:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzkaMvaVMPI/AAAAAAAAClg/Z1Jgy0E7qqg/s1600-h/Steve%27s+Art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzkaMvaVMPI/AAAAAAAAClg/Z1Jgy0E7qqg/s400/Steve%27s+Art.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are hoping&amp;nbsp;to find a suitable space to exhibit&amp;nbsp;Steve's art in 2010. If anyone has suggestions, you can leave a comment on this blog or contact Steve directly&amp;nbsp;(steve dot costie at comcast dot net).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wir hoffen, einen angemessenen Raum zu finden, um eine Ausstellung von Steves Bildern in 2010 zu organisieren. Falls jemand eine Idee hat, bitte hier auf diesem Blog eine Nachricht hinterlassen oder Steve direkt e-mailen (steve punkt costie at comcast punkt net).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-7313676041801524201?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/7313676041801524201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/steve-costies-art-kunst.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/7313676041801524201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/7313676041801524201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/steve-costies-art-kunst.html' title='Steve Costie&apos;s Art / Kunst'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzkZoutaxiI/AAAAAAAAClQ/SHw2AmP3CGU/s72-c/Steve%27s+Paintings.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-7829921434741911458</id><published>2009-12-27T23:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-27T23:27:38.050-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seattle'/><title type='text'>Another day, another hat / Jeden Tag eine neue Mütze</title><content type='html'>After a cold day of skiing at &lt;a href="http://www.stevenspass.com/Stevens/info/mountain-cams.aspx"&gt;Ste&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stevenspass.com/Stevens/info/mountain-cams.aspx"&gt;vens Pass&lt;/a&gt; on Friday, I spent Saturday and today knitting again. &amp;nbsp;I finished another hat for Steve - his design: charcoal grey with red stripes. Dashing, don't you think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Nach einem kalten Tag am Stevens Pass zum Skifahren am Freitag,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt; habe ich am Samstag und heute den Tag wieder mit Stricken verbracht. Ich habe eine zweite Mütze nach Steve's Design fertiggestellt. Sieht&amp;nbsp;flott aus, oder?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/d4ZbdOFQl7A-o63f3QCbkg?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzhNsv9trPI/AAAAAAAACi8/i2L8IeWZBA8/s288/IMG_3357.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were invited to a lovely gathering at John and Wendy's house on Saturday evening. They served lentil soup and we played a round of Yahtzee with them, Melanie, little Esme, pregnant Zerah, and Sean.&amp;nbsp;And Steve, the Farkle-King, cleaned our clocks with 3 Yahtzees and 443 points! Dang! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Am Samstag waren wir bei John und Wendy zum Essen eingeladen. Sie haben Linsensuppe gemacht und wir haben mit ihnen, Melanie, der kleinen Esme, der schwangeren Zerah, und Sean Yahtzee gespielt. Und Steve, der Farkle-König, hat uns abgezockt und mit 3 Yahtzees und 443 Punkten gewonnen! Sowas!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I continued knitting on my Pipi Langstrumpf stockings, making great progress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ich habe dann weiter an meinen Pipi Langstrumpf Socken gestrickt und bin gut vorangekommen.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/FOaVh0auJsC_dkG-VTXtkQ?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzhNrxWa1cI/AAAAAAAACiw/_FGY85gn1s8/s288/IMG_3343.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stocking got to a size big enough to try it on. But as I suspected, it was too big. I may have big calves, but they are not shaped like that! So I decided to&amp;nbsp;ripp everything back and start anew with new, tighter&amp;nbsp;measurements. I am using the &lt;a href="http://www.panix.com/~ilaine/socks.html"&gt;Arachne Sock Calculator&lt;/a&gt; for this pattern, which lets you customize the pattern to the exact measurement of your legs. The &lt;a href="http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/lucia/1037"&gt;Knitting Fiend&lt;/a&gt; recommends to deduct 10% from the circumference measurements to get tight-fitting socks, which is what I want. Who wants droopy Pipi strockings? So I measured tighter and subtracted 10%...let's hope they won't come out too tight now! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Die Strümpfe waren dann gross genug, dass ich sie anprobieren konnte. Aber wie ich es mir gedacht habe, sie sind zu gross geraten. Ich habe zwar&amp;nbsp;kräftige Waden, aber so geformt sind sie nun auch wieder nicht! Daher habe ich mich entschieden, sie wieder aufzutrennen and neu anzufangen mit neuen, engeren Massen. I benutze den Arachne Sock Calculator für das Strickmuster, mit dem man die Strümpfe genau auf seine Masse anpassen kann. Die Knitting Fiend empfiehlt, 10% von den Massen abzuziehen, um eng-passende Strümpfe zu erhalten, was ich ja will. Wer will schon schlappe Pipi Strümpfe?&amp;nbsp;Daher habe ich nochmal enger gemessen und 10% abgezogen...hoffentlich werden die Strümpfe jetzt nicht zu eng!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today was a beautiful spring-like sunny day in Seattle. I walked up to my local yarn store, the Fiber Gallery, and bought smaller needles (tiny toothpick-like US#1s!) for the ribbing on the stockings. Later, I met up with Wendy for some social&amp;nbsp;knitting at the Greenlake &lt;a href="http://www.zokacoffee.com/locations.html"&gt;Zoka's Coffee Roaster and Tea Company&lt;/a&gt;. They gave me a discount on my coffee for wearing a &lt;a href="http://kexp.org/"&gt;KEXP&lt;/a&gt; T-shirt (shown here with me wearing my dorky row counter). Awesome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heute war es wunderschön frühlingshaft und sonnig in Seattle. Ich bin zu meinem Strickladen um die Ecke, the Fiber Gallery,&amp;nbsp;gegangen und habe dünnere Stricknadeln gekauft (dünne, zahnstocherartige US Nummer 1!), um das Bündchen an den Strümpfen zu stricken. Später bin ich dann mit Wendy zum Kaffeetrinken und Stricken zu der Greenlake Zoka's Coffee Roaster and Tea Company gegangen. Dort habe sie mir einen Preisnachlass auf meinen Kaffee gegeben, da ich ein KEXP T-Shirt anhatte (auf dem Bild mit meinem idiotischen Reihenzähler). Super!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9RqQfOxv6OpLx-sB2lXIUQ?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzhNsd8hBNI/AAAAAAAACi0/CP8okkKjYFE/s288/IMG_3348.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I restarted the stockings and continued knitting at home, where I have made decent progress with the help of my trusted assistant and lap warmer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ich habe dort die Strümpfe neu angefangen und habe daheim weitergestrickt. Ich habe gute Fortschritte gemacht mit Hilfe meines bewährten Assistenten und Schosswärmers.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzhNsdnTLNI/AAAAAAAACi4/TeRDfgQZdvU/s288/IMG_3353.JPG" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-7829921434741911458?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/7829921434741911458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/another-day-another-hat-jeden-tag-eine.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/7829921434741911458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/7829921434741911458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/another-day-another-hat-jeden-tag-eine.html' title='Another day, another hat / Jeden Tag eine neue Mütze'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzhNsv9trPI/AAAAAAAACi8/i2L8IeWZBA8/s72-c/IMG_3357.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-2836542671963052056</id><published>2009-12-25T08:00:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-25T08:00:00.088-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitting'/><title type='text'>Achtung! Gefahr!</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;** Deutsche Version unten **&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have found an excellent&amp;nbsp;yarn store just a 5 minute walk from my house! Danger! Danger!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fibergallery.com/"&gt;The Fiber Gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bought more yarn for a second hat for Steve and socks for me. The simple hat pattern calculator, which I used for the first &lt;a href="http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/december-is-for-knitting-dezember-ist.html"&gt;green and brown camouflage hat&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;can be found &lt;a href="http://www.earthguild.com/products/knitcroc/marypat/hatcalc.htm"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich habe einen ausgezeichneten Woll-Laden gefunden, nur fünf Minuten zu Fuss von zu Hause! Achtung! Gefahr!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fibergallery.com/"&gt;The Fiber Gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Dort habe ich gleich neue Wolle für eine zweite Mütze für Steve und&amp;nbsp; Socken für mich gekauft. Das Mützenmuster kann ganz einfach &lt;a href="http://www.earthguild.com/products/knitcroc/marypat/hatcalc.htm"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; berechnet werden (allerdings auf englisch). Ich habe dieses Muster benutzt, um die erste &lt;a href="http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/december-is-for-knitting-dezember-ist.html"&gt;grün-braune Mütze&lt;/a&gt; zu stricken. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-2836542671963052056?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2836542671963052056/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/achtung-gefahr.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/2836542671963052056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/2836542671963052056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/achtung-gefahr.html' title='Achtung! Gefahr!'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-9009655076869998757</id><published>2009-12-24T15:29:00.005-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T15:34:27.839-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitting'/><title type='text'>December is for knitting! / Dezember ist Strickzeit!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;** Deutsche Version weiter unten. **&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;December was all about ... KNITTING! It all began with Wendy asking me whether I would teach her how to knit. Did she come to the right person or what? I would like to take credit and say that I am a good teacher, but Wendy is just such a good student and learned so quickly. She is now working on her first scarf. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But of course all that talk about yarn and needles and stitches&amp;nbsp;got me back&amp;nbsp;into knitting as well. For those who know me, it may not come as a suprise that&amp;nbsp;what followed was not only some dabbling ... but&amp;nbsp;full immersion knitting! Over the last 2 weeks, I have completed 5 projects:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Felted socks for Steve.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/VRv82LarCZyhX8XicacnmQ?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzP0Cwn9UBI/AAAAAAAACgw/P626lKQDE2o/s288/Felted%20Socks%20003.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;li&gt;A felted hat from leftover yarn for me that matches felted mittens I made 2 years ago.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/mafV00mWqi4q8ijFTyOwrw?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzP0D0sUIhI/AAAAAAAACg4/S6oQqfOZPyk/s288/Felted%20Hat%20003.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;li&gt;A hat for Steve.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/O-qC1e9ZoQFm7Xihpw1x_A?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzPz9x6jcgI/AAAAAAAACgQ/wdqH7onoSEo/s288/Camouflage%20Hat%20006.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ZtTX9AMrPVj2CYbc8HEVCw?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzPz_CketlI/AAAAAAAACgY/TlzCMgGaS2I/s288/Camouflage%20Hat.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;li&gt;Secret project 1 (can't be revealed quite yet because it's a gift).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Secret project 2 (this one's a&amp;nbsp;gift as well).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;In addition, I have started knee-high Pipi Longstocking socks for myself. And I am starting to worry about what I will make next and for whom! There are only so many things I can make for myself or Steve. This is becoming a seriously addictive situation! In addition to more socks, I am thinking about a lacy shawl (never knit a lace pattern before) ... But I promise, Fergus, the cat, will be spared!&lt;br /&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Im Dezember ging bei mir alles bisher ums ...&amp;nbsp;STRICKEN! Es fing alles damit an, dass Wendy mich fragte, ob ich ihr das Stricken beibringen könne. Da musste sie nicht zweimal fragen! Ich würde ja gerne sagen, dass es meine Fähigkeiten als Lehrerin waren, aber Wendy ist einfach eine gute Schülerin und hat das Stricken schnell gelernt. Sie arbeitet jetzt fleissig an ihrem ersten Schal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Natürlich hat mich all das Gerede über Wolle und Nadeln und linke und rechte Maschen auch wieder ins Stricken hineingezogen. Wer mich kennt wird nicht überrascht sein, dass ich es nicht nur so nebenher machen konnte, sondern dass ich mich voll ins Stricken&amp;nbsp;vertieft habe. Wenn ich was mache, dann mach ich es richtig! In den letzten 2 Wochen habe ich 5 Projekte abgeschlossen:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Filzsocken für Steve.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Eine Filzmütze aus übriggebliebener Wolle für mich, der zu meinen Filzhandschuhen passt, die ich vor 2 Jahren gemacht habe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Eine Mütze für Steve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Ein geheimes Projekt (da es ein Geschenk ist)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Ein anderes geheimes Projekt (das auch ein Geschenk ist)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Dazu habe ich Pipi Langstrumpf-Socken für mich angefangen. Und jetzt mache ich mir schon Sorgen, was ich als nächstes stricken werde und für wen! Ich kann nicht endlos Sachen für mich oder Steve stricken. Es fängt langsam an,&amp;nbsp;suchtartig&amp;nbsp;zu werden. Ausser den Socken bin ich am überlegen, ob ich einen Spitzenschal machen soll (das habe ich noch nie gestrickt) ... Aber ich verspreche, der Kater Fergus wird verschont!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/1WtFlKXFAye-9khBwksjmA?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzPz-bIf85I/AAAAAAAACgU/A_ZnPV4sWEg/s288/Camouflage%20Hat%20008.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-9009655076869998757?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/9009655076869998757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/december-is-for-knitting-dezember-ist.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/9009655076869998757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/9009655076869998757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/december-is-for-knitting-dezember-ist.html' title='December is for knitting! / Dezember ist Strickzeit!'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_E44NkSE9NL8/SzP0Cwn9UBI/AAAAAAAACgw/P626lKQDE2o/s72-c/Felted%20Socks%20003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25809419.post-5415582831755820400</id><published>2009-12-22T18:47:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-23T11:58:12.826-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sabrina's Climbing Blog Has Moved / Kletterblog ist auf einer neuen Seite</title><content type='html'>I have decided to move my climbing blog. Please go to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/sabrinaclimbs.blogspot.com"&gt;sabrinaclimbs.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This&amp;nbsp;blog (&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/soeblogs.blogspot.com"&gt;soeblogs.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;) will have more general posts from now on about my non-climbing life. Stay tuned for some posts here soon!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47;"&gt;Ich habe mich entschlossen, meinen Kletter-Blog auf&amp;nbsp;eine neue&amp;nbsp;Seite zu tun:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/sabrinaclimbs.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;em&gt;sabrinaclimbs.blogspot.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Diese Seite hier&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/soeblogs.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;em&gt;soeblogs.blogspot.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;) &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;ist von nun an für Berichte aus meinem Leben, die nichts mit dem Klettern zu tun haben. Schaut bald wieder vorbei, für&amp;nbsp;einen neuen Bericht. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25809419-5415582831755820400?l=soeblogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/feeds/5415582831755820400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/sabrinas-climbing-blog-has-moved.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/5415582831755820400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25809419/posts/default/5415582831755820400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://soeblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/sabrinas-climbing-blog-has-moved.html' title='Sabrina&apos;s Climbing Blog Has Moved / Kletterblog ist auf einer neuen Seite'/><author><name>Sabrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02050085459465756437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fl-Mpk1Eiv0/TnaOn69XXTI/AAAAAAAAGRI/q5dDiUo-65Y/s220/IMG_6319.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
