It has been awhile since we did a Three Things post, so here goes:
Three things you asked about or commented on in your blog comments on Monday:
1. “Are you and the Loopy Elves getting time off over the holidays?” Definitely! Pretty much everyone is working a half day or two so that we can get orders out, but no one is on a regular schedule or working normal hours. (And we know you’ll all completely understand if order shipping is a teeny bit slower than normal during this time. We do reserve the right to close shop during Spring Break, however, as it seems like most of us are going away that last week of March……..) And working here this week has been SO fun because you all keep sending us things! Today we had Venti Starbucks coffee all around, because some sweet St. Louis Loopy Friend anonymously send us a group Starbucks gift certificate (thank you!!), and we have been enjoying fudge, hand-dipped chocolates, cookies, Sees Lollipops and toffee, and chocolates from Switzerland. Does it get any better than this? You all are so wonderful. No wonder we love you so.
2. “My RAK this week was just a little thing.” There’s no such thing as a little RAK. Everything you do means something special to someone, and they all add up! Don’t ever feel “bad” of “guilty” posting a RAK. Everything is meaningful to the recipient. (Are you all reading some of these entries? Really, it’s just amazing.) Winner of this week’s Loopy Loot Gift Package for the RAK contest is Kristi in OH!
3. “Are you doing a lot of holiday knitting?” Um, no. Although I had great plans up until a month or so ago.
Three things I don’t want for Christmas:
1. A Chia Pet.
2. Any appliances (unless they’re red).
3. A full time housekeeper. (Oh, ok. That’s a lie. I’d take one.)
Three things about Loopy’s Spring Fling:
1. Signups definitely close on Friday morning, as we had more people than spots by Monday evening already. Maybe we need to do a Fall Fling, too. We’ll see how the Spring one goes, first. We’ll email everyone Friday afternoon after the Lottery. (I know, I know. Lottery. Bummer. We really will think about doing a Fall Fling for another group of you.)
2. It has been so fun seeing so many Loopy Regulars sign up, and now we just wish ALL of you could come. We’re really looking forward to meeting you!
3. No, Zoe and Gracie won’t be visiting Loopy Central when you’re here to shop, but they do appreciate the fact that so many of you would like to meet them in person. This notoriety is kind of going to their heads.
Three things I’m tired of this holiday season:
1. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.
2. People trying to be politically correct with “Happy Holidays”. Can we just say “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Hannukkah”?
3. Seeing “Write Christmas Letter” on my to-do list. FPS. I’m running out of time.
Three Six things that have arrived this week and will be up in our next Sneak Up (first week or so in January):
1. Roving by Sakina Needles
2. Casbah Sock yarn from Hand Maiden
3. Perchance to Knit Sock Yarn
4. Yarn Nerd Sock Yarn
5. Oceanwind Knits Sock Yarn
6. Hams Jams Bags
(and of course lots on order that will probably be in between now and then, too!)
Three fun things to end the post with:
1. Baby Monkey Socks and Monica’s Child-Sized Fingerless Mitts are finally up on the Free Patterns page.
2. Mountain Colors Bearfoot will be arriving here any day. I love this yarn! This is the one I hinted at a couple of weeks ago, where I said it was the yarn I used in my second ever pair of socks.
3. We have two cool new Loopy Ewe items for you in the next Sneak Up. 🙂
Anyone have three things to tell me?
Sheri goingtoknittonight.AfterIwriteourChristmasletterofcourse.
Three things:
1. Merry Christmas!
2. Happy Birthday (I’m willing to share)!
3. Happy New Year!
A Fall retreat sounds like an excellent idea!
You know, Happy Holidays doesn’t bother me a bit:
1. I have so many friends from so many backgrounds and traditions, Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah don’t even begin to cover all of it.
2. Wishing Happy Holidays represents love and tolerance and acceptance and embracing diversity to me. It’s wonderful, truly.
3. Blessed Solstice!
I wish the very best of the Season to you and everyone at The Loopy Ewe!
Just a quick one for now, so don’t have a 3 things – I’m about ready to head out to look at the National Christmas Tree – a cherished tradition with someone special in my life… So exciting about the response to the Loopy Spring Fling. I’ve already decided if I’m not a lucky recipient, I’m using the money to do a long weekend in Paris in the spring – now I’ve been there 3 times, but I want to return to Giverny to see Monet’s gardens in all its spring lovelieness! : )
Three things I look forward to every day:
1. The UPS man
2. Iced chai lattes at 3pm
3. Mint M&M’s
Oh, a lottery! I do hope I get lucky. Although if I had to pick a lottery to get lucky in .. well, I could have a knitting retreat every day for the rest of my life if I won Powerball! So who is going to be picking out the winner’s names, and what sort of yarn does she like? Or will it be one of the cats .. I have some organic catnip right here … I’m not above bribery.
3 things I plan to do next year:
1 – VOTE
2 – Lose 20 lbs
3 – Learn to shoot a bow
3 things I might do if I don’t get into the Spring Fling:
1 – Road trip to Minnesota to visit a friend
2 – Take a vacation to Williamsburg, VA (I haven’t been there since I was a child)
3 – Visit my sister’s family, who should be preparing to move about that time. With 4 kids (3 of them under 6) I’m sure she’d like to see a friendly, grown-up face.
Merry Christmas! This is a RAK I am currently in the middle of… I teach Kindergarten special needs, and I have a very dear little guy who, every day comes to school in clothes that he has out grown maybe two years ago. His dad is disabled and his mom is working a full time job and going to school in order to earn an undergraduate degree. He is the last of three children and his neediness (real word?) breaks my heart. I give him plenty of hugs and attention, food and treats in school, but the clothes thing kills me. So… the other day I wrote the mother a note telling her that I was cleaning out my son’s clothes in order to get ready for new ones coming for Christmas, and I don’t have a child to hand them down to. Seeing that her son is younger than my son, would she be interested. Okay, so it was a little white lie, but this child needs clothes. Well, a few days later (today) the mom left me a lovely, heart breaking message on my phone at school telling me how wonderful of me to think of her son. She would gladly take ANY “hand-me-downs” I might have. She went on to tell me how hard this time of year is on her family and these clothes would be an answer to her prayers. This evening I am going shopping for this little guy. I plan on washing the clothes when I get home so they won’t smell new. Each of my children are giving up one gift in order to give more to this family. I don’t know how random this “giving” is, but I do believe it is an act of kindness that also works as a lesson for my family.
Once again,
Merry Christmas!
Three random things about my holiday- thus far:
1) I dropped a heavy bowl on my foot. (will go to urgent care tomorrow after my hubby is back from out of town:( ) Does this mean I don’t have to do anymore cleaning for company? Do you think I can get a prescription for a cleaning service- just this once?
2) I need to finish one pair of Twinkletoes (knitty.com little girls size should be do-able) and a cabeled beret in cream alpaca before Christmas Eve.
3) Someone really SHOULD clean out my refrigerator. (Or maybe just I’ll stuff it with food and you won’t be able to tell it’s dirty;)
bonus- this afternoon I loaded an elderly ladies groceries into her car. Sadly- I think I scared her a bit, at first, she looked like I had asked to mug her or something. As I am a non- threatenting 39 year old soccer mom, she soon got over it;)
Then, she was all chatty- very sweet. I was glad to have met her.
Then- I hugged her-(I do hug strangers when I feel the need;) and yes- I told her Merry Christmas;)
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Three things I need to do:
1. Finish my Christmas presents
2. Organize my stash so i can buy more
3. Remember to be grateful everyday for all that I have
Man! I had thought about going to the fling, but now I don’t know 😉
I tell people happy christmas. What?
Three things sucking up my life right now:
1) temp job 1
2) temp job 2
3) my real job for sheri 😉
Things I am grateful for:
1) yarn
2) making things with yarn
3) making friends through yarn
Things I wish for soon:
1) actual sleep. I hear it’s restorative?
2) a visit from someone special
3) some kind of rak I can do
Three things about today….
1. I’m sick. My one year old son came down with a cold last week and now I have it. Ick!!
2. I finished my Christmas knitting today!!!! Whoopee!!!! Onward to knit stuff for me:)
3. Hubby is finished working for the year, which means we all get to hang out and watch Christmas movies and relax for a few days before heading to my family’s house in Maine.
Bonus…..my baby walked for the first time today!
3 Justifications for buying yarn:
1. It wasn’t there when people asked me what I wanted for Christmas so I KNOW I won’t be getting it for Christmas.
2. It is to help a friend in need- her stash de-hancement is my stash enhancement
3. It is a rare color/rare blend/rare dyer/new color/ new blend/ new dyer or I JUST NEED IT.
I’m with Tracy – I know so many people who are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, agnostic, FSM, and several other things it’s impossible to know what’s appropriate for them. I’d rather not offend someone because my celebrations and beliefs don’t match up with theirs, but I’d like to express good wishes to them for whatever they might be celebrating now.
Or not, as the case may be.
Sheri, I hope you and yours have a Merry Christmas.
1. Wish the days around Christmas were longer so I could get more knitting done
2. Thank you for the Baby Monkey sock pattern!!!
3. Wish you and all the loopy elves a wonderful Christmas! Merry Christmas 🙂
I’m a “Happy Holidays” person as well. I live in a very diverse community, and I want others to know that I wish them the joy of the holiday season, whether they’re celebrating anything or not. It’s still a lovely time of year.
And a very Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Merry Christmas Sheri!!!!
I know what you mean about appliances… however, I *am* asking for a floor steamer to clean our wood floors. I figure, the floor needs to be cleaned periodically, and having the steamer means I can clean the floor in minutes and then have more time to KNIT!!!!
My RAK, I sent a coupon organizer to our church organist. I noticed that hers was torn to shreds, so I sent it in the mail and on the return address wrote “from a friend”.
I am really impressed with Lori’s RAK. Clothes for the little boy in her K class. That is such a sweet story!
Three good things today:
1. My horrible employee I’ve been wishing would leave actually got another job and is leaving!
2. I finally got a Utah quarter (yeah, I’m a coin geek)
3. I just had some Wensleydale cheese w/ cranberries on crackers. YUM!
Thank you very much for choosing my name this week Sheri! I love your Santa with his very own spinning wheel. I just got my new wheel last Thursday. Louet S10 DT. It’s my second wheel and I just learned to spin learned to spin in October. My first one is a single treadle (Ashford Joy and with my back, I decided to get a double treadle.
My 3 things I’m grateful for:
1) I finished my Christmas knitting and homemade gifts last night.
2) I have Christmas Eve off from work and our sons are able to come for Christmas. One lives in Bloomington, IN and the other lives in Columbus, OH
3) Finding the Loopy Ewe 🙂
I think a Fall retreat would be great!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Three things I love about my job (which has been giving me a headache since August and I think I’ve actually never said anything nice about):
1. My co-teacher/mentor. He’s awesome, always willing to sit down and talk about our classes or give advice.
2. The people I share an office with. I look forward to having five free minutes just to chat every day!
3. Hearing from students that they loved my class this semester, or that they heard about some science thing in the news and wanted to share it with me.
Three things I love about the Christmas season:
1. Seeing my family.
2. Making presents for everyone. I think this is the first year I’m giving exclusively handmade gifts, although they are not all handmade by me and I have a short gift list.
3. Watching Christmas/holiday movies. My favorite is Elf. (SANTA! I know him!)
Awww…wrong state. Darn. But congrats to the OH Kristi! 🙂
I use Happy Holidays a lot, can’t keep track of what my friends–or, over the years, myself–celebrate. I try to have a little of everything.
Merry Christmas!
There are LOTS of holidays in the winter – Yule, Divali, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, New Year’s, and Christmas. Everybody should feel included! With extra kisses in our Loopy packages is my suggestion 🙂 I discovered that if I have one Loopy kiss and one Loopy peppermint at the same time, I am in Loopy heaven.
Three things to tell you….. hmmmm
1) I’m getting a cold
2) My Christmas gift socks are DONE (as is my Christmas letter)
3) I still have wrapping to do – my least favorite thing to do.
ok 4 things,
4) I wished (yelled out the door) the UPS man a Merry Christmas yesterday when he delivered my Christmas turkey from my employer.
I can’t wait to see the new lines of yarn! You always find ways to keep us interested.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to you, Sheri and all the Loopy Elves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
People look at you funny when you say Happy Solstice!, and I’ve got a goodly many agnostic and atheist friends who find themselves saying “Happy Secular Winter Holiday”. It may just seem like political correctness to those participating in the mainstream holidays, but “Happy Holidays” is a refuge of comfort for those of us who celebrate the season a little off the better-known track.
To you, Sheri, may your Christmas be bright and your New Year filled with promise.
And now, a better question – where do we send Christmas goodies we’re baking up for you and your elves?
My Three Things
1. A huge feeling of relief when my supervisor told me that I’m doing a good job
and to keep it up earlier today.
2 Getting some fantastic news that I’m going to be an “aunt”—a long time friend just
told me she’s expecting.
3. Remembering all of my blessings to help cheer me up when knowing that I’ll be
alone on Christmas gets me down. There are many blessings in my life!
Three things I’m grateful for:
1. I didn’t lose power last week like so many others did.
2. I did get two days off at work because of the power issue. Yippee!
3. That other power companies sent their people to help the people of Oklahoma. Even though I wasn’t affected it makes me tear up thinking about it.
Three things I’m tired of:
1. The crowds at the stores. I avoid them.
2. I’m with you Sheri, I hear Happy Holidays and I cringe. I’ve even blogged about it!
3. Rude people.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!
Three okay Four Things That make me Mad:
1. Stupid kids making threats in our school district.
2. Hearing about Britney Spears and her messed up family. Leave them alone already.
3.My daughters constantly singing songs from High School Musical
4. Waiting to get something I really want.
Three Things I am enjoying
1. Listening to Christmas music, I still haven’t heard Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer Yet.
2. Working on my Autumn Loopy Sock Club sock, first one is done and about a 1/4 through the second one.
3. Having my Christmas shopping done.
I honestly think my brain is too tired to coordinate three things for a list 😉 Funny, I haven’t heard “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” ONCE this year (watch, it’ll happen driving home from work tonight). The one I am sick sick sick of is “Santa Baby.” Yuk.
If I ever get out to your neck of the woods I guess I’ll have to make special arrangements because I don’t think I could stand to make the trip and NOT meet the fur-children 🙂
One thing I am really happy about: as of last night, all my shopping and all my wrapping is done. We won’t talk about cards though – those will have to be New Year’s cards!
Three things I’m grateful for:
1) Having some young readers on my Christamas list who love to get books
2) Mailing out my Christmas gifts today
3) Having a good group of students this Fall
Anyone who is looking for a spare RAK…I spoke to a good friend last night, her mother is starting chemo today. They all will be spending Christmas together, but good thoughts/prayers/wishes for health and happiness for Mary Ann and her Mom would surely be an act of kindness.
Three totally random things:
I figured there’d be more sign ups than people so my RAK for the week was to not sign up, thereby increasing the odds for someone else. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I believe I will manage to get all the presents I am knitting/making finished just prior to when they will be needed. But there’s still plenty of time for the universe to sabotage me and switch that around big time.
I don’t really mind “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” too much, but if I never hear Alvin and the Chipmunks again it will still be too soon. Unfortunately, with an 8 year old daughter I think I am doomed to not only several more days of them but probably their return next year as well. i draw the line at the Movie though. Hubby will have to do that one.
Bearfoot! I’m so happy you’ll be carrying it!
i love the feel of this yarn and their colors and it is so hard to find at my LYSs.
Funny, I was just thinking today about “Happy Holidays” being a PC issue, and how I hardly ever hear “Merry Christmas” anymore. So:
1: Merry Christmas!
2. Apparently children can subsist on nothing but iced cookies and milk;
3: Last Monday, a stranger walked up to my husband and handed him a $20 bill and said “Can I just give this to you?” and walked away. I wondered if she is one of your readers, or if the RAK goodness is spreading!
1. My special needs son always says, “Happy Merry Christmas”. (And he always says, “Mom want snow”, when he knows I really don’t want snow, but I would rather have snow than ice, anytime.)
2. By all rights, we should have a white White Christmas, for sure, except they are now forecasting drizzle, followed by rain Saturday night. 🙁 But, since snow is forecast behind the rain, maybe it will still be white? And, I’m really tired of hearing “The Chipmunks Christmas Song” (All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth), which seems to always be playing on the car radio when I am in the car.
3. My College Guy finally gets home for Christmas this Friday. He had to work more days, because of audio problems with a major amp in the theater, where he is one of the sound managers. He has to go back on Jan 7th, if not sooner, though.
I am so glad that you are going to carry Mountain Colors!
Merry Christmas to you, Sheri, Web Guy, WH, KD, and all of the wonderful Loopy Elves! I am with you, on not Happy Holidays. I did that for a few years, but I am tired of hearing it.
just to put another spin on the “happy holidays” thing– i ALWAYS say happy holidays because i kind of feel like it encompasses everything– christmas, christmas eve, hannukah, new years eve. the whole package. i’m not a politically correct person by any means, but i just feel like it’s a good way to get it all into one thing.
(might help lessen the “UGH!” factor of hearing “Happy Holidays”)
Three things…
1. I love when it snows, but I hate having to go out in it for work or battling traffic.
2. I haven’t had time to spin in weeks and it’s annoying.
3. I can’t believe it’s the end of 2007 already!
1. Tomorrow is my last day of work (with students, anyway) until after New Year’s. Whew!
2. I keep seeing FPS everywhere, but don’t know what it means. Fudgy Peanutbutter Snickerdoodles? 😛
3. My children are driving me insane. I love them, but they are. I know, enjoy the days when they’re little, but still… sometimes I just feel like whining about it. And so instead of getting any Christmas knitting done (and my list of 10 gifts is now more like 2 or 3), I am instead patting a crying baby’s butt and peeling a three-year-old off the walls. Oh well!
Vanessa, I’m pretty sure in this context FPS means “for pete’s sake”. I think someone else used FSM somewhere up above as well – that means Flying Spaghetti Monster.
3 things huh?????
1. I am sick of being sick: Ruptured eardrum last week and now the flu : )
2. I have knit 5 pair of fingerless mitts this week and am still not finished with them all. DD is gifting them to friends for Christmas. She knits but has been busy with school things and does not have time to knit them all herself …. so she says.
3. I am no where near done with Christmas shopping or knitting …. I have plenty of time ….right???
I have a lot more but I will stop at 3.
1. Have a Very Merry Christmas
2. Haven’t heard
Grandma got ran over by a reindeer this year
3. Am all ready for Christmas oops finishing son’s hat!
Three things I need to do tomorrow:
1. Work
2. Dye Yarns
3. Wrap presents
Three things I want to do tomorrow:
1. Knit
2. Buy Loopy yarn
3. Have a peppermint mocha
🙂
Good:
1. More yarn to dye.
2. It’s almost Christmas.
3. Starbucks gift card.
Bad:
1. My kids wont go to bed before 2am lately.
2. My husband has to work Christmas.
3. My dads Christmas gift is going to be late.
Ugly:
1. I may need carpel tunnel surgery.
2. My MIL may need sir very for bulging disk in her neck.
3. Having to wait on the Spring Fling Lottery results 😉
sir very = surgery, not sure how I got sir very lol
Flying Spaghetti Monster….huh??
Merry Christmas to you, the fur persons, the Loopy Elves, the DH, the College Guy and Gal and your UPS man!
What 3 things are new….hmmm, well, I have 3 trips planned…..one to the Loopy Spring Fling (yea!)…..one to the STR Spring Fling (yea!)…….and another to a King penguin Spring fling on South Georgia, (yea!), but that will not happen until the beginning of 2009. Gotta knit a whole lotta webfoot booties for those little guys….yeah right!
PS…If you could put Lori of the special needs child in touch with me, I would love it, Sheri.
Merry Christmas to everyone!!!
1- I don’t want a Chia Pet but I’ve always wanted a Chia Herb Garden
2- I’ve never had a latte in my whole life
3- I’m wishing for snow because I miss it, but want it for only one day 🙂
How’s that? 🙂
Happy Holidays!
1. I have finished the cards
2. I have finished the baking
3. All gifts are wrapped, sent and I am ready for the eggnog!!
And some knitting for me.
I have spent many years overseas and have embraced each country’s cultural celebrations and have learned the only plave in the world where you have to be “politically correct” is the US of A. Now I am thinking maybe we need to eliminated the politicians and get back to the joys of life. I mean isn’t that why the Colonies came about……………to get AWAY from the politically correct?
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
Bearfoot, yummy yarn. I love their colors (and don’t like the word colorways!).
1. Christmas knitting is finished, but needs to be wrapped. (I was modest in my goals and have to admit I jettisoned some gifts from my list when fantasy met reality)
2. My daughter arrives in Massachusetts today from San Diego. We have many feet of snow on the ground and it’s supposed to snow again today. I hope she’ll get off the plane.
3. Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah (although I’m not sure that is still going on?), and Happy Winter Solstice.
Here’s the thing about “happy holidays”, I celebrate more than one winter-time holiday, so it’s appropriate to wish me happy multiple holidays. I understand your point, of course, but I don’t understand how other folks can start ranting and raving about someone wishing them happiness, in whatever form they may celebrate.
Okay, who’s soapbox is this?
1. Naked babies who take off their pjs to run around the house are adorable.
2. Naked preschoolers who also take off their pjs to run around the house are adorable.
3. Maybe the next Loopy Fling can happen when it’s not Passover. Sigh. I’m not sure I could bring enough matzo to subsist for weekend…..not that I love matzo, but it is pretty portable.
3.5. Merry Christmas, Happy Solstice, and Happy New Year. I’m looking forward to longer days and proper knitting weather in January.
1. Merry Loopy Christmas
2. Happy Loopy New Year
3. Happy Loopy knitting
Three Things:
1. It’s Merry Christmas FOR ME….enough with the Happy Holidays!
2. Isn’t there always just one more thing to pick up or wrap
3. College boy arrives home today……..
Merry Christmas to you, your family and the entire Loopie Staff that makes all our Dreams and Wishes come true……
Blogless Diane