May 30, 2007
The seaweed of human kindness
Hmmm...so far, nobody has guessed the A-list knitter that's used my yarn. Come on folks, I'm giving yarn away! Fifteen comment guesses and 32 e-mail guesses. I'm guessing those 32 didn't want anyone stealing their answer on the off-chance it was correct. It was not. Heh. I'm giving a Monter hat kit away to the first person to get it right, iff'n that ever comes to pass. Yo.
How about another hint. She goes by more than 2 names. Come on, I can't make my hint too straight forward. And Sarah, no, you can't guess. I'll have to think of another question for you...what cut of underwear do I like best...heh. edit -- yay! we have a winner!
As we were driving around today, enjoying the medium-reliability and frequent stalls of our free craigslist vanagan (the prius is in our past, in the past of people that scrape by without a timeclock or insurance), I starting thinking about how lately, my opinion of people has greatly improved. I mean, I've seen kindness lately, lots of it. Even had it directed at me. For so long I've missed it, discounted it, started to Disbelieve. Been blinded by the Big Bads. I've thrown my hope behind the potential of the wee ones, only. I mean, I really do naively, and with fervor, believe in the limitless potential of the babies. I can turn a blind non-pc eye to the unlevel playing field, history, et all, and know that any kid can do anything. Such is youth, or my view of it.
I lay, sweat-belly to sweet-belly, under the fan, in the heat, nursing Sweetpea, and am filled with such awe, such great happiness at the world spreading out before her, and her chance to blossom into the world, growing and even, maybe, taking it along with her.
Until recently, that wonderful feeling didn't extend to anyone past puberty, adults were immune to my hopefulness. It quietly slipped away like scabs on scraped knees when grime under the nails becomes, not a vestige of a happy and outdoorsy youth, but just gross. Lately, however, I've been on the business end of such unsolicited Kindness. It warms me. Makes me reevaluate my view on people. Makes me think there is hope for my little ones even after their voices drop and hair appears. Maybe them turning into adults doesn't have to take away hope. For that, even more than the yarn, the seaweed, the business, the praise, the sling, the toys, the money, the comments, the flowers, the notes and cards...even more than all of those things, for the hope your kindness brings me, thanks so much.
Oh, Bill, perhaps, broke his coccyx. While playing a show at BikeJam this past weekend, with the youthful charm of a 20 year old (and the subsequent grace of one, as well) he took a tumble off the 18-wheeler stage and landed directly on his hind-end. It hurts when he walks.
Here's a shot of all the delicious seaweed, chopsticks and other goodies that arrived at my doorstep from a reader in Japan. I love seaweed, can you tell? I eat it while Bill walks funny around the house.
Posted by jacey at May 30, 2007 09:14 PMI'm going to say Drea de Matteo from The Sopranos.. I have no idea if the woman even knits or not.. but it was worth a shot.
Posted by: Mouse at May 30, 2007 09:49 PMGranny panties!
Oh, wait, that was while you were pregnant. None. How's that?
Now, can I make fun of Bill? Bill broke his butt! Bill broke his bu-u-tt!
Posted by: Sarah at May 30, 2007 09:55 PMSarah Jessica Parker? I know she knits....?
Sadly, I do not know how to knit so if I win, I will have to sit on my curb, sign pinned to my shirt which will say, "Will knit if shown how to knit."
Posted by: cole at May 30, 2007 09:56 PMshit...I should have read the other guesses.
Posted by: cole at May 30, 2007 09:57 PMSarah Michelle Gellar? Buffy the Vampire fame?
How many guesses do I get?
Posted by: cole at May 30, 2007 09:58 PMSomeone took SJP, so I'm going with Courtney Thorne-Smith!
Posted by: melanie at May 30, 2007 10:00 PMHm... My guesses (and this is from a non-celebrity watcher, so they may be wild!):
Courtney Thorne Smith
Bethany Joy Galeotti
Rachel Beth Reznick
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Owowow!! Definitely tell him to get an x-ray. I thought I had broken mine in high school and therefore didn't do anything about it because there's really nothing they can do for you in such a situation. For six months I was in INTENSE pain, and for four years, I couldn't sit right. Then I went to the chiropractor (spelling?) for other problems, and he told me I'd been walking around with a twisted and displaced tailbone the entire time!! It sometimes slips back out of place now because I wasn't finished growing when it happened (I stopped growing when I was 21), so I have to get it fixed again every few months.
Posted by: Kat at May 30, 2007 10:34 PMMarie Louise-Parker, that's my 2nd guess.
Posted by: amanda at May 30, 2007 11:05 PMMinnie Driver
Jessica Simpson
Heidi Klum
Also, Jamie-Lynn Sigler (guess #3). From the Sopranos.
Posted by: amanda at May 30, 2007 11:31 PMOk, I came back to Mary Louise Parker (I love Weeds) and my man suggested Minnie Driver. If it is either of those, then someone beat me to it.
Jennifer Aniston?
Uma Thurman?
Courtney Thorne-Smith?
This is driving me crazy.
Posted by: jayne at May 31, 2007 12:52 AMMary Elizabeth Mastrantonio?
Jeanne Tripplehorn?
Helen Mirren (I think she's still pretty sexy)?
I bet any money that it's Mary Louise Parker.
Posted by: jayne at May 31, 2007 01:07 AMDebra Messing
Julianne Moore
Jennie Garth
Camryn Manheim
Tyne Daly
Caroline Rhea
Tyra Banks
Sofia Coppola
???
That's all I can think of that knit that haven't been listed....that I've skimmed through at least.
Posted by: Sheilah at May 31, 2007 01:18 AMOh! I thought of more.
Sherilyn Fenn
Roxane Berard
Tracey Ullman
ok i thought of another one, jennifer love hewitt?
i never thought she was cool, but my mom was an extra on her tv show and said she was really nice, so... maybe...
Posted by: lee at May 31, 2007 01:34 AMOkay my brain is starting to hurt buuuut...a few more
Dakota Fanning
Judy Greer
Diva Zappa
Hey jacey, you've got to remember that you can't get sucked down by all the kacke and kacke people floating aroung in the world. If you allow that to happen, you become one of them yourself. No good for the babies...I'm dragged down alot by kacke-be it people with no civility, the porn of war, greed, and death, or the disappointment of dealing with narrow-minded individuals. When that starts to happen, I watch the birds, or I check out a flower...the beauty and perfection of all that lives around us, that which constantly rises above the garbage we throw at it, that is my hope and my salvation. I try to "dance through these dark thunderdome days", as the multi-talented Hapotrope (haptotrope.etsy.com)so eloquently puts it. So dance, baby, dance, love your kids, your man, and yourself, and know that we really are right there with you, fighting it all...glad you like the seaweed!
ok...I said in the last post Jennifer Jason Leigh but just in case you aren't checking there i'm postin' here to. Domo arigato...remember your handspun Come Sail Away...you rock...can you tell I need to get to bed?
Posted by: jennifer at May 31, 2007 02:01 AMMarcia Gay Harden?
Mary Stuart Masterson?
Jada Pinkett-Smith?
Helena Bonham Carter?!
Madonna? Can't think of anyone else - it's Madonna or nothing!
Posted by: Christine at May 31, 2007 04:37 AMOuch! Give bill a hug for me... it hurts so much to crack your tailbone... I did it once on a pair of rollerskates. Yikes!
Posted by: amey at May 31, 2007 12:30 PMOuch! Give bill a hug for me... it hurts so much to crack your tailbone... I did it once on a pair of rollerskates. Yikes!
Posted by: amey at May 31, 2007 12:30 PMSo who was the yarn for? I am quite curious to know...
Posted by: amanda at June 1, 2007 08:42 AMYeah, inquiring minds want to know!
Posted by: jayne at June 1, 2007 10:24 AMI'm gonna guess Lauren Ambrose or Portia Di Rossi..really hope someone gets it soon 'cause I'd like to know who! Very intriguing guessing game you've got going here :)
Posted by: Karen at June 1, 2007 01:04 PMCourtney Cox Arquette? She knits and has a cable show...I am a huge fan of hats.
Posted by: kristenking at June 3, 2007 11:15 AMI was right?
Posted by: PuppyMomma at June 3, 2007 11:12 PMDude, broken tailbones suck! My son (now 3) broke mine during childbirth. Good times... Doesn't matter how you break it, it hurts bad, and you have to carry around a lame butt pillow with you everywhere and people think you have a bad case of the roids and not a broken tailbone. So you just tell your husband to tell people that he doesn't have roids when they look at him funny with that donut butt pillow!
My guess for the famous knitter: Julia Roberts.
But I'm only guessing cuz I want some free yarn babeee.
Nah, Chloe Sevigny is my real guess.
Posted by: Charis at June 5, 2007 07:42 PMI am way late to the party BUT congrats on your gorgeous new baby!
Posted by: Michelle at June 8, 2007 07:56 PMSo, who was the famous A-lister? Was it Sarah Jessica Parker? Curious minds want to know and have been checking back on the blog repeatedly for updates! Thanks.
Posted by: Carly at June 12, 2007 11:36 AM