"Liveblogging" the Ravelympics Opening Ceremonies...

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6:54 - Just 8 minutes before "go" time. Actually, we're getting kind of a slow start here. We picked up some dinner, Chinese of course, but haven't eaten yet ... that was all going to be done before the lighting of the torch. That is what's supposed to happen first, right? Anyway. I hope this slow start isn't a harbinger of things to come. We have a lot of stitches to accomplish!

-Barb

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7:00ish - I thought my fortune cookie might shed some light on my Ravelympics project. "You have musical talents. Make them known." Hmmm. This might not bode well!

Speaking of musical talents, we're watching this 8-year-old girl singing, as children of all China's ethnic groups march across the stage. Amazing costumes. Mom says, "an 8-year old child singing at the Olympics? What do you do after that?" I guess it's all downhill from there!

Knitting report: I managed to get gauge, and I've got my cast-on row, and a belly full of Chinese food. There may be hope for me yet.

- Andrea

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7:20 - My fortune cookie is "Don't burn the candle at both ends, for there will be no wax left for tomorrow." I suspect that's a caution to work on only one of the two projects I've carved out for myself at a time ....

- Barb

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7:32 - Only knit one row so far and it turns out it was wrong.
Rows knit: 1
Rows tinked: 1
Number of cats trying to "help" me knit: 2
Ugh...

- Andrea

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8:00 - Row 2 and I already have to do a buttonhole? Too cruel. Have to look up the cable cast-on; can't remember how to do it.

Oh yeah, I've done that before. Just forgot what it was called.

Regarding the opening ceremonies: is it just me, or is this a whole lot of propaganda? Amazing, artistic, and beautiful, but propaganda all the same.

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8:37 - Idiotic commentary of the evening: "The Central African Republic is a republic located in central Africa." Wow, good thing we have commentators to shed light on the subtle aspects of these opening ceremonies. (Wikipedia article on the Central African Republic)

- Andrea

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8:45 - Andrea had to rip her project out. The whole thing. She's considering taking up music. I, on the other hand, made my evening's goal on the first project and am about to begin casting on for the second. Not to brag.

- Barb

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9:31 - It only took me three hours to successfully finish row 2. It's a good thing I have 16 more days. But I now know what I was doing wrong and I can't even blame the pattern because I was misreading the chart.

At least I got to feel smarter than my mom for one second when I taught her how to spell "neener neener", which she really should have written into her last update. Smartass.

- Andrea

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10:00 - Well, she's finished with 6 rows, successfully. I'm on the 6th row of my second project. Not to brag. She said, "Mom, it's not a competition ... well, I guess it sort of is ..." Gee, really? It's the Olympics for crying out loud, Andrea.

- Mom

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11:05pm - It's way past my bedtime, but we managed to get through the entire parade of countries and the ostentatious lighting of the torch. I think I'd have to give mom the high marks for technical merit and me the high marks for artistic merit. If you can count elaborate complaints and dramatic frogging as artistic.

Still, we both managed to accomplish a decent amount of knitting:

The black is my Liesl. The tan is Mom's Bump Sweater, and the green and white is her Christmas stocking.

And now I must collapse into bed. Goodnight (and I'm impressed if you read this far!)

- Andrea