And in the spirit of NaNoProMo,

I bring you online quizzes! Seriously, I’m not doing that badly. I’m only a little behind. And I do apoplogize for the dearth of yarny content, but 1)I’m not doing that much, what with the writing, and the packing, and the children and 2)what I am working on is a gift. Or will be, if I ever, ever, ever finish it. And yet, to give you something to read, dear reader, as you sit at the computer procrastinating your own novel, or blog post, or sweater, or whatever (my, November’s gotten full, hasn’t it?) I just keep posting random stuff.

I followed a link from the Knitty Coffeeshop to the Commune of Knit, where the most recent post involved her results for a quiz, “What Famous Leader Are You?” She got Hitler. Now, if that doesn’t make you curious to take the quiz…you’re just lying, aren’t you? You can pick the number of questions to answer (remembering that it’s more accurate with more questions) and, given my short attention span, I chose the lowest number first.


What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

HA! Take that, high school football players – apparently I really am Einstein. And you thought it was a derogative. Tsk, tsk.

Of course, given that answer on a nine-question quiz, I couldn’t just take it at face value. I took the 18-question quiz and got this result:


What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

Hmmm. Then, of course, I took the 27-question version, and the 45-question version, and I got Einstein both times (Lincoln was a fluke! But not an unflattering fluke…). This, of course, begs the question – what kind of responses label you with a Hitler personality?

100,000!

Sometime in the last six hours, my counter climbed up over 100,000 hits. Now, even if we assume half of those are from my mom (hi, mom!), that’s a lot of visitors. A lot has happened here since hit number 1 – I’ve published (and self-published) multiple patterns, both for free and a few for sale. Occasionally I actually make a sale, and the accumulated funds allow me to purchase the odd used paperback to expand my library (nice). I learned to knit – I actually started knitting things – I got better at knitting. I’ve moved once (coming up on twice), Greg’s grandfather died, I had a baby.

I’m doing pretty well with NaNoWriMo – I met the wordcount goal for each of the first two days. We’ll see about today; I haven’t even started on today’s quota. Since, you know, all the words that I’m writing here do not count. Too bad!

Our house is almost finished. We went to visit it yesterday – aaaah, it’s so pretty! I measured my work-closet. Over 22 square feet! Not bad, not bad at all. Roomier than my couch cushion, for sure. See?

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closet

Yeah, baby! Welcome to TooManyHooks-central. If I get a laptop and some wireless internet, I may never have to leave.