I want to thank everyone for their get well wishes. The consensus here at the Chappy house is that this was not, in fact, something I ate, but a bug. Luckily, the worst of it was about 1:00 this morning (I won’t go into details). By the time I woke up this morning, my stomach was feeling a little tender, but not actually nauseated, and except for some, um, diarreah, today, mostly I’ve just been sleeping today. I haven’t gotten a stitch knitted all day! And have only gotten about 40 pages in my book read. Instead, I’ve basically napped the day away. Hopefully I’ll be feeling fine by tomorrow–thank heaven the office was closed today. I have an almost-perfect sick-day record (I’ve used one sick day in 15 years), and would certainly have needed to call in today.

Now, I was going to post the following links with pictures of my newly-blocked Olympics sweater, but, well, that was something else I planned to do today and, well, didn’t. So here you go:

Well, WE all know how exciting, how huge the Knitting Olympics are, but they’re hitting the mainstream media, too:

Time, for example. “NO IDLE HANDS For the 16-day Knitting Olympics, some 4,000 crafty couch
potatoes have set a series of stitching goals they want to reach while
watching the Games. Charitable projects include making clothes for U.S.
pregnancy centers and for tots in Mongolia.”

The Oregonian not only mentioned it the other day, but they’re also having a contest.

IC Wales (the official website of Wales) has an article, too.

My favorite, though? This editorial-like commentary from the San Mateo County Times, whose author jokes, “Next Winter Olympics, I propose they include my sport: competitive
knitting. Nobody has to sit in the cold to watch it, and it certainly
has a practical application: the athletes can produce nice warm
accessories for the snowboarders. I’m already in training for the
three-needle sock competition, Dude.”

I just love that. I sent her an e-mail telling her that there actually WAS such a competition already, along with links to Stephanie’s blog, and she sent me a nice e-mail thanking me for letting her know.

And of course, Stephanie was on NPR, and we were mentioned on the MSNBC “Clicked” page. It’s even in Wikipedia . . . let’s face it. Knitters are everywhere!

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