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Life in Lilt

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Three more months, three more months...At least, that's what I keep telling myself. 'Cause that's how long it is until I move to NY. Just three more months. Josh left yesterday morning, and he's already in Minnesota. I, meanwhile, have been dyeing yarn to keep myself busy, and got some very beautiful results! Photos to come later, as I'll be selling them on Etsy. ;)

Anyway, Josh and I spent last weekend in Pasadena for his cousin's wedding, and I met a TON of Rosenbergs! I was warned beforehand that I was likely to be swarmed (as an unmet prospective Rosenberg), but it didn't turn out to be nearly so bad. The family I met was amazing. Incredibly intelligent, classy, warm, funny, just a bit sarcastic... I'm definitely looking forward to spending more time around them. Too bad I could only spend three days with them to begin with - it wasn't nearly enough! Thankfully, I managed to get photos of a few of them.

I'll start off with Josh's dad, Paul. He is SO sweet. The first time I talked to him on the phone (a few years ago), he kept making jokes about Josh, and I was a little nervous, so I ended up giggling pretty much nonstop. He was afraid it was a sign of vapidity. Hopefully I've proved him wrong.

Unfortunately, I don't have a good photo of Josh's sister, Miriam. Miriam is hilarious. And a total chatterbox.

Let's see... I'll move on to Josh's cousin Sara, and her husband Eric, with whom Josh is staying tonight; they sat across from us at the wedding dinner, so photos of them were easy to get. Sara is a very sardonic sort of person, with extremely classy taste and a great married-couple sense of humor. Beautiful smile, yeah? I'm just sad that this photo was blurry, or I'd have sent it along to the family.

Eric is a very warm and friendly guy who proved that flattery actually might get you anywhere! That is, I had to give him brownie points almost immediately upon meeting him, because he complimented my glasses. He even said it in such a way that I almost felt like he doesn't usually see people in glasses. It was unusual, and extremely flattering (which probably makes me a huge nerd, 'cause I'm so in love with my glasses), and he continued to make compliments over the weekend, to which I did my best to respond appropriately.

And I'll stop there for tonight, because I've been tagged by Gem, and I should respond. :)

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Firstly, the rules:
Link the person who tagged you
Mention the rules on your blog
Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours
Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them
Leave a comment on each of the tagged bloggers blogs letting them know they have been tagged.

1. I overanalyze things as a rule. Like, what exactly qualifies as an "unspectacular" quirk? Or, for that matter, as a "spectacular" quirk?

2. It probably doesn't come as much of a surprise to most of you, but I carry my camera with me absolutely everywhere. I never go anywhere without it, even if I'm just out to the grocery store or the library or something. The lenses are also in a bag at my side (you should have seen the flurry of hurried lens switching during the wedding!).

3. I really hate turning off music in the middle of a song. The radio is always on in the morning when I'm in the bathroom, and when I leave I have to wait for the song to end to turn it off. My mother hates this, because I'll often just leave the bathroom with the radio on, and then I'll forget to turn it off at all.

4. I can't close my laptop lid without minimizing everything to the taskbar. It really bothers me if something is left open, and Josh delights in using this against me.

5. I eat sandwiches in a very specific pattern - if the bread is square, I cut the sandwich into triangles, and if it's rectangular, I cut it into rectangular halves. Then, I eat off the crust. Then I pull each half apart (like an oreo, but with the filling relatively evenly distributed) and eat the pieces.

6. You know that face that cartoon characters make when they're concentrating on a task really hard? With the tongue stuck out to the side? I actually do that. According to Josh, it always sticks out to the right.

And I tag:

Nobody. Because I'm boring and I feel bad whenever I pass on one of these chain thingies. If you want to do it, do it! Otherwise, feel free to just laugh at mine and move on. Night all!

News of the futureJosh and I have been making plans for post-graduation times, and a big one has finally been finalized. Once I've graduated with my shiny new Bachelor's of Science, we will be moving in together in...

New York!

Yep! Josh got a really great offer from the people at Two-Sigma (a hedge fund), and after much thought and consideration, we've decided to accept it. He will be leaving early in May (probably the 4th) and will hopefully have found a good place for us by the time I go out to join him. It does mean about three and a half months without him here, but at the very least I won't have to worry about having enough time for studies and the like. These last two quarters will be very busy.

In the meantime, I have finally managed to find shoes to go with my dress (dresses in fact! There was a super cute evening dress I just couldn't leave in the store.), and they are on their way. They should arrive by this Friday, so I hope to be able to catch some free time, and model both dress and shoes for the camera. Then I'll have about a week to learn how to walk in them, and it'll be off to Pasadena! Excited!

In more knitterly news, I've already gotten quite far in my second piece of lacework, and I thought I'd share a little. This is actually a photo from last week or so, and I've got about twice this much done, but there really isn't more to see in this pattern, besides a longer piece of work.

Announcing Life in Lilt Creations on Etsy!Bwahaha, gave Manda a taste of her own medicine, didn't I? ;P

That's right guys, I'm opening up a second branch to Life in Lilt on Etsy! Life in Lilt Creations is a store full of my own handmade stitch markers (and possibly other creations in the future), fully customizable to your knitting needs. I've only got a few different designs up at the moment, but more are on the way. So come check me out!

(I'd also appreciate some feedback if you're willing. Just let me know what you think of the offerings, and if I should be doing anything differently.)

I do apologize for making you all wait like that - I'd meant to reveal the surprise on Easter, but life got in the way. That is, I was spending all my free time shopping for a dress and shoes to wear to the two weddings I'm attending this year. At least I've got the dress! Hehe.

And now some Spring photos, to take my mind off of the icky weather we've been having.

That's all for now! Happy Spring, everyone. :)

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