A couple of years ago, she was someone who (whom? why don’t I know this? NH Grammar failure!) I thought should have a blog. Not because her writing was bad, but because of the gushing that followed each posting. This was shortly after I started knitting, before I found my home on certain mailing lists because of being annoyed by others. So, she did finally get a blog, and I didn’t actually read it for a long while, mostly because I hadn’t discovered the beauty that is RSS yet, and blogrolling was just reminding me of how much I haven’t actually updated this blog.
Eventually I found a nice newsfeed client, then switched to Bloglines since it’s more portable, and added her blog to my feed and once and a while checked in but mostly ignored it because I tend to get distracted by shinier things. Like, two weeks ago it was Harry Potter.
So there I am at BORDERS, and I am looking at the “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” table for some summer reading, and I come across this book (by the way, the other purchases in this transaction were and , and ) and I thought – hey, that name sounds familiar…! So I picked it up and laughed out loud and brought it home with me.
Some folks in my local Stich n’ Bitch mentioned going to her book signing, but it was on a Monday which isn’t usually a convenient day for skipping the carpool, but the huz wanted to do some errand that made us have to drive separately and so then I could go. When I got to the store, I ran into some other people from my SnB, not the ones who I expected, which is normal for California.
Do you ever see someone out of context and completely know that you know them, but when you see them, you have no idea who they are? This happened to me at knit cafe yesterday. This woman is talking to me, I completely know who she is but can’t figure out who she is… Finally she says “Skylar‘s mom” . Oh, I am so embarrased. Especially since I was just mentioning how cool it was that Skylar and her mom started coming to SnB.
Anyway, we got that all sorted and had a great time at the book signing. Stephanie is a wonderful woman, just as approachable as she seems by reading her blog and book, and I had a really good time. Retelling some of the stories to my huz the next morning has him even more convinced that I am actually Canadian – I even knew the answer to Stephanie’s secret question to check for authentic Canadians. He accuses me of it all the time, what with the BNL and GBS fandom. Oh and the Frü-fannage.
So this picture is of Stephanie holding up a sign that says “Happy Birthday Sue” so Sue, there you are. No one seemed to know who Sue was, but Stephanie can follow directions. Sorry Stephanie, that you were so cruelly tricked by the Knitting Factory.