Hi. I'm just a little orphaned mitten. My mom took one look at me when I was born and started laughing, saying something about me looking like I was fathered by Dr. Seuss.
Right now she's very busy, or at least she says. She has a dreamy look on her face while she's sipping the new pink grapefruit green tea she got in a package yesterday from someone named Anne. And she's gazing upon that skein of yarn, reaching out for a feel every once in a while. She used to look at me like that, but now I feel completely abandoned. She says she misses Anne, who moved away almost before she got a chance to know her.
She also keeps shushing me and saying she's pondering important questions and needs to concentrate. Questions like: <--(click)
I am feeling kind of down. So do you have any spare change? I want to see if I can find my brother and go off to warm some kid's hands. *sighhhhh*
Meanwhile, I'm going to go see if someone loves me over at Sandy's. It's her birthday. Well, it was YESTERDAY. She tried to sneak that one past my mom and everybody. I'm going to go see if there's cake left over. Will you, too? Meet ya over there! Wish her a happy birthday for my mom, will ya? Thanks!
Poor, poor sad little mitten. Norma Dear, you should be ashamed. You put that lovely sounding tea away and you pay attention to that mitten. What where you thinking? hehe
That yarn looks divine! And you must tell us how the hand cream is. Mmmmmmmm. :)
Have a great day!
Posted by: Stalker Angie | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 08:50 AM
neither. it's buck nekkid. hey -- if you're going all vernacular, why not spell it vernacularly?
Posted by: martha | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 09:18 AM
The poor yellow mitten off the needles alone
Was lamenting its fate in a whiney, sad tone.
"I'm not meant to be by myself with no other!
I need Mom to knit me a sister (or brother).
In bright, happy colors of yellow and green
So in the dark we may always be seen.
With soft, puffy feathers surrounding the cuff
That resemble the finest of dandelion fluff.
So please, Mom, put down that yummy new tea,
and that pretty new sock yarn you pet 'stead of me.
I want to go traveling ... there are hands to be warmed.
But never will happen 'til my sibling is formed."
Posted by: Ruth | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 10:10 AM
I love the new mitten. It is bright and colorful.
Posted by: Maureen | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 10:31 AM
I thought that it was bucked nekkid. At least that's how they pronounce it around here. Hope you find your match poor little mitten.
Tanya
Posted by: Tanya | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 10:33 AM
poor mitten, are you trying to compete with Koigu?? and Anne??
Posted by: Judy | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 10:48 AM
Goodness POM really *does* look like something fatherered by Dr. Seuss! I had no idea he designed knitwear (either intellectually or biologically...)
Hot, hot, hot on tot... (oh, never mind...)
Posted by: Dena Shunra | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 10:56 AM
Ha, ha...so what's the answer? Inquiring minds want to know;-)
Posted by: margene | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 11:39 AM
DLM (dear little mitten)
You are a love! And so is your mom!
Love, the day after girl
p.s. I say BUTT naked. Just sayin'
:)
xoxo
Posted by: sandy | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 12:25 PM
butt-nekkid, round these parts.
Posted by: heather | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 01:13 PM
Buck Naked. No question. Despite what the birthday girl says.
And tnx for the heads up on one of our favorite grrls.
Posted by: Laurie | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 01:28 PM
Oh, that mitten is adorable. It looks like a Sneetch. I was beside myself with joy yesterday because I accidentally happened up on the real Mulberry Street from the Dr. Seuss book while I was on the road for work.
Posted by: Susan | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 03:47 PM
PINK GRAPEFRUIT green tea? Oh, that sounds like something I might almost like. More info, please! (My Snapple Lime (diet) Green Tea has me almost, but not quite, off Diet Coke. This is supposed to be better, but now I can't travel without a week's supply of SDLGT, because I'm becoming addicted and it's a lot harder to get your hands on than Diet Coke. Sigh.
Posted by: Marcia | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 04:39 PM
Now I know who the NORma is that everyone is talking about these days.
Nice to meet ya.
:)
Posted by: Micky | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 07:41 PM
That's so totally Sneechy!
Made from thneed I assume?
Will you, Norma, knit another?
Will you give that one a brother? oh crap, it's raining blue goop again, gotta go. . .
Posted by: julia fc | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 10:54 PM
I like that mitten. Nowhere near as goofy as you said it might be.
Posted by: Rabbitch | Saturday, August 27, 2005 at 02:45 AM
Buck naked, butt ugly.
Since everyone is waxing poetical:
A sweet little mitten so yellow
Said "All that I lack is a fellow.
When I'm part of a pair
Then life will be fair,
And we will both wave and say, 'Hello!'"
Or:
Soft yellow mitten
Sad sound of one hand clapping.
Winter is coming.
OK, so it's not Dr. Seuss, but it's the best I can do.
Posted by: Lucia | Saturday, August 27, 2005 at 09:18 AM
Hey--nice mitten, kitten!
Posted by: Kim | Saturday, August 27, 2005 at 09:39 AM
That Anne........what a great kid!! That pink grapefruit green tea sounds yummy!!!
I love the lonely mitten!
Posted by: Kim | Saturday, August 27, 2005 at 12:42 PM
Yellow as butter
And green as the sea
Forlorn and abandoned
For a new cup of tea
I want to thank everybody who is as permanently scarred by Dr. Seuss as I am. I don't feel so alone now.
Who makes that tea, by the way?
Posted by: k | Saturday, August 27, 2005 at 12:58 PM
I love that tea. It's equally yummy hot (wintertime) or cold (summertime). And please give the adorable Seussimitten a mate!
Posted by: Kristen | Saturday, August 27, 2005 at 06:36 PM
I'm thinking the Poor Orphaned Mitten's brother ought to look up SecondSock. Could we be witnessing the birth of a class action suit?
Posted by: Teri P | Saturday, August 27, 2005 at 06:58 PM
Oooo! I like the fact that Kim called me a kid. That's almost as good as getting a box of goodies in the mail - maybe better. Glad you are enjoying all of it. Too bad for the mitten.
Posted by: Anne | Sunday, August 28, 2005 at 10:11 AM
Thanks to you I bought the Pink Grapefruit green tea and also the ROSE green tea which is very yummy too. Chelle
Posted by: Chelle | Friday, September 02, 2005 at 02:49 PM