At First: A Year in Review

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.
A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
-Bill Vaughn

I love this meme - saw it at Cara's and Bag'n'Trash recently.

The first sentence of each first post of the month for 2006:

I thought I'd add a twist and include the quotation from that entry as well, since I always post a quotation in each entry.

January

Good resolutions are simply checks men draw
on a bank where they have no account.
-Oscar Wilde

I'm out of town visiting lovely (but blogless) friends for New Year's, and really just to visit, so I cleverly split up my reflections and resolutions into two posts.

February
There is one thing I would break up over,
and that is if she caught me with another woman.
I wouldn't stand for that.
-Steve Martin

Dear Flora-in-Whisper,
You were a beautiful pattern, a nice idea to knit flowers for Mrs. Dalloway, and a lovely color of orange.

March
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure . . . than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. -Theodore RooseveltI am astonished and amazed at all the amazing comments on Am Kamin yesterday, and all your collective support for the Knitting Olympics.

April

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London

Hi Everyone, I'm Terri's Mom and the happy recipient of beautiful knitted items.

May
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon;
to me those have always been the two most beautiful words
in the English language.
-Henry James

Every production of an artist should be
the expression of an adventure of his soul.
-William Somerset Maugham

June

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

-Chinese Proverb Thanks for all the fabulous comments yesterday.

July

If we knew what it was we were doing,
it would not be called research, would it?
-Albert Einstein

If you've been to the Amazing Lace recently, you know it's hopping.

August
When you fall into a river,
you're no longer a fisherman;
you're a swimmer.
-Gene Hill

I've seen it, you've seen it, we've all seen it all over blogland - the apologies from bloggers on vacation, bloggers with new jobs, bloggers whose real lives have taken precedence over their blogs (and even - gasp! - their knitting!).

September

I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain.
-John Adams

It has been previously discussed that the most difficult packing challenge for a trip is always the yarn.

October

This race and this country and this life produced me.
I shall express myself as I am.
-James Joyce,
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The photos from my trip to Texas are long overdue.

November
The artist is nothing without the gift,
but the gift is nothing without work.
-Emile Zola

The Christmas knitting rush is beginning.

December
Men invade another country.
It's a whole different way of thinking.
-Elayne Boosler

And now, for some non-secret Christmas knitting.