Current Mood:
Embarrassed
So I was all bragging at S’nB last week about how my sock was a big favorite and had over 100 favs. Woohoo, I’m a rock star—blah, blah, blah. Then I went home and, as a treat to myself, was going to bask in my rock-starness, when what should great me but a mere 11 favs.
Was my face red.
I must have mixed up the number queued with the number of favorites, I thought. How embarrassing. I prepared myself for the ribbing I’d get this week, and decided it was still a big deal that over 100 people had queued my pattern for their projects, and was content.
Then, tonight, I saw this:
Were my pink eyes* deceiving me? What was going on? Am I truly a rock star after all?
Well, of course I am, if rock stars are dumb and vain. Seems I was missing the concept, of which I’m well aware, that favoriting a project and favoriting a pattern are two different things. Duh.
*Now for the pink eye. Let’s just get the preliminaries out of the way—ICK. Okay, anyway, last night was our school prom, and I decided to wear a little eye pencil, just for kicks, you know. By night’s end one of my eyes was sore and dry, so before I went to bed I carefully washed off all my eye makeup and hoped for the best. Which wasn’t exactly what I got.
By this morning I couldn’t open either of my eyes. Not a pleasant realization. I solved that problem and when I could finally see in the mirror I saw two very red, swollen, scary-looking eyes. The green contrasts frighteningly with the red, let me tell you. I’d show you a picture but you’d be haunted by the image.
It’s been a long day but I think they’ll be much better tomorrow. At least I hope so; otherwise, I’ll look like a very old, very tired drunk. Not a good look for a school teacher.
Comments 12
You are the rock star of our local group….no matter what.
Posted 21 Apr 2008 at 5:26 am ¶Ewww. Pink eye is just plain nasty. I hope your eyeballs feel better Ms. Rock Star!!
Posted 21 Apr 2008 at 6:47 am ¶I love your sock pattern. I can’t remember if I favorited it but I know I added it to my queue.
Posted 21 Apr 2008 at 7:51 am ¶I think this just illustrates that you need to spend more time on Ravelry until you’ve learned it inside and out.
Posted 21 Apr 2008 at 9:19 am ¶You’re a total rock star - but the same thing happened to me. I went to download the pattern and saw the one with only 11 favs, and I thought maybe I had imagined it all.
Started my socks last night!
Posted 21 Apr 2008 at 9:32 am ¶I didn’t know you had a sock pattern out. Shows how out of things I am right now. Congrats on your rock star status and on the beautiful pattern!
Posted 21 Apr 2008 at 9:47 am ¶you’re a rock star to me!! I hate pink eye - hope you are doing better.
Posted 21 Apr 2008 at 11:09 am ¶I hope you threw out the eye pencil! I hope it clears up quickly.
Posted 22 Apr 2008 at 7:02 am ¶Well, I love the socks.
Icky pink eye!
Posted 22 Apr 2008 at 8:28 am ¶Pink eyes, pink socks. STILL a rock star!
Hope the ick clears up fast.
Posted 23 Apr 2008 at 5:02 pm ¶Oh, that is exactly the kind of mistake that I would make! But we knitters came through on the showing of the love.
Conjunctivitis stinks. Hope it goes away soon.
Posted 25 Apr 2008 at 9:25 am ¶Do you know about the “user activity” tab on your designer page? I’m a little bit addicted to it, even though my projects are only a little popular. It’s just cool to see who’s interested in my designs!
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