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I’m sorry for the infrequent posts lately. It’s been a trying couple of weeks. So you know how I was sick? Well that was awful enough. But as soon as I started to feel better, Mike got sick. As soon as he felt better, the dog got sick! Poor girl. I figured she’d just get [...]
I was getting to the point where I never thought I would see my driveway, the street, or grass ever again. And then winter decided it was finally done torturing us. The only problem is that now it’s supposed to start raining. Which means we get to go straight into flood season.
And it’s time to move on. Just once I would like to take a trip without fear of dying by swerving semi truck. Just once I would like to know that my dogs are still in the yard, not having used the snow as a step to hop over the fence. I want mice to [...]
Normally I am never home to absorb the wisdom of Oprah, but since I took a sick day I was couchbound working on a crochet project (details on that to come) when I flipped to the show today. I caught the last few minutes when Suze Orman was basically answering the questions – “What do [...]
It’s true, I suck at blogging lately. With everything I put on my plate, something always gets pushed off. But I can’t seem to give up anything (what should I get rid of? My incomes? Going to the gym? Doing the laundry?) I find it’s really hard to get away, too, because I just think [...]
This is part of the Halloween costume I sewed, in which I made every possible mistake one could make whilst sewing. I know I need to do it more often to be better at it, but my impatience always seems to get the best of my perfectionism when I’m trying to sew and I end [...]
Sunday was nasty cold and windy (so typical of fall – it’s warm! it’s cold! it’s warm! it’s cold again!), so I decided to make the best of it and pop in my Nia DVD for some exercise. I got about 35 minutes through it. I was dancing around, sweating pretty good, feeling good that [...]
So Mike and I finally got our butts to a meeting of a group of local vegetarians for dinner on Friday. We had a great time, including great Indian food. But I think the best part is finally being surrounded by people who get you — the people who have also been the weird ones [...]
I wouldn’t say I was having a quarterlife crisis (pretty sure that happened about four years ago) but I’m definitely having one of those moments where I think, oh my God, how could I possibly have reached this age without having done this, this and this? And not even that I haven’t done them yet, [...]
I am a freak for documentaries — so I’ve put as many as I can possibly find into my Netflix queue. This week “And Baby Makes Two” came. It was made about 10 years ago in New York, and it’s about a group of women who decided that they wanted to have children, even though [...]
Two of my crochet patterns — vintage hanger covers and a colorful granny square pillow — have been published in a new book. You can now order So Pretty! Crochet, by my talented friend Amy Palanjian, at Amazon.com. 
