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And I don’t even know any babies…

[Warning:  this post has very little to do with knitting.  In my post-orangina daze, I’m taking a break.  Not sure where to go next.  Feel free to skip along if you don’t want to hear about computers.  or beer.  or my dissertation.]

What a beautiful memorial day weekend!  In the past, I’ve spent memorial day weekend […]

Because too much confidence in my mojo leads to things like this:

Over one year and much agonizing later, all my worst nightmares have come true.  Orangina is too big.  Unmanageably, unfixably too big.  I can’t even look at it.  Right now, she is neatly folded and stashed in a box as far up in my […]

Hmmm…. My blog seems to be cranky this morning and only loading when it feels like it.  Not sure what’s up with that (maybe it needs coffee?  I know I do!), but I’m working on it.  Thanks for your patience!

For all of us, there are times when we experience exponential growth — when we sleep in our own rooms for the first time as kids; when we learn to drive and have sudden freedom; leaving for college and gaining independence; first apartments, first jobs, first loves, first heartbreaks, marriages, kids, you get the point. […]

I’ve been tagged by both Minty and Juliana for the re-circulating “weird things/random facts” meme.  So here goes:
“Each person tagged gives 7 random facts about themselves. Those tagged need to write in their blogs the 7 facts, as well as the rules of the game. You need to tag seven others and list their names […]

When I was in highschool, I was in a modern dance company.  The director of the company was this wonderful woman — very calm, very patient, wonderful choreographer.  When we were rehearsing and working up pieces, she would break each dance into sections and we would run through them one at a time.  When she […]

Mittens!

Pattern: Target Wave Mittens, by Norah Gaughn (from Interweave Fall ‘06, although it’s also in Knitting Nature)
Yarn: Malabrigo worsted in “Frost Gray” and “Red Mahogany” (not even half a skein of either color)
Needles: Clover US 5 and Latern Moon US 8, straights for both
Thoughts:  Well… A good, serious blocking did the trick with these.  They […]

 
I love you, Mommy — even if you won’t pick up the phone

 Sigh.  These were meant to be a quick knit.

Remember how my year began — with the complete inability to follow directions?  Well, it looks like I’m keeping with this trend.  I finished mitten number two this afternoon, only to find that a) the second thumb is longer than the first and b) apparently I didn’t […]