I started a pair of socks for myself. I mentioned this on the knitting site - the yarn turned out to be something called “self striping” yarn, which just means that you get very cool stripes without changing yarns - the stripes are built into the dyed yarn. So I decided to use […]
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ghostly footprints
freshly painted entryway
Lil’ L, my friend Elizabeth’s baby bugaboo. Just a few weeks old and smiling away.
Go ahead. Try to be grumpy and mean right now. YOU CAN’T DO IT, CAN YOU?
You wish you were Kevin right now. Because if you WERE Kevin, you’d be enjoying a big piece of this:
Blackberry-lemon swirl cheesecake. My own creation. So…it turned out not QUITE as set as I’d hoped…it still was yummy. mmmmm….
Knitta alert:
Socks for mom are almost done. The more astute of you […]
Happy Birthday, My Love
Published August 17th, 2006 in daily, relationship/sex and photos. 9 CommentsToday is my sweetie’s birthday. Send him some love, won’t you? I know I will be
Now we’ll have a little contest: how many google hits will I get for “shaved,” and what percentage of them will be porn related?
I love Sadie dearly, but every year in the spring and summer, we have the same problem: she sheds like a motherfucker. It gets worse every year. There is no […]
wishy washy
Published August 7th, 2006 in craftiness, photos, ask blogland and weekend warriors. 13 CommentsLast weekend, our washing machine betrayed us, and we haven’t trusted it since. But we had to do something, quickly, or else both Kev and I would be wearing dirty underwear very very soon.
Fortunately, this is a cheap and easy fix. We have a “spare” washer and dryer in storage. They’re Kev’s. […]
inexplicably turning into a malaysian blog
Published August 2nd, 2006 in food and photos. 9 CommentsExcept my food is not GROSS!
I’ve recently become fascinated with the idea of cooking more asian foods. Mostly because Kev and I spend a good deal of money having restaurants cook various and exotic dishes for us, and it would be easier to make them at home. Also, I feel a desperate need to […]
Please send prayers, good vibes, happy thoughts, chants, good voodoo, and variously scented incense smoke out to my friend Elizabeth.
Elizabeth is one of my bridesmaids, and one of my best friends. Last week she gave birth via C-section to her second child - the beautiful and healthy lil’ L. However, the docs […]
anything better than chunking into a sweet watermelon on a hot day??? I DON’T THINK SO!
In other picture news, I put up some pictures from my bridal shower in pittsburgh. Go check them out, won’t you?
and yet more conversations
after waking from a nap
ESC: I’M HUNGRYYYYY! ARE YOU GOING TO THE STORE???
Kev: I didn’t […]
Next weekend I go home to the ‘burgh for some good old fashioned wedding planning and bridal showering.
I also, theoretically, if he doesn’t flake out on me again, get a tattoo from my brother. He designed it for me way back, based on my ideas, but the planets have yet to align to allow […]
Hey, remember when I used to knit?
Published June 6th, 2006 in craftiness, photos and friends. 13 CommentsSeriously, once the weather gets warm, the needles go DOWN. I don’t know why. Same thing happened last year. I’m just not in the MOOD to right now.
However, real life stepped in to remind me that my good friend and bridesmaid is 8 months pregnant, and oh yeah, isn’t her baby shower […]
two steps forward… *now with picture-heavy goodness*
Published May 29th, 2006 in daily, family, photos, movin' on UP! and weekend warriors. 12 Comments…one step back.
Well, we were all set to finish off the living room and dining room, and then put a big dent in the sunroom.
We got most of the way across the living room/dining room yesterday, and noticed there was a spot where the floor dipped down, and the laminate sunk when you stepped on […]
show you any of our engagment pics? no???
here’s one!
each not enough for a full post on their own
Published May 16th, 2006 in rants, daily, photos and friends. 11 CommentsDoesn’t anyone watch CSI: Miami? Anyone? I reeally want to sit and talk about last night. But no one here watches it. Stupid Grey’s Anatomy. But OMG! They killed off Horatio’s wife! Just when I thought he’d never be moody and brooding again! Fuckers!
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I read this and laughed my ass off.
HEY […]
I’m still here, hanging on. Thank you for all the hugs and comments.
My prescription for grieving has always been KEEP BUSY. So I kept busy this weekend.
Buying shoes at target:
Eating.
Going to church and work.
Uhhh…eating. Sunday Kev and I went to a new BBQ place. Mmmmm…tasty BBQ. Kev’s chicken was […]
This is a picture of my bedroom in a state it has not seen since before Kev moved in. Look how clean and organized it is.
*sniff* beautiful.
However, the bed placement is the same. The bed is a four poster canopy bed, sans canopy. And therein lies the problem. We can’t […]
Today Kev and I went to the Atlanta Botanical Garden to pose for some engagement pictures. We finally got to meet the guy who’s doing our wedding pics (after emailing back and forth for two months), and he’s super nice. Just getting into the business, so his prices are looowww…but what business he […]
It’s been sad this week, a bit. And a little stressful. I had to give a presentation today, and, as Julie recommended, had to use the useful presentation Jedi mindtrick.
This is NOT the data I presented last time. This is all NEW data.
I think they bought it.
My weekend started out sad. […]
To ease everyone back from the previous scary science post, some pictures to share!
Kev got a new toy when he visited his mom a couple of weeks ago - an iced tea maker! Now we don’t have to constantly forget about the big pan of water boiling away on the stove. He looooooves […]
not sure if this video will work…but I’m giving it a try:
if not, here’s the mosaic proof of doggy torture:
suddenly, VH1 takes over this blog
You know who is REALLY having the Best Week Ever? Best TWO weeks ever, really. Andrea Bocelli. Seriously, I’ve seen more of this man in the past two weeks than I have for the past 6 years.
And what the hell…Avril Lavigne in the closing ceremonies? Seriously, […]
More conversations…
ESC: did you see my post about the oral hygeine order?
Kev: yeah.
ESC: Most people seem to floss AFTER brushing. then some weirdos brush again, but HA! I am RIGHT!
Kev: I’m still going to do it my way. Plus, maybe all those people who commented are wrong.
ESC: no. no…just you.
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watching the […]
thursday fit as a fiddle!
Published February 16th, 2006 in daily, craftiness, food and photos. 0 CommentsI’m most of the way through the “phase I” week of my diet, and I’m happy to report I’m down 3 pounds!
Yeah yeah, I KNOW! MOST OF THAT IS WATER WEIGHT!
Shut up and let me enjoy it, OK? Plus I got to have steak and shrimp for dinner, and I’m just enjoying the […]
Thanks for your prayers, folks.
Now for an abrupt change of subject…
my new camera came today!
It is INFINATELY better - better zoom and pixelage, boots up faster…AND, my BIGGEST pet peeve with my old camera (also a cybershot), VERY QUICK recovery time after taking a picture, so you can take quick pics in succession. Also […]
cache my ass **updated**
Published February 12th, 2006 in craftiness, blogging and photos. 0 CommentsI had a big long post, about how I decided on a wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses…how my pastor at church rocks…my feelings on the winter olympics (including the phrase “the summer olympics can go suck a fish”), and my feelings on Michelle Kwan.
all
gone
for some reason, even though blogger SAID it was saving or caching, […]
Soon I will bring you the answers to your questions (still time to ask anything, though), horrifying tales of engulfing, suffocating satin and lace monsters at bridal stores, and other people’s mothers that make me glad my mother is my mom…
but I am stupid tired right now.
So instead, click the pic below and enjoy […]
So I’ve got my little side business making beaded stitch markers. VERY side…a few orders so far. I’m hoping to expand just a bit - I’m going to make a few sets and see of my local yarn store (or LYS, as they’re known in snobby knitter circles) will keep a few laying […]
I’m working on my first sock evah!you are jealous.
OK, this again is one of those posts that maybe my “real life” friends might want to skip over, to avoid that “searing image in the back of the brain” thing we talked about. Also this post contains pictures that are NSFW…so read at your own risk.
are you gone? good.
So last friday, Kev […]
This year I decided to combine the best of both the north and south for a traditional new year’s day dinner. This year it was just us - usually we have people over for dinner - AND as an added bonus, Kev wasn’t sick - he was sick as a dog last year.
Here’s dinner. […]
We’re back!
I haven’t posted because…well…we’ve spent a lot of time in bed since we got back. Occasionally, we even slept. BWAHA! Also spent a good portion of today food shopping, as the pantry was BARE! Also, the fridge.
The drive back was long and uneventful. The most entertaining bit being the […]
wrapped all gifts but one - my father’s. His scarf is drying, pinned down to remove the annoying curl.
“and presents under…the treeeeee” Clicky to see what they are.
Dad’s scarf, blocking.
All baking is finished. I even finally finished the truffles - scraped the refrigerated ganache and rolled it into balls, then roll into cocoa […]
another post consisting of mostly pictures….
Published December 19th, 2005 in daily and photos. 0 Comments…in leiu of actual “content.”
So I did not spend the entire weekend staring at my ring, mesmirized. I wanted to, though.
oooooo…prettttyyyyy…riiiiiing……
I did much running around and getting things done that were not so important, considering Christmas is HOLY SHIT…IN 6 DAYS!
I am so not ready.
So here are some pics of things I did.
make macaroons!
Macaroons […]
another day, another big batch of cookies. I looooooooove the neiman marcus urban legend cookies. Surely you got that email 8 years ago. you know the one, with the man/woman who ate a meal at neiman marcus department store, and loved the cookies so much that he/she asked for the recipe, and […]
Woke up early this morning to get to church before the choir all had to be there, so I could warm up on my trombone. Amazingly, I had some extra time to have some breakfast before I left, so I decided to pour myself a bowl of…
ANTS!!!!!
Fuck. Spent my extra time throwing away […]
Busy busy busy busy day.
10am - dress rehearsal for our choir service of music. still putting my trombone skills to good use - I haven’t embarassed myself, at least.
12:15pm - on a tip from a woman at curves, I find a store called Amtrec. It’s a warehouse - you know all those catalogs […]
what will probably be a disappointing follow up to the previous, rather exciting post
Published December 6th, 2005 in Uncategorized, craftiness, food and photos. 0 Comments“So ESC! Now that you’re engaged, do you feel any different?”
ummm…no. Sorry. I do have a smidge too tight wedding band looking ring on my finger. but…that’s about it.
Soooo…well….ummmm…
how about some pictures? Everyone loves pictures!!!
My tree! It’s small…but well dressed.and here’s Sadie watching me decorate…
this is her […]
I worked later today that I wanted. My brother called me - he remembered my birthday! So that kind of threw me off schedule. I berated him for not checking his email - I sent him ideas for my tattoo MONTHS ago. I re-sent them, and he said he’d work on […]
