Tag Archive for 'knitting'

why you gotta be that way?

grace pops her knitch cherry

I was going to post this picture first, no matter what my next post was about. HI GRACE! EXCITED MUCH?? More »« Less

the weekend bus that hit me

Saturday we made yet another pilgrimage to Costco, this time for Kev. The company he works for decided suddenly that they were no longer going to provide free lunches to the phone support guys who worked through lunch. Nice. Some frozen enchiladas from Trader Joe’s got him through last week, but he needed a bit more, as he works weirdo long hours and has to eat twice at work. So we stocked up on plenty of lunchmeat, cheese, bread, yogurt, veggies and whatever else he could stuff into the break room’s fridge and freezer.

Sunday required planning and preparation. The Yarn Harlot was in town again, and this time Grace had decided to…well…grace us with her presence. So cleaned up a bit to make the condo slightly less embarrassing as I waited for her to arrive (hey, did you know we had a coffee table underneath all that junk? amazing!) There was some confusion about the directions I had given, but the nice thing about I285 is that it is a loop - even if you get on way too early, you EVENTUALLY make it to where you’re going. More »« Less

a week gone, just like that

First, some blogging business to take care of:

The “twitthis” button has been removed until they learn to do it WITHOUT using javascript hosted by amazon S3 and causing random horrendous page loading times. If you would like to twitter one of my blog post, you’re just going to have to do it MANUALLY from now on.

Your disappointment. It is palpable. More »« Less

sunday picture INSANITY!

Not a whole lot to show except my INSANE CRAFTY SKILZ!

I started a lace shawl:

kiri

Kiri Shawl, in malabrigo lace More »« Less

wallbangers

Why oh why is home improvement so frustrating? At least here. I think this condo was built by drunk monkeys on crack. Studs aren’t where they are supposed to be, the floor is funhouse crooked, there are settling cracks everywhere…ugh. I had thought we’d addressed most of the big issues, and thus I started on a new yet small project optimistically and with a song in my heart. That didn’t last long. More »« Less