i’ll tell you why…

… i really, really, really have to like you to knit for you. or create anything for you.
first, it’s labor intensive, making stuff. it involves planning, color spectrum analysis (which i used to farm out to kitten, but sadly i now have to do it by my ownself) (by the way, i still hear the [...]

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a few favorite things

you know what’s great? when you’re having a super lousy day, and you decide the best thing for your foul mood is a walk. and you go to the nature-ish path near your house, and within ten seconds, you’ve managed to slip on some mud and fall spectacularly on your knee. with witnesses.
yeah, friday was [...]

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i don’t remember signing up for this

this morning, i decided to take the train to work. largely because i’m stubborn and lazy – the chains are on my car, and i refuse to take them off just for the joy of driving to work. the train tracks are not frozen today, so that seemed a little smarter.
anyway.
i’m standing on the platform, [...]

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like i need an excuse at this point

dear knitty,
i freaking love you. i want to make just about everything in your new winter issue. except that vest, because i’m just not a believer in vests. or belted cardigans. or victorian-esque neckwarmers. also, i will not be knitting that big butt-looking cushion. while it is cool, and awesome, and fabulous, i don’t see [...]

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a knitting update…

because i’ve done nothing truly exciting. and by ‘nothing exciting’ i mean nothing that doesn’t involve bloodletting.
oh, and i’m officially not allowed to be a mom. when you pop out a kid, the hospital does these PKU tests. that involve, you know, some blood. and since the baby is still so very wee at testing [...]

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um… i need this why?

oh, dudes… ravelry is total crack.
i may have never known about this yarn without ravelry:
 
dude. eyeballs. in the yarn. super badass!
sadly, insubordiknit is out of the yarn at this time. aw, crap. i need this. i don’t know why, exactly. but i require some of this yarn.
with eyeballs.

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kerfuffle. great word.

so, wordpress and i had a semi-minor kerfuffle over some pictures this weekend. i’m not sure wha happened (yes, i meant to leave the ‘t’ off there. please don’t email me about it), but i think there was a misunderstanding between firefox and wordpress.

because the pictures are doing okay now. psh, i don’t know. i [...]

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so. very. much.

so, i think i might need to make a general statement:
i am tired, y’all.
it’s a general type of exhaustion. but i’ve been the walking dead for the last month. and really, it’s only going to get worse before it gets better. i blame the 60+ hours a week i’ve been working. that’s it, really. well, [...]

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the shift

so, i’ve done pretty close to nothing this weekend. and i’m loving the doing next to nothing.
and of course, by nothing i mean, done five loads of laundry, grocery shopping, pedicure, dinner with YMCrae, looked at apartments, gone to a housewarming, badgered the cat, and knat. i’ve learned that, when one only has about 48 [...]

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the post where we switch gears and pretend like nothing bad happened

so, yeah. bad things have happened, and we have lost a dear person. and it’s not like these things don’t affect me. in fact, i went to a catholic church, said the prayer, and lit a candle in his name. not that he’s catholic, but i don’t know what else to do at this point. [...]

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