now you’ve embittered me

is embittered even a word? did i just pull that out of my ass? oh well. it sounds sour and slightly peeved, and i am feeling sour and slightly peeved about the topic at hand.
but first… go save aryn. she’s a nice girl with a bad heart. buy her stuff, so she can pay her [...]

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i meant to, but the weather happened

so, i did mean to post this weekend. swear to god. but then, we had a four-letter-word incident:
SNOW.
now, i live in oregon. which gets real weather all the time. so, it never ceases to amaze me… when the elements decided it’s time to kick it up a notch or whatever, people freak the hell out.

snow [...]

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more real meat

the best picture i took last week? easy:

this cracked me up. we were driving back from the sad yarn sale we missed, and saw this. i was baffled about needing to adversite the ‘real-ness’ of the meat in question. until cecil pointed out the obvious. der – i eat fake meat. like tofu and stuff. [...]

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must… knit… mittens

i’ve got yet another new obsession. i need a pair of mittens. and not some blah mittens. something that could give a kid epilepsy with their intricate-ness-y. see, this is why ravelry is good and bad. it’s good, because it gets me off my ass and snapping pictures of all the knitted objects i’ve made [...]

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short attention span saturday

so, i’ve been sitting in this cafe for about an hour, sipping my chai and waiting on a friend. a friend that seems to have forgotten we had a coffe-ish date. so, to heck with her. i have a computer that loves the wi-fi, and i have some pictures to make fun of. and tomorrow, [...]

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the trouble with mariah

so, i finished a sweater this weekend. friday, to be a little more exact. which was also the same day that i got my stereo from the geo installed in my new car, mabel. it’s so very nice to have a cd player again! and it didn’t hurt that the installation dude was rather attractive. [...]

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in the grease

have you ever heard a chef say he/she was in the weeds when talking about a bad night? they get behind, drop a bunch of food, don’t set up their station right… whatever the reason. when i lived in san francisco, the flat above us housed a few cooks/ chefs, and they said this a [...]

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you’re so creative!

it really used to piss me off when people called me that.
and it shouldn’t. i mean, it doesn’t anymore. but i don’t consider myself creative. i can’t draw a straight line, can’t write a sonnet. i can’t write an opera, either. yes, i can knit. i can play with sticks and string, follow basic directions, [...]

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scout’s honor

okay, i wasn’t going to post today (this morning, whatever). largely because i’m in the midst of working the long hours and all, and i just can’t make the brain work right. and while working 12-hour days really isn’t that bad, i’ve been a wee bit upset about having to work them. see, as a [...]

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confession time, mona – i’ve led you astray

before you even ask – it’s the caption on a far side cartoon i used to think was effin’ hilarious. it still makes me smile.
so, there are technical difficulties on this side of the screen. hence the lack of pictures-i-took-myself today. and i do have pictures to show you. i made some yarn that was [...]

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