Chicken is on a school field trip to go look at colleges (which we will never be able to afford, but that’s another story…) Anyway, she was texting her dad the other night (because mom’s phone hasn’t seen daylight nor charger in months!) and the following conversation happened. Chicken: Someone stole my camera. Dad: That… Read More

Or I guess I should say ‘Showertime!’ since our bathroom is still (!!!) under construction. (But getting closer every day–honest! Seriously–I can see daylight in this matter!!!) Anyway, Squish has come down with a case of pee-pee irritation–it basically means she can’t hold her pee-pee for squat, and is going through clothes like you wouldn’t… Read More

But my mom gave Mate and I the night off by taking the kids on Saturday, and it was damned close! Woot! We went out to dinner, skipped the movie, and commenced the quality mom & dad time. One word. Two syllables. AWESOME. My stepmom had a moment though. She was trying to explain how… Read More

You knew it was going to happen. It’s happened before, but usually not because of a slip of the tongue, and it happened again. My day job and my moonlighting job clashed badly. The good news was, no one who heard it happen knew it for what it was. The word was ‘turgid’ (okay– yeah,… Read More

OKay… I had a long post, all self indulgent and shit, whining about reviews again, but even *I* got tired of that crap, so it never saw the light of day. And then Mate took my computer during prime blogging time to fix it–or to put a new keyboard on it–so I don’t really have… Read More

I love getting good reviews–I’m really happy with the good professional reviews. But I have NO idea how that translates into things like marketability or sales or telling people who said they wanted to be my agent and then changed their minds “Hey–you were so wrong you made a thumb up your ass look right!”… Read More

It’s always nice when someone likes you:-)

Oh give me blog lots of blog with my options all above…Don’t net me in.Give me blog lots of blog chatting w/people that I love…Don’t net me in.You can meet knitters all on twitter and their tweets are sort of neatAnd buy vegetables on Facebook with pictures that are sweetBut for networking my people whom… Read More

Have I mentioned the tired thing? You know it’s funny, because on Sunday, I got up to go be a productive citizen, got out of the shower, barely got dressed, crawled back in bed and slept for two hours. When I got up from that, I curled up in chair and knit while Mate went… Read More

Here it is–in crappy color because I couldn’t find the camera (sorry!) but the ass-kicking-nightmare in pink! (Heretofore known as ‘the Valentine Sweater). And now, here’s one with her brother in the foreground, so you can get that whole ‘drunken leprechaun’ thing going on at our house at any given time: The yarn is Paton’s… Read More