Ismarah just asked for some suggestions for good knitting books for a lapsed knitter– my first two recommendations are: Yarn Harlot– Knitting Rules The Yarn Girls’ Guide to the Basics I’d especially like something like the Yarn Girls’ Guide to the Basics without quite the hefty price tag to recommend– the patterns really ARE basics–but… Read More

It’s probably good I didn’t blog yesterday. Have you ever been so tired that your first response to EVERYTHING is melancholy? Yeah–that was me, yesterday. I was like a walking open nerve–my blog post would have read like one of those teen tragedy songs from the 50’s (Tell Laura I Looooooooooove her….) or a thirteen… Read More

By Ladybug, no less. I had to bring Ladybug to a staff meeting today–and the hilarity was not entirely unexpected, but very satisfying nonetheless. * Chapter 1–In which I pick Ladybug up late (because I was correcting papers since I had to be at school anyway.) The little booger beat me out the door– “Stop… Read More

But I just can’t. * The fact that someone stole my i-Pod from my desk on the Friday before Thanksgiving Break. (Pisses me off and hurts my feeling, every single time I think about it.) * Bringing home papers to grade over the break. (The cat LOVED them. Loved to SLEEP on them, that is!)… Read More

So I walked into Chicken’s room while she was reading this morning in order to molest her cat– “I don’t like you, kitty. I don’t like you at all… Garlic and butter…that’s the only way you’re good…” (Don’t ask me why I started to say this, but it’s my little kitty ritual, usually said while… Read More

We made it! My friend Barb and I managed our yearly Black Friday trek this morning, and, surprising enough, it was fairly sane. There were a few reasons for this: A. Neither of us have money. (Yeah, I know–join the rest of America.) B. We were going to ToysRUs for specific people on our list–for… Read More

Chicken has been making bracelets like mad–she found a bag of cheap plastic letter beads in my ‘home from school’ stuff and went to town. Bracelets with names, bracelets with ages, bracelets with slogans– “Arwyn”, “Five” “I ‘heart’ Supernatural” (for mom) and, also for mom… “Sey, I ‘heart’ skoob!” Well–even Chicken gets crafter’s dyslexia on… Read More

Yeah–I whined in my last blog post, but I’ll tell you the truth–*Twilight* was the BEST movie I ever knit through. Seriously–it was supposed to be set in the Pacific Northwest–lots of fog, right? Lots of foggy lighting, lots of pale, pretty people and head shots–it was the best lit movie EVER!!! If I’d been… Read More

That’s what today feels like… lots of napping, lots of letting the short people run around in circles while I zone off and try to get some editing done… The most imaginative thing we’ve done today is try to figure out what kind of food the kids were. The Cave Troll wanted me to ‘nom… Read More

She sure can do those lists! Have you read them? They’re all written in a straight line, and they’re usually hilarious, and they’re just a list of things–irritating or wonderful–about her day. I love her lists. I sat down to blog tonight and was thinking, “Gees, I sure would like to just do a list,”… Read More