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The Orange Monstrosity
So I went to Michaels this morning to kill some time (anyone else think of The Phantom Tollbooth every time they say that?) and grab some more paintbrushes for scribal stuff. And I noticed there was a bag on sale, for about 60% off. It was called the "Knitters tote" and was rather nicely packaged. I grabbed it and carried it around with me, ( Read more... ) -
Quick Update
Thanks to some searching on the internet and a friend with good ideas, I was able to tone down the hunan hand and still have a functional day yesterday. The end process? I made a very weak bleach-water solution (big bowl of water, small splash of bleach - maybe 2 Tablespoons), and soaked/rubbed my hands in that for a minute, and then washed them ( Read more... ) -
so I've done a lot of dumb things in my life...
but this one seems particularly so.
Anyway - this all starts yesterday when I notice on my back porch that I have quite a few ripe tomatoes as well as a pile of ripe jalapeno peppers. my pepper plant in particular has been producing like crazy! so I think... hmm... tomatoes and peppers... I can make salsa! yum! I had some more tomatoes around ( Read more... ) -
I learned something new today...
http://www.amar-prestar.org/images/day1.jpg
Also... I learned how to spin today. I've wanted to learn how to spin with a drop spindle for a long time - and I found a shop about 20 minutes away that has classes and materials, so I just up and went! Walked in to what turned out to be their Wednesday afternoon stitch n bitch, and asked to see the ( Read more... ) -
Memorial Day
(from a message list that I'm on, as I walk to Rivendell - more on that later)
Today is Memorial Day (in the US), a day to honor and remember those who have fought and fallen in battle - and hopefully to look beyond what any of us thinks of any particular situation and honor and remember those that served. Tolkien was keenly aware of the loss that ( Read more... ) -
Knitting...
For as long as I can remember in my life I have liked to make things. Crafts, cut and paste, my mother still has some hand made Valentines that I did when I was about 8 that surprise even 23 year old me when I see them. My Nana (Dad's mom) sews and cooks and crochets and makes things, and she taught me to do all of those things. My mother also ( Read more... ) -
I'm not that long out of school...
But this still shocks me; NY Times Article: Emailing Professors
Perhaps it shouldn't though, considering some of the people I knew.
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Driving along...
One of the things about living in any city is learning to deal with the traffic. I learned how to drive in Fort Worth and Dallas - and though the two cities are rather different, and Fort Worth driving is (mostly) much more laid back, the two had enough similarity that it wasn’t overly wacky to switch between the two.
Then I moved to Houston.
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(Untitled)
The woman named Tomorrow
sits with a hairpin in her teeth
and takes her time
and does her hair the way she wants it
and fastens at last the last braid and coil
and puts the hairpin where it belongs
and turns and drawls: Well, what of it?
~from Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind by Carl Sandburg
