I screwed my courage to the sticking place today and pulled the sweater out again today, weeks after the armhole-shaping decrease debacle, and decided to attempt to eyeball it. After doing about seven more rows while watching my "Story of Human Language" lectures, I started trying to just reconstruct my understanding of how the damned sweater was ( Read more... )

So...there was that post of substance I said I was going to make. I had it all in my head, and then I spent the last hour or so looking for Ree's beloved Clown from her Little People theme park toy she got for Christmas, and now I don't much feel like it. (I have been learning to let all those missing little toys and pieces slide, but when you've ( Read more... )

Over the last three or four days, Ree has been running around with her magnetic fridge letters chanting, "Make a robot! Make a robot ( Read more... )

I want to shoot myself in the head at this point.

I know, I know...melodramatic, considering it has to do with, of all things, knitting. But ( Read more... )

Well, now that I dispensed with the PSA about archiving of LJs in the last entry, I should probably make a real entry ( Read more... )

I'm trying not to buy too deeply into the whole "Sky is falling!" contagion that is going around since people found out about LJ's staff cuts, but I did decide to be prudent, not procrastinate, and back my journal up. I guess I should go and archive my leidenschaft account as well ( Read more... )

I wanted to embed this, but the site is generating the wrong code and the embed winds up being of a different vid. So here's the URL.http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/

I lost count...but there are over 250 words in this list

Ree will be 18 months old tomorrow

( A list of all Ree's words )

I've explained to Ree a few times that our cat Tuck is a mooch, that he'll try anything to steal our food. I just had to boot him off my chair where he was patiently awaiting me to sit after reheating some stir-fry. Ree pointed at him and yelled, "Mooch! Mooch! Tuckie!" Which I think shows pretty good memory and reasoning skills ( Read more... )