Sorry folks, I've made the decision to make my blog available to FRIENDS ONLY.  There is just too much personal information disclosed in my postings and I'd rather know who exactly is reading this.  This means that if you want to continue reading about my life's little trials and tribulations, create a LiveJournal account and become my friend!

Day 4: Tuesday Oct 14We got up early the next morning and had a delicious breakfast at the lodge. The lodge is an "ecolodge" meaning they recycle everything, all the food is organic, etc. It's very nicely done! It was still pouring rain, of course. It hadn't yet stopped from the day before ( Read more... )

Day 3 - Monday, October 13

So we left the Tree House Hotel early in the morning. It was beautiful and I'm sorry we couldn't stay longer. But we drove back to town to meet with Sunset Tours again for an Arenal Volcano hike.


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Day 2:  Sunday, October 12

We got up early and had a nice breakfast at the hotel:


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If you're looking here to see what happened to my cellphone... that will occur on Day 6 of our trip.  Until I get there, you'll just have to wait in suspense.

Day 1:  Saturday, Oct. 11

We took a red-eye flight from SFO on Friday night to Miami, then flew from Miami to San Jose, Costa Rica.  Man, it's hard to sleep on the airplane.  Especially when ( Read more... )

1.  Jimmy Beans Wool - see wishlist, gift corner, or gift certificate
2.  KnitPicks - see gift suggestion area or gift certificate
3.  Stitch Keepers
4.  Blocking board (large) 
5.  Ball winder - here, here, here
6.  Swift - here, here, here
7.  The Yarn Harlot has gift suggestions.
8.   Amazon wishlist - books and DVDs.  Please sort the list by priority ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm de-lurking to review Mammoth Mountain and my new skis.

I've been skiing for years, since I was 4, I believe.  We used to just go up once or twice a year.  Last year, I went up twice.  This year... I've already put in 12 days of skiing.  It was time to buy some skis.  I bought the Volkl Attiva Luna's which had great reviews.  I'd tried the ( Read more... )

A couple updates:
- obviously, new color scheme.  yay for winter elephants!
- updated links on the left, including a new one for my shared items on google reader
- updated my wishlist

And on an unrelated note, I've been watching "How I Met Your Mother."  Last week when I was at home sick, I watched the season 1 DVD that I got at
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YAY!!!!  THE INTERNET IS ON IN MY APARTMENT!!! 

(meant to be posted on 12/20 - stupid Comcast)

Yay, a public post!  Mostly because I have to gush about how much I love my Stitch 'N Bitch group.  ::waves to any of them reading::

Thanks to Ravelry.com, I discovered the local SNB group in October and I've been going fairly regularly.  It's really made a big difference in my Sacramento experience.  ( Read more... )