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The lovely, if a bit off-her-wheel Stephanie Pearl McPhee, aka The Yarn Harlot http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/, posted a friendly, fun challenge to all of her blog readers, something she's calling the Knit Olympics 2006. The point is that during the sixteen days of the Winter Olympics, ( Read more... )

And for the love of dog, I am NOT going to blame it on PMS. As some of you who read this LJ may know, I am an advanced-beginner knitter. Now, this means that I spend entirely too much time drooling over and lusting after, ahem, I mean, researching yarn from various companies. Koigu, a Canadian company, makes addictively amazing yarn in handpainted ( Read more... )

Well, hell, if it's cool enough for "Brub," it's beyond cool enough for me ( Read more... )

I'm not talking the run-of-the-mill toothache/headache/migraine pain, although I've had some migraines that were truly spectacular events. No, my friends, we're talking the accidental, wish I hadn't done that, how could I be so stupid, sweet jeebus on a pogo stick I'm woozy, let me go walk outside to clear my head and then pass out on the sidewalk ( Read more... )

Well, good news all around: I broke the mirror on the passenger side of the car, just a few days before I'm supposed to drive over the hills and through the woods to the in-laws house we go. I still have a stack of student response papers to grade, although I DID manage to plow through all of the first research essays (yay, me). Oh, yeah, and the ( Read more... )

You Are A: Lamb!

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*Whine, pout, cry*. Well, maybe not the cry part, since I'm trying to conserve water and avoid dehydration, but if anything, it feels hotter outside today than it did yesterday. That means, in short, still no trip to Rosie's. Sigh, gripe, bitch... Okay, now that *that* is out of my system. Ended up running into a friend while I was at Borders ( Read more... )

A tropical heat-wave. And by gosh, it's even too darned hot to can can! Too hot, certainly, to schlep out to the yarn shop to gawk at Koigu KPPPM yarns. Here's the context for my bitching: I ordered a few skeins of KPPPM mid-week last week, having fallen in love with two colorways I saw in Patternworks' catalog, one a bright turquoise with red and ( Read more... )

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