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Category Archives: Personal

Posts expressing personal opinions, recording personal life moments, and otherwise blathering on about things that few people care about besides me.

Yummy Socks

16-Mar-10

Last Monday after work, just 2 days after getting the car, I worked out and immediately started coming down with a cold. I’ve been sniffling, draining, and miserable ever since, and instead of going out and doing all the stuff I planned to do, I’ve been going to work, coming home, and crashing, every night.
So [...]

Saturday Checklist

07-Mar-10

Eat breakfast at IHOP, where server ignores us for 10 minutes and doesn’t bring drinks or refills, then ignores us for half an hour, bringing other people their food long before ours… and then screws up my order. Check!
Buy nice, cheap car. Check!
Get library card and check out a CD to listen to in the [...]

Mine!

06-Mar-10

Just bought this from Harold at Honda West in Las Vegas. Thanks, Harold!

Scarf Done!

01-Mar-10

From this:

To this:

Here are some lovely detail shots for you to enjoy:

And the full scarf:

It’s a sampler. I cast on 30 stitches and worked garter stitch on the first and last 3 of each row. The 24 stitches in the middle were where I worked the patterns. I drew from stitch dictionaries, my [...]

Madrona Sampler Scarf

15-Feb-10

So, I went to the Madrona Fiber Arts Retreat this past weekend, which was incredible and fun and definitely put me among “my tribe.”
On Thursday, after an amazing spinning wheel class, I hit the marketplace and bought two things from one of the vendors. The first item was a Turkish spindle. A Turkish spindle has [...]