Posts expressing personal opinions, recording personal life moments, and otherwise blathering on about things that few people care about besides me.
So, my good friend and housemate Suzanne visited her mom last week and returned home with a few fun blasts from the past, including a kid’s book of cookie recipes published in 1973 by Scholastic Books, titled The Cookie Book, by Eva Moore. The book is organized by months, with one cookie recipe per month. […]
#52: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – rereading #53: A God in the Shed by J. F. Dubeau. Lovecraftesque horror. Some weak points, but overall a good read. Lots of gore, though, but no rape, so that’s good. (see? You *can* write a strong female character without gratuitous rape!)
#48: Scum’s Wish (manga) # 49: You’re Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day. I don’t generally like Felicia Day, but I gained a lot of respect for her reading this memoire. #50: Paper Boats by Dee Lestari. Nice coming-of-age love story set in Indonesia. #51: Neither Present Time by Caren J. Werlinger. This is a […]
In 2005, I posted on my LiveJournal blog a video of my cat attacking the “mini me” I had knitted him. It was my first time editing and posting a video to my blog, let alone a cat video. The only other video+web I had done was a video from France a few years earlier, but it was […]
I finished up some knitting projects recently, and have a great announcement about a shawl I’ve been working on since 2015. I finished the Nouveau Beaded Lace shawl I’ve been working on in black Baruffa Cashwool with silver beads: I took it to the Clark County Fair and Rodeo, which was April 12-16. When  I got there on […]