I'm knitting a Torchwood scarf, black background with a red pattern. In more hours of knitting than I care to remember, I've finished maybe six inches of work and am currently unraveling a ridiculous amount of it in search of a mistake I haven't been able to find for almost three hours. Black is incredibly hard to work with. In fact, I feel like ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in almost two months. :( But here's a rant.

If someone comes to your door offering to give you a free carpet cleaning or show you a demonstration of a product with (they claim) no obligation to buy, BEWARE. I was at a friend's house the other day, and she let the guy in. More than two hours later, she was $2500 poorer.

( This was ridiculous. )

Don't correct my punctuation unless you're absolutely sure you're right and I'm wrong. And even then, it's best to do it politely. If you incorrectly "correct" me and you have an attitude while doing so, it irritates me. It especially irritates me on a day when I've been to the dentist and my teeth are still incredibly sensitive and I feel like ( Read more... )

FYI: Not everyone who plans to vote Republican in this year's presidential election is stupid. (For that matter, not everyone who plans to vote Democrat is, either.) Will people please STFU with the insults already? Just because someone has different views than you, places different values on certain issues, whatever, does not automatically mean ( Read more... )