I'm here.  Really.

I've been knitting a lot.   Like, seriously.  A lot.  I'm involved in this totally geeky thing over on Ravelry.com called The Harry Potter Knit & Crochet House Cup.  It's my third 3-month "term" which makes me a "third year;" I'm incredibly invested both in knitting stuff for the assignments and helping to try to bring my House ( ( Read more... )

Ain't it cute?  It's a mother's day card from my brother... looks just like what I do every day.

Well, I don't have that much to say except that my Secret Santa is sadistic and gives lame gifts.  Today I had to solve a cryptogram, which instructed me to go to the Middle School supervisor (who is Deaf) and sign... yes, not sing, but sign, in American Sign Language... "Deck the Halls with boughs of holly..."  well, I gotta tell you, not the ( Read more... )

Okay, when one only checks in once a week, updating is sure to be overwhelming so I'm just going to stick to the highlights ( Read more... )

I was sick all last week.  I started out just being tired on Sunday night, went to bed at 8:30, woke up and dragged my sorry butt to Curves, and realized about halfway through my miserable day that I was getting sick ( Read more... )

Okay, we have new carpet.  That's the Big News.  It looks great.  We left the dog in daycare overnight last night while the nice men were installing it (until 9:30pm).  I picked him up and we headed straight to training class tonight.  Now he is sound asleep.  He's a tired puppy.  But he did great at agility today.  It was officially our last ever ( Read more... )

Wasn't too bad, for either DS or me ( Read more... )

I got the bottom of my foot to stop hurting only to strain my calf muscle.  Sigh.  I can't win ( Read more... )

... I'm not really ready.  My stuff is mostly ready, but my brain is not ( Read more... )

Sick boy continues being sick.  He's better--his fever was more like 100.5 today as opposed to 103 yesterday.  But he was listless and unmotivated all day--just lay there watching TV; his biggest energy expenditures were going to the potty (which, bless him, he continued to do all day) and eating a piece of toast with butter.  He requested a piece ( Read more... )