Since the mega-push to get the house cleaned up and further along the track to organized, I've been feeling pretty deflated. Deflated but weirdly restless. I really need to start working toward something worthwhile as far as my own personal, out-in-the-world sort of work. I've been very introverted and very private lately for the most part, and ( Read more... )

So today is Rhiannon's second birthday. I know everyone says the time flies when you have little ones, and while I can't say it's dragged, I don't feel like it's flown. I think it's because when I think back to two years ago when she was born, it's like it happened in a different life, to somebody else. There have been so many changes, that the ( Read more... )

I've been sick with some kind of respiratory thing that makes no sense to me -- basically a cough and running postnasal drip with no real congestion, and no throat or nasal passage pain, which is unheard of for me. And even though the symptoms are subtle compared to my usual bouts with respiratory viruses, it feels ten times worse because I am ( Read more... )

Went and got my hair cut even shorter today, and I FINALLY went and donated my hair from the first cut back at the end of February. Mailed it off to Locks of Love and am really happy I finally did it, considering when I cleaned out my dresser drawers last year, I found the old ponytail from when I got my hair cut short back in 2003...yeah, I know ( Read more... )

We're in the midst of reorganizing where we store our pictures and moving all photos and vids from Chris' hard drive on to a dedicated terabyte drive ( Read more... )

...is DONE.

I'm wearing it.

It fits!!!!

I finished up the knitting on the second sleeve yesterday, and then last night I went ahead and pinned the relevant parts together, spread them out on my kitchen table, and covered them with damp towels (which daitengu had serendipitously prepared for me, unbeknownst to him, when he decided to throw a load of towels in the wash while I was at my dance ( Read more... )

Through a labyrinthine trail of intarweb-connectedness today, I ended up with this:


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I'm closing in on finishing the second sleeve on the Sweater o' Doom, which means the time for the finishing of the dreaded Neckband of Much Woe is drawing ever more nigh. I was looking at how much yarn I had left last night and trying to figure out if it will last through the neckband and the sewing of all the pieces together and feeling very, ( Read more... )

I am very close to finishing the second of the two sleeves for the Aran sweater. What I'm not quite understanding is the finishing of the neckband. This is how it reads ( Read more... )