If my neighborhood votes to change the date of Trick-or-Treating this year because Halloween is on a Monday, I will hurt someone.

The day I received word that I'd made it into the MCM, my husband said: "Shit! You're in the soup now!"

And he was correct. I've been deep, deep, in the soup since early June.  I've been plowing through the soup before sunrise, every Saturday, and into the evenings during the week. I can't see doing this again anytime in the foreseeable future, ( Read more... )

Having finished the shipwreck shawl, I wanted to do something less mentally taxing. One of my best and oldest friends just had a daughter. I want to make something for her ( Read more... )

Shipwreck mischeif managed.


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I love the writings of Bunmi Laditan. There are so many mommy bloggers and sites out there, but hers really speaks to me. I'm still into Ayun Halliday's parenting writings, but since her daughter is much older, it's nice to read from someone with a toddler. I haven't read a ton of Laditan, I catch her here and there on FB. She made the most epic ( Read more... )

So if you play "No Man's Sky", and you come across a species called "JakeFromStateFarm" - that's one of ours. Yes, it's hideous.

I've made a good start on the Shipwreck Shawl.


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In other news, "The Undress" came in.  LOVE.  I'm pretty okay with changing whereever anyway, but I do love that this makes it very easy to get out of sweaty work-out clothes efficiently, and looks nice enough that it can be worn where ever I'm headed next. The height of "never nude" technology. XD

I just started "The Girl with All the Gifts". It's been on my want-to-read list. I pushed it to the head of the line since the movie is coming out. I'm only a few chapters in, but enjoying what I've read so far. It reminds me a tiny bit of "Never Let Me Go" by Kazou Ishiguro, although I expect that to shift as it goes on. 

An aunt at the reunion: Wow, and look at your tan! That must be from running ( Read more... )