So, last week our furnace at home finally gave out. i thought I had fixed it, and when that failed Manitoba Hydro came in in an emergency and sort of fixed it and told us that when it would probably give out again to call somebody else in who would either probably fix it or replace it and, well. It really, really needed to be replaced ( Read more... )

Pick up the nearest book to you.
Turn to page 45.
The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

"Sometimes a stitch pattern just doesn't quite work out how you want it."

...um.

The last time on Oil Change: Overdrive Players were drafted! Players were signed! Players were traded! Players trained! Players played pre-season games! Players got hurt! Players played a regular season game!

Season 2, episode 2

( I love these mama's boys. )

Novillero- Camaraderie or Bust

I've been awake for far too long this morning. I'm going to visit my friends and their new baby later today, so I've (finally) seamed up the baby jackets knit for them, and I need to run out later to buy some red buttons for the one Jets jersey inspired jacket (her dad is a Senators fan, and I can't let that happen to ( Read more... )

I've been saying for a while now that I've wanted to write a recap of Oil Change. For those who don't know, Oil Change is a documentary/propaganda (depends on who you ask) series about the Edmonton Oilers, aka: the failiest hockey-playing frat in the Canadian North. Like HBO's 24/7 Road to the Winter Classic, it actually airs on television during ( Read more... )

Yesterday after teaching my intro class, I brought home two packs of Corriedale Sliver in Winter and Pastel. I had a very clear project in mind that I wanted to try: spin a cabled yarn like I had learned with Francine at the workshop at the fibre retreat last month. Ideally I had wanted to make it a sock yarn as well, to try doing handspun socks.

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So, last week my mom won 4 tickets to see the Jets play the Hurricanes on Saturday night. It was awesome- the crowd was loud and it was constant and it was fun. We were in the 14th row, and great seating (wheelchair accessible, plenty of room and folding chairs so we could move them over and around). Kind of behind the benches, and on the home-side ( Read more... )

I remember when I didn't have any structure to my days, and I was slowly going crazy because of it. Now there's always something, and even when it's busy and I have other stuff going on and I feel like I probably should feel overwhelmed, I dont. So, that's an upside to having a job, I guess.

So yes. I'm pretty busy with work and teaching, and there' ( Read more... )

Oh man, what a crazy good weekend. Left Friday for our fall fibre retreat out at Camp Manitou, and just got back a few hours ago. Spent Saturday in a spinning workshop and learned so much that, along with a late night, left me completely and utterly exhausted ( Read more... )

Heading out of town (barely) for the weekend for our annual fibre retreat- spending Saturday in a spinning workshop and sunday teaching grown ladies how to play with KoolAid (seriously, my life is kind of awesome.) In there I will be chilling with friends and drinking beer and trying to not think of the hockey games or the twitter shenanigans I ( Read more... )