This has been a week for finishing up random old projects, some of which I've had hanging around the house for (quite literally) years. Most of them have made more than one move with me. They're the kind of things you look at say 'yah, I ought to get around to that, eventually', but of course you almost never do. It helps that sitting for long ( Read more... )

I can't figure out if it's the fact that they're swelling up, and I'm sleeping on them at night (putting them into a deep and numbing sleep), or the fact that I've spent over 40 hrs knitting this last project. But boy, do my hands ache. It's not muscle-ache, either, but bone-deep joint ache that makes me sympathetic to those that develop arthritis ( Read more... )

I just love it when you can take the scraps and bits leftover from other projects and put it together into something new and lovely. Heck, I just love it when a project comes together, complete.. and done. Half-finished projects drive me nuts ( Read more... )

I feel guilty making out a "wish list ( Read more... )

I've been pouring my time and energy (as well as back, knees and ankles) into painting my first room, ever. It's incidental that it happens to be the nursery ( Read more... )

I've been having troubles with my left foot for about four months now--maybe longer. It gets hard to remember how long it has been. I think, in the beginning, I may have lightly pulled the tendon in the bottom. In the beginning it was just one of those injuries that was not debilitating, but rather just plain painful and annoying once you get going ( Read more... )

So.

I found out last week from okapi_jeff that Oregon voters get their ballots in the mail. There aren't even polls you can go to at all. So for once I sat down and went through our mail carefully. And lo-and-behold, I found my husband's ballot ( Read more... )

Dry ice rocks ( Read more... )

Here's something I fail to excel at, and with very little guilt. I could quite easily watch more news on TV, but it is depressing. Like too much of our generation, my husband and I get most of our news from The Daily Show ( Read more... )

So, there are probably some few that are curious what the heck Xia Pei is, and what it has to do with Chia Pet.. all except jeditigger, who already knows. And might remember. Or might not.

So in the sense of nonsensical rambling, I'll give a short overview.

There is an evil game. It is called Asheron's Call, or for short, 'AC'. jeditigger, amidst much mocking, ( Read more... )