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the write
i started writing again a few days ago. i've had a gnarly case of writer's block for i don't know, the last 4 years or something like that? so i guess i knit instead. got a few sweaters to show for the past few years... but no great american novel.
don't know why i started writing again all of a sudden; it came on in the middle of very banal ( Read more... ) -
mulling over
when i travel it almost always serves as a catalyst for change in my life. the massiveness of being somewhere completely unfamiliar, operating in a different language, with strange lifestyle and customs --and then managing to adapt and deal with that enough to not only survive but mostly have a good time -- well, i always come back feeling like i ( Read more... ) -
well...
was having a pretty good day, but then james came home and proceeded to have human being fail, followed closely by myriad seb fails (at one point actually climbing up the cookie case at wild oats and having to be pulled off, all the while yelling at some guy to shut up ( Read more... ) -
should update
my lack of pictures to include makes me keep putting off updating. mostly because i have pictures to post, they're just not gussied and uploaded, so i think -- well, i'll just wait another day until i go ahead and get those ready, then i'll post. but i don't and i don't.
anyhow, in the garden: pulled out the peas (and made really delicious risi e ( Read more... ) -
i'm back
this keyboard is busted so i'll be brief and pictureful...
i came home to peasplosion. i was afraid i'd missed them, so i was pretty releived to find they'd only just started.
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am in italy
just so's ya know. bologna in particular, which is kind of boring but nice. next to florence and then to rome. france was suprisingly nice... i will post pictures sometime when i get back ( Read more... ) -
the cooking post
the other day i made garbage stock. i do not come from the most culinary of families, so until a few years ago i had never even heard of, much less, used, stock in general. making my own seemed ... not too difficult, exactly, but maybe too fiddly. too much effort. too much prep. but due to all this recession business, the splendid table began talk ( Read more... ) -
hello sprouts
aparecida got me saying "hello 'adjective for small' x" to all small things, as in:
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le jaded
i am feeling very jaded about my knitting lately. the endless stream of finished object photos on my ravelry has made start feeling sort of smug and dismissive, especially the ones where the poses are sort of studied-casual. like -- "check me out in my handspun handknit socks, just chilling in my ridiculously scenic backwilderness. i just do this ( Read more... )
