Archive for the 'Family Stuff' Category



a busy month is in store? Can I go hide now?

Published on November 1, 2007

Egad, it’s NaBloPoMo again!  Who’da thunk it???  How time flies from one November to the next.  The bigger question is — am I up to it?  a post every day for a month??   There’s so many issues here firmly against my success.  I have that pesky “day job” that unreasonably takes up so much of my […]


Serendipity sock toe, 2nd attempt and still not right

Published on October 31, 2007

This is getting really, really boring. I’ve started these damn socks twice now, and they’re coming off the needles again. Last time, I was so happy with the feel and color of the yarn, I just kept zipping along, happy as a clam in warm mud. When I finally came up for air, I realized that I […]


Well, shit

Published on October 29, 2007

You know how it is – being a grown-up. You got 600 things on your mind that you’ve got to do ; the dryer is ringing and the clothes will wrinkle if you don’t get to them RIGHT NOW; you haven’t a clue what you want to cook for dinner and everybody is hungry, two are crying […]