Getting there [Quickie]
Posted on: 2008-08-05 10:57:56

I actually have about two weeks' of photos to post but haven't gotten around to loading them on the computer, let alone cropping them and uploading them to the server. I even have pictures of the ripped-off skin caused by a Gatorade bottle on my hand. :) At any rate, I might work on getting the pictures off my phone and camera since the WoW servers are down, but I'm much more likely to crochet. Yesterday I finished one side of Simon's pillow (the hard side) and a hat. The day before that I finished a hat. I've also gotten about a foot going on each of Katie's and Tommy's blankets. I've finished all the squares needed for the parents' blanket. Needless to say, I've done a lot of crocheting in the past couple weeks. It's a wonder my hands still function. Meh, I've started another hat, and I'm watching "The War of the Coprophages." Time to get back to the yarniness of it all.

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Sore thumb [Life]
Posted on: 2008-07-25 14:56:17

The day is barely half over, and it has already been a very long day. I went to bed around two, which isn't that bad, and after falling asleep around three, I woke up only twice during the night. I got up with Ian when his alarm went off at ten and booted up WoW whilc he got ready for work. He shaved off most of his beard and went down to just the mustache and goatee and was

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On hold [Crafts]
Posted on: 2008-07-24 13:21:50

Well, some of the craftiness is on hold for a little while. While I have some yarn to begin work on Katie's halfghan, I don't have the right size hook for it. I have lots of crochet hooks—both steel and aluminum (as well as one wooden one)—ranging from very, very small to fairly large, but there's a gap between the medium-sized ones and the larger ones. I have aluminum hooks C-J

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One down! [Crafts]
Posted on: 2008-07-22 11:36:40

I have finished the sage green afghan for Sarah. I did the last stitch sometime last night around 8:30. All I have to do now is weave the loose ends in from where I switched skeins, and it's totally and utterly done. Woo! What a rush. I also made ten squares yesterday for the rainbow-colored afghan. I'd made twelve the day before. I think I have about 45-50 squares left to make

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Surrounded by crafts [Crafts]
Posted on: 2008-07-18 19:12:25

Currently, half of the couch is covered in yarn and craft projects. I've got the rainbow-colored granny blanket over here, the sage green halfghan as well, a pillow to fix for my niece, and a lot of black and white yarn for a pillow with a skull on the front. I've also got blue yarn for a blanket I'm going to start once I finalize what pattern I want to do, and there are hooks scattered all over—

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My kingdom for a translator [Pets]
Posted on: 2008-07-17 04:56:29

Cats, unlike dogs, can produce a wide variety of sounds comparable to the numerous sounds used in human speech. In fact, cats can produce more sounds than particular languages have in total. It's fascinating (and science fiction) to think that perhaps cats have their own language. Maybe I've been watching too much SeaQuest DSV where they've created a program to

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Blathering [Random]
Posted on: 2008-07-16 12:09:55

I really couldn't think of a title for this post because while I feel like posting—mostly just to remove the graphic-intensive previous post from the top—I don't really know what I want to post about. I guess I'll just ramble. After all, I'm pretty good at that. Or at least, so people tell me. Honestly, I don't think I'm all that great at talking—to individuals or to groups. I think my thought

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Crochet projects [Crafts]
Posted on: 2008-07-10 22:03:44

This is a shout-out to the family about my summer's obessive crocheting. I've gotten it into my head that I want to make an afghan for each sibling and one for the 'rents. It started with wanting to make a pillow or two for Sarah because I was making pillows for Jessica (which I just finished a couple days ago; I just need to get out and mail them or something). Then the pillow idea sort

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Annoying critters [Life]
Posted on: 2008-07-08 12:09:45

I'm going to have to respray the outside of the house again with bug killer. While the product says it's good for many months, it appears it's really only good for about a month. Either that or we have incredibly persistent and resiliant bugs. There are ants around Kitty's food dish again, and Ian pulled yet another deer tick from my arm last night. Hoo-ray. Damn bugs. If they weren't so

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Crowley Colby [Food]
Posted on: 2008-07-05 20:00:19

Sometimes I like to do something special for the husband. He is, after all, the greatest person in the world, and the cutest on top of that. So since he has been putting up with me being unemployed and me making a mess of the living room in the name of organizing and cleaning, I decided he needed something a little different. Knowing my husband pretty well, I decided on

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