pre-sleep chit-chat

“Do you ever lay there with your eyes open while you’re trying to go to sleep?”
“Uhhh, sometimes. Why?”
“Well don’t you think maybe you’d go to sleep faster if you had your eyes shut?”
(pause)
“Are you laying there with your eyes open now?”
“YAH.”
“Why?”
“Well you can’t see my eyes rolling back in my head with my eyes shut.”
” [...]

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Goats!!!!

I saw goats this weekend!!!

And where did I see such adorably cute little goats, you ask? Why, at a sewer lagoon (of course).

(This was outside Fort Flagler, which is the third fort in the Triangle of Fire that I’ve seen.)
And I also saw a seal sea lion (in the wild!).

Needless to say, our trip to [...]

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Sunday Breakfast

Woke up this morning with a HANKERING for my mom’s peach oven pancake. So I called her up and got the recipe, and then I also found it in my Better Homes & Garden cookbook and it’s also available here. Here are my edits to the pattern… er, recipe:
2 tablespoons melted butter
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 [...]

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Weekend Plans

This weekend we are going to pick up a wind generator that T found on Craigslist (we are all about the alternative energy sources these days!). I am looking forward to a day of car knitting (with my new book “Knitting on the Road”!) and checking out the sites around Port Townsend.
Seriously. Check out the [...]

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Do you realize what today is???

It’s March 22nd, folks. And “This American Life” is debuting on Showtime tonight.

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Redemption

Sort of.
I ripped out all the decrease rows and then changed my decrease frequency (to less frequent decreases), and then only decreased every OTHER row (instead of every row). So at least now the hat is no longer poochy at the top, and there is no gaping hole, but it might be a tad small. [...]

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I bow humbly before the knitting gods

A while ago I pretty much decided never to buy another knitting book again. (Unless it really struck me or  the patterns just seemed so unbelievably complicated that I wouldn’t be able to figure it out myself (but really… since when do I knit super complicated stuff?)) It started when I found this free pattern [...]

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Dear Internet, I love you.

A couple of years ago I was over at T’s parents’ house and for some reason (not because I didn’t want it, but because I am notorious for losing things) I talked his mom into letting me borrow this cute little sheetcake cookbook that was her beloved (and late) father’s, who was apparently not much of a [...]

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Probably the dorkiest thing I’ve ever done.

I posted this ad on (the Vancouver) Craigslist last night:

And guess what! I got 3 responses in like half an hour. All from fellow Mini-Egg addicts (I swear they put crack in them). I actually OD’d on these a couple years ago, so I haven’t really been buying them in recent years, but after hearing [...]

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my lunch date

Me: Mmmmmm. These are good cookies. Do you like these cookies?
T: They are suitable for forward processing.

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