Sometimes in life…

As I recall, this is how Ditka (pronounced Dikka) (former coach of the World Champion ‘85 Chicago Bears, for those of you who don’t know) would start answering tough questions in the locker room. (Or at least that’s how I remember it. I grew up with the ‘85 Bears and watching the Mike [...]

Read Full Post »

Finally! I feel like a knitter… and a blogger… or at least a blog stalker…

Last night Janelle and I met at Tricoter for their Cashmere & Cocktails special. (They had gotten in all these new cashmere yarns for the fall and wanted to share them with their customers, while holding a 10% storewide sale, AND offer free wine & cheese for the event – I’m so there!) I had [...]

Read Full Post »

From the Edmonds Farmers Market

We walked down to the Edmonds Farmers Market on Saturday to pick up some kettle corn and flowers for a friend’s birthday (the kettle corn was for me…) and I spotted this booth full of skirts and bags made out of Amy Butler fabrics (!!!). I nearly screamed with delight when I saw all the [...]

Read Full Post »

Where do I even start?

OK, so I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I finished T’s custom fly-fishing gloves, and although these were technically a pretty simple knit, it took me MONTHS to finish them! It’s at times like this that I realize knitting is more mental than physical. And once I get frustrated by, or disenchanted with, [...]

Read Full Post »

Save the Car Kebab!

My uncle forwarded me an email the other day warning me that the Car Kebab in Berwyn, IL (immortalized in “Wayne’s World”) was at risk of being demolished to put up a new Walgreens!! I quickly forwarded the email to my brother (who in high school drove out to the “sculpture” just to see if [...]

Read Full Post »

Grandma’s socks

My paternal grandmother (the one who taught me to knit) gave me these socks last time I saw her (along with a bunch of other stuff she’d knitted over the years) and I just found them again in my dresser last weekend.
I’ve never worn them, for fear of wearing them thin, but I recently realized [...]

Read Full Post »

Hi! Welcome home! Now pet me!

We went camping at Mt Rainier this weekend had a beautiful day of hiking in the meadows yesterday and then met up with some friends at the Morton Loggers Jubilee today and I FINALLY finished T’s flyfishing gloves on the way home and then I got home and checked email and found out [...]

Read Full Post »

Ultimate Camping List

We’re going camping this weekend to Mt. Rainier (and then to the Morton Loggers Jubilee on Sunday – woot woot!) and as much as I LOVE camping, I HATE packing!!! I totally freeze up and cannot focus on what we need to pack. I realized a couple of camping trips ago that what I needed [...]

Read Full Post »

Happy Birthday, Monkey!!!

A few days ago I decided I wanted to make T a little cat cake for his birthday and I thought it would be in that little Cut-Up Cakes book that his mom lent me last year (which I then lost and re-found on Ebay), but it wasn’t! So I did a quick search [...]

Read Full Post »

fructed

I just tried to buy tickets to see David Sedaris in October and THIS was the password on the Ticketmaster site.

This reminds me of this time in college that I was doing some telemarketing to pay the bills. I was on this super-quick script, trying to sell free car insurance quotes to people, and basically [...]

Read Full Post »