This is Olive:

Her favorite pastime is breaking things (not catching snakes, as one may imagine, though she’s developed quite a passion for it). In her first six months with us, she broke nine (9) wedding presents and more than a half a dozen holiday gifts. There was a point where we considered drastically [...]

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wanderpost

For three days I’ve mentally composed but I haven’t had the time to sit and write a post. Anyone expecting a reply email from me may have noticed this already. Typical work and end-of-semester stuff, no big deal. Just zero free time.
This quote is from my cataloging class.
There are two types of [...]

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I feel a wee knitting funk coming on

Thank the Knitting Goddess it isn’t a big one, or an ugly one. Its just that I don’t know where to go next.
The last time a funk came upon me it was due to lack of projects (I know, how bizarre. Rest assured, that will never happen again). The only thing I had [...]

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priorities

Yes, the chance to meet Stephanie Pearl-McPhee was (by far) the best thing about last week. Give me a chance and I’ll even gush about it for at least 35 minutes. (Oh, wait, I did that already in my last post.)
What I didn’t say in my last post was actually the more important [...]

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on fans and embarrassment

Guess what I did today?
No, really, guess!!
I got to see Stephanie.
Let’s just pretend, for a moment, that I didn’t completely geek out and say really stupid stuff. Like, “when I got an email from you once, I told everyone I know. Even the ones that didn’t care and didn’t know who [...]

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this is not funny

I wrote the last post, then decided to hop in the shower. Yes, it was 2:30 in the afternoon. Its my day off, I’m allowed.
I took a nice long hot shower, all the while thinking calm and relaxing thoughts. The events of earlier really did freak me out. I turned off [...]

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oh, yes. again with the snakes

This post was supposed to be about how wonderful the Great Yarn Expedidion of 2006 was. There were to be pictures of “eskimo”, alpacas, and maybe even some yarn. We had a hell of a trip, and thanks to the knitty.com coffeshop we got some really great suggestions for yarn stores on our [...]

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frustration

I have been waiting for days (days!!) to get the camera to talk to the laptop. Since neither of these are machines I bought, I’ve never taken the time to figure out how they work. I mean, I can use them, just not on that deeper mystical interface level where tech people seem [...]

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purple passions and yellow yarns

I hate online communities. At least, that’s what I’ve always said. The sad thing is, “always” doesn’t mean six months or a year. I have, since getting online in 1994, hated online communities, chat rooms, cyberbuddies, et al, with blind purple passion.
It can be seen from my last post that after 12 [...]

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Some thoughts, which led to here, and this.

I haven’t posted here for ages. I have a journal (not a blog) that I’ve had since ‘01 and I’ve used quite a bit or not at all, depending on the the day. I’ve been reading a lot of blogs–specifically knit blogs–since the Knitting Olympics a few months ago, and I felt…a bit [...]

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