You just won’t believe me

I have been dying to make this post, and I think I’m finally ready to. By some bizarre confulence of events, I have internet access, a free few minutes, and a big story to tell.
Let me explain.
(If you don’t want to read all this, skip down to the good part, ok? Please?)
Friday, we decided that [...]

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Guess what I’m doing right now?
Nuthin’. And it is so sweet. I’m burning comp time on a Friday afternoon, I have a Coke in the freezer cooling off (50 minutes, no more, no less), I’ve the door open, the breeze wafting in, and happy kitties coming and going as they please.
And I am not doing [...]

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where I corrupt the innocent

Last week, I was asked the sort of question that makes folks like us weep with joy.
“Cygknit, will you teach me to knit?”
When I was done drying the tears from my face, I asked her if I truly heard her right.
“You want me to teach you to knit?”
“Uh-huh.”
“You sure?”
“Yep”
I made plans to go to the [...]

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Hurray!

Congratulations to Netter, the winner (by random number generator) of my first-ever contest. This is what she gets:

Some Austermann Step and a pack vintage dpns I picked up recently. Although they’re not compatible with each other, I thought the needles were fun. I picked the sock yarn up at the Yarn Harlot [...]

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Would you like to hear some good news?

I don’t have to lose the whole nip.
Can you believe it??
As I said yesterday (muddled in everything else I said) I had been too nervous? frightened? chicken? to write down any questions until sat down with a glass of wine. Terry (soon to be a fellow blogger) offered for the umteenth time to go [...]

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Confession

Have you ever read something that has humbled you?
I did today, which has prompted me to interrupt my (almost negligible) pictures of the (lack of) knitting I’ve been doing lately.
I was sent from here to this, about the horrifying process of this blogger finding out if the unidentifiable masses in her breast [...]

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Baby

Not for me, thankyouverymuch, but a visiting baby.
This is Walter (a description of why she’s called Walter is here)

Isn’t she cute? She was busy eating my Mac’s mouse all afternoon while her Mommy was up for a visit from Florida. She happily perched on our floor cushions for something like three hours, and never once [...]

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Crankypants

I am so relieved to find that I am not the only one that (apparently) gets cranky without my daily dose of fiber.
(I am not going there with that joke, just so you know.)
I feel, well, vindicated. If it was just me, I might laugh nervously, change the subject to something else, and dash off [...]

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It is with great trepidation

I feel a bit nervous here, now. Like I’ve gone back to my old high school, and things have changed (though not nearly so much time has passed as that). Time off from the blog–a no guilt, no plans to come back soon kind of time off–has been, well, different than I expected.
I think it [...]

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Right

So yesterday I got a bit sidetracked. Lost it all over the slippery sweet goodnesss of angora fiber. I’m so easy. I decided to split the posts up, angora yesterday, and spinning today, and at least get something out.
This is what I did Sunday and Monday:

That’s of about 80 yards of some wool (two-ply) I [...]

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