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wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee(l)!

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guess what was waiting for me when i got home from work last night? that’s right! the awesome people who shipped my new spinning wheel out from just-across-the-state-line, wisconsin, shipped it ups ground, which took only one day to arrive, and … instead of having a little yellow UPS delivery attempt notice stuck on the […]

this is just what i need

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so, i, uh, i did a bunch of work yesterday on the finances, and i, uh, wrote a really fucking big check to discover card, and, um, i discovered that that check is going to save me some money over the next year, and, um, i decided to spoil myself by spending slightly less than […]

sigh.

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as mentioned to no one on this blog, apparently, after a quick browse over previous posts (though i thought i had) … my first real honest-to-god sock … was a mutant sock that would fit no one, save perhaps Bigfoot. not me, not Kim‘s fourteen year-old son with the shoe size of “this kid’s going […]

oo! a contest!

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Hostess Nic says: “To participate, post a random fact about yourself… It can be anything–something no one would know unless you said it.” random fact time it is, then! i think these are my favorite candies ever. (i mean, i like chocolate, but it’s not a candy candy, it’s chocolate. and i’m otherwise just not […]

is it time to panic yet?

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as mentioned, i signed up to Knit a Square for Grandmother Purl. having acquired yarn, courtesy of Kim and her amazing stash, i have since found myself completely unable to conceive of a pattern for an afghan square. i have gone through my books and magazines and, short of actually buying 100 Afghan Squares to […]