the everyday adventures of sabrina

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oh my gosh. the post office’s and my schedule finally coincided and i was able to stop by and claim my parcel… which did indeed turn out to be from my wonderful secret pal!! (image heavy post, squeeing behind the jump.) ((and i’m serious: there’s a lot of squeeeee!))

a weekend’s work

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so i haven’t been updating as frequently as i normally do, and we’ll get to the reasons behind that later, but i wanted to post some stuff. first, i got my spinning wheel a couple of weeks ago — yay! — and it’s way, way, way faster than using my drop spindle! i’ve spun several […]

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 […]