Thanks Jamie

All this down-time at work is great for personal productivity: knitting, catching up on bills, blogging. The quiet and low-pressure days allow my mind to expand as though in an empty room, to wander and drift, catching the peaks and eddys of the cultural effluvia around me. It’s this expansion that allows me [...]

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The fruits of my labor

Here’s what can be accomplished when the bosses go out of town and the workday is quiet . . . I’m still at work, but I’m out of yarn . . .

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Whistle whilst you work

The big boss is out of town so I am getting in some really quality at-work knitting time today. I’m planning on catching up on online TV and getting through as much of the hand towel as I can. In other slacking-off-at-work news (besides the blog, ‘cause duh, what else is there to do at [...]

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Monkey frustration

So the secret (and now not-so-secret) project I’ve been toting around with me is the Monkey Socks. The actual knitting is going well – no problem at all – but the yarn is pooling and I think the gauge is off, because although the socks are the right size so far, the stitches themselves seem [...]

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At-home weekend

It was a desperately productive weekend at the Barony. I managed to clean out and re-arrange the medicine/linen closet and I made serious headway on moving my stuff into the guest room. It still looks like a storm just passed through, but at least I am starting to see the light at the end of [...]

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Knitting toys I covet

There’s talk of rain on the news today – even though the sky is clear-blue and the sun seems bright. The Baron says that it feels like fall, 70 degrees and sunny. We both really love the rain, and of course cooler weather does make the idea of pulling out more serious and substantial knitting [...]

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Organizing the stash

Today’s going to be another day of bits and pieces, disjointed thoughts and rambling . . . I can just tell . . . so here goes:
The big knitting question of the day: Now that I’m living with The Baron and I have a huge closet in the guest room to play with, how do [...]

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So far, so good

The Baron really is one of the best and most lovely people I’ve ever known. So far, our little co-habitation experiment has survived two huge truckloads of stuff (junk from my old apartment that I haven’t used in years) backing up to his our house. Two meals with my sisters, five nights of my dad [...]

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Reaching out

This morning on the way to work I got a call from Mrs. J, all the way from her distant east-coast home. Since she rarely calls in the morning without some exciting tidbit to share, I was surprised when she responded to my greeting with “Well . . . so you’re moving in?!?” I thought [...]

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Moving in

I couldn’t believe her luck, but adorable found a great apartment, complete with friendly roommate, on her very first try. Saturday morning found us hitting the road early and making our way to Ikea, where we furnished her entire room (almost). We arrived at 11 am, wandered through the candy-land world of imaginary living-rooms and [...]

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