Books and other lovely things

My recent lack of blogging can largely be summed up as “where the hell did November go and why is it December 6th already?”. Sorry about that.
(ETA: For further examples of how quickly time has gone, witness my conviction (above) all day that today is December 6th rather than 7th. No wonder so many things [...]

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Yarn, Thanksgiving and roast potatoes

I have just enjoyed a Thanksgiving weekend with my sister. It was pure accident. She booked her flights, told me the dates and I squeed as I realised that she’d unwittingly booked to be with me over the long weekend so I’d get the Monday off work to spend with her without worrying about vacation [...]

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Day of Caring and sweater thoughts

Oddly, this post may not be about actual knitting even though it has sweater contents.
But to kick off with the United Way Day of Caring. This is a thing that my company supports and thus yesterday I went out in the community with a bunch of my colleagues to clean and paint a shelter for [...]

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Not the post I planned

I was going to write a post about the weekend, about the pizza I made (from scratch including the base!), the over-indulgence in cheesy herb bread resulting in a low-fat plan for this week and the baby shower I went to on Sunday. Except that I’ve largely forgotten how that post went and instead I [...]

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TGIF!

I am working from home today while I wait for Sears to turn up and declare that they don’t have the parts/sufficient people and cannot install the pedestal on my washing machine. It’s not like this is their fourth attempt to do so or anything…
Working from home has so far involved forty-five minutes on the [...]

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Dirty Dancing, Grey’s Anatomy and other stuff

Last night Mum and I decided that we needed to watch Dirty Dancing. I still love that movie so much. The dancing is amazing. The story is great and moving, the music is just right, but it’s the dancing that really captures me. Swayze was fantastic The only gripe I have is that [...]

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Fall TV and so on

It’s September, that must mean that it’s time for regular TV shows to start again. Woo!
This year, I’m handling it better than last year. ER and CSI never got watched because I missed their premiers and didn’t know until we were four episodes in that either one had started. CSI:NY only got watched for the [...]

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About the posts that have suddenly appeared…

As an explanation for why a month’s worth of posts that have suddenly appeared…
I run two blogs: this one and a very fannish one. This one has some of the same content, but a lot of the more fannish posts aren’t copied over because I know that it’s not something that the readers of this [...]

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I aten’t dead

After all the reports, forecasts and huge amounts of preperation, Hurricane Bill turned out to be, er, not nearly as bad as everyone thought it would be. Ah, well.
In fact, Hannah was scarier last year.
I had one brief power flicker, but otherwise everything was stable. The rain started early in the morning, with the wind [...]

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This is going to be fun

So, hello there Hurricane Bill. You’re going to be fun, I can tell.
I was planning a night away this weekend with my knitting crew. Lots of knitters, a few babies, food and yarn in a cottage on the shore. As Hurricane Bill will be arriving on Sunday and the heavy (100+mm!) rain will be starting [...]

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