A few weeks ago, I was nuking some leftovers for lunch at work. A co-worker came out, inspected my chili, deemed it savory-smelling enough, and then commented that he had the exact same plastic tubs at home but was hesitant to use them. When pressed, he muttered “Bisphenol-A” and left it at that. That’s my […]
Aside from the weird colours of “plaid” displayed at the local Tommy Hilfiger shop, we found this sweater that had to boldly assert the fact that it is, indeed, fair-isle. WTF? Seriously, if the husbeast wasn’t already aware of what Fair-Isle knitting was, this would stump him. I can see men all over the world […]
Remember that whole pretending to be grown up thing I was talking about? We’re making a pretty concerted effort to be more aware of what’s going on, and it’s really paying off. This is what it looks like around here tonight. We’re finding that with both of us working on our respective writing, we can […]
It’s that time of year. We braved the mall yesterday, and did quite a bit of Christmas shopping. The adults aren’t quite so difficult to shop for once you start tweaking onto them. It’s the kids. You’d think that the kids would be easy to shop for…when I was their age, I wanted half the […]
Welcome to my home: This is what I came home to last Sunday. We had spent most of the weekend cleaning, and Robin had decided to finish the job while I was at work. He also cooked dinner (stir-fry), and we cleaned up afterwards. The kitchen is still in pretty good shape. We’re trying to […]
This may not be news to anyone who reads my blog, but I’m almost done Robin’s shiny happy socks. The biggest challenge? Making sure that the long colour gradation didn’t change abruptly after the heel. You see, I didn’t do an afterthought heel, or a contrast heel…I just knit the heel. On sock #1, it […]
We are totally exhausted. Today was spent in preparation for Christmas. We got up early and started cleaning the main floor of the house. Most of the counters are clean, the floor is scrubbed…even the table is almost prepared. I even have a very sweet husband making my dinner in the kitchen (Yay! Meatlog! …er…Meatloaf….). […]
So, we went to the mall to get someone some new pants and wound up in the Christmas section. Yeah. That one went out on Twitter with a caption of “If you complain once more, you’ll meet an army of *me*”. Though the “me” was misspelt. Dratted predictive text. But yes…we found pants. Pants are […]
Just a quick one…Last night’s dinner: Don’t you think he’d look great in a music video, maybe dancing around to a tune by Peter Gabriel? I sure thought so. Dinner was surprisingly healthy: Chicken, a salad, and veggies. Tasty! More than halfway done sock #2 of Robin’s Beer Socks. Going fairly fast now that I’m […]
It has now reached *that* time of year. The time of year when the cute little slender girls are decked out in cute little swing coats, with their cute knitwear that’s meant to look bulky so that they look tiny. It’s a fashion that never seems to go out of style, and why should it? […]