DANG IT, ANYWAY.
No progress pictures to share today, my dears, because there wasn't any progress made! I did stitch, but at the end of the evening, I realized that I had made a big counting mistake, so out it all...
View ArticleSLEEPY AND WEEPY
Where's that darn Snow White when you need her? I am, quite unsuccessfully I might add, wrangling a couple of annoying little beasties. All I need now is for Dopey and Doc to join the mix and we...
View ArticleIN WHICH OUR HEROINE HAS A LOVELY DAY...AND EATS A CHEESEBURGER
Aaaahhhh, much better.Misses Charlene, Jane, Julia, and Beth babysat me for a few hours yesterday and it seemed to do the trick.Either that, or it was the cheeseburger that I ate that was the...
View ArticleOFF TO SEE THE WIZARDS...
Two doctors' appointments, grocery shopping, and a Guild meeting later tonight.Step right up to the window and place your bets, my friends. It's three to one against me completing the above and living...
View ArticleCLICK,CLICK, CLICK, CLICK....WHEEEEEEEE!
It's been quite a long time since I was on an actual roller coaster, but I distinctly remember the sensation of going up that very first hill...slowly...before plummeting down the other side into...
View ArticleHOLEY SCHMOLEY
Somebody must have slipped me a Mickey before bed last night, because my dreams were so strange that I had to stay in bed quite late today just to see how they ended.I was in a musical. Singing,...
View ArticleOFF TO SEE...YADDA YADDA YADDA
No stitching last night, unfortunately. My grocery shopping trip was rather eventful in that I almost had a "CLEAN UP ON AISLE FOUR!" situation when I thought I was going to have to have a lie down in...
View ArticleMY VERY SECOND SELFIE
(My first selfie was the one with me holding a sleeping Stewey.)Ugh...I absolutely positively hate my photograph. But in this case, I wanted to grab a shot of the haircut so I could remember what it...
View ArticleOK, ONE LAST WIZARD
Thank you for your lovely comments about my photo. It'll take while, I'm sure, but I will eventually stop fretting over things like my face and just get the heck on with it.Pre-surgery testing today,...
View ArticleONE MORE THING...
No political commentary here, but do you know the first thing I thought when I saw this?"Holy crap, Stewey would have gone batshit crazy for that outfit and I'd be standing in the JoAnn's right now...
View ArticleDEEP THOUGHTS FOR A MONDAY MORNING...
I don't know why, but I watched the show "Hoarders" last night, and it got me thinking...If I'm ever the poor soul sitting next to the dumpster as they carry all of my crap out into the front yard in...
View ArticleHOW ELLIE SIEFRED TAUGHT ME TO MAKE GUACAMOLE
chopped avocadodiced seeded tomatodiced onionminced garlicchopped baconsalt pepperlime juiceMiracle Whip (just a tiny tiny titch)Amounts? Who the heck knows? Every time I make it the amounts are...
View ArticleSHE WAS THE ORIGINAL SPINSTER STITCHER.
The apartment...the clothes...the whacky friends...a career girl on her own, just trying to make her way in the world with spunk, charm, and some needlepoint to keep her company.
View ArticleUPSIDE DOWN
I'm wide awake at night and sleeping all day and I can't seem to get out of my own way lately. Today was supposed to be laundry and housecleaning, but so far all I've managed to do is stare at the...
View ArticleWHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE, KURT VONNEGUT?
I'm a Great Books major who has never read Breakfast of Champions.OK, in my defense, there were very few novels on our reading lists...I seem to remember a tortured Spring Break with War and Peace...so...
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