unplugged productivity & a kitty in the sunshine

Monday, 8 March 2010, 13:39 | Category : miscellany
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Things I accomplished in my week of little-to-no internets, an unnumbered list.

Finished knitting the huge, boa-esque scarf that I have been working on for ages. Photos forthcoming. Of course, now that it is finished it is too warm outside to wear it. I have lousy knitting karma.
Read Shaun Tan’s Tales From Outer Suburbia on recommendation [...]

iWednesday

Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 22:27 | Category : miscellany
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I spent a large portion of the afternoon mesmerized by the shininess of the Apple iPad. Even though it has a horrible, horrible name. For about an hour I seriously considered getting one, since we were planning on replacing our MacBook later this year anyway and we don’t use it for that much. And it [...]

this post is all about shoes

Thursday, 14 January 2010, 13:29 | Category : miscellany
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I’ve been trying all week to come up with something to blog about, to no avail. I’m not doing anything other than writing and making tea and while my tea is lovely and the writing is going better than I had expected it to, it’s not really anything blog-worthy. Tessa napped in the shape of [...]

the to-read pile, 2010

Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 17:39 | Category : books
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This is not all of it, of course. This is mostly the recently acquired stuff. I should really re-organize all the shelves so I can actually see how huge the to-read pile is, but that might get scary.

solstice & snow & such

Tuesday, 22 December 2009, 16:30 | Category : miscellany
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We don’t really have that much snow, but it’s pretty. That nice fluffy white snow that we didn’t get much of last year. I much prefer this to the ice & slush. Though it has made me realize that I need proper boots for snow, not sure what happened to my old ones.

I spent most [...]

miscellany & tessa in a bag

Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 16:33 | Category : miscellany
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So far this week is all storybirds and sketching the tarot kings. I think I have strong sketches for all four kings now. I ended up starting them over and making them all a bit more modern and sort of formal yet casual and I think it works. I’m going to let them sit overnight [...]

50k!

Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 18:44 | Category : writing
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Well, 51,132. And I have at least 20, possibly 30 more before the end will roll around. Going to try to get it done before December.
Bucket remains unimpressed.

hallowe’en!

Saturday, 31 October 2009, 17:36 | Category : miscellany
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Happy Hallowe’en! Blessed Samhain! Merry NaNo Eve!
All that good autumnal stuff.

tipping into autumn

Sunday, 27 September 2009, 15:30 | Category : miscellany
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We’ve had a very busy, very long weekend.
Thursday night we went to see Moby at the House of Blues. I’d never seen him in concert before but I listened to Play practically non-stop when it first came out and his new album, wait for me, is marvelous, so the boy & I decided it might [...]

flopsy yawning kitten sort of day

Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 13:24 | Category : miscellany
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Tessa looks how I feel right now. Maybe without the yawning. But she’s been sprawled out in front of the fan all day and I would really like to be able to do the same but I don’t think I’d fit on that table and I have work to do. Lucky kitten.
I know, I should [...]