Really Too Busy to Blog But Compelled to Write a Long Title

As everyone in the free world knows, this is Greys Anatomy night.  With foresight, I could have written a lengthy post detailing every stitch I took in time to change the channel and enjoy my show.  Unfortunately, I was not long on foresight today.  Instead, I was focused on the fact that my child was [...]

Pants, Pride and Peanutbutter

I am eating edible playdough.  Twice I’ve seen Kate mix up equal parts of milk powder, honey and peanutbutter on Jon and Kate Plus Eight.  I’ve watched jealously while the kids nibble on it as they create, and imagined what the mixed flavors taste like.  Today I saw fresh-ground peanutbutter with honey at my Village [...]

Wool, Alpaca and Cashmere, Oh My

Today I had lunch with a friend.  That sounds so ordinary, and in a way it was.  We made the date, we confirmed it this morning, we met at Olive Garden and ate and talked.  There was lots of laughter and second helpings of soup.  But this was a reunion of sorts.  We haven’t met [...]

Briefly Here

Fab day.  I’m knitting away on a scarf that was sold the first time I took it in public.  It’s that gorgeous, soft, feather-light Kimono Angora, in the lovely shades of tan and brown and blue. 
 
The early part of the day was spent on an expedition to Greenlife Grocery, my favorite food shopping place in [...]

Running My Life

It’s a beautiful fall day, cool and crisp and sunny.  There’s no sign of color change in the trees in my neighborhood, but all the green has its own beauty.  I’m seeing this in my mind’s eye, because I just completed a bike ride on my exercise bicycle in my bedroom.  I climbed on with [...]

The Habit of Angora, or Making Art with a Lupus Brain

People always tell me that I’m easy to entertain.  I’m also easy to satisfy.  This morning I got up at 5 and ate a granola bar so I could take some meds.  After the drugs took hold, I bathed, put on my big girl panties, and went to town.  By the time I walked into [...]

Pain Management I

This is me, in pain.  The right knee is throbbing and full of fire.  The feet don’t want to touch the floor.  They scream at the slightest pressure.  The stomach is upset from pain medication.  The legs are swollen to above the knees.  The left median nerve sends electric shocks through the wrist, into the [...]

Reading Cashmere

I’m in Georgia and I’m not sweating.  Thank God for fall, my favorite season.  The humidity has finally decreased down here, although overall it lags behind even the southeastern corner of Tennessee where I live.  Better weather and some easing of joint pain makes me feel like I’m cruising.  Knitting cashmere, eating Kashi cereal, visiting [...]

The Right Music, The Right Yarn

This is my 250th post.  Who’ve thought I’d have this much to say?  If I didn’t live alone, would I be talking to the computer?  Yes.  There’s no one that can be your audience for everything.  I’d certainly wear out a roommate or family member with my knitting ruminations.  The last time I travelled, I [...]

Ball Winders and Grocery Store Carts

Nah, na-na, nah, nah, I’ve got a new ball winder.  And it’s red.  To be honest, when I saw the package on my porch, I hoped it was Kimono Angora, but having the ball winder is good, too.  I could only partly wind my hank of yellow and brown sock yarn, enough to complete the [...]