Today is Monday. I have the day off. It is the last day of December, which is the last month of the year.
Tomorrow is Tuesday. I have the day off. It is the first day of January, which is the first month of the year.
But it’s still just 24 hours, just like today, just like [...]
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Using the “new” math, which is very much now like the old math, only with a lot less calculation and more relevance and “show work” prompts.
12: months of high-stress job
2: family members who died
19: days off per year
21: days taken off to bury loved ones
23: net pounds lost, plus and minus 5
5: states visited
2: states [...]
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Snowy Woods, originally uploaded by tigerwillow.
One thing not captured by the camera is the silence, the hush that all the snow creates. For me, there is a delicate [...]
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Stitch Marker, originally uploaded by tigerwillow.
This is a yoga mat holder I am knitting – just the very start of it. What you see here will become the [...]
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My new favorite color is green. (No, I don’t mean Greenpeace or Sierra Club-green. Just the plain old color itself.)
Hunter. Kelly. Teal. Grass. Leaf. Wasabi. Fern. Olive. Kiwi. Aqua (is that close enough to green?). Pine. Kelp. Asparagus. Moss. Emerald. Aloe. Bamboo. Spring. All these colors, and even the names, set up a thrill in [...]
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In these few days left of the old year, the trash is swept to the curb, the bargain-hunting, returns and gift cards fly around the mall, the ski weekends/holidays are packed for, family is taken to the airport or waved goodbye to on the driveway, and household projects are inspired by a few days off.
Traditionally, [...]
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For Boxing Day, I went to IKEA today for some overdue furniture shopping. I have cardboard boxes (it’s a cheap box tie-in, sorry), instead of bookshelves, and I am determined to have all of my book friends out and happy by year’s end.
The shopping was fine and I spent money, yadda yadda yadda… but it [...]
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We’re home and winding it down for the day. Christmas 2007 is almost on the books (if we kept records). And again, for the 30th-something year, I did not get a pony.
Replete with friendship and good red wine, stomach a little too full of food, the trash can full of trash despite best efforts to [...]
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Christmas Eve. The day has gone by in a blur of sleeping late, nibbling on tomorrow’s goodies, wrapping presents for the neighbors and finishing laundry. The Kid has been depressed – the wait is proving to be too much for him and he wants it all NOW. I told him not to rush the day [...]
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What, you mean you don’t “texturize” your yarn pre-start or midway?
I went to a friend’s house last night, taking my brand spanky new bag of bottle green yarn – three buns of Rowan KidSilk to make the Alterknits Multilayered Shawl ( a tube of knitting through which you pull a fine piece of silk chiffon!). [...]
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