Archive for February, 2008

So, I found this recipe for making beads from salt, flour and water. Looks surprisingly familiar, right? I’m pretty sure we did this some other time, but I just can’t figure out when. I froze half the bead dough because it got really tedious rolling the beads up. Then, after two hours in the oven, [...]


Dinner….

26Feb08

… is the most exciting part of today (odd that I actually am drinking, right?). I binged on salsa con queso (yum!) and tortilla chips when I got home from work, waiting to cook dinner until after Josh went running. I don’t know what it is about 5:30 that makes me so hungry. It’s times [...]


I met Ray Bradbury last night. He’s my literary hero.


Awesomeness

26Feb08

Look! The internets has provided a bunch of fun stuff:
How to make paper-mache beads from A Storybook Life (doesn’t that name just about make you gag? )
Rakka from Suspect and Fugitive makes arts from perishable goods every day.
Desiree Palmen creates amazing art, using chameleons as inspiration.
Aaaaand this lolcat makes me giggle. What? You [...]


Boring day

25Feb08

I got about five hours of sleep today b/c I stayed up working farrrrrr too late, and then went straight back to the laptop to do some more work. There was an exciting break to go to the Post Office (which is underneath the local co-op, next to a liquor shop, for some reason. I [...]


Or something. My grampa used to tell me that “whiskey is good for what ails ye,” and dude lived to be 91. Just sayin.’ But I don’t know how to make whiskey, so here’s a shot of chicken soup. It was damned tasty.


Stays put on my needles for a long, long time. I started this scarf for C about three weeks ago. He might be able to wear it next winter, although I’m starting to suspect that I will be enduring this winter for many weeks to come.


And my shirts totally need to be de-pilled.


And this is what it looks like:

Not bad for standing in the bathroom and simply hacking off the pieces that annoyed me!