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Lumpy.
So this week brought some new little hurdles, just as life always does. On Sunday morning, I woke up with an extremely painful and swollen lymph node under my jaw. I wondered briefly what illness I was getting and went on my way to work. By Monday morning, my day off, it had spread to [...]
It’s like Ohmigod!
You can say many things about me. I possess many talents. Gardening, however, is not one of them. In fact I’m spectacularly bad at it. Since moving to Kansas City, you might say that I have a one way relationship with potted plants and cuttings, one of virtually assured destruction. My only briefly successful foray [...]
Back in the swing.
So I had been delaying posting because I wanted to post some great pictures of my newest finished object. However, the weather hasn’t been cooperating (it’s the Midwest, who’s surprised?) so I’m back with projects and all sorts of reviews (books, movies, etc.) First things first. This past weekend I finished my first big lace [...]
You know you want to.
Go ahead. It won’t hurt, I promise. Heck I’ve been up since 3:30am, so just leave me a little comment m’kay?
Reflections on working at a department store.
Coming into a dark, deserted department store is really creepy. You start to think maybe that mannequin over there IS a real person. I thought it would be a little like Claire Danes in Shopgirl. It’s really more like “Cleanup on aisle 3.” Standing on your feet for 8 hours a day is hard. Even [...]
Goodbye 2008, hello 2009!
As I went through my blogroll today, I saw many people who were announcing how glad they were that 2008 is coming to a close. Sure I have high hopes for 2009. I could use a new job. I hope the economy improves. But we have achieved so many wonderful things in 2008. This has [...]
