depression sucks

I have been royally depressed over the last three weeks.  The week my dad was here, I felt pretty good, but as soon as he left, I went down into the hole again.  Then this last week I just went over the edge.  And I was in denial so I was fighting it which means [...]

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the *real* reason i check my bloglines blogroll

more cat pictures
For the LONGEST time I would see people referring to LOLCAT and I had no idea what they were talking about.  I figured it was an internet fad thing like boot cut jeans were a fad in fashion.  Uh, yeah, we’re still wearing boot cut jeans.  Five years later.  (We’re still wearing boot [...]

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the tale of the hooker bra – post earthquake

Before I came to San Diego, I went to a women’s fashion store to buy some fashions and they were having their usual, “Buy 1 bra, get 2nd 1/2 off” sale. Of course I took the bait but they didn’t have my size in a color I wanted, so the gal ringing me up [...]

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how much is too much?

Wait, don’t answer that.  The answer to this question will vary wildly from one knitter to the next.  I thought that this would be the year that I would knit through my stash.  Well, knit only from my existing stash without further enhancing my stash.  But there are some problems with this plan:
1.  I have [...]

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next time

We have two of the greatest dogs on earth. Toby and Boo are sweet and generally well behaved (any bad behavior is a lack of training on our parts). They turned ten this January – double digits. I think, based on what I’ve heard and read, that miniature dachshunds have a life [...]

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