So, another year has come and gone, and I am left wondering how time has passed so quickly. I still remember so very clearly when the change of the millennium was still far on the horizon, and my young life was just beginning. Sometimes I find myself looking back, wishing I had done one thing or another, but on the whole I find that I love my life. I have a wonderful husband and three gorgeous children, and I would not want to consider my life without them. We have all the necessities - food to eat, a home and beds to sleep in, clothes to ward off cold and sun, and are blessed with numerable luxuries like our pets, computers, toys, and for me specifically, YARN!
So as I consider the years gone, and the year to come, I am hopeful and most especially grateful for what I have. I know that 2009 will have it's hardships, and that we will meet them as a family. I believe that it will indeed be a happy new year.
And with that I offer you all a heartfelt and considered Happy New Year!
Friday, January 2, 2009
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Here be Dragons!
Due to my deep and abiding love of Dragons and of critical thought, I give you
HERE BE DRAGONS!
This is long but worth it. Brian Dunning (the host/narrator) does a weekly skeptics podcast skeptoid and is involved in the collaborative effort that is the skepticblog.
And now I am off to find some dragons.
HERE BE DRAGONS!
This is long but worth it. Brian Dunning (the host/narrator) does a weekly skeptics podcast skeptoid and is involved in the collaborative effort that is the skepticblog.
And now I am off to find some dragons.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas! uh, and some socks!
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope your holidays were wonderful. Me, after a long day filled with overindulgence and too many presents to count I sat down to check email and found myself laughing.
Sing along if you love handknit socks!
Sing along if you love handknit socks!
Sunday, December 7, 2008
A Princess...
Your result for The Princess Bride trivia Test...
Buttercup
Inconceivable! You scored ###!
A respectable score. This movie is probably nestled in your dvd collection, and its not gathering dust either. You are a big fan, if not yet utterly devoted. A few of the questions may have stumped you, but instead of being annoyed, this just makes you want to watch it again to find out the answers. Well done!
Monday, November 10, 2008
The tale of David...
David verses Goliath. The ultimate story of triumph - to beat the odds and all expectations and come out victorious. That is David. And now I hope that it is also my local yarn shop.
Unraveled is a lovely little store in Monrovia that just feels like home when I go in there. I have to admit that I am guilty of a lot of petting and very little buying. I do not have much to spend, even on the good days. But where this downturn in the economy is pinching my pocketbook (and my yarn funds) it has put a chokehold on very life of this store, and I would dare say many others.
The ladies of Unraveled have come up with an astoundingly clever idea to stave off death, and defeat the Goliath of global economic downturn to save this store - create a co-op where one becomes many. Create a living interest in the life and health of the store. $40 a month for 5 months is the cost of the life of this store. Just $40. $40 to buy a living room filled with women and men who understand some intimate corner of your soul is wrapped in wool and fiber and will never mock you for it. $40 for the joy of fondling yarns and dreaming of what they could become upon your very own needles. $40 for expertise or moral support needed to finish that one special project. $40 to say that this is my yarn family, and that this family will not let you down. It seems so little - and yet so much. If you are a knitter in this area of California, all I can do is urge you to consider joining our ranks. There is nothing to lose in asking - everything in not.
And if you do not live in this area, please, give a thought to your own local yarn shop and go buy a little yarn to help take the edge off.
Goodnight all...
Unraveled is a lovely little store in Monrovia that just feels like home when I go in there. I have to admit that I am guilty of a lot of petting and very little buying. I do not have much to spend, even on the good days. But where this downturn in the economy is pinching my pocketbook (and my yarn funds) it has put a chokehold on very life of this store, and I would dare say many others.
The ladies of Unraveled have come up with an astoundingly clever idea to stave off death, and defeat the Goliath of global economic downturn to save this store - create a co-op where one becomes many. Create a living interest in the life and health of the store. $40 a month for 5 months is the cost of the life of this store. Just $40. $40 to buy a living room filled with women and men who understand some intimate corner of your soul is wrapped in wool and fiber and will never mock you for it. $40 for the joy of fondling yarns and dreaming of what they could become upon your very own needles. $40 for expertise or moral support needed to finish that one special project. $40 to say that this is my yarn family, and that this family will not let you down. It seems so little - and yet so much. If you are a knitter in this area of California, all I can do is urge you to consider joining our ranks. There is nothing to lose in asking - everything in not.
And if you do not live in this area, please, give a thought to your own local yarn shop and go buy a little yarn to help take the edge off.
Goodnight all...
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Inspiration
In four days we will change the face of our nation. I, for one, have enormous hope that it will be for the better.
Some inspiration for those of you out there...
Yes we can!
Some inspiration for those of you out there...
Yes we can!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
VOTE!
There are many things that I want to say about this upcoming election. I feel that it is likely to be the most momentous and important vote of my life, and that the result will affect this country for good or ill in dire ways, depending on the outcome.
As I turn introspective about the future of this, my country, my home, I offer you this thought for next Tuesday....
As I turn introspective about the future of this, my country, my home, I offer you this thought for next Tuesday....
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