Archive for April, 2009
back to nursery lunches
OK, no, it’s not all muscle and not really even mostly muscle. Saturday featured some depressing moments involving trying on shorts in size L (tight in the waist) and XL (fine in the waist and hips, tight in the thighs. Apparently even XL women here are expected to have twig legs). Fortunately after that a […]
not supposed to be a growing girl
This morning I was not thrilled to find that my scale claimed I had gained two kilos since Sunday. (My weight does fluctuate up to one kilo day to day, but two seems like an awful lot of water weight!) This put me at my highest weight ever. I was even less thrilled to notice […]
Beadwork days seem to be alternate SUndays around here; that’s when the cleaning people come and I retreat into my craft room to be out of their way. Total: 2 pendants and 3 pair of earrings. The two pendants are matching stones; I’d have made earrings out of them but they’re too heavy. I’m not […]
blisters, beads and macro
We got out on the water today! For some reason Rudder and I both agree that rowing here feels much more difficult than anywhere else. I attribute it to the climate – thought it wasn’t hot today it was warm and still humid – while he’s still theorizing. This is what happens when you haven’t […]
Life is weird
Life is weird in so many ways. Aging is weird. It turns out to feature a lot of odd realizations about how old you are (“old enough to be the parent of those junior rowers”, “almost as old as my MIL when I met her”, “ten years older than friends I class as ‘much older […]
something I’ve been meaning to do
My uncle sent me this photo a while ago, and I’ve been meaning to post it. Chaz’s post of his mother’s photo finally pushed me into it, because there’s nothing like peer pressure fro a fictional character. This is my great-grandmother (we called her Nana, I think because my mother and uncle did – you […]
AWwwwww…
I felt a little off yesterday morning and so worked from home. During the day, I updated one website, completed three short presentations, attended four telecons and ran two of them, and also completed the socks I was working on and began repeat three of the Icarus shawl. And cast on new socks in case […]
finished and unfinished objects
Crap. Apparently I can’t do handstands any more. It’s not a balance issue, just hurts my wrists. On the happier side, here’s some stuff I made or am making. Knitting: the Manos del Uruguay cardigan (red) I finished in January, what I’m called the Granola Greenjeans sweater I made in February (Mr. Greenjeans pattern from […]
still here
Seems like everyone I know who blogs has this problem; after enough years of blogging, you start to have said most of what you have to say about yourself. When I post these days, it’s apt to be a shorter blurb on LiveJournal, partly because I like getting answers to what I write and partly […]