Archive for November, 2011
Fred Eaglesmith’s (lack of) math skills always bother me. In his song “Lucille”, if the guy singing aged from 19 to 45, then Lucille, who was 50 at the beginning of the song, is only 76 at the end. It’s not unreasonable that she’s in a wheelchair – that can happen at any age – […]
Eek!
Any day which begins with a dead mouse an is scheduled to end with a dentist appointment and a doctor’s appointment is probably not going to be a good day. Monday night, I heard a rustling in the kitchen, when I was the only one home. Our cleaning service people have an annoying habit of […]
Magick for sale
I confess to an unworthy urge not to tell anyone about the Magick4Terri auction to benefit Terri Windling, because there is just so much cool stuff for sale and I don’t want people to outbid me. But, well, for one thing plenty of people with much wider readership are trumpeting the news about the auction, […]
not enough weekend (but a bonus story)
I ran out of weekend before I ran out of things I needed to do this weekend. Oops. I still need to sew two more buttons on a skirt I made (but at least I finally sewed in a ribbon to keep the waist from stretching and drooping); make the packaging for my Sinterklaas gift […]
cards, Challenge, coronation
I started my holiday cards today, and have concluded two things: My handwriting is definitely going downhill, probably because I hardly ever do any except to sign my name. I did about 7 cards, and this may be the most I’ve written in months without a keyboard. Second, I’m not sending a card to anyone […]
the season begins
It must be humid today. I have my hair pulled back with a barrette and it looks like Beatrix Lestrange’s. Last night was Thanksgiving, a day early, as mentioned: 36 people, four turkeys, and two hams. Glad I only had to eat, not cook. I did roast a tiny chicken on Sunday, made boawties & […]
Happy Thanksgiving, a smidgen early
Thanksgiving dinner for the local Americans is tonight – one of my coworkers, who organizes periodic “rib nights” for Americans in town from our company, has gotten the same restaurant to make us Thanksgiving dinner for the second year in a row. Last year’s was awesome (though the cranberry sauce was distinctly strange) so I […]
they were where?
We had a moment of panic today, after I realized that my keys were missing. I’d had them when I let myself into the flat earlier today, and I looked everywhere sensible, the usual un-sensible places where keys can end up, and anywhere else I could think of, with no luck. Ted had to go […]
November makings
My knitting has gotten complicated again. I’ve just started a lace cowl I’m calling Wisp, an airy thing made of blue-gray lace yarn left over from a couple of shawls. It’s too my own pattern; the first lace stitch I tried was too airy and I was afraid it would just crumple and look like […]
warming up and being impressed
At least the tmperature in here is better than yesterday – we had the office heat turned up but it didn’t seem to be working. I am becoming convinced that whether it’s sunny or not (today is sunny but hazy, yesterday there was thick fog) has more effect in here than the actual HVAC system. […]