Month: February 2009
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Fat Quarter Tote Bag Tutorial. Must make this!
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We’ve just hit 200 entries in the Oscar Contest! You’ve got less than a week to put in your picks if you haven’t already. We’ve got clear frontrunners in almost every category, so I am really hoping for some upsets. (Where did Penelope Cruz come from? She’s gotten a big late surge in picks…)
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Note to self: Use Aurebesh in a knitting pattern sometimes for maximum geekitude.
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Congratulations to Kristen who just ran her first marathon this past weekend! She’s posted an awesome race report too. She’s giving me very dangerous ideas…
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I heart Yoko.I kinda always liked Yoko Ono, though I didn’t know much about her. I just had this vague idea that she was a cool yet wacky Asian chick who did her own thing. I felt a vague sense of feminist annoyance whenever people blamed her for breaking up the Beatles. I also really…
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Not-So-Secret Guild BusinessSo the big news of the weekend was that I was elected unopposed as the new Convenor of the Inner City group of the Knitters Guild of NSW. Basically that means I’m in charge of running the meetings for our group of 32 knitters every month. My first act upon taking power was…
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Cats and cupboardsThe foot board beneath our oven used to be broken, and Dr. Amy would climb in and hide under there. We didn’t want Petey learning that trick though, so when we got him Rodd finally fixed the board back in place. Amy was really confused and disappointed. She kept wandering the kitchen like…
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Happy Valentine’s Day!The Snook and I celebrated in our traditional way: going out for a nice dinner. We’d made a reservation earlier in the week for Redoak. They were doing a special Valentine’s set menu, and they also had two new recently-launched beers that we wanted to try. WIN-WIN! We got there about an hour…
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If you haven’t yet entered the web-goddess Oscar Contest, Roger Ebert has announced his picks which might give you some tips.
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Hahaha… To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Amazon.com are offering a free MP3 download of “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye. Nice. Edited to add: Bastards. It’s US-only. Of course, they don’t tell you that until you’ve already logged in and installed their stupid Downloader app. Grrr.