Jewish American Girl Doll Eats Bagels Sans Schmear. That title just cracked me up. (The word “schmear” always reminds me of Sandy Cohen from The O.C.)
Month: July 2009
-
-
Shared today on Twitter
The Knitters Guild got a plus in this month’s TimeOut Sydney: http://twitpic.com/a6yv2
@witty_knitter It seems to be smacking me around with Round 2.
Whoa! Just discovered that Avenue Q is coming to Sydney! Finally a musical I think the Snook will be happy to see…
Dammit! I haven’t gotten tickets yet! Shouldn’t have told you guys; it’ll sell out! 🙂
Casey has enabled group chats on Ravelry. Party over at Australian Knitters! http://www.ravelry.com/chats/603
@knitterjp Huh. I got in right away! Are you on PC or phone?
@knitterjp It’s weird, because I see you listed as being in the chat.
@knitterjp Tia wants to know if your Java is up to date!
Snookums force-fed me paracetamol. Feeling much better now.
@randomknits I blame myself and the Ravelry chat room for at least part of that.
Just completed a 4.31 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/13wTKZ #runkeeper
First run in over a week. There were some… snot issues… but mostly I felt pretty good. Mentally I feel a zillion times better.
-
Chippendale Road Gardening
Chippendale Road Gardening
On Sunday, after I finished my last knitting class I headed out to help with the neighbourhood road garden working bee. Michael was successful at getting a $1000 grant from the council for more plants and supplies, so a couple weeks ago he put out a call for volunteers. There were six already helping when I got there. We planted some more trees, established a fourth community compost bin, and spread out lucerne mulch around the plantings on Myrtle Street. Snookums was too sick to help – he caught my cold – but he cooked a big pot of kangaroo chili and cornbread to feed the troops. (And there was much rejoicing.) It was a fun day. I got to meet several more cool folks from the neighbourhood, including James (who used to live in Chippo but now just works here). As I wasn’t quite well enough to do the heavy labor, I got the fun task of documenting what was going on.
Cross-posted to Life in Chippendale.
-
Shared today on Twitter
Great conclusion to my knitting class. Three finished socks and two in progress! Now I’m supposed to do community gardening…
I may have overdone it this weekend. Feel like cold is returning for round two…
-
Shared today on Twitter
On the bus to Guild. Looooong day ahead.
In the middle of @mrs_sockvictim’s Colour Theory workshop. Gorgeous and informative.
@bellsg We may put slides online. No Rosered, I think she’s sick!
@knitness What?! The Guildees are all astonishment. 🙂
The workshop was great! We taught 20 newbies how to knit. Library staff were loving it. Massive success. Photos soon…
Photos are up from today’s knitting workshop: http://www.knittersguildnsw.org.au/innercity
@sharre Only took like 5 minutes. I got lots of drag and drop happening here… 🙂
@sharre And the slides are exporting as we speak…
And the cricket is on. If I close my eyes, I can almost pretend it’s summer! Except my feet are freezing.
Why are the cricket commentators talking about Margaret Thatcher and the Welsh coal miners? Just Pom bashing?
@TinyArk That’s only an urban legend. They’re not quite sure how it came to be used: http://bit.ly/D90z5
I’m usin’ ur heater to warmz mah belleh. http://twitpic.com/9zj31
@Alegrya A Cold Rock? Definitely; I’ve run past it several times. Haven’t gone in yet either.
Confirmed: Snookums has the cold too. Did EVERYONE at @mrs_sockvictim’s party get it? There had to be a Patient Zero there.
Heading to M&S for last sock class. That will make 7 hours of knitting activity this weekend that didn’t involve me actually knitting.
-
July Guild Meeting and Workshop
Well, I survived the July Knitters Guild meeting and our first “Knit Wits” workshop at the Library. The meeting was also a semi-surprise Presidential visit, and we had several other visitors from other groups as well. Fiona gave a fantastic presentation on “Colour and Knitting” that was very well received. (We’re hoping to have the slides up on the Guild site soon.) Afterwards, twenty newbies turned up for the knitting lesson. We had all ages, from a 4-year-old boy on up to grandmothers. Everyone at least managed some garter stitch, with several ladies progressing to casting on and off, purling, and even ribbing. There are photos up on our Guild page. Thanks to everyone who came along and helped out!
-
Happy birthday, Sis!
A big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my sister Amy, who joins me in the 30’s today. And just to show what dorks we are now, her preferred birthday gift? A couple domain names for her forthcoming baking business.
-
Beer Geek Chocolate Salted Caramel Cupcakes
Beer Geek Chocolate Salted Caramel Cupcakes. Oooh, that sounds good.
-
Shared today on Twitter
After feeling fuzzy-headed and crap all week, suddenly I’m firing on all cyclinders. Good thing too – today has been manic at work.
My grandpa just forwarded me a picture of an albino peacock “as proof of God’s beauty.” He means well.
Internet – please tell my sister that carbolicio.us is an AWESOME domain name for her bakery.
@nametrader True. She tried to get it but somebody’s squatting. Given that it’s part of her surname, I’m hoping she’ll get it eventually.
@nametrader Carbo, believe it or not. She’s been emailing back and forth with them. She’s made an offer; waiting to hear back.
Finished all my actual work for the day, then spent an hour doing my other job for the Guild. And my shoulders are aching from coughing. 🙁
@Alacaeriel Did you turn off the wifi? If you walk through a lot of wireless areas in the city, that can disrupt the GPS I’ve found.
I got a hell of a stew goin’ on.
Another day, another Guild brouhaha. My website report for the Exec was CENSORED to replace the word “Ravelry” with “the internet”.
@Ezzles I can’t believe you actually did it! The world needs photos…
@bellsg Totally agree. I am obsessed with Joan’s look and am seriously thinking of dyeing my hair red and buying a girdle.
@knitterjp @mrs_sockvictim FRITTERS? MUFFINS? CUPCAKES? What part of “low carb” do you guys not understand? YOU’RE KILLIN ME HERE! 🙂
@bellsg We’ve only just watched the first season. So I’ve still got more to go!
-
HomeSite
Oh man. Adobe finally killed off HomeSite. All of the websites I built in the 90’s were done with HomeSite. I even got quite a few folks at Netdecisions using it. I’ve still got the CD somewhere in my office. (The original developer wrote a few words about it too.)
