Stripes! My fingers are killing me. http://t.co/CR00ooDK

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RT @crumpet: $2000 and 54 hours to go… Buy some art, help me get to my target and prove my boyfriend wrong, people! http://t.co/dbMtGF1f

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RT @Salon: Permanent stigma: If addiction is a chronic brain disease, why do we still talk like it’s a moral failing? http://t.co/zPrEATJ4

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@pyko I made the transition earlier this year too. A big help: http://t.co/NXKzUBVI

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@pyko I like single window mode. With all my custom shortcuts, it’s great. Except when it crashes.

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Knitters Guild meeting! Selfie with @randomknits. (@ Customs House Library) [pic]: http://t.co/UgK9EmBB

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Lunch! The new cafe is lovely. (@ The Gardeners Lodge CAFE) http://t.co/aqtoufgd

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My first ever Ginger Beer Spider (aka ice cream float). YUM. @ The Gardeners Lodge CAFE http://t.co/Vv5fIUxS

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I LOVE HOBBES SO MUCH. http://t.co/dHmQhuA2

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Stripes are happening! A tiger’s gotta have stripes. http://t.co/FY1WSZRE

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@drkknits Yep. Main body tubes seen with machine, but all assembly and stripes being done by hand. Fingers are sore!

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@catehstn Wow! I hope to see your dress on the night. My party starts earlier that day, so I’m going to try to hit both. 🙂

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@venks79 Nice! Mine is the girl version of that! Did you ride it all the way home??

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@catehstn Haha, yeah, I’m not dressing up as a Mexican. Tossing up between frocks though…

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@catehstn Well, one is a dress I already have. The other is a mythical better dress that I would need to shop for.

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@venks79 Is your bum sore yet? I bet you’ll be walking funny tomorrow! 🙂

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@gilmae @knitterjp @randomknits Haha, Rodd showed me the same link this morning. You Redditors.

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Sirens and cops and fire trucks happening in the Rocks. Anybody know what’s going on?

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Every time I step away from the computer and do some yoga stretches, I feel certain @knitdra gets a happy shiver wherever she is.

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RT @smh: A rescue operation is underway to get to workman who has fallen on the Harbour Bridge http://t.co/X0Zohyr8 // AH that’s the sirens.

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@mikeefreedom Sports doc trying unorthodox treatment: nitroglyerin patches to draw blood to the injured tendon. Seems to be a little better!

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My neighbourhood. @ Chippendale http://t.co/VrkcnNgS

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Playing my current fave song on the office speakers. SING IT WITH ME @randomknits: We are never ever ever getting back together! Oooooooo!

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Devo is playing the Sydney Entertainment Centre tonight. I just walked past a 50yo dude in one of those red plastic hats v

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There is a slight problem, in that I am falling in love with Hobbes myself. http://t.co/OfUBQGBR

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@goldfishgeorge Just google “sew hobbes”. It’s the first result. 🙂

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Brekkie. (@ Eveleigh Market) http://t.co/QA6dlikG

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@witty_knitter @stufromoz They have potted tabletop ones at Eveleigh Markets NOW for $45!

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@randomknits Whoa, seriously? That’s awesome! Thank you!

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@randomknits Yep, I’ll be there. Wooo! Thank you!

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Orange fleece! @redambition saved Christmas! http://t.co/mYCgbtVA

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Also, I hit upon a GENIUS idea for weighing down my pincushions. Pennies! Dense, flat, inorganic. Perfecto.

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@catehstn Damn. Sorry to hear it. I was at that point a few days ago but it lifted. Hope yours does!

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@merrinmez Damn – I’ve had that pattern for years! I would’ve sold it on to you, as I don’t think I’ll ever knit it. 🙂

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@redambition @merrinmez Yay! I have gone a bit pincushion mad.

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@drkknits Really? It looks pretty and sunny from my desk. The harbour does look a little more sparkly than usual…

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@goshling That looks *good*. Also like the equivalent of about 8000 Fitbit steps. 🙂

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So what do you all reckon? Can I use felt to make my nephew’s soft toy? It won’t be as awesome as fleece, but I can’t find orange fleece.

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@RoseRed_Shoes http://t.co/ETJFz1xm

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@RoseRed_Shoes Other options we thought of: maybe T-shirt material? Or even a cheap towel?

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@Justacogitating I want to be A DEN-TIST! (That’s my favourite bit.) That and “BUMBLES BOUNCE!”

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@Opheli8 I’ve done a kitty litter cake before, but never with a fake cat buried in it.

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@redambition @RoseRed_Shoes Score! Spotties at Birkenhead has orange fleece. I’ll have to try to get there after work tomorrow.

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@redambition I would say yes, but you’d probably have to go tomorrow too. (I think they’re only open til 5:30 most nights.)

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@redambition So I might as well just go tomorrow and get it right away. But thank you!

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@redambition Sure, if you don’t mind a hitchhiker! I’m usually here til 5:30, but I can make arrangements to go sooner to meet you.

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@redambition What time do you normally hit Broadway?

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@redambition I can arrange to be there then! I’ll email you. 🙂

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@lifeasdaddy This is a more articulated toy, so I don’t think felt is going to hold up as well as fleece. Luckily I found a source!

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@drkknits I am apparently, like, 1/16th Cherokee or something. Or so my Aunt claims. You know, if you need me to approve anything.

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Holy crap, I actually met my knitters guild resolutions for the year! That was unexpected.

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@drkknits Only managed to ride my bike to Guild once, but I did it!

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Playing “Carol of the Bells” in the office and telling my co-workers how @EileenDCoE has a phobia of that song.

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@bonitoclub @witty_knitter I want all of that furniture. All of it.

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Hmm. In terms of non-Halloween cookie cutters, I have: Round, Heart, Gingerbread Man, and Michigan. That’s not gonna work. #christmas #fail

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@drkknits @GeorgieKnits Computer engineer barbie has her own iPhone app! But this year I got my niece a Lottie. 🙂

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Jealous of everyone going to @yow_oz today!

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@leonor_salazar Did you get it from GGD? I got one too but had to cancel due to stupid unavoidable meeting. 🙁

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So tired of dealing with crappy marketing spam from people trying to take advantage of my sites’ PageRank.

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@redambition Today a marketroid told me in all seriousness how my blog was relevant to the UK’s #1 laser eye surgery provider. Uh, no.

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Hm. Having real trouble finding orange polar fleece to make a Christmas present…

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Anybody going near Spotties tomorrow? Lincraft in the city was a big fail.

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@Helen__H My nephew has discovered Calvin & Hobbes. http://t.co/izYOI8Dy

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@_papergirl Thanks! I don’t have much time, so if I can’t get something local I might just go with backup plan (felt) instead.

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Huh. The SMH updated their mobile site.

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Hey @Y7News – I hate HATE when I click on a headline and it’s video. Please warn your users! Otherwise I’ll unfollow since it’s annoying.

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Today I learned that the Lüneburger bakery under the QVB switched sides of the hall. It was surprisingly disorienting.

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@pixel8ted If it’s new, it’s probably just that it’s stretching out. Keep playing and tuning and eventually it’ll stop, I think.

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Took off my headphones to ask someone a question. Discovered the developers listening to “Someday My Prince Will Come” on the speakers.

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Oh look. Convenors letter says that @drkknits is the new Exhibitions Coordinator. One would think she needed things to fill her spare time!

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@merrinmez @drkknits Better than me. We’ve officially been shot down by both Loani and Jenny Kee. Back to the drawing board…

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@merrinmez @drkknits I have a few names to ask, including her. I’ll take care of it in the next week…

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@merrinmez Loani said that she emailed via the website several months ago, but no one passed it along to me. She’s booked up now. 🙁

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Can you retrain your default stress response? Mine is to cry, and I hate it. On a related note, just leaving work now…

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@betsybookworm I’m better at controlling it these days, but my shoulders and jaw ache from clenching all day.

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The worst, WORST part is stressing over things I can’t control. It’s just useless. Maybe I could by hypnotised or something…

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@artbuds I’d like to enter the Bacon ticket giveaway! kris.howard AT gmail 🙂

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@3rd_Gen_ Good call. My doc gave me some that I’ve been hoarding for overseas travel, but I think I might need one tonight.

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@AusVintageGrrl Just trying to finish off two big projects at work in the next 8 days while also making final preparations for overseas trip

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@AusVintageGrrl Trying to avoid alcohol though. Been leaning on that crutch too heavily in recent months. Not good for me!

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@LeeanneField Something like that. Seems to be a common problem for women. Somebody could make a fortune with a cure!

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HA! Just discovered that Black Black chewing gum I picked at random today in Asian grocery is CAFFEINATED. Perhaps a stress contributor…

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New Game of Thrones Production Diary: Your First Proper Glimpse of Season 3 http://t.co/ZIUzy5zA // cc @drkknits

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@imdominating Sweet!

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Thanks to everyone for stress advice last night. Things are much better today (so far)…

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