• Happy Mother’s Day, Ma!


  • May Day Project

    May Day ProjectI’ve just posted my May Day Project Photos from yesterday. There are a few cute ones in there. My biggest problem was that I kept forgetting to take pictures! I completely forgot during my morning sewing class. I’ve made up for it by including one where you can almost see my boob. (I’m serious.) You can see other folks’ contributions on the official project site. I wish mine were as cool as Tracey‘s!


  • Torture. My back has still been giving me trouble so I tried a new treatment today: massage. Ow. Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow. I can’t believe I actually paid someone to make me feel this wretched. Don’t get me wrong; it felt great at the time and she probably did me good in the long run. It’s just that I’m having trouble seeing past the “blinding, throbbing pain” right now.


  • Apparently I am not the only one that finds the 8 Mile soundtrack inspirational.


  • New Poll: Cedar Point keeps bringing out bigger and faster roller coasters, but is that really what keeps the public coming back? Let’s find out. When you go to an amusement park, what’s the first thing you head towards?


  • Friday Five:

    1. Would you consider yourself an organized person? Why or why not?
    No. I wish that I were, and every now and then I get a surge of organizing energy and think I’m going to change my life, but it inevitably fades and then I’m left with a Handspring computer that I’ll never ever use again. (Just to cite one example.) I’m just too lazy.

    (Sidenote: I find this week’s questions really difficult since my brain keeps wanting to spell it “organise”. I’m being assimilated! I can just picture myself going home to Indiana in a few months and saying “to-mah-to” and getting my ass kicked.)

    2. Do you keep some type of planner, organizer, calendar, etc. with you, and do you use it regularly?
    The sad fact is I adore planners and organizers. I just don’t use them. Right now I’m trying to use iCal and Address Book, since they’re already on my computer, but it’s so hard to keep everything current, you know?

    3. Would you say that your desk is organized right now?
    Oh good grief, NO. I’ve got a computer and a sewing machine and a scanner and a pile of socks (waiting to be turned into monkeys) and several glasses (that I bring up from the kitchen and forget) and a tangle of jewelry (that I take off after work and forget) and a jumble of batteries and coins and hair clips. It’s a mess.

    4. Do you alphabetize CDs, books, and DVDs, or does it not matter?
    Oddly enough, this is the one area where the Snook and I are organized. Movies and CDs are done strictly alphabetically, while our books are categorized into fiction, non-fiction, and reference. The fiction is all alphabetized, while the non-fiction and reference are sorted into a bastardized Dewey Decimal System that we invented.

    5. What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever had to organize?
    Definitely the move out here from England and my application for Australian residency. There were so many forms and statements to fill out, and everything had to be witnessed at the court house and photocopied. We basically had to prove our relationship was legitimate, using everything from pictures and joint travel receipts to bills and bank statements. The scariest part was knowing that if we screwed up, I’d get deported. Luckily it all turned out right in the end!


  • Double Trouble Socks

    Socks!Socks!
    Tonight I finished my first pair of knitted socks. They’re big house socks for the Snook to putter around in. Since double-pointed needles scare me and I like to do things as quickly as possible, I used this “Double Trouble” pattern for knitting both socks at once on two circular needles. (That sounds difficult, but this page has great illustrations that explain it pretty clearly.) To the right there you can see the Snook modelling them. The wool was a German “Sockenwool” that I did on 2.75 mm needles to get a 10 st/inch gauge. It was dyed in varying colors which gives a nice mottled effect. Pretty sweet, huh? Here are two more pics of the socks on the needles to give you an idea of how it was done. (I did the calf section in 2×2 rib, which is why it looks so much skinnier than the body of the sock.)

    Two socks at once!   Close-up of needles

    I was most scared of “turning the heel” but this pattern makes it a cinch. I recommend it for you beginning knitters that are getting tired of making scarves! Just use a thicker wool than I did. The thin stuff takes ages to knit up… 🙂


  • I’m eeeevilll, like the froo-it of the devilllllll. Seriously, I just got banished to the seventh level of hell. What’s worse, I scored pretty high on, like, five other levels! I thought I gave pretty darn virtuous answers to most of those questions. I guess if I’m this bad now, there’s no point in trying to reform! 🙂

    Level Score
    Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low
    Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Low
    Level 2 (Lustful) High
    Level 3 (Gluttonous) Very High
    Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) Low
    Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) Very High
    Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) Very High
    Level 7 (Violent) Extreme
    Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) High
    Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) Moderate

    Where in Hell are you?


  • Hazing

    Oh, YUCK. My high school thankfully didn’t have any nasty hazing rituals. We did have an annual Powderpuff tournament as part of Homecoming, but it was officially sanctioned and took place during half-time of the big game. I never played but my younger sister did. First play of the game she slipped in some mud and cracked heads with the girl on the opposite line. She ended up in the hospital with a concussion and a line of stitches down the center of her forehead. Of course, she’d probably prefer that to human excrement and pig intestines any day…



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My name is Kris. I’ve been blogging since the 90’s. I live in Sydney, Australia, and I spent most of my career in the tech industry.

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