*crickets chirping* Oh, hi! I really haven’t been ignoring this website. In fact, I’m here tending to it SEVERAL TIMES A DAY, cleaning up spammer/hacker crap. Are you seeing this site right now with lines and lines of links to European drug companies? Or links to a chiropractor in California? Or links to a website […]

Fast-Topic-Changing-Friday. No, SUPER-Fast-Topic-Changing-Friday. That’s just the way things have been around here. Have you ever looked ahead to your schedule, noticed that you were going to be busy, and then planned ahead to make it easy on yourself? I did laundry, caught up on emails, cleaned the house, stocked up on dog food, etc. And […]

Fast-Topic-Changing Friday, hold the anchovies. I posted about my broken foot last week, so I don’t need to go over that again. This week I’d like to address what is going on in my HEAD. “My Mental Illness”, as I’m kindly addressing it. A broken foot should make one want to slow the hell down. […]

No, that’s not Quasimodo sneaking up behind you. It’s me. I broke my foot. Oh, I wish I had a good story to tell about the break. Like maybe… I dropped a sledgehammer on my foot! Rollerderby practice! I kicked someone! The truth is that I WOKE UP with a broken foot. I know that […]

Regularly scheduled Fast-Topic-Changing-Friday has been postponed until next week so we can bring you…umm…this. Instead. Video, video, video! Shooting knitting videos. I’m normally a person with very set routines and a very tidy house, but all of that has been pushed aside for this production. No complaints, trust me. It is a great project, I’m […]

Thank you for calling. Your call is very important to us. One of our representatives will be with you shortly. Fast-Topic-Changing Friday. Holding, holding, holding. Oh, Austin. You’re making it very difficult for me to stay in love with you. It was ONE-HUNDRED-SEVEN degrees yesterday. And this old beast of an air conditioner is barely […]

Pulling the anchor on a Fast-Topic-Changing-Friday. First up, I’ll get the title of this post explained. I’m a fan of the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch, a show about crab fishing off the coast of Alaska. I like it because I grew up around that stuff in Kodiak. As dangerous and crazy as crab fishing is, […]

It’s Friday morning and I’m trying to combat grogginess with coffee. Mother Nature has been doing a smack-up job of keeping me from sleeping soundly through the night lately. Storms, possums, crochet. (Does Mother Nature crochet?) Whatev. We had tornado warnings here in Austin last night, and I had the craziest dream about how my […]

At the end of this month, I will have lived in this house for a year and a half. For the most part, I have the house looking the way I want – at least in the more public rooms. But my office. Oy. When I was a kid, we would go to visit my […]