Queen of Rambles

I fear I have a new addiction. Darn those silly people over at yahoo! I’ve been playing Rocket Mania for the last hour and have a feeling I’m going to be the next one to go under the knife for carpal tunnel. My dad had his surgery done yesterday and it does not seem like [...]

Back in the dark ages when comment spam started showing up on people’s sites I didn’t pay much attention to the solution. I never got any spammy comments and life was good. Life has changed. Help! How am I supposed to fix this? Is there a simple way to prevent 20 viagra messages a day [...]

Living in my childhood home causes my mind to wander in strange directions. Today I was contemplating what, exactly, my fifteen-year-old self would think if she came bopping in the door and had a look at me–her future. She’d be devastated, I’m sure. She’d take one look at my cropped, tousled brownish hair and fall [...]

I am not two thimble ready. I am probably not even one thimble ready. Rate me with a half a thimble and you’ll be right on target. I started this “two thimble” quilt with gusto, convinced that my brain could handle something that seemed so simple. Why do I think I know better than the [...]

I think I’ve just been disowned. Granny dearest called and wanted me, Mikey and Mommy to go to church and the fellowship potluck with her tomorrow. Can I say yuck? I might have been persuaded to just go to church, but I don’t do potlucks. Especially not at that church. When I was younger we [...]

So I’m entering my fourth decade on earth and it really doesn’t feel all that different from my third decade. I don’t remember entering my first decade and don’t want to remember anything of my second decade. Is this getting confusing yet? I woke up to two gifts from Mikey–Foxfire by Juliet Marillier, and a [...]

You know how electric appliances have really stupid warning labels like “don’t take a bath with this product” or “don’t stick your finger in the mixer when it’s moving.” You see them and laugh and say “what idiot would ever do a thing like that?” Raises hand. I am that idiot. I didn’t take a [...]

I only have one step left — the hardest step. I have to go through and hand sew the binding to the back of the quilt. Bleh! But other than that I’m feeling pretty happy. It actually looks like a quilt (Click Here) which is pretty amazing. Not a fancy one or anything, but a [...]

I don’t think I can ever complain about the cranky old hags at water aerobics again. I’ve transformed into one of them! We had two teacher tonight, a teen boy and girl. I’m not quite sure why we had two of them, but it did not work at all. They were much more interested in [...]

Don’t write if you have nothing to say! That’s what you want to tell me, right? But I have nothing to say and I am compelled to tell you all about it. Lucky you. Unless, of course, you just click the back button. Mo gave me some excellent advice about making my quilt, so I [...]