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I keep sitting down to write a decent blog post, get about halfway through then think, what’s the point? I’ll stare at the screen for a while, then save the draft with the thought that I’ll come back to it later.
I’ve just deleted twenty-odd drafts.
That pretty much sums up 2010 so far. With the exception [...]

~ I haven’t posted much lately.
~ How come?
~ I just don’t feel that I have anything interesting to say.
~ Like that’s stopping anyone else.
~ Good point.
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So here I am, laying in bed trying to get comfortable. My back didn’t like something about how I turned the shower on this morning, and took that moment to tell me [...]

Bubble bath in the scent I love, but that Keith is not fond of.
Massive Attack on the cd player.
A new novel.
The blank creamy page of an expensive Italian journal bought on a whim, and a heavy pen with dark green ink that flows smoothly across the paper.
A magazine I’ve never read before.
The vibration of a [...]

To quote Queen Victoria, I am not amused.
Things have happened in the last 24 hours that have made me by turns irritable, frustrated, sad, angry and requiring chocolate.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
No, I am not going to into the reasons why. I just don’t really feel like putting too much of myself here at the moment. Which [...]

Things that have amused me this afternoon:
I went to see a prospective client today, a woman who runs a belly dancing studio. While I waited for her, I browsed in the boutique where they have DVDs, scarves, anklets and chain link belts covered in jangly discs. There is one area for full costumes sized as [...]

The trouble with coming home from a good vacation, is it always seems to put me in a bit of a funk. I get too used to traveling and have a hard time fitting back into my normal.
Blah, blah, blah. Whatever.
I am no longer in the funk. Even before I threw some money at it.
Trust [...]

I met my friend and co-worker Amy for an afternoon of stichin’ and bitchin’.  We started out with a pretty amazing lunch at a cafe on Queen West, and then headed to Trinity-Bellwoods Park for our own personal K.I.P. Day.
That’s Knit In Public for you non-knitters.
We sat on a bench and watched the film crew [...]

Me dad always told me that one should learn something new everyday.
So far today, I have learned that 1) Windows Movie Maker has a built in screenshot button and 2) that one should ALWAYS check to make sure that one is drinking from the opaque tumbler with TODAY’s coffee drink in it, and not from [...]

Honey, it’s HOOPY frood, not droopy frood.
Unless of course you are talking about my boobs, in which case you are totally correct. Gravity hates middle aged women. Thank god for underwire.

Have you ever had one of those weeks that flew by? One of my colleagues greeted me with a “Happy Friday!” and all I could say was “Friday? Really?”
Been a good week, mostly. Dinner with a friend, reading a new book, working on a few challenging projects in knitting, writing and web design.  In an [...]