So Much Freakin’ Knitting To Do…

… I mean, Merry Christmas! Of course even though the recipient of the scarf has said that he’s fine with getting it after Christmas, I’m determined to finish it beforehand.  My strategy to get the knitting done is to invite people over to knit, and ‘watch’ tv I don’t care too much about (in this [...]

Knitting for Procrastinators

Last year I learned to knit.  I wanted to knit a baby blanket for my new niece, and there is a knitting group at work.  We meet every other week, and knit and gossip.  So the baby blanket was a bad idea, because it was taking forever before I’d see progress.  I never finished it; [...]

Photographic Evidence — Heaven on Earth

We will be in the beautiful Virgin Islands within two weeks.  I needed to find a pic and post it to remind my body that it will be nice and warm soon.  It’s actually freezing here in NJ/NY.  I’m fighting off a cold, but better now than on vacation… and even then… I think having [...]

Photographic Evidence – Ugly Present

As promised in the first entry, here is what the bike looked like wrapped up in its big box:

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

There are some Christmas traditions from my youth that I treasure.  Cutting down our own Christmas tree.  We’d stomp around quite a bit, looking for the perfect tree.  Sometimes through the slush, sometimes through the snow.  Either way, but the end of the adventure our fingertips were numb and our noses were red.  But we [...]

Happy Holidailies

I decided to start a new blog when I joined Holidailies.  I’ve been wanting to get back into writing for a while, so this was a great excuse to do it. The holidays are fast approaching, so today I took care of a good amount of shopping (online, of course).  What would I do without [...]