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Family history
My uncle randomly sent me this bit of family history in an email this morning and I thought I’d post it here. Not to get too heavy, but my paternal grandfather suffered a stroke the year I was born and...
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Happy Birthday to me!
I celebrated my 29th birthday on Saturday night with great friends, good food, long laughs, and TONS of Pictionary. Then T and I spent all day Sunday snuggled on the couch playing our new Wii. What a...
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Dear Internet, I love you.
A couple of years ago I was over at T’s parents’ house and for some reason (not because I didn’t want it, but because I am notorious for losing things) I talked his mom into letting me borrow this cute...
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Freakiest bathroom eh-ver
This is the main bathroom is T’s parents’ new house. They recently bought a house in, well, Del Boca Vista, and we’ve been busy helping them move. I won’t go into it here, but let’s just say it hasn’t...
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Grandma’s socks
My paternal grandmother (the one who taught me to knit) gave me these socks last time I saw her (along with a bunch of other stuff she’d knitted over the years) and I just found them again in my...
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Save the Car Kebab!
My uncle forwarded me an email the other day warning me that the Car Kebab in Berwyn, IL (immortalized in “Wayne’s World”) was at risk of being demolished to put up a new Walgreens!! I quickly...
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Best! Weekend! Ever!
Oh my my my did I ever need this weekend. It was crazy busy and filled with good stuff. Friday night we went out with some coworkers and met at The Sloop, one of my favorite hangouts, just because you...
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To the one who started it all
I’ve been doing more frogging than knitting lately. Both of my WIPs (Monkey socks and EZ’s February Baby Sweater) are lace-based, and I have just not had the concentration for either of them lately. So...
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Low-impact packaging
(Can’t you tell a knitter wrapped this?) Growing up my mom always meticulously opened her gifts, using scissors to slice off the tape at the seams, gently folding it when she was done, and then she’d...
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