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Month: January 2010

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @eileenDCoE Still keepin’ tabs on you… I bet she orders you to do some recycling. 🙂

    My pretty new wallet: http://twitpic.com/xv6vm Thanks to those who suggested Strandbags. It was on sale!

    Wedding ring + rowing machine = OUCH! http://twitpic.com/xvgee Lesson learned.

    @bellsknits Most of the sale ones were pretty cheap looking. The nice leather ones were all $50+. Luckily this one was marked down to $35!

    @witty_knitter St. Brigid waits for no injury. I shall persevere. (At least I’m using red wool. Will hide the blood.)

    @ozgamer Ha, yeah, I’m in. 🙂

    Just completed a 5.50 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/5pJbzK #RunKeeper

    @Fiestywenchyone Phew! Great to hear it. Congratulations!

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Just completed a 5.50 km run with RunKeeper

  • Happiness Challenge

    How are you guys doing in your 2010 Happiness Challenge? Week 1 was about getting more sleep, and I’m proud to report that the Snook and I have made positive changes in this area. We have been getting off the couch and heading to bed pretty consistently at 10pm every night. It’s not much, but it’s an improvement. Week 2 is about getting more exercise. I’ve been doing plenty of running, and today I went back to Spudds for the first time in ages. I tore up my hand on the rowing machine, but it was still a pretty good workout. I felt strong afterwards, not tired at all. (That may be due to the fact that the shower at our office has NO HOT WATER, which I didn’t realise til I was in there, naked and shivering. Good for the muscles, right?) Anyhoo, I’m feeling pretty energised so far. How about you?

  • The Yay Scale

    The Yay! Scale. That is brilliant. Better still, it should speak the compliment in a sexy voice.

  • Sock Monkeys in a Music Video

    This is neat. I got an email this morning from Marian Hall in Birmingham in the UK:

    Thanks for the sock monkey instructions. They were the best I found (and I looked at a lot). Made 5 sock monkeys to join a barrowload of others in Film Ficciones latest music video. Thanks a lot.

    Huh? Sock monkey music video?? So I looked it up. Film Ficciones is a UK production company that focuses on short films and music videos. The sock monkey video will be for the song “All We Wanna Do is OH!” by the band Kate Goes. (Apparently it’s the themesong for a BBC comedy called “Coming of Age.”) They put up an amusing promotional YouTube video which includes a sock monkey tutorial. They make their monkeys slightly differently than I do, and they gloss over the actual sewing. (I guess that’s why Marian found my tutorial helpful.) Anyway, I look forward to seeing the video!

  • Kristine Avenue

    Kristine Avenue
    Wow. There are 37 streets named after me in North America. You can look up your own name here. (Poor Snook. No streets named after him.)

  • Distracted by Star Wars

    Remember that epic Phantom Menace review? Well, the same guy is doing another one for Attack of the Clones. Here’s a trailer. (Link courtesy of the Snook, who found it on Distracted by Star Wars, which may in fact be the BEST TUMBLR SITE EVER, and has already made me laugh out loud several times.)

  • Running Shoe Injuries

    Do Running Shoes Cause Running Injuries? In a nutshell, nobody knows for sure. The folks at Newton make a persuasive argument against strapping giant blocks of foam to your heels though… (I love my Newtons.)

  • Moominvalley

    Moominvalley – an interior design project inspired by the works of Tove Jansson. That looks really cool, but I can’t figure out what sort of a space it’s supposed to be. It looks more like the play area of an IKEA than something you’d have in your house. (Link shared by peacay on GoogleReader.)

  • Shared today on Twitter

    My wallet is falling apart. I need a new one. Where to get cool, funky yet functional women’s wallet? (Prefer folded to the long ones.)

    Sounds like Strandbags it is! Thanks to @sharre @Ascasewwen @redambition @DrCris for suggestions.

    Finally listening to Best of @clubbootie 2009. AWESOME. There’s a Glee sample like 10 seconds in!

    @randomknits There are girls I went to high school with who are GRANDMOTHERS. (Indiana = hotbed of teen pregnancy.)

    Chilli harvest, straight from the garden and about to become salsa! http://twitpic.com/xrpu0

    I’ve always thought that Jay Leno was one of the dumbest, unfunniest men on television. I’m firmly on #teamconan.

    Wowl. Google reviewing their approach to China. http://bit.ly/4Ymnml. Sad that it took a breach to get to that point.