Ohmygod. I just installed Food Watch NSW on my iPhone, and it immediately showed me all the eateries near work that have received health code violations in the past year. EEP!
Molly Ringwald on John Hughes. (Link courtesy of Kevin‘s Twitter feed.)
I have accepted the reality that we won’t make it back to the States this year…
Confession: I actually love when stupid punk bands speed up non-punk songs. Bonus points for 80’s songs. (Yes, I was closet Lee Harding fan)
First Leoben was creepy. Now he’s CREEPY HOT.
RT @imdominating @therealnph the best of nerd vandalism! http://bit.ly/BbkkF <- PHP + drunk + spraypaint = funny.
@brockleyboyo Yeah, finally making my way through it via DVD. Nearly at end of season 3.
Just completed a 4.00 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/pZmlC #RunKeeper
Slow jog with hill repeats on Wilson St. My lower back – which was fine during C2S – is KILLING me now. 🙁
Snook just got email “confirming” he’d signed petition against US health care reform. Sent website a scathing rebuke. They lie and lie…
The mention of the high cost of US insurance premiums blew my mind. A family pays $13K a year?? I did a quick back-of-the-enveloped calculation and worked out that the Snook and I pay less than $5K a year for health insurance. (That includes the portion of our taxes that go to the state-sponsored insurance, plus the extra private insurance cover we have on top of that.)
“Flea market a stimulus unto itself.” A nice article on the Shipshewana Flea Market, and how it continues to thrive in spite of the recession. I took the Snook there once. Jenny used to work there on summer vacations.
Baby Cardigan and Tasman Summer Tunic
I finally finished off a couple lingering kids’ projects that I was working on. The first is a cardigan for my friend Venks’s new baby. The boy is named Vivaan and he was born about two weeks ago. The wool is Wired for Fibre’s “Elizabeth” sock wool in colour Serenity. The pattern is free and is knitted sideways (cuff-to-cuff). I got some adorable teddy bear buttons from the button shop in the Rocks last Saturday to finish it. I can’t wait to see it on Vivaan!
Next is the Tasman Summer Tunic for my niece Indie. The pattern is by Just Jussi and is available as a free Ravelry download. I knitted the smallest size and used three balls of Morris Paddington (80% bamboo, 20% merino) in colour #611 “Dover”. I left off the beads at the hem, but other than that I didn’t change anything. The ribbon at the front is very cute, and I found a pretty star button to use as the closure at the back. I hope it fits her!
Holy crap. How is it 1:00 already?
If you used the St. George ATM on York Street, there was a skimmer attached. @TimBags, 600+ other people were affected. Watch your account!
@randomknits You’re stirring the pot over on Rav today, you stinker! The mods are having a pow-wow…
@DDsD Not quite. We have one. Snook never looks it. I just end up nagging him when we’re supposed to do shit.
Got emailed by a journalist wanting me to comment on graffiti knitting. HA! This is going to be good.
@stufromoz Not sure. It was my friend @TimBags who got skimmed, and he’s where I heard about it…
Rain and storm, oh my! Cats are hiding.
@Bex_the_Femme I’ll send you my reply. You’ll like it.
Huh. It’s been pretty much all running, all the time around here lately. Sorry about that! It’s just that I had two races in a row, so I haven’t had time/willpower for much else. Getting back to normal now. Six weeks til the half-marathon!
This week: 24.9km (15.5mi)
Last week: 17.8km (11mi)
Knitters: Which hypothetical name for a LYS do you like best? Newtown Stitchery / The Newtown Nook / The Granny Square / Champion on King
@redambition Ahhh, but imagine the merchandising opportunities! T-shirts that say: “I heart COK…” HAHAHAHA! 🙂
Just completed a 4.65 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/PrT52 #RunKeeper
@witty_knitter I don’t know if it would be 100% knitting just yet…
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My home economics teacher taught us to use “J cloths” as press cloths. (Cellulose cleaning cloths). The upside of using…
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