Monthly Archives: August 2007

clarifying

I’d just like to make something clear: this is a personal blog. Yes, I am perfectly within my rights to snark some things and rave about others. No, you don’t have to agree with me. Or like it. Or read it. Sometimes I will use hyperbole to make my point, as when I recently suggested [...]

chick lit for feminists

I’ve been on a mad chick lit streak lately, since clearly I need another hobby. The good news: I’ve mostly managed to regain my can-finish-an-entire-novel-in-three-hours mojo. The bad: I’m staying up until roughly 3am* every night since it’s the only solid reading time I can manage. Whee!
For the most part I’m enjoying myself. I read [...]

refine this

In Slightly Less Unhealthy news, I’ve once again decided to go on a fresh food/less sugar kick. The reasons are similar to last time (moodiness exacerbated by sugar, extreme crankiness, general sense of malaise) but with one added bit: low sugar diets can help with migraines.
Studies show that when a migraine person eats refined sugar, [...]

…so look out for those beauties, oh yeah

I got a bike.

I got a bike.

As someone who hasn’t ridden a bicycle since 1997, I find the fact that I have a brand-new Trek Lime – purchased from an actual bike shop! – highly unlikely, as well as somewhat amusing. But there you go. I have a bike.

I took it for its maiden [...]

sketchy pals

I was doodling at the last Crafty Mamas Bazaar and came up with a couple of fun designs that I messed with in Illustrator today. I think they might end up on tee shirts, or maybe cards, or maybe something else that I haven’t thought of. Because I think of things. I do.
Illustration is [...]

keeping up(chuck) with the Joneses

Few things are more unpleasant to throw up than a combination of mostly-digested hamburger and just-eaten cupcake. I speak as a (semi) expert, seeing as I had ample opportunity to compare the relative merits of regurgitated foods during my excruciating stint of morning sickness when I was gestating Happy Fun Baby. (The winner? Cheerios. They [...]

ravelry

I am a cool kid. Know how I know? I got an invite to the invite-only beta of Ravelry. Social networking for yarnheads! (And yes, yarnheads is a word of my own devising. I am allowed to make up words, being a cool kid and all.)
Already being cool has upped my productivity, as I was [...]