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  • Things you find in the dark

    It has been a pretty dark time around here. I'm not going to recount all our troubles, some of them are ongoing and the subject of pending litigation; some of them (wait! many of the same ones!) are just too damn long a story to even begin to draw out in this little corner [...]

    Posted: December 21, 2008, 11:42pm EST
    by mamacate
  • Another Cummington

    What a lovely time.  I've got so little of my brain to share with the internets these days, but I had another halcyon weekend in the Berkshires with old friends.  Somehow, even if you're a lame blogger like me, those friendships don't disappear.  I had a weekend of pick-up-where-you-left-off visiting, [...]

    Posted: June 01, 2008, 9:50pm EDT
    by mamacate
  • Where I've Been

    You know how sometimes, if you wait long enough to get around to a thing, that thing starts to take on greater weight than it ought to do and it starts being harder to actually do it and then it has been even longer and you still haven't done it [...]

    Posted: April 28, 2008, 10:09pm EDT
    by mamacate
  • Back

    I'm back.  I've been back one day short of a week and we're having our second snowstorm since my return.  Ah, February.  After a week in paradise, I can't complain.  Well, recent evidence has shown that in fact I'm entirely capable of doing so.  I have received surprisingly little sympathy [...]

    Posted: February 29, 2008, 10:37pm EST
    by mamacate
  • Wish you were here

    Cayman2008_174

    And I seriously wish we weren't going home in less than two days.  This is the view from our back porch.  Seriously.

    I've only got moments online, so that's all from me until I'm back.  For those going, have fun at Spa.  Though I love that event, [...]

    Posted: February 21, 2008, 10:02pm EST
    by mamacate
  • Another high-minded political post

    Here's my endorsement for the other party.

    Warning...so not work appropriate, I can't even tell you.  And just in case someone else is as out of the loop as I was, it's a parody of this.

    Otherwise, I'm knitting slowly, packing to go on vacation, and working too much.  [...]

    Posted: February 11, 2008, 10:45pm EST
    by mamacate
  • Tuesday

    You know what to do.

    (I'll also count this as my poetry reading for the day.)

    [...]
    Posted: February 02, 2008, 7:33pm EST
    by mamacate
  • Blah...blah blah blah

    Hey there.

    What does a knitblogger do when she's not really knitting?  This isn't a riddle (I'm not feeling nearly clever enough for that).  I think the answer is not really blog.  Which is what I'm not really doing.

    But despite appearances, I do still value this here knitblog community, so I [...]

    Posted: January 21, 2008, 8:41am EST
    by mamacate
  • Merry New Year!

    You have to say that in a fake African accent, a la Eddie Murphy in Trading Places.  You can actually see the section here.  Love YouTube.

    Rhys and I quote this movie all the time.  Ja, from Sweden....Please to help me with my rucksack?  We're not the highest of [...]

    Posted: January 01, 2008, 10:08pm EST
    by mamacate
  • Good Intentions

    Today, as you probably know, is the darkest day of the year.  I've mentioned before that my family has had a tradition of lighting candles on this day, and in the lighting, bringing our intentions to light the dark in our lives, and saying aloud our hopes for [...]

    Posted: December 21, 2007, 1:00pm EST
    by mamacate
  • Career Choices

    Today's kindergarten parent of the week: a firefighter.

    "Mama, you and mamarhys should get more instresting jobs.  Because being a college worker isn't really that cool.  Like Amber's dad?  He's a firefighter."

    "Henry, I know I'm not a firefighter, but I can show your class how to spin wool.  And we can [...]

    Posted: December 18, 2007, 10:23pm EST
    by mamacate
  • Arrrr!

    Argh, me maties, the pirate mittens, they be done, yar, and me laddy young Henry be gleeful. 

    200711_003
    Don't ye be put off by the scowl, tis only the face made by bucaneers when they are in the process of saying "arrr!"

    Lest some scallywag try to [...]

    Posted: December 02, 2007, 11:17pm EST
    by mamacate
  • There might be mittens

    First of all, people, best birthday EVAH.  It started with a sweet and lovely snowfall and attendant kid euphoria, then was followed by the kindest act of comment pimping possible, and was capped off by my coworkers throwing me a rocking surprise party.  I confess I was completely unable [...]

    Posted: November 25, 2007, 10:01pm EST
    by mamacate
  • I forgot my blogiversary but getting older is harder to miss

    So I don't think I mentioned that I'd been doing this blogging thing for three years in June.  So now it's three years plus.  Thing is I'm not doing it that much anymore, so I'm not sure how impressed I can be with myself at this point.  It's hard to [...]

    Posted: November 19, 2007, 9:58pm EST
    by mamacate
  • Actually

    I'm not dead, but thanks for asking. No, I'm still here, at least in theory. In reality, my presence is mediated by a) continued special ed insanity that breaks my heart because it has been hurting my kid, but happily I think we're almost at a point where we can [...]

    Posted: November 12, 2007, 4:50pm EST
    by mamacate
  • Black hole



    Two sleeps to Rhinebeck. This would make me happier if the constant knitting was actually resulting in progress toward a finished sweater.

    My crystal ball says I'll be blocking at the marriott, but only if picking up the neckline ribbing in the car [...]

    Posted: October 17, 2007, 3:31pm EDT
    by mamacate
  • I think Typepad expired my cookie

    It's been a while.  Sorry about that.  Typepad even forgot me.

    I learned something new: if you have a kid in special ed, September is not your favorite month.  It was a mofo.  It's not over yet, despite it being October, but I'm hopeful.  Today was a good day, and we're [...]

    Posted: October 09, 2007, 9:01pm EDT
    by mamacate
  • Autum Rosiness

    Hey, I took a picture.  See?

    200709_009

    That's about 1.9 sleeves.  I've got a few more rows of the second sleeve, then I can cast on for the body.  Now this sounds like more of an accomplishment than it actually is, since they're 3/4 sleeves, and it's a [...]

    Posted: September 01, 2007, 7:53pm EDT
    by mamacate
  • You Go Girl!

    Little do they know that this is actually basically happening in blogland already.

    Go figure.

    And now for some updates.

    Knitting update:  I've got a sleeve and a half of Autumn Rose.  I love the thing more every day, and no longer worry that it won't look good on my non-waifish body [...]

    Posted: August 29, 2007, 1:11pm EDT
    by mamacate
  • Revived



    A kidless sunny weekend day in a breezy musical courtyard full of wool and friends.
    Revival indeed.

    [...]
    Posted: August 18, 2007, 1:29pm EDT
    by mamacate
  • New Obsession

    I saw this a while back and had to have it.

    Pjautumnrose_2

    It was a long wait, but it's out now.  My box arrived today.

    Dsc00303
    I've already cast on for a sleeve swatch.  It's love.

    Speaking of love, I got my [...]

    Posted: August 15, 2007, 10:38pm EDT
    by mamacate
  • The Plague's Not as Fun As You'd Think

    I really should stop tempting fate.

    I read some blog post a while ago about someone who was laid up sick and who got a lot of knitting done, and I thought to myself, self, wouldn't it be nice to be laid up sick and get a lot of knitting done?

    Well, [...]

    Posted: July 31, 2007, 10:55pm EDT
    by mamacate
  • Yoniknittomommylesbocentrist Blogging?

    [This post was written in January.  I'll explain more about why I didn't post it initially at the end.  Bear with me through a few untimely references, if you would.]

    Hmm.

    I don't know how many people who read here read a lot of blogs outside the knitblog world, but from [...]

    Posted: July 18, 2007, 12:39pm EDT
    by mamacate
  • The Antipathies, I think.

    `I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The
    Antipathies, I think--' --Alice, as she fell down the rabbit hole.

    The rabbit hole is deep and full of knitters, and I [...]

    Posted: July 08, 2007, 12:03pm EDT
    by mamacate
  • Random Newsy Yammer

    Right.  Still here.  No, really.

    • Since last we spoke I've been to Baltimore and back.  I love my lovely Treo, but when it started to act funny I tried to fix it and now it's completely broken.  Well, it works as a phone.  I have four moblog posts sitting on the [...]
    Posted: July 05, 2007, 11:20pm EDT
    by mamacate

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