Blog archives for February, 2009

Experiments in saving water when cooking pasta.

There’s this website I’ve been reading often over the last few weeks. Over and over again it talks about foods that are really bad for your skin, caffeine being one of them. I have never been a big caffeine person (never got used to the taste of coffee, since I never wanted to be addicted [...]

When I have time and internet, I really like Robin’s Weekend Reading posts, but this week’s really has me reflecting. I urge you to read some of the articles for yourself and think about it.

I have been knitting, and reports to the contrary are false accusations. I just don’t think the knitting is something you want to be updated on daily, as I knit painstakingly slowly, only allotting half an hour a day sometimes to the task.
Anyway, you remember the witchy firestarter socks, I’m sure. It’s still going, past [...]

Most knitters have “yarn shop accidents”. I, doing my best as usual to not blend in with the crowd, have “paper store accidents” (Screibwarenladen accidents, to be more specific).
I went to a paper store today on my way back from the grocery store (all in the mall right next to my apartment), meaning to get [...]

While at the grocery store last weekend:
Me1: I might as well buy the pocket tissues. I can leave 2 of the 6 here as a replacement for the ones I used last weekend being half-sick that belonged to my hostess.
Me2: But you won’t need them, you use handkerchiefs!
Me1: Yeah, but I don’t when I get [...]

So I’m planning on dragging the rest of you down with me. I’ve already got my first convert too. :D
That’s not to say I haven’t been knitting—far from it. It’s just that letters are easier to talk about lately. However, I’d like to point out that I wrote the other day in my journal that [...]

A couple of days before my birthday Phoe posted that it was her birthday, and she had some yarn she didn’t want and would someone take it, perhaps in a trade? I didn’t bring much yarn with me to Europe, so I said I’d pay her for the yarn, and, well, yeah! I got a [...]

Things always get done in their own time. I guess that’s why I never pay attention to the changing of years and months, because it doesn’t matter as much. Stuff just gets done as it gets done.
This got done a LONG time ago (the first weekend of November, I think), but I never did a [...]