a rant retracted

I was so angry yesterday, I had this tirade building up in my head that just needed to be released. Of course, people being people, today I was shown that maybe mankind isn’t completely worthless.
As Opus often says, traveling via TriMet is often enough to make you give up on people entirely. The [...]

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gimpy

My new work nickname :)
Going up and down the stairs was hell, but at least the swelling has gone down enough that I can actually bend my knee now. Of course, having spent the past day and half with my right leg elevated, I got a lot of knitting done. I’m to the [...]

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boo boo

The day started out so well. Sunny and warm and not raining. I met Opus downtown for breakfast and Peet’s even had Jasmine Lime tea again for spring. We headed over to the store for the Oleana Trunk Show. Oleana is a Norwegian fashion house, and all it’s garments are designed [...]

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Inexplicable knitting behavior

Yesterday was a strange, yet glorious, day. It was the second day of the Blue Moon scavenger hunt and there were knitters all over town making the Muggles confused. I got presented with more tea and hot chocolate than I could drink.
Making it even weirder, I helped both Terrisa and Jenni “hunt”, mostly be taking [...]

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A Passover Seder

I feel less like a Bad Jew this year. If we tally up the holidays I have, in fact:

eaten apples and honey for Rosh Hoshanah
fasted for Yom Kippur
attempted to light the menorah (we won’t discuss the problems I had with that)
made Hamentashen for Purim
and had a Seder last night for Pesach

Admittedly, it was a [...]

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