Lots of Small Miracles Today
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liralenLots of them. Eventhough I didn't wake up until nearly noon today. I was... exhausted, but I'm recovering some now. I feel like I'm finally over the hump of this cold.
My espresso machine died today. It's broken once and John soldered and glued its butt together two years ago, but in the last month it's just been off... and today the steam just died completely. John's been asking me for Christmas gift ideas... yeah, that's why it's a *good* thing.
We finally figured out scheduling for the trip, somewhat. Family stuff got settled.
It was Jet's last day of school. I found that painting a Christmas card-sized painting takes just as long as a regular sized one. Uhm... detailed, what? So, no hand-painted Christmas cards, sorry. *laughs* The art thingy happened. Gifts came for John and I intercepted and wrapped. Oh. I actually got him a present and I'd completely forgotten. My head is just... full of wool.
The boys took me to sushi to celebrate Jet's first day of winter break.
We're getting a flood of lovely card from everyone! Wow. I need to get mine out.. they're probably late, but maybe they'll be New Years cards. *laughs*
It snowed.
My yarn stash exploded when I looked for stuff, and I found a ton and a half of scrap fingering weight yarn as like four or five people have kind of looked enviously at the fingerless glove. *laughs* AND I found the medium weight Merino for someone that wants Korean Temple colorway in single ply worsted weight yarn. That'll be... interesting. AND I found three skeins of lace weight yarn I'm never likely to use. Hm. Should probably put them up for grabs on Ravelry.
I got to watch Samurai Champloo as I splurged early in the month as RightStuf had a sale on them, and this was my last day to watch stuff without Jet. Once my brain is back I want to get on a promised kiriban.
And I even made cinnamon rolls for tomorrow morning. Woah. For a sick woman with half a day, I did okay...
And it's supposed to be -15 F (-26 C) again on Sunday night. High of 3. Did it last Sunday and John actually wore pants to church and when he did the announcements he started with his usual introduction of himself and then added, "... and these are my long pants." It's a standing joke that he wears shorts All The Time... and everyone asks him if he even owns a pair of long pants. So he had to get up and prove that he actually did. *laughs and laughs* He liked that a lot. So his pants might come out again.
I loved it when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amberley wrote, "Just as the Farmer's Almanac looks at the bushiness of squirrel tails to foretell a cold winter, modern day Longmonters look to see if John is still wearing shorts or has put on long pants..."
Exactly. Exactly. *laughs and laughs*
My espresso machine died today. It's broken once and John soldered and glued its butt together two years ago, but in the last month it's just been off... and today the steam just died completely. John's been asking me for Christmas gift ideas... yeah, that's why it's a *good* thing.
We finally figured out scheduling for the trip, somewhat. Family stuff got settled.
It was Jet's last day of school. I found that painting a Christmas card-sized painting takes just as long as a regular sized one. Uhm... detailed, what? So, no hand-painted Christmas cards, sorry. *laughs* The art thingy happened. Gifts came for John and I intercepted and wrapped. Oh. I actually got him a present and I'd completely forgotten. My head is just... full of wool.
The boys took me to sushi to celebrate Jet's first day of winter break.
We're getting a flood of lovely card from everyone! Wow. I need to get mine out.. they're probably late, but maybe they'll be New Years cards. *laughs*
It snowed.
My yarn stash exploded when I looked for stuff, and I found a ton and a half of scrap fingering weight yarn as like four or five people have kind of looked enviously at the fingerless glove. *laughs* AND I found the medium weight Merino for someone that wants Korean Temple colorway in single ply worsted weight yarn. That'll be... interesting. AND I found three skeins of lace weight yarn I'm never likely to use. Hm. Should probably put them up for grabs on Ravelry.
I got to watch Samurai Champloo as I splurged early in the month as RightStuf had a sale on them, and this was my last day to watch stuff without Jet. Once my brain is back I want to get on a promised kiriban.
And I even made cinnamon rolls for tomorrow morning. Woah. For a sick woman with half a day, I did okay...
And it's supposed to be -15 F (-26 C) again on Sunday night. High of 3. Did it last Sunday and John actually wore pants to church and when he did the announcements he started with his usual introduction of himself and then added, "... and these are my long pants." It's a standing joke that he wears shorts All The Time... and everyone asks him if he even owns a pair of long pants. So he had to get up and prove that he actually did. *laughs and laughs* He liked that a lot. So his pants might come out again.
I loved it when
amberley wrote, "Just as the Farmer's Almanac looks at the bushiness of squirrel tails to foretell a cold winter, modern day Longmonters look to see if John is still wearing shorts or has put on long pants..."Exactly. Exactly. *laughs and laughs*
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Date: 2008-12-19 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-19 05:21 pm (UTC)Thank you!! *hugs you warmly*
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Date: 2008-12-19 10:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-19 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-22 04:15 am (UTC)HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
Liralen.... sorry for spamming your lj with random holiday squeee.
or maybe not. XD
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Date: 2008-12-19 10:39 am (UTC)Liralen Liralen! I forget if I have ever mentioned the Gunnerkrigg Court webcomic or if you have seen it or not. But just now I was reading the latest update and admiring the way Coyote is drawn, and realized: Coyote looks like he's drawn with a brush. Like some of your work. Especially in panel 2 there. The thick and the thin lines, the way he is more iconic and abstract and bright than everyone around him and so just jumps right out at the eye, I think you'd like him. (And the whole story, too, but Coyote always likes to jump to center stage.)
So that was neat :) Hope you feel better soon!
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Date: 2008-12-19 05:24 pm (UTC)I have not seen that web comic! Wooo....
Coyote always steals the stage when he can. *Grins*
*hugs* Thank you for the wishes!
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Date: 2008-12-19 01:20 pm (UTC)*giggles at yarn stash exploding* I've managed to curb my hoarding of yarn for now (more due to tight funds that anything else), but I get all excited when I do have to dig through my box of yarn for something and ohhh and ahhh over stuff I've got in there. I firmly believe yarn is addictive.
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Date: 2008-12-19 05:27 pm (UTC)I'm lucky, my stash is so huge and filled with stuff at various levels. And things that I will probably never use again, like the unspun straight merino. I have no use for it, really. But someone else might, and I get the pleasure of spinning it without spending any more. *laughs*
And being able to satisfy envy for the fingerless gloves by using one and a half ounce scraps from socks is pretty fun.
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Date: 2008-12-19 04:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-19 05:30 pm (UTC)Along with the Hawaiian shirts he wears all the time. High Seas Trading Company (http://www.highseastradingco.com/default.aspx) knows him by name, now and actually call if someone buys him a shirt that someone else bought, just because they like him so much. It's pretty funny.
I think I'm now starting to get better rather than worse now. Whew...
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Date: 2008-12-19 05:52 pm (UTC)Your temps are brrrr! We're looking at the high 20s today, but there's sun. And the roads are still a mess, as you can imagine. But they sanded and salted and put down de-icer, and N needs some snowboots (he's grown out of everything!), so I will brave the roads today and hope we can get back up the hill. and not sure if weighing down my trunk with stuff will help or hinder my fwd Civic...
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Date: 2008-12-22 05:41 am (UTC)Yeah, I bet it is just a mess. I hope that your hill is clearing!!
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Date: 2008-12-21 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-22 05:41 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2008-12-22 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-22 04:50 pm (UTC)It's been deathly cold here as well for almost a week now. It sucks not being able to send the boys outside to burn off some energy. Ugh.
Yeah for feeling better and kicking ass with only half day to do it in. :D
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Date: 2008-12-23 12:11 am (UTC)It does suck to not just send Jet out to burn off some energy.
Yay!!