It is my grandmother's 90th birthday today. This is the first time anyone has ever been told what her age is. So, happy birthday to my grandmother! (Who doesn't read my blog. But it is still monumentous.)
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04:09:35 PM,Tuesday 16 October 2007
Somehow, today, we started talking about what time we will be given off at Christmas. I am so terrible at planning things ahead it's slightly absurd. Beyond "I will go hang out and knit on Wednesday night and go to pottery on Sunday afternoon" I never plan anything ahead.
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02:30:13 PM,Tuesday 16 October 2007
I dumped coffee all over my shirt this morning. I feel mildly stupid. I had gotten a mocha across the street, and didn't take off the travel lid, and didn't look down at where the hole was.
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09:52:21 AM,Tuesday 16 October 2007
It seems to be a thing with hair dressers to blowdry my hair straight. Last week, with the dye, the woman blew it straight straight. It was interesting. this week, the woman blew it mostly dry, but curled also pulled the bottom of the layers in to large curls. This was definately a better look, but not one I would ever do to myself. I don't even own a blow dryer. After all, if my options are throw in some curl glop and then leave my hair alone or fuss with a blow dryer and brushes and take half an hour, which one am I going to do every day?
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12:28:21 AM,Sunday 14 October 2007
All right, so the picture was crap. I don't have a digital camera (the one I had destroyed memory cards, and I never wound up replacing it). Do you have any idea how hard it is to take a picture of yourself with your phone?
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08:42:20 AM,Thursday 11 October 2007
Brianne's new hair, which has already started fading. _
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11:17:10 PM,Wednesday 10 October 2007
I am looking for Netflix movie suggestions.
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03:33:36 PM,Wednesday 10 October 2007
Stupid DHL and stupid Guernsey.
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03:10:33 PM,Wednesday 10 October 2007
Trader Joe's makes a nice frozen pie crust. (I only have the patience for making my own pie crusts on extremely rare occasions.)
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12:49:37 PM,Wednesday 10 October 2007
My new hair. _
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09:49:47 AM,Tuesday 9 October 2007
All butters are not created equal. My mom could taste when my grandfather would use store-brand butter in his cookies instead of something nicer (Land o' Lakes, Breakstone, whatever). I once bought the fancy European butter (Plurga) for making croissants, and then flaked out and decided I wasn't up for putting in the time for making croissants (also, I might not have had the right kind of yeast), and Maria used it in chocolate chip cookies. You could taste that it was better butter than the Land o' Lakes my mom usually kept in the house. I have a thing about free range eggs, although I'm not quite sure I can taste a difference. There's the joke at the end of Mostly Martha where she can tell that the shrink didn't use the fancy sugar. We all know about different qualities in chocolates...but (and now we get to the point of this post), are there better types of flour?
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05:20:21 PM,Friday 5 October 2007
Today is slow. I am trying not to write an email.
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02:57:25 PM,Friday 5 October 2007
I would like to regularly play cards again. Spades was extraordinarily popular when I was at TCS--we were all rather obsessed and hypercompetitive (Connor once ate a score sheet so that no one would ever see how terribly he had lost). We would occasionally play a game or two of Hearts, but I tend to fiercely dislike Hearts (they would all stare at my mystified as I sulked through thoroughly trouncing them at Hearts. We also at one point created Clubs and Diamonds. One was fun and nifty and...well, rather complicated, and the other was pretty nonsensical and involved holding all 13 of your cards against your forehead.) After we all graduated, we would gather at Sue's and play once a week. It was lovely and fun. There is something so nice about the social setting of playing cards, the chatting, and thinking and laughing.
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02:57:07 PM,Friday 5 October 2007
My thought for the mullberry alpaca lace thing was that the end result would be a Christmas present for Peg. I'm not entirely sure why I picked Peg, but that was that. Maybe I will get out of that particular thought, knit it up, and then decide.
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02:40:35 PM,Friday 5 October 2007
(Oh. That bumped to a new page. That hasn't happened in ages.
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01:49:49 PM,Friday 5 October 2007
I had a fight with my phone about sending that picture to my blog, and wound up blogging it from flickrs website. I dyed that yarn myself, and, in direct sun, it's the exact color I was looking for, so I didn't realize how brown it was until I brought it back inside. I opted to make a Christmas present out of it instead of redying(but I no longer promise knitted projects to people, because then I wind up with the Sweater of Evil That I Never Want to Knit Again, and I feel all guilty about not getting promised objects to the person they are meant for). I had started a lace project, and somehow screwed it up, even though it was simple and easy, so I tore it out. And made the biggest tangled mess ever. Brianne very kindly untangled it for me through the "what the hell did you do to this yarn?" comments. And now I'm going to start again. ((sigh))
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01:49:05 PM,Friday 5 October 2007
