December 31, 2008
A year ago I decided to deepen my commitment to acknowledging all that I have received by writing posts on gratitude. This is the last post in the series. Over the last year, I’ve written about large and small things that have made me happy: knitting, food, local pleasures, yoga, meditation, family, going up north, [...]
December 30, 2008
What is a Nostepinde, you might ask? I asked the same thing when I was searching online for a ball winder. For reasons I’ve never quite understood (letting knitters view the yarn in a relaxed state?), yarn stores sell yarn in completely useless skeins, which must be wound into a ball before use. Otherwise it [...]
December 29, 2008
We stopped at Chipotle off of I-75 in southern Ohio on our way home from Christmas at my sister’s in Tennessee. I had never been to a Chipotle, and I was happy to learn about their commitment to naturally raised (non-CAFO) meat. Mostly, though, I was struck by the quotation on the cup in which [...]
December 28, 2008
I love knitting. I love yarn. I love yarn shops. I love bamboo and birch needles. I love starting projects. I love finishing them. I love photographing my knitting. I love looking at other people’s knitting (commercial, machine, and hand-knitted) for ideas about pattern and color and yarn. Ravelry.com has just exponentially increased my knitting [...]
December 26, 2008
I tackled a fun project with scrap yarn this Christmas: ornaments for my sister, my niece, and my nephew. I started with an ornament for my sister with scrap yarn from the socks I made her – Raphael from Colinette Jitterbug. I kept using the size 1 birch double-pointed needles I’d used for the socks. [...]
December 21, 2008
My sister used to live in Marietta, GA. I was reading a great food blog about Atlanta, the Blissful Glutton, which reviewed Tasty China, a restaurant in Marietta that served Sichuan style food. They specialized in cooking with Sichuan pepper, which provides a numbing experience/taste. The food at Tasty China was delectable. We enjoyed several [...]
December 20, 2008
We’ve been watching Mad Men. We missed the first season, but heard enough about it at the launch of season two that we caught up with Netflix and DVRed this season. We’ve been enjoying it, especially me because I work in Internet Marketing and have worked with several advertising agencies. So, it is fun to [...]
December 16, 2008
I think this was the easiest Christmas shopping season ever. We did a mix of local and online shopping, and I feel in control and not stressed about at least this one thing at this point in the holiday season. I threw myself on the mercy of Vicki at Ann Arbor’s funky, fun store Heavenly [...]
December 2, 2008
It’s the holidays now, and calls for giving arrive in my mailbox every day from charities to which I contribute and charities I’ve never encountered. My knitting meet-up, the Ann Arbor Stitch n’ Bitch Knitters, is doing a “Knit One, Save One” Hat Drive. We’re knitting hats for low birth weight babies for Save the [...]
not particularly objective musings on odds and ends – Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48105