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When I woke up this morning, I woke up from a series of dreams about needing to sleep. I mean, I slept through the night, but it definitely had a rather severe knock-on effect this morning. I woke up with a headache, and enough physical pain that I strongly considered a nap in the hopes of avoiding the worst of… Read more »

I have, for the most part, been avoiding the world today. I am so glad that so many of my friends state-side are voting and telling other people to vote, though I have to admit, I kind of stopped voting in US elections a couple of years ago. It’s a lot of extra hoops and hassles that seem to keep… Read more »

I was amused this morning to look up and find Poison imperiously staring me down while pointing her belly at me. I haven’t met another cat that is so tolerant of her belly being assaulted by hands and faces, and I joked with Z last night that she’s a fattyfat so there’s more of her to nom. Today has been… Read more »

I’ve been having headaches most of the week, and today is no exception. The only difference is that it’s somehow a helluva a lot worse, and required me to throw more pain meds at it than I would have liked. Between that, caffeine, and a few pints of water, it’s starting to push back enough to not feel like death… Read more »

I made myself sit down and get the first sock finished off last night. I’m very happy with the result, to say the least. I risked making it a bit longer than most of my hand-knit socks, and it was totally within tolerance of the available wool. And while King Cole is the high end of cheap and cheerful, the… Read more »

It’s the weekend, yay! I have absolutely nothing planned, which is bliss. I hope to make some progress on my knitting, though my back is telling me that I will probably need to take some pain medication before I try to get stuck in. I’m going to try to stretch it out first though. Well, there is one thing I… Read more »

While last night was super mild and dry, today is colder and wetter… quite a bit wetter. Thankfully, it wasn’t raining when I had to leave the house; it was parent/teacher conferences today. Both kiddos received glowing reviews from their respective teachers, with nothing they felt needed addressing. Smalls apparently is one of the better kids in her class for… Read more »

Yes, I made a half-assed effort to costume for trick-or-treating. Y’all probably all already saw the picture, but in case you didn’t — voila. <3

Z bought four pumpkins, which is what we do pretty much every year. He helped the girls do theirs (pictured), and then we agreed to just put the other two out uncarved. He’s gonna use the uncarved ones later to much pumpkin curry, a dish my Melly taught us that we are quite fond of. Hrm, I’m guessing that Halloween… Read more »

… our regularly scheduled programme of knitting. There’s still a part of me that is flailing about and wanting to play with beads, but yeah. It’s nice to be not doing that for a bit. I still need to circle back and photograph/list the things I made last week, but that’s fine. I don’t have to do it today, or… Read more »