I Poke Badgers With Spoons

I was gently reminded today that I am a slacker, so here you go:

Pictures of our new baby, Willow, are up. You can see them in the new album listed in the sidebar. She is a pistol and seems to love Monty. Also, she’s definitely a mommy’s girl.

I’ve been sick all week with a wicked sinus infection. No fun, but the antibiotics seem to be kicking its ass good and proper.

Last weekend was fun but bittersweet. Caren and Niels came for their last weekend and we will miss them dearly while they’re in China. We were joined by the Marthas and Matt, which made it even better. We had some kickass Indian food on Friday night and a sexy waiter to go with it. He asked for your number, Caren, but I told him you were running away to China with that kraut bastard. ;)
                                                                                 

Swampstock is rapidly approaching and I started my list this morning. (Stuff to take, stuff to buy when we get to P-burg, etc.) I’m very excited to see everyone again. Here’s hoping for good weather. No rain and no heat wave!!!!!

On the knitting front, I’m making the Heartbreakingly Cute Baby Kimono from the  Mason Dixon Knitting book. It’s really easy and a fun knit. If I have time, I’m going to embroider a pirate on the front for McCrady’s new little dude. I started the Harlot’s Snowdrop Shawl a few months ago, but cast it aside when we got Monty as 24/7 puppy-watching is not conducive to lace knitting. Now that we have a kitten, I don’t expect to pick it back up for a while. I’ve been terrible about posting knitting photos, so I’ll have to get back on that train.

In case some of you (all two of you who read this) don’t yet know, my brother is getting married. Yikes. MY BROTHER IS GETTING MARRIED! June 30, 2007 is the official date and I’m going to be a bridesmaid. Awwwwwwww

Enough discombobulated posting for now. I’ll be back soon.

A spare moment

My life is still consumed with the puppy. But in a happy way. We LOVE him and he's so much fun. We all had a nice trip to WV last weekend and Monty got to meet both of his grandmothers. I went to my first auction in Rockport and bought a great mission-esque rocker that my parents are bringing it up an a few weeks. It needs to be re-upholstered, but other than that it's in great shape.

The next month promises to be quite busy. The wee one is coming next weekend, but she and Dan will spend most of the long weekend geeking out at Balticon. More latah.

Yay! Snow!

We got lots and lots of snow. Yay! Pictures from last night and this morning are over there in the sidebar. Have a look at the pretty snow.

I wonder how much the Marthas got. I think they had a blizzard. Yikes!

TypePad Sucks

I'm not sure if this post will show up, but I've been trying to post for two days and TypePad seems to be having some sort of fit.

A weekend away

I'd love to tell you all about our weekend on the Eastern Shore, but I have to CLEAN right now. Content yourself with new pictures until I have more time.

Dream a little dream

My dream last night: I was in a giving birth in a prison hospital. I seemed to have just come to and couldn't remember the last ten years. Now, I'm sure part of that came from watching Paycheck (in which Ben Affleck has his memory of the last three years erased), but where the hell did the prison hospital come from? Incidentally, Paycheck is a terrible movie and Uma Thurman is the strangest color in it!

Why a new blog?

I've decided to switch to a format I could password protect since I'm interviewing for a state job (and for a couple of other reasons.) I hope nobody is inconvenienced. It won't last forever.

It's a little rough now, but as I have time, I'll make it purdier.

I went to the anti-war protest on the Mall yesterday and I'm still trying to formulate my thoughts on that so I can post them. It was a very powerful experience.

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