Entries from January 2009

January 29, 2009

Ingenue

Since I stopped sleeping due to dueling nebulizer, ear drops, tylenol/motrin dueling banjos, and rocking for two weeks straight, I decided to make a sweater.  This sweater started out being cursed.  Marcia and I decided to both make this sweater, she had already selected her yarn and we agreed to cast on the week after New [...]

January 21, 2009

Yo-Yo Ma

About a year ago, Sue was playing around with this little circlular thingy-ma-bob called a Clover Yo-Yo Maker.  I was intrigued and the inner geek in me researched more about the Yo-Yo (AKA Suffolk Puffs.) .  I found the history intriguing (mind you I’m awestruck by the history of the tin can and one of my [...]

January 2, 2009

The Ball dropped at 8pm and that’s New Years!

I haven’t stayed up till midnight on my own for about two years and two months.  The ball dropped early in our homestead because hubby and I agreed that we were kidding ourselves if we really thought midnight was a realistic goal…and isn’t New Years all about goals?  Add a couple glasses of wine to [...]