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precious paczki

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one tuesday per year
your devoted consume you
sweet pre-lenten treat

sarah lou is…

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- looking forward to mashed potatoes.
- glad she only has to travel two blocks, tomorrow.
- going to combat a few of the plethora of calories ingested tomorrow by takin’ a walk with her momma in the morning.
- happy to have a four day weekend.
- laughing at finnigan and his silly antics.
- probably missing your face.
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night out with some knitters

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i heart becca’s face

and mary and kristy’s faces (and apparently kristy loves mary’s face pretty hard, too!  )

kristy also really loves her chevron mittens.  heee!

i’ve started a new project.  heh.  what was that i was saying about inspiration, the other day?    sometimes you just have to go with it.

i got yer beans right here

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for those (veterans and non-veterans alike) who were thinking there seem to be a whole lot more skeins here than beans…  i had a tasty shot of espresso, today (with a veteran).  i could stand to do that more often.
there also may have been some skein procurement, as well.  seriously…  pics when there’s good natural [...]

finito!

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i finished my november/december yarn cravin’ sock club socks, today. 
mind you we don’t even meet for november until tomorrow.  and my september/october socks aren’t done, yet…  i’m over 75%, though, and those will be what i’ll likely work on the rest of the time i’m out here (though that’s only a couple more [...]

first finished item of the month

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the koolhaas is done, but i’ll wait to get a pic of it in the daylight, tomorrow.
also made some headway on the last sock of my 5-pair-sock-yarn-buying hiatus. 
also made a little progress on Christmas shopping.
also revived my love of haiku in that last post.
also probably got mail, but i haven’t been home since [...]

ode to kung pao

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ah, lovely peanuts
spicy sauce, tender chicken
atop the snow white rice
ok, so i was a haiku and not an ode, but whatever.
my fortune wasn’t a fortune.
it said, “you constantly struggle for self improvement — and it shows.”
  (…in bed)  hee hee!  i believe it was my own father who announced to me, first, that’s [...]