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Since I’m awake anyway: 26 Aug 2013 | 03:53 pm
I’ll show you some things I’ve made recently. First things first, I’ve got a baby’s butt to keep covered, so I did the mundane, cheapskate thing and made a bunch of diapers. Using this pattern: I made...
Landfill destiny 19 Aug 2013 | 11:45 pm
I come from a family of scavengers and trashpickers. So does Joel. In fact, in our early relationship, we bonded over an outing on Large Trash Day down in the ritzy Brookside district, when I scored m...
Three things I can cross off “Never Have I Ever:” 26 Jul 2013 | 03:59 pm
1. Hallucinated 2. Passed out* 3. Gone home with a boy I’d never met before It sounds like I’ve been having wild and salacious times, but in reality, that’s a misleading lead-in to a labor-and-deliver...
Ridiculous prognostications 27 Jun 2013 | 08:40 pm
made on behalf of my pending baby by total strangers in public: 1. It’s a boy because my face looks “normal,” not puffy. Ah…okay. Thanks, I think. Oh, by the way, woman-I’ve-never-seen-before-in-my-l...
Romantic Back Stories 23 Jun 2013 | 04:59 am
The other day, on the way home from work, I discovered a new illegal dump-site. As is my wont, I pulled over to see if there was anything good there. As it turns out, yes, there was. Here, you see Jan...
A rebuttal: 20 Jun 2013 | 08:14 pm
There’s a platitude been going around Facebook of late, one of those bumper-sticker feel-goodisms which goes: “Be kind to unkind people; they need it most.” To which I am inclined to say ‘humbug,’ ‘ho...
I am too immature for maternity yoga. 20 Jun 2013 | 08:47 am
I got invited to attend a maternity yoga class coming up next week, but I’m afraid I’m still too much of a doofus for yoga. I gave it the ” Facebook Maybe” which is introvert for, “uh, no thanks, but ...
A (surprisingly) effective study in fabric use: 15 Jun 2013 | 11:20 pm
I’ve had this sewing pattern for ages. It was in a box of oddments my grandma gave me shortly after I bought my sewing machine. So, it’s been in my stash since 1996. Grandma had hooked me up with some...
Flat-Fold Cargo Area 31 May 2013 | 02:56 am
My first experience with the practical potentials of the import hatchback came sometime in the mid-1980s, when a friend’s mom bought a nearlyh-new Honda Civic, not unlike the one my mother-in-law owns...
Sunny Side Up 29 May 2013 | 08:13 am
Did you ever not-buy something and later wish you’d bought it? When I was about 12 or 13, I talked myself out of buying a fantastic novelty brooch, a piece of costume jewelry from the early 1950s. It ...
