Many thanks to my good friend, Elizabeth (for demonstrating), and a perfect stranger, Lucy (who has an AWESOME tutorial on her blog), for helping me learn to crochet a ripple.
I'm two days into working on this blanket and already I'm LOVING IT!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
just a little ripple...
Many thanks to my good friend, Elizabeth (for demonstrating), and a perfect stranger, Lucy (who has an AWESOME tutorial on her blog), for helping me learn to crochet a ripple.
I'm two days into working on this blanket and already I'm LOVING IT!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
12-of-12: January 2011
I just visited my 12-of-12 set from January 2010.
Then I checked out January 2009.
Seems the 1st month of the year is snowy, dark, and either lazy or sick.
This year isn't much different.
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Well, except one thing...
A NEW JOB!
Today was day-2 of my new adventure. Here's what my new digs look like....
outside...
and inside...
... now I know things look VERY sparse at the moment.
It's only my second day, so I haven't brought any fun personal stuff in yet.
But I will. And then maybe I'll retake some shots in a future 12-of-12.
It's only my second day, so I haven't brought any fun personal stuff in yet.
But I will. And then maybe I'll retake some shots in a future 12-of-12.
It's been pretty snowy the last couple days.
I think we've seen about half a foot so far this week with more on the way.
7pm:
Finally home from work (the snow really slowed things down).
Dogs are fed and now it's my turn.
I got my favorite salad - Fuji Apple Chicken!
Jammie time!
For a bit of irony, I give you 'The Biggest Loser' Show & dessert
Kids are just as lazy tonight...
And finally... my newest project... I'm crocheting a blanket/throw... with fun little ripples!
Not a very exciting Wednesday, I know. But there are other 12-of-12ers out there...
you should visit Chad Darnell's website to see other (more exciting?) submissions or to learn more so YOU can join in next month.
Stay warm! See ya in February!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The BBC 100 List
Have YOU read these books?
A couple of months ago, I was tagged on FaceBook to participate in this "experiment". Earlier this week, my blog-buddy Ticklebear posted the list to his site and challenged others to post as well.
Below is the list of books from the BBC's "Big Read" - a Top 100 of sorts. From what I hear, the BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed below. I'm not sure where this info comes from, but I can attest to the abominably LOW number of books I have heard friends/colleagues say they've read (or not read). I also found it fun to see how many I could check-off the list.
Here how it goes:
If a title is BOLD, it means I read the book in its entirety.
If a title is ITALICS, it means i started reading, but didn't finish.
If a title is UNDERLINED, it means I saw a movie or other adaptation of the book.
If a title has a plus (+) next to it, I plan to read it soon (in the next year or so).
Here are my results...
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte +
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell +
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller +
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck +
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Graham
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood +
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville +
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle +
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
My totals come to:
Read & Completed: 31
Read & didn't finish: 6
Movie/Adaptations: 21
To-Read List: 6
Not bad! I've read 5-times as many books as the BBC had expected. HA! Take that literary drain on society! Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to read my book. :)
A couple of months ago, I was tagged on FaceBook to participate in this "experiment". Earlier this week, my blog-buddy Ticklebear posted the list to his site and challenged others to post as well.
Below is the list of books from the BBC's "Big Read" - a Top 100 of sorts. From what I hear, the BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed below. I'm not sure where this info comes from, but I can attest to the abominably LOW number of books I have heard friends/colleagues say they've read (or not read). I also found it fun to see how many I could check-off the list.
Here how it goes:
If a title is BOLD, it means I read the book in its entirety.
If a title is ITALICS, it means i started reading, but didn't finish.
If a title is UNDERLINED, it means I saw a movie or other adaptation of the book.
If a title has a plus (+) next to it, I plan to read it soon (in the next year or so).
Here are my results...
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte +
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell +
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller +
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck +
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Graham
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood +
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville +
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle +
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
My totals come to:
Read & Completed: 31
Read & didn't finish: 6
Movie/Adaptations: 21
To-Read List: 6
Not bad! I've read 5-times as many books as the BBC had expected. HA! Take that literary drain on society! Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to read my book. :)
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Turn the Page... Tuesday
It's amazing how much reading you can get done when you're not working and when the weather is chilly enough that once you're done walking the dogs, you all just want to snuggle up and read.
It's the first Tuesday of the year! The first Tuesday of January! So it's the first Turn the Page... Tuesday for 2011. Don't know what TTP...T is? Visit Adrienne at Some of a Kind for more info, then join us!
So, on with the reviews...
The first book I read was Jamie Ford's Hotel at the Corner of Bitter & Sweet (photo from Jamie's website). I hadn't heard of this story till it was suggested for our January Book Club meeting. I was leery at first, because it was another story about WWII and I was anticipating more of the same. But, boy, was I pleasantly surprised.
The book could not be more perfectly named - every character, location, and interaction was both "bitter and sweet". From the family relations (3-generations worth), to the love story, to the social and political story lines, it all made me smile and sigh.
Before 'Hotel...', I'd never delved into the Chinese-Japanese-American relationships in the United States in the early 40s. I knew OF the Japanese camps, but not the details; I was aware of the conflicts between the Japanese and Chinese throughout history, but Jamie masterfully took this history and painted on personal faces of this strife & suffering... and triumph (?) in the end of love and tolerance.
When I rate this book at the meeting, I plan to give it a 4 out of 5. I highly recommend it, it's a good read.
Today, I'm almost finished with Book 3 of the Mortal Instruments trilogy, by Cassandra Clare (photos from her website). Aimed at young adults, this set is fun, quick, and action-packed. It revolves around a girl named Clary & her interaction with a race of people called the Shadowhunters, magical "superhumans", protectors of "mundanes" (regular humans) and killers of all things nasty - demons, mainly, but will take out the occasional vampires, werewolf or other beastie, if necessary.
In Book 1, City of Bones, Clary learns of her "Sight" when she meets the local family of Shadowhunters (one of whom is drop-dead gorgeous, but quite arrogant - Edward Cullin, anyone?). Poor Clary's world changes SO dramatically in just a few short days after seeing her 1st Shadowhunter - her mom is kidnapped, she's attacked by demons, she has to negotiate with vampire and so much more. Like I said - action packed - and a fun twist on the "alternative reality" genre. I jumped right into Book 2.
Book 2 is filled with destruction and mayhem... for everyone. Everything that everyone has thought was true has been shattered and they're seeking the truth. Valentine is back and he's systematically draining the blood from each of the races (warlock, vampire, fae, and werewolf) to complete his evil plan. He must be stopped!
Throw in a little teen love and forbidden love and you got yourself another lightning read.
Finally, here I am in the middle of Book 3. Clary is trying to save her mom who is in a coma. There's a new man in her life - who I suspect is evil. And now the city is burning. There are only a couple hundred pages left... I'm excited to see how this will all wrap up in the end.
I hope the good guys will win, but will there be a twist? Will Clary end up with Jace? Will Simon save the day?
This has been a fun couple weeks - breezing through an easy read in a world so different from mine. Its been a nice visit, but I'll be happy to come back to reality soon. I think.
What I should read next? I got Larrson's Millennium Trilogy and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay for Christmas, so maybe I'll pick up one of them. I'm also learning to crochet, so maybe I'll take a reading break and work on my Double Crochet stitch. NAH, I can do both!
It's the first Tuesday of the year! The first Tuesday of January! So it's the first Turn the Page... Tuesday for 2011. Don't know what TTP...T is? Visit Adrienne at Some of a Kind for more info, then join us!
So, on with the reviews...
The book could not be more perfectly named - every character, location, and interaction was both "bitter and sweet". From the family relations (3-generations worth), to the love story, to the social and political story lines, it all made me smile and sigh.
Before 'Hotel...', I'd never delved into the Chinese-Japanese-American relationships in the United States in the early 40s. I knew OF the Japanese camps, but not the details; I was aware of the conflicts between the Japanese and Chinese throughout history, but Jamie masterfully took this history and painted on personal faces of this strife & suffering... and triumph (?) in the end of love and tolerance.
When I rate this book at the meeting, I plan to give it a 4 out of 5. I highly recommend it, it's a good read.
Today, I'm almost finished with Book 3 of the Mortal Instruments trilogy, by Cassandra Clare (photos from her website). Aimed at young adults, this set is fun, quick, and action-packed. It revolves around a girl named Clary & her interaction with a race of people called the Shadowhunters, magical "superhumans", protectors of "mundanes" (regular humans) and killers of all things nasty - demons, mainly, but will take out the occasional vampires, werewolf or other beastie, if necessary.
In Book 1, City of Bones, Clary learns of her "Sight" when she meets the local family of Shadowhunters (one of whom is drop-dead gorgeous, but quite arrogant - Edward Cullin, anyone?). Poor Clary's world changes SO dramatically in just a few short days after seeing her 1st Shadowhunter - her mom is kidnapped, she's attacked by demons, she has to negotiate with vampire and so much more. Like I said - action packed - and a fun twist on the "alternative reality" genre. I jumped right into Book 2.
Book 2 is filled with destruction and mayhem... for everyone. Everything that everyone has thought was true has been shattered and they're seeking the truth. Valentine is back and he's systematically draining the blood from each of the races (warlock, vampire, fae, and werewolf) to complete his evil plan. He must be stopped!
Throw in a little teen love and forbidden love and you got yourself another lightning read.
I hope the good guys will win, but will there be a twist? Will Clary end up with Jace? Will Simon save the day?
This has been a fun couple weeks - breezing through an easy read in a world so different from mine. Its been a nice visit, but I'll be happy to come back to reality soon. I think.
What I should read next? I got Larrson's Millennium Trilogy and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay for Christmas, so maybe I'll pick up one of them. I'm also learning to crochet, so maybe I'll take a reading break and work on my Double Crochet stitch. NAH, I can do both!
Happy New Year! Happy Reading!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Welcome 2011!
2010 is now just a memory. But, wow, was it filled with some interesting stuff!
I'll begin with my most memorable moment. About a year ago, the hubby and I started contemplating a vacation. A REAL vacation... travel to a far away place, staying for about a week, with no people, no work, no cell phones. We found it at Sequoia National Park and the surrounding area. It was the most perfect experience - perfect weather, perfect food, perfect hikes, a perfect "honeymoon". We're trying to think of where to go next that might compare to this adventure. It's gonna be tough.
We spent a lot of time doing other mini-vacations & day trips, also to some pretty cool spots - The southern coast of Massachusetts, Woodstock, Zoar Valley, and Allegany State Park. You can see pictures of many of these trips in earlier blog posts.
Twenty-Ten was also the year of The Triathlon. I think it was February when my coworker asked me to join her in participating in a sprint-distance triathlon. I remember thinking "Oh, no. I don't run. I can't do that." (biking and swimming, no problem.) Then she says "the run is ONLY a 5K" and the gears start turning. "Maybe I could do this. It might be a fun challenge. I'm in pretty good shape and I have till July to train."
SURE! I'll do it.
The rest is history. If you've followed this blog for any length of time, you know what happened. You know of my injury in June and my lackluster performance at the Tri. But since that day, I think I've worked out the bugs: the bike is fixed, I'm running 3.1 miles at least once a week, and I'm excited to try again. This year, the event is July 2nd... exactly 6-months from today.
So, what's the plan for 2011?
Well, first thing I need to focus on is getting a job. Yes, after 3-years of surviving multiple layoffs from my company (every 6-months), I finally fell to the largest downsizing the company has ever had. 1400 sales people were let go in December, including me.
But, ya know what? I'm okay with it.
It has given me a chance to explore new avenues and (hopefully) find a new career that I'm going to love. I have not been passionate about my work in a long time - I'm SO ready to get that back.
Fitness is going to remain high on the list of "to dos" for 2011. I have a treadmill now and an indoor bike trainer, so I never have to worry about weather or darkness again, if I don't want to (and I can no longer use either as an excuse not to work out). I'm working on a plan to keep healthy and strong and be totally ready for the Tri in July (and maybe some other events in between). I'm working on building my running to 8K (5-miles) at a time so that the 5K is a piece of cake.
As for the blog... I'll try to post every couple weeks (if not more), especially if there noteworthy stuff to blog about. I'm going to continue participating in a couple of monthly blog-related events like... the photo-snapping 12-of-12 and virtual book club Turn the Page... Tuesday. Who knows, maybe there's something else out in the blog-o-spehere that I should join for yet another reason to blog? We'll see.
Finally, I am also leaning to crochet, so you might see a crocheted craft or two here in 2011. I have a number of pregnant friends who all need blankets, so the craftiness will definitely be out there... you'll see those posted here once each project is done.
All-in-all, I think 2010 was a pretty good year despite some disappointments (can't be perfect, right?). I'm hoping that 2011 is just as good or better - good health, good friends, good times.
I'll begin with my most memorable moment. About a year ago, the hubby and I started contemplating a vacation. A REAL vacation... travel to a far away place, staying for about a week, with no people, no work, no cell phones. We found it at Sequoia National Park and the surrounding area. It was the most perfect experience - perfect weather, perfect food, perfect hikes, a perfect "honeymoon". We're trying to think of where to go next that might compare to this adventure. It's gonna be tough.
We spent a lot of time doing other mini-vacations & day trips, also to some pretty cool spots - The southern coast of Massachusetts, Woodstock, Zoar Valley, and Allegany State Park. You can see pictures of many of these trips in earlier blog posts.
Twenty-Ten was also the year of The Triathlon. I think it was February when my coworker asked me to join her in participating in a sprint-distance triathlon. I remember thinking "Oh, no. I don't run. I can't do that." (biking and swimming, no problem.) Then she says "the run is ONLY a 5K" and the gears start turning. "Maybe I could do this. It might be a fun challenge. I'm in pretty good shape and I have till July to train."
SURE! I'll do it.
The rest is history. If you've followed this blog for any length of time, you know what happened. You know of my injury in June and my lackluster performance at the Tri. But since that day, I think I've worked out the bugs: the bike is fixed, I'm running 3.1 miles at least once a week, and I'm excited to try again. This year, the event is July 2nd... exactly 6-months from today.
So, what's the plan for 2011?
Well, first thing I need to focus on is getting a job. Yes, after 3-years of surviving multiple layoffs from my company (every 6-months), I finally fell to the largest downsizing the company has ever had. 1400 sales people were let go in December, including me.
But, ya know what? I'm okay with it.
It has given me a chance to explore new avenues and (hopefully) find a new career that I'm going to love. I have not been passionate about my work in a long time - I'm SO ready to get that back.
Fitness is going to remain high on the list of "to dos" for 2011. I have a treadmill now and an indoor bike trainer, so I never have to worry about weather or darkness again, if I don't want to (and I can no longer use either as an excuse not to work out). I'm working on a plan to keep healthy and strong and be totally ready for the Tri in July (and maybe some other events in between). I'm working on building my running to 8K (5-miles) at a time so that the 5K is a piece of cake.
As for the blog... I'll try to post every couple weeks (if not more), especially if there noteworthy stuff to blog about. I'm going to continue participating in a couple of monthly blog-related events like... the photo-snapping 12-of-12 and virtual book club Turn the Page... Tuesday. Who knows, maybe there's something else out in the blog-o-spehere that I should join for yet another reason to blog? We'll see.
Finally, I am also leaning to crochet, so you might see a crocheted craft or two here in 2011. I have a number of pregnant friends who all need blankets, so the craftiness will definitely be out there... you'll see those posted here once each project is done.
All-in-all, I think 2010 was a pretty good year despite some disappointments (can't be perfect, right?). I'm hoping that 2011 is just as good or better - good health, good friends, good times.
Cheers!
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