Flux Capacity
Closing the books on 2024. …
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Frogs and Fatigue
Fatigue is kicking my ass this week. It has been for the past few weeks, but I attributed that …
Update Roundup
Roundupdate?
You may have noticed that my blog posting pace increased dramatically over the …
I wrote a book
Contrary to appearances, I do more with my time than make clothes and watch Veronica Mars.
I …
All My Children
Okay they aren’t children, they’re works-in-progress (WIPs). And I have too many of them.
In an …
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Flash Gordon Redux (Part One)
(1980) — The gloriously campy 1980 remake with Queen's iconic soundtrack.
Pajama Lessons
The Machine is Not The Boss
Learning a new skill when you’re 46 is a lot different than …
Summertime Sadness
Oh right, it’s this again.
I hate summer.
Raised in the Pacific Northwest, I rarely had …
Bingo Update
It’s been a couple months since I started using Bingo! to organize my daily life. Let’s …
Sewing Bee
Recently I started watching The Great British Sewing Bee, which is just like The Great British …
Solar Eclipse
Like millions of other people, I traveled to see the total eclipse on April 8.
I saw the …
This Week In...Iceland
Hello! Pardon my absence. Autumn was intense, with an upward trajectory in my energy and a …
Bundles of Joy
Haven’t posted for a while and I won’t go into why because it’s boring; suffice to say that …
hello, world
I’m nine weeks FIVE weeks (wow it feels like longer than that) post-op and starting to feel …
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The Day The Earth Stood Still Redux
(2008) — Keanu Reeves brings Klaatu to the 21st century in this 2008 remake.
Books I read in June and July
I’m very slowly getting my reading mojo back. 9 books behind on my goal for the year at this …
pain sucks
I’ve been absent for a while, and this will explain why. I wrote it during the week before my …
Dragonlance
I managed to read two (2) books in the month of June. 100% improvement, I guess! I’ll review …
Veroncia Mars, Ranked - Mid-Season Roundup
We’re halfway through season one, and here’s where the rankings stand:
First place: …
A new blanket project sorry
Okay, here’s the situation. (My parents went away for a week’s vacation…)
I don’t think I want …
A Season Passes
It’s the three month-iversary of my sister’s death, and I’m ready to talk about it a little bit …
Book I read in May
Friends, I finished only one book in May. Do you want to know how many I started?
Books about …
Turning the Corner
Turning the corner on my grief? Well, maybe - more about that later. But this isn’t a …
Tibial Tubercule Osteotomy
One of the things that happens to you, I guess, when you have a connective tissue disorder, is …
Science Fiction/Double Feature
Welcome to a new series, Science Fiction/Double Feature, in which I watch and review all the …
Grief Blanket Update
Well, I made a valiant effort. But the time has come to concede–I no longer have the …
Books I read in March
I got quite a lot of books finished in the first half of March, because I was partway through a …
my sister died
On March 16, my sister died suddenly.
I didn’t plan to cover my personal life on this …
Books I read in February
I’m kind of getting the hang of this? I probably should start including links to the …
Crochet Mandala Afghan
I taught myself to crochet a long time ago but have always been more loyal to knitting. Then …
VM Ranked - Introduction
Do you know what one of the best TV shows of all time is? Veronica Mars (at least, season one). …
Books I read in January
Okay, the formatting here is all messed up. I could spend days trying to figure out how to fix …
Gathering moss
Saxum volutum non obducitur musco
I am terrible at naming things—an unfortunate handicap when …
It's 2023 - why start a blog?
This article by the Verge somehow came across my landscape, and it pinged something in my head. …