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This last week was really exhausting. I went up to play in the snow with my kids last week, which was really fun but physically tiring. On Saturday I went to a memorial for my grandma, who had been ill for over a year, and died earlier this month. She and I hadn’t spoken for…

n n Victoria and the hat Originally uploaded by synedra. n n Yes! There is a finished object in my house! What’s that you say? You don’t believe I finished a knitted item? Well… I would be insulted if it weren’t such a reasonable question. And true. Because actually the object was not technically finished…

As a field services engineer, I’m becoming more and more aware of the various levels of customer service I see around me, and the effects they have on my (and other customers’) behavior. Case in point: My hosting service had issues several months ago. It took 4 days to receive an initial response to my…

First of all, I think I should mention that I re-combined my blogs (cooking, fitness, and domestigirl) into a single blog. Also, I’m going to stop trying to stick closely to knitting content. This is a Kirsten blog and I am a geek, so periodically there will be geek content. Sometimes I will post photos…

n n Another sunset Originally uploaded by synedra. n n I’ve been doing the standard ‘work yourself silly’ startup stuff and it’s been a lot of fun, but I now have several days off for a much needed vacation (off to Disneyland) and I’m very grateful for the break. My new job as a field…

Yes, it’s true… *sigh* I’ve become one of those once-a-month-whether-I-need-it-or-not bloggers. Alas. I don’t even have any new excuses – entropy and chaos have had me in their inescapable grasp for most of 2005. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel! It looks like I may be heading into a calmer…

As the title says, it must be fall. The Santa Cruz county fair is in town, and we went to check it out this week. Please bear with me for these fuzzy camera-phone pictures. I was too lazy to bring my actual camera. We checked out the pig races… My daughter, also a ham. Devon,…

The Itty Bitty’s team had their first game today… well, technically it was more of an exhibition pre-game kinda game, which is good because we didn’t exactly win. We only lost 6-0, though, which is not so bad considering their little guys were lots bigger than our little guys. Here’s my daughter cheering on her…

Yes, as the header says, I understand that I’m a bad blogger. I know we have this relationship, this writer/reader thing, and in order to hold up my end of the bargain I need to actually write something periodically. What have I been doing instead? I’d love to say that I’ve been doing some fabulously…

As most of my readers have probably noticed, I tend to keep a lot on my plate at once. I’ve got a lot of energy, and a lot of things I want to do with that energy. However, I’m not necessarily good (who am I kidding, I’m completely awful) at the whole ‘day-to-day’ things that…