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My poor kitty has been in medical hell for the last couple of weeks. Apparently his pancreas imploded and his sugars and liver got all totally wacky and he spent 3 nights in the kitty prisonhospital and since then we’ve been playing the dance-of-the-sugars with him where I stab his precious ear to get blood…

One of the Christmas Gifts I got this year was a gift certificate for a session at a place in Santa Cruz called The Perfumer’s Apprentice, so the gifter and I headed down there this afternoon to play. It was this totally cool place where they set you up at an individual station with 80…

Happy New Year! I know, it’s a day late, but what the heck. We had a nice New Years Eve, went down to First Night Santa Cruz and saw Zun Zun and the Taiko Drummers (who were, if anything, better than ever this year!). We came home and hung out. Some of us made it…

I’ve been making some progress on that Irish Hiking Scarf and it’s almost 3 feet long now. I have hope that I may someday be able to present it as a finished object. In the meantime, I will be seeing one of my very small friends tomorrow and I made her a belated Christmas present:…

For all my ranting during the last week, I think my favorite part of the holidays wouldn’t be possible if I weren’t coming down off of the total frantic pre-Christmas blitz. Running around to find just the right thing for the people I love, fighting the maddened crowds, marvelling at people’s snarly ferocity during this…

Remember how I thought I might work on the scarf yesterday? Hah. I forgot about my plans for massive cooking, and the poor scarf sat untended. I made a kabocha pie and some more sweet potato bread pudding, and we chowed on ham and other yummy stuff. I didn’t manage to finish the peanut butter…

Boy, I’m sure getting some high quality holiday enjoyment time in now! Look at how restful I was over the last couple of days… Yesterday, went back out for some ‘last minute’ shopping. Hit 4 stores in 1-1/2 hours and came back home. Managed to sneak in a new yarn store during this blitz, which…

Every year I think that I’ll get my shopping all done by the end of October, and every year I’m frantically driving around 3 days before Christmas while trying to simultaneously work. A little taste of the last 24 hours of my life: n Yesterday, I got a power cord for my ailing computer by…

This is a fabulous looking and very tasty breakfast treat, again based on a recipe from Cuisine at Home magazine – you can do all the preparation the night before and then just pop it into the oven in the morning. It tastes as good as it looks, and it’s very easy to prepare. Ingredients:…

We had some early Christmas deadlines this week – the kids were done with school for the year as of Friday so they had to get their presents done for their teachers. My son (who is 5) and I knitted a scarf together (he drove the needles, I drove the string). It’s kind of short…