Entries from July 2008

July 30, 2008

SP12 Question of the Week #8

What is your favourite supper for a hot summer evening?
Other than ice cream? :)
Well, ok then. A fresh salad with delicious cheese and a vinagrette (like this Goat Cheese, Walnut, and Strawberry Salad) is always awesome, since there is no cooking involved whatsoever!

July 25, 2008

Good mail, bad blogger

Dear Secret Pal,
You are totally awesome. I have now received 2 packages from you, and both have been fantastic and unique and thoughtful. It took me a while to pick up package #2, since I thought the postal notice was a hold-over from #1, they came so close together, but please don’t stress [...]

July 23, 2008

SP12 Question of the Week #5, 6, & 7

I am so behind on these!
QotW #5:
1) Where is your favorite place to go for vacation/holiday?
2) Where is one place you’d like to go?
1) My most frequent “vacation place” in my adult life has, of all things geeky, been Pennsic War, a very large SCA event held each August. There are some [...]

July 17, 2008

Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

If you are a fan of Joss Whedon* (and I’m betting you are) go watch these 13-min videos (Acts I and II) right now. Then you can be as geeked-out happy as I am, and share my pain of waiting all the way until Saturday for the last part.
*Creator/writer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer [...]

July 15, 2008

A post that’s not just in my head

I am such a liar. I promise you posts “soon”, and you get nothing. I tease with hints of knitting, spinning, and baby-news. And then… nothing.
I apologize for this. It appears that pregnancy has robbed me of certain faculties.
It’s certainly not like I haven’t been blogging — in my head, at [...]

July 2, 2008

SP12 Question of the Week #3 & 4

Between pregnancy sleepies, work stress, vacation not-stress-but-busy.ness, I’m way behind on blogging! Here are the SP12 QotWs, but I *promise* I’ll post again soon with something knitting or my exciting baby news!
QotW#3:
What would you consider the perfect amount of stash?
The “perfect” amount of stash would be small enough that it fits into [...]