Monthly Archives: November 2010

Crafternoon Detritus

We had a lovely time tissue crafternooning with Ron and Caroline. So fun! And they totally didn’t mind our crafting ADD: I cut out two skirts to sew later, but mostly wrestled with refreshments before sitting down to knit. Mike started with engraving, had to cut some wood blocks as supports, shelved the project and then moved to electronics.

The most difficult thing we made today was guacamole. I’d bought some avocados on tuesday and they were still impossibly hard today. Ok! I get that our house is cold! But we put these avocados in the kitchen aid stand mixers and they STILL didn’t mash up. Mike had to chop them into submission and it wasn’t guac we served, but more like a guac-inspired avocado salad.

And now we are enjoying Crazy Snack Dinner and listening to the spring peeper track from Neko Case’s album and it’s just a heavenly night. Aaah, last breath of relaxation before the nutty holidays. So perfect!

Had the geekiest crafternoon ever with awesome Ron and Caroline. They are so lovely to come over and make stuff with @mikegrundy and I!

oh gracious, these (affordable!) reproduction buttons. I want them all. http://www.najecki.com/repro/buttons/Civil.html

last night I super-steppersed it up in the kitchen. apparently, precooked dinner is EVERY busy parents friend. TJ turkey in a bag ftw!

Faraday brings our jobs together: he discovered benzene AND cages! RT @mikegrundy Todays science hero is Michael Faraday #superheroscientist

Go Eleven! RT @mikegrundy Jack made the honor roll! Woot! #applyingyourselfreallyworks

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.@mikegrundy madscientisting/working-at-home this morning: “the microwave is like a faraday cage!” test-spriment! http://flic.kr/p/8Tzy4n

Apparently yet another thing Dolly and I have in common! RT @Dolly_Parton I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.

spent a fabulous day today on the walkway across the hudson with fellow cooper union alumni, friends, and family. thanks y’all! so fun!

whoo hoo! non-permitted-republication of @tinychoices material has been taken down. that’s seriously lovely, was worried it would be a mess.

so I can’t decide if I want to read or to knit, and then I go and fritter time by using up the internets. bah!

ZOMG I cracked open a new jar of extra fermenting kimchi and I can feel it healing my throatcold. Related news: all coworkers think I stink.

Happy veterans day! And especially and with love to my mom and uncle vaughan.

argh, today had to try and contact @greentrashcan to remove @tinychoices content from blog. “feature” /= permissible republish!

.@greentrashcan you do NOT have permission to republish this from my blog @tinychoices. remove this content from your site please!

ack! RT @sarah_haskins wish the largest repository of writing about step-parenting I’ve seen on the web wasn’t on HuffPo’s new divorce page.

I was so hungry when I got home I had a snack… and now it appears that I have decided to have too many cheese balls for dinner. GROSS.

I badly want early AM runs in daylight (DST), but if I’m breathless on the couch after getting 7 into bed and folding laundry… #betternot

last night when @mikegrundy looked at my throat with a flashlight: “you have a sore throat!” yes, thank you muchly, sir. yes I do.