archives for December 2007
someday maybe they’ll be girlfriends
Thursday 20 December 2007 | someone left a cookie
I know, I know, this is annoying—like when you say goodbye to someone and it’s this drawn-out affair, and then you keep running into them. But while I’m packing and yet not making any discernable dent in the pile of wadded-up clothing which never got folded and put away two weeks ago…I share with you, [...]
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(final) lack of what was found there [unintentionally adjective-heavy post]
Thursday 20 December 2007 | I like a cookie
As an afterthought, here are some recent misguided, blundering searches, just to close out the year—they grow repetitive so this will probably be the last one of these posts dedicated to the hopelessly electronically lost. In the spirit of wrapping up another year of unreliability…at some point in the last few days, the Un passed [...]
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we interrupt this resounding silence
Thursday 20 December 2007 | 3 cookies in the jar
…to let you know that the Brujo and I have just up and decided to up and go to Baja again this winter; for about twelve days; leaving tomorrow morning. I had naively imagined that I’d spend the next couple of weeks puttering domestically around in sweatpants, blogging and sewing; but instead, we won’t be [...]
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featherweight love
Sunday 16 December 2007 | someone left a cookie
Elle est arrivé, gleaming black and smelling deliciously musty, like Grandma’s stash closets, like Maine, where she has lived her whole life. I’m still a little scared by all the metal moving parts, but I’ll start with remembering how to thread its needle, wind its bobbin. The Brujo thoughtfully downloaded for me an age-appropriate instruction [...]
one reason why I love my lunette
Saturday 15 December 2007 | 3 cookies in the jar
(A post in which she bravely blogs about her menstrual cup! Although that phrase was difficult to type, thinking of all the various former others who might read it. Oh well, it’s rather too late to care what they think now.) So about three months ago, I spent somewhere in the neighborhood of €35 (and [...]
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Friday 14 December 2007 | Comments Off
how a bobbin works
Thursday 13 December 2007 | 3 cookies in the jar
I dare you not to find this as mesmerizing and hypnotic as I do. Go on. Also curious are the competing versions of its creator’s inspirational dream. You hear most often that inventor Elias Howe, frustrated by his inability to mechanize sewing, fell asleep and dreampt that cannibals in Africa put him in in a [...]
actual student sentence from final
Wednesday 12 December 2007 | I like a cookie
“This semester, I have also learned the importance of poof reading.” EDIT: What, I thought that was funny enough to blog twice?! It’s been a long semester…and I have still apparently not learned the importance of poof reading.
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just in (moon) time
Tuesday 11 December 2007 | someone left a cookie
Now I can only begin to imagine, for readers to whom I am already freakish beyond belief, how bizarre my cloth pad obsession (of six months’ standing) appears. Boy I have been reading way too much student writing because I can evidently no longer be trusted with a multi-clause sentence. Anyway, I know how weird [...]
procraftination
Monday 10 December 2007 | someone left a cookie
So first there was this pretty spool of batik string thread that was on sale for $3. Add one size N crochet hook, some muscle memory, and a three-hour catch-up phone call with Mandarin (!) and you have a lovely-looking (emphasis on looking) scarf. Adorably wonky! she said defensively. The problem is…it’s not unlike bedding [...]
