After NOT crocheting during National Crochet month (I know, I know) I picked up my favorite hook, a Susan Bates ‘I’, the skein of yarn a patron donated to me (thanks La, La, La Liz!) and jumped back into my Ravelry group, ‘Block a Month’. The Bee is getting a new bedroom and I wanted to finish the blanket that…
…National Poetry Month! Growing up poetry was such a bore! I remember nothing about iambic pentameters or sonnets. I do remember my mind drifting away during English and me begging that the torture be done for the day. Haiku was always good. I used to love the simplicity of the Haiku, 5,7,5…17 syllables to make an impact. Today is the…
…or what the ham fat did that scale read? Hello Dear Readers! Yes, you have read correctly; I am again writing (and still not doing much about ) my weight. I know the PC thing is to be pleased with myself for being the woman I am. My size does not take away that I am intelligent and on the…
or its alias: Financial Management Month. I will not discuss my own follies with money; it’s far too distressing to talk about. When I realize that I will be working for the next thirty years in an effort not to end up as the cat lady, with Baby Jane eyebrows, smelling like a mixture of tuna and bad breath and…
…I am in control day.Apparently this day was born after then President Reagan was shot and Secretary of the State, Alexander Haig, declared he in charge. Haig said, “I am in control.” This was not so as he kinda jumped the chain in command but whatever. Since I have been feeling like such a Negative Nellie and a Sour Suzy…