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February 25, 2007

Sunday Dots

  • Yes, the blog was down for a bit today. I've got a nasty habit of ignoring the warning emails I get, warning me that I'm on the verge of exceeding my bandwidth, until things go poof. The Cuz did some stuff to ensure there will be less poof-going.
  • Nearly three months after The Giant Weather Dong of Doom whallopped St. Louis, my rinky-dink little redneck township is finally going to start picking up storm debris. B. has been diligently working to haul all the tree crap from the backyard to the curb. As of this afternoon, our house, which sits on a hill, is no longer visible from the street. I'm trying to find a good way to spin this in our real estate listing. "Lot with dense wooded view" sounds pleasing, no?
  • Yeah, I'm still obsessively knitting socks. But I might be moving on. Why? Because Friday, after nearly two months of waiting, I finally received the first issue of my Craft subscription. Fuck sock knitting; I'm off to make my own shoes!
  • In all seriousness, it's a pretty inspiring little piece of periodical work. I love this blurb from an editorial by Jean Railla: In the age of hyper-materialism, Paris Hilton, and thousand-dollar "It" bags, perhaps making stuff is the ultimate form of rebellion.
  • If you're wondering why I haven't mentioned Hartford in awhile, it's because we haven't been for awhile, what with the birthday festivities, trip to the hometown, illness, goat-sacrificing and whatnot. We went today for live Sunday bluegrass, bottomless cups, and time with friends. Ah, bliss. We'll be there again tomorrow.
  • Know what else I'm enjoying, aside from making rebel socks and reading nerd magazines? I'm enjoying Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way, which was on one of the many history networks this weekend. I'm not going to start a big discussion about it, since the series is nearly seven years old and mostly forgotten. But if you get a chance to watch it, do so. I learned a lot about the squirrely ways laws get made. I also learned how much it used to cost to buy your smack and needles from the Sears catalog in 1909. That's knowledge we all need.
  • Real estate news? If our agent doesn't get on the stick and start showing our damn house, I'm going to go to his office and re-enact something I saw a meth head do on that drug special I've been watching. I want to move into our new house that has a closing date looming. And I can't do that until he sells this house, which ain't going to happen by people magically envisioning what it looks like on the inside.
  • Clara Jane continues drawing 15 portraits a day of yours truly. Yesterday, she started including the mole on my forehead in her artwork. Then she started putting polka-dots on my cheeks to represent the lovely red blotches that have recently sprouted. I've always been pretty lax in the makeup department, but because of the brutal honesty of a child, I think I'm going to start wearing a thick layer of movie studio-quality pancake foundation at all times.
  • Yeah, it's pretty much come to this. Nothing of note has happened this weekend. I'm reaching, as I'm in the mood to write but really? Nothing to write about and I'm too lazy to come up with anything.

Posted by Robin at February 25, 2007 09:38 PM

Comments

I tried to find that "Hooked" show on my DirecTV search list and couldn't find it. I would LOVE to see that.

I need a portrait from Clara Jane. Wonder what color she would put on my lips and nails and hair?

Is your house on the Multi Listing deal?

Posted by: pkb at February 26, 2007 07:14 AM

Handcrafted, unique pieces of clothing or accessories will always be more valuable and worth having than anything that is mass produced. Even if it is a chi-chi, designer object, it's still mass produced and is just the same as what someone else has. Anyone with sense and taste will take the handcrafted item every time.

Plus handmaking something slows down the clock. It keeps us grounded and connected to people who made the same things hundreds of years ago in the same way.

Posted by: Dixie at February 26, 2007 03:47 PM