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Whiskers on Wednesday

September 3, 2008 at 3:52 pm | In Whiskers on Wednesday, totally awesome sister | 9 Comments

I find this picture, taken by my Totally Awesome Sister, to be somewhat disturbing. Although I’m not sure why…

Thanks everyone!

August 12, 2008 at 9:42 am | In Knitting, life, totally awesome sister | 1 Comment
Tags: thanks everyone

So yeah, I’m back to knitting on a regular basis. I can’t tell you how awesome it is. I cast on two new projects and will probably cast on another new one today. But after my physical therapy appointment. If you ever get tendinitis, I highly recommend physical therapy. And acupuncture. Acupuncture is teh awesome.

Thanks to everyone who left a comment wishing me a speedy recovery. Ordinarily, I try to respond personally to each comment I get, but I really think that excessive typing on the computer is what really did me in. My desk is too small and there is no arm support, you see. I hope to remedy that this weekend with a trip to Ikea with my TAS. Who doesn’t love Ikea? Who doesn’t love my TAS?

In which I piss of my TAS

June 2, 2008 at 4:42 pm | In totally awesome sister | 3 Comments

My TAS thinks she started her own blog title thing and told me not to copy her. Well I am, today at least. Maybe the rest of the week. Ha! How’d you like them apples!

Can’t Knit Now…

January 21, 2008 at 9:05 am | In Knitting, totally awesome sister | 5 Comments
Tags: geek out

Even more shocking this weekend than a lack of knitting progress, was a lack of any knitting at all. You see, Saturday, I was busy with this:

Isn’t it sleek and beautiful? I’ve had my old machine since 2000, so this new laptop is an absolute SCREAMER!! I spent the better part of Saturday night and Sunday morning setting it up, but there’s still more to do. It’s amazing how much stuff accumulates on a computer in eight years. Luckily, it’s the kind of stuff that doesn’t take up a lot of 3 dimensional space.

Finally, I took a break from my nifty new laptop and went with Mr. Interrupted and my Totally Awesome Sister over to our local library where Michael Whelan was giving a talk. He has been my favorite SciFi/Fantasy artist for as long as I can remember, so the lecture was a real treat. And the new stuff he has been working on is absolutely amazing. We bought a few of his prints that I can’t wait to have framed and displayed.

What’s that? You don’t believe for a minute that I didn’t knit at all? How well the blog knows me. I did finish the scarf for my TAS while at the WW meeting on Saturday. Here she is modeling it.

Isn’t she haute?

Swelling with Pride, Filled with Envy

October 31, 2007 at 12:40 pm | In totally awesome sister | 1 Comment

I remember how I prodded my totally awesome sister into starting up a blog. She now has three blogs and has recently received some blog accolades. The best one (and the one least like a meme) was The Rising Blogger’s Post of the Day for the beautiful and poignant post she wrote about Autumn. (Go read it, if you haven’t already, it’s really quite lovely.) I am so proud of her.

Also, her authority on Technorati is now greater than mine.

Cat Portrait

July 4, 2007 at 3:27 pm | In Doozer, totally awesome sister | 3 Comments

My totally awesome sister did a portrait of Doozer for me. Isn’t it cute?

Untitled

May 20, 2007 at 10:06 pm | In Knitting, totally awesome sister | 1 Comment
Tags: booga bag, monkey socks

The Monkey socks are on a time-out.

I made a mistake and am now faced with either tinking back all of the gusset stitches and (possibly) re-doing the entire heel flap or living with break in the pattern repeat across the top of the foot. I am annoyed and I can’t decide, so I put the project on a time-out.

The Booga Bag is finished. Photo in the Gallery.

I have the best sister in the world.

Here’s what she gave me for my birthday.

I am so blessed to have a sister who gets me. Thanks again, Rachel!

Finally, the big news in our family as of Friday is that we got a Wii. Normally a new game system in our house would be quite unremarkable and not at all worth mentioning on a blog which is supposed to be devoted to knitting. However, check out this game that came as part of the bundle:

Everything except the person riding that cow is textured to look like knitting. How cool is that?