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life

Blaargh. Rough Morning.

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The Mister and I stayed up entirely too late last night playing Borderlands (a really fun video game!) together. But video games, by their nature, aren’t meditative in the way of knitting and are instead quite stimulating (to say the least) so I had rather a difficult time falling asleep last night. I also think my brain spent much of the night killing mutant bandits instead of restoring itself for the day to come. In the future, I must remember that my brain is no longer the springy, resilient brain of a 19-year-old, but rather a nearly 40-year-old brain that more resembles a bowl of warm jello.

*poke*

*poke*

food

Hoppin’ John a la Jen

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I hear it’s good luck to eat black-eyed peas and collard greens on New Year’s. We had ours a day late, but I’m sure whichever anthropomorphic personification in charge of Luck is okay with that.
  • 1 15 oz can black-eyed peas
  • 1 29 oz can small white beans (You could use all black-eyed peas, this is just what I had on hand.)
  • 1 lb or so of left-over pork loin w/ salsa (Cooked for dinner the night before, tradition calls for a ham bone.)
  • 1 bundle of fresh collard greens, washed and chopped
  • 1 tsp red pepper flakes (Or more. I kept it mild for the boys.)
  • 1/2 Tbsp garlic powder
  • 1 tablespoon McCormick’s Italian Seasoning mix
  • 2 15-ounce cans of tomato sauce
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Place all ingredients in slow cooker, and cook on low for about 6 or 7 hours. Serve hot with corn bread. It was AWESOME. Even the kids ate a bunch of it.

Adventures · Meta

Post a Day Challenge 2011

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For some strange reason, this really appealed to me, so I’m really going to go for it. I’ve already posted two days in a row, how hard could it really be? (kidding!) Anyway, I’ve been mulling it over all day so I figured I should just go ahead and make it official. Wish me luck everyone!

Meta

2010 in review

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 55,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 7 days for that many people to see it.

 

In 2010, there were 86 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 600 posts. There were 18 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 26mb. That’s about 2 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was February 25th with 4,784 views. The most popular post that day was Woven Square Slippers: A Tutorial.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were stumbleupon.com, tipnut.com, ravelry.com, mindingmyownstitches.blogspot.com, and Google Reader.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for sisyphus, pageant talents, weird facebook status, bugs that eat clothes, and bear skull.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Woven Square Slippers: A Tutorial February 2010
20 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,

2

I am Sisyphus January 2008
3 comments

3

How to Darn Socks March 2008
9 comments

4

Free Patterns February 2008
1 comment

5

Weird Facebook Status Juxtapositions May 2009
2 comments

Thanks to all my readers for a great 2010!

holiday cheer

2011: A Knitting To Do List

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1. Socks. I blew out the heels in two pairs of hand made socks this fall when the weather turned cold and I started wearing them again. And never mind that both boys are going to need a pair of socks to wear with their winter boots by next year since they are about to outgrow the ones they currently own. Clearly it’s time to knit some more. I’m considering a Yarn Harlot style self imposed sock club.

2. Two Sweaters. The Mister has been wanting me to knit him a Doctor Who themed sweater for some time now. The only thing that’s holding me back is the sheer amount of work of it. He’s not a small dude, you know? I also have the yarn for another sweater for me.

3. Spin. I still have a crap ton of Romney fleece to spin. I should do that. The plan is to not spin it so fine or to navajo ply it (but first I have to finish the quiviut/silk blend which wants to be a teeny tiny yarn).

What’s on your to-do list for this year?