Yarnivorous

Gd'ay all! Sorry for the delay in posting - I had clear forgotten about DH's BBQ. I had ten comments of one form or another that weren't duplicated, so I sequentially numbered them one to ten, then stuck them in a random number generator I found online, and then came out! KittyKat, you are the winner!  You get your choice of one of: a nice skein of yarn either from my stash or undyed or hand-dyed by me, some Liberty fat quarters a mug rug or similar (undoubtedly in bright colours because that is what I keep!) a printed, matted photo of a pic from my blog or flickr. Let me know - email me at natiel311atgmail (the last two characters before the at are ones, not Ls). Have heaps to relate but no time to do it in at the moment.  Been a bit busy.. anon!

G'day all! This post is brought to you by ten. Ten what? Ten green bottles, hanging on the wall? Ten toes? (Sorry, no pic because my toes are filthy after spending half of summer in the garden in my Tevas... and DH's toes are hidden in shoes and aren't coming out for love nor money!) Ten t'riffic flowers? Hmm, that photo is a bit fuzzy... Ten homegrown strawberries? Tiny tasty berries! Ten skeins of yarn? Acquired this year.  Oops. Ten quilts? I forgot one... sorry, left out quilt, two are quilted items, not quilts - I cheated! Ten finished objects?  (Ahem, too lazy to find these, though I certainly have them.  Anyway, who wants to see pairs of well loved socks?  No, you are in luck, I have ten finished tops to share with you.  I've knitted all bar one whilst in Seattle!) Ten works in progress? There were ten in the bed and the little one said? Why the focus on ten? Can you guess why? Leave a comment a...

G'day all! Four years ago today I had a cancer cut out of me.  Two cancers, really, since I had a bad lymph node as well. It's strange, looking back on those times.  I was terrified - I'd never had a "proper" operation before.  I didn't count my wisdom teeth as a proper operation for whatever reason, even though it meant having a general anaesthetic and staying in hospital overnight (I was the last operation of the day and they were running an hour or two late by the time they got to me). Surf's up!  Again! I remember the nurse asking me to open my eyes when I was in the ward and me refusing to (and they said I was not responsive - I told her I wasn't opening my eyes as the dizziness/nystagmus weirdness was so bad I shut them again.  Anyone who has dealt with an old fashioned tv when the horizontal or vertical hold has gone will understand what I'm seeing if I say that my vertical hold had gone.  It was very offputting!).  I...

G'day all! I am being a very bad blogger.  Sorry!  This summer seems to be quite busy.  The garage project continues - it got massive again, the garden project continues, work continues, knitting and quilting continue... Guess where? Last week I was talking to a friend about dating.  I don't think I ever really dated anyone.  I got to know them a bit before going out with them.  I met all of my boyfriends through uni. Daw, pretty! I guess I was lucky - being a geek girl meant that I had quite a number of boys to choose from.  I say girls because even though we thought were were all grown up, we weren't.  We had a lot of learning to do.  So did the boys for that matter.  Some of the girls went through the boys like a rash.  Some of the girls developed harems of boys all fluttering around them, desperate to be noticed and to be the boy she'd take home that night or not kick out of the shared house that night...  ...

G'day all! I've been missing in action. Well I've certainly been active. Early this month DH resigned from his old job.  He had found a new job. This means going and getting new visas. yay. not. Peonies, taken on the new phone Actually getting the visas is fine.  It is the amount of work I have to do to organise it all that is the PITA.  Y'see it is up to me to deal with the paperwork.  This means encrypting mountainloads of images and scans and getting more scans and information together for the immigration lawyers, and providing all sorts of details for their side of the deal.  This takes a number of hours.  Then one has to do stuff online to schedule an appointment at any of the US consulates in Oz, Canada or the UK.  Canada is close and we've never been to Quebec and it is close to Nathan's works head office, relatively.... Then when one has just spent three hours online putting All One's Own Details and those of one's Beloved ...

G'day all! It is almost June already.  Where has the year gone? This May has been interesting.  It is a month of changes, of farewells - both my parents died in May, many years apart - and this year is no different. Dunno what it is about May but if it weren't for the beauty of spring and early summer here, I'd go a bit nuts.  (More nuts.) My love affair with dogwoods continues... A while ago, DH was approached by a recruiter.  This happens quite often - the IT industry is really quite incestuous and they are always on the lookout for good people.  They thought that he was a different person of the same name, but it turned out that DH was in fact the right guy.  They had discussions and then those turned into interviews, and the upshot is that DH is leaving Amazon. We are not leaving Seattle... This means getting new visas.  Yay!  Not.... Every time we have to get new visas, we have to do mounds of online paperwork. Sorry, th...