Hooky, Part II
When last I left you, I'd been grudgingly allowed to check into my hotel, despite my scandalous lack of male supervision. Determined to confirm the desk clerk's low opinion of me, I went right back out a little while later (at night, alone, oh the horrors) and headed to my friend's house. The rest of the evening will remain cloaked in mystery. I can't actually describe it and so must leave it to your imagination (though I regret to inform you there were no pillow fights, sorry). There are only few bits of the next day discretion allows me to [...]
Hooky
When playing hooky, it is best not to have too much of an advance plan. A certain element of spontaneity is necessary if you're to have the proper atmosphere of indulgence and excess. That being said, my weekend hooky session did have a few things that needed to be planned. The Boy needed to be to the airport on time (he was flying off to visit his sister), the Kitten Overlords needed to be fed and watered in our absence, and I needed a place to sleep while I was away. The rest was fairly freeform. I started by heading [...]
Well that was Refreshing
I'm a firm believer in the restorative power of playing hooky. Sometimes it's the only appropriate response to a given situation...or at least sometimes it's the best response to a given situation. So this weekend, I played hooky. I ran off to Lansing to spend the weekend with some old friends. I had thought I would tell you all about it, but it turns out that it's hard to describe a bunch of grown women dissolving into fits of helpless giggles over the most ridiculous of in jokes. I tried, it just loses something in the translation. Suffice it to [...]
Back Soon
Sorry for the radio silence. I ran away from home and blithely shirked all adult responsibility for the weekend. The good news is that this means I'll have plenty to tell you about once I'm back to being a grown up next week. Until then, I highly recommend the shirking and suggest you consider it from time to time too.
Loot
A bit of careful planning (taking into account geography, lunch plans, your recommendations, and other scheduled events) led to the conclusion that there was time to visit two yarn stores. I knew I wanted to revisit Romni. I'd been there back in 2007 when I was a very new knitter, and to be frank I'd found the whole thing more than a little overwhelming. I wanted to go back and see if it felt different now that I had a bit better grounding. I had been to Lettuce Knit before, but hadn't visited Purple Purl, so I decided I'd [...]
Just What the Doctor Ordered
From about 3pm on Friday, until about 9am today, I didn't use a computer. I didn't check my email, I didn't check ravelry, I didn't check the blog. None of it. And it was wonderful. I have a feeling I'm going to have to do this more often. I may even have to declare the weekends as a no-computer time. Of course this particular internet hiatus was because we were headed off to Toronto. We probably can't quite manage to do that every weekend, but I think I could just pop the batteries out of my mouse and keyboard and [...]
Flee
So I'm fleeing the country on short notice once again. Well, compared to previous flights, this one is actually with a huge amount of notice...whole days in fact. The summarized version is that I'll be in Toronto this Saturday. It's been a shockingly long time since I've been to Toronto, the last time was way back in November 2007. Now in 2007 I was a very new knitter. How new? Well, consulting my ravelry notes, I see that I took my very first sock ever with me on that trip in 2007. Even back then I knew that Toronto had [...]
The Stars Did Not Align
We're actually pretty good at the short trip thing. We don't overpack (for one or two nights we just share a super tiny rolling bag). We understand the importance of snacks. We have the music situation well under control. I know all about the care and feeding of car knitting. We have a system. Usually, it just sort of works. But this weekend...this weekend we never quite found our groove. It started when we woke up on Saturday and found the furnace had given up the ghost. We have a service plan through our gas company, so we called them [...]
Dash
We're sneaking off to Pittsburgh for an evening over the weekend. There's a concert (shocking I know, so unlike us). Along the way we'll visit a yarn store (or two), a book store (or three), and just perhaps the odd brewery. There's a plan, and there will be a report when we return. The only thing we don't have lined up is restaurants...any suggestions? And because this is the sort of blog post that is certain to elicit the suggestion that I start using twitter...all I can say is I'm working on it. I've never been what you'd call an [...]
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