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NaBloPoMo 2015 . . .

What does NaBloPoMo stand for?

What does NaBloPoMo mean?

I'll give it a shot.
Posted by A :-) on Thursday, October 29, 2015 4 comments: Labels: NaBloPoMo 2015, Ten on Tuesday



Another WIP finished!!  These are the Elementary Watson socks.  For those of you keep score at home, these were #15 on the WIP List  :-)  They are much more green than this photo would lead you to believe.  If I made them again, I would use a yarn with a MUCH tighter twist, and probably one that was light colored.  Here's the close up. And here they are completely: These were an October 2014 YOSS pattern - so it only took me a year . . .  :-D

This means that I'm back in single digits for WIPs (I now have only 9  :-)  )
Posted by A :-) on Monday, October 19, 2015 3 comments: Labels: Finished Objects


Nothing too Exciting . . .

Fall is HERE in Chicagoland.  We had our first frost this weekend.  Now I'll have to figure out where to plant the daffodil bulbs I got.  They are the only ones that the deer won't eat!  And I need to wrap my young maple in the backyard to keep the deer from chewing on it.  We're not supposed to have as bad a winter as the last two.  Famous last words . . .  ;-D  Still, I'm hoping that it won't be quite so brutal.  Two in a row was enough.

I tried a new, vegetarian recipe yesterday.  It's called a Spiral Veggie Tart. This is before it went into the oven.  It's pretty - and it actually tasted pretty good.  There is a lot of prep work.  A mandoline helps.

I had to make a crust for it - that was interesting (I never made one before!) - and I made a few subs/mods/additions to the recipe.  Here's my take-away:
I've been really deficient in vegetables for the past month or so, so I decided I needed to try to get some in.  I think this qualifies.  :-D  I've got a delicata squash that I'm going to play with today  :-)

I continue to hammer away on knitting projects here - I'm not making a lot of progress, however.  But I'm nearly done with the Elementary Watson Socks, so that's encouraging.

The budgeting is going pretty well.  I'm not always perfect, and there are expenses that come up that have to be taken care of.  Still, it's going well and I have only had to touch my savings for one medical expense.  I'm hanging in  :-)

I went back to Weight Watchers a month ago.  That's going pretty well, too.

The Cubs won on Tuesday and lost last night in their race for the National League pennant.  Only time will tell . . .
Posted by A :-) on Sunday, October 18, 2015 3 comments: Labels: Get Healthy or Go Home, Life in General


Hey Chicago, WhaddaYouSay? 

Wishing you and your family all
the best this holiday season.

God Bless and how bout those
White Sox!

Guess we'll see . . .

Posted by A :-) on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 3 comments: Labels: Baseball, Life in General


Old and Crotchety?

I'm starting to think that I'm just plain getting old and crotchety.

I really miss Marshall Field's.  For those of you not from the Midwest, Marshall Field's was Chicago's premier department store from 1852 until being acquired in 2015 by Federated Department Stores and turned into Macy's.

Like many Chicagoan's, I was furious that Federated would get rid of Field's, and if the windows are any indication of what's inside, it's not a quality store like Field's used to be.  Carson's was the second best department store here, and I have shopped there now for years.  There is one near me that is part of a defunct mall.  Carson's is the only store left, and I have a feeling that they are still there only because they actually own the land on which the store sits.  I was in that store yesterday to buy a gift, and I was supremely disappointed.   The quality was not nearly what it once was, and there were shopping carts . . . I might as well have been at Kohl's or Target (not where I would go to buy a nice gift).

I asked for a box for the gift I purchased.  Here's how that went:

Me:  "Thanks, and I'm going to need a box for that."

Them:  "We don't have boxes."

Me:  "You don't have boxes anywhere in the entire store?"

Them:  "No."

Granted, I haven't been shopping in a very long time because I don't need anything, but am I so woefully out of date that I didn't know that stores don't give you boxes anymore??  I mean, does everyone just use a gift bag instead of wrapping paper and ribbon?  Or do some stores still give you a box if you ask for one?

This bothers me!  Seriously!  :-S

I realize that change is hard.  And I realized that Field's has been gone for a DECADE (and I can't even tell you how much I still miss it . . . ) and that I should just sing the Frozen song and let it go.  But I miss it.  I miss Field Gear (their house line).  I miss Jones New York.  I miss quality clothing in my size.

I feel like I should be waving a cane and yelling, "You damn kids - get off my lawn!" Posted by A :-) on Sunday, October 04, 2015 6 comments: Labels: Life in General, Live and Learn
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