Now

Now eating: A fairly healthy, and surprisingly delicious, frozen meal, to be followed up by a Little Debbie cake.

Now drinking: Lemonade

Now listening: @#%&*! Smilers - Aimee Mann

Now reading: The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I cannot recommend it highly enough. It has it all: mystery, intrigue, literary allusions, unrequited Love, sex, murder, betrayal. It's been marketed as a "thinking person's mystery novel". It is the first book that I've read in a long time where I felt like I was actually there, in the novel, watching things take place. I finished the book this morning, but I'm going to read it again before I take it back to the library. It's
that good.

Now procrastinating: Cleaning the house. Preparing for the ESL class that I'm teaching Friday.

People! Please!

Use the Google!!! That's why God gave us the Internets!!!

I'm way behind the times

but this is funny.

I'm Benny. Benny Holmes.

Benny is our new beagle mutt who we saved from Metro Animal Services. He's funny. He's cute. He's a detective. He's in the video below. He's sideways.

My faith in the system may be shattered

With Andrew Horne running for Senate, I really thought that there was a chance that someone who isn't a millionaire tool could win the election. Then he dropped out. I considered the apathetic approach to not support anyone at all in this race, but I feel so strongly that I need to support someone against the evil that is Mitch McConnell, that I'll throw some time toward Greg Fischer, who also sounds like he stands a good chance to win in November and hasn't yet been corrupted by the whole political process.

My grandma and I have a psychic connection - or - Goals in progress

I'm not in the habit of making New Year's resolutions, but I do have some goals for the year.

Finish unfinished crochet projects, which includes frogging half completed projects that I have no intention of finishing.

De-clutter.

Repurpose.

That pretty much covers it. So I cleaned out the yarn stash and reduced it by about 25%. I donated all of that to Squallis Puppeteers (so their site isn't really up to date, but they're good folks.)
I cleaned out a couple of closets and donated that to a thrift shop. While there, I found 4 hanks of 100% virgin wool yarn with no price, so I asked the cashier for a price. She looked around and said, "tweny nine cent." I really feel like I stole this yarn.



The colors are more muted than they look here, since I never have a chance to photograph things in natural light. I guess I should add that to my list of goals for the year.

Photograph things in natural light.

In the spirit of finished things, I made and sold this scarf.



It's the first thing that I've ever sold, and it's encouraged me to scheme about possibly selling some things around town this fall. I'm still brainstorming on that one.

As far as psychic connections... I called my grandma a couple of weeks ago so I could spend the day there, and she said, "How did you know that I just made a batch of fried apples?!" (which are my favorite!) I called her again today to drop something off to her, and she said, "How did you know that I just made a pot of chili?!" Who knows what the next one will be. She's so awesome, my grandma is. I would not trade anything in the world for the time I lived with her or the relationship we have now. Add that one to the list too.

Spend more time with Grandma.

I forgot this:

Hugo Chavez's Facebook page. (Found via Venezuela News And Views)