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Archive for August 2007

life in the delta quadrant

Posted by: Sarah on: August 31, 2007

This is how rockin’, married hipsters spend their weeknights. Or how THIS rockin’ married hipster spends her weeknights: knitting and Star Trek.

The Capt’n long lamented my disinterest in the different franchises — I didn’t moon over the original series, I hadn’t seen any of the movies, I self-identified as a Star Wars girl — [...]

throwdown of the morning

Posted by: Sarah on: August 29, 2007

The Company has crappy coffee. I don’t think stating that The Company has crappy coffee impugns The Company’s honor in any way, given how generous it is with its employees (Hello, raise!), it’s just a fact. The coffee? Isn’t something to swan over. Hell, I’d speculate that unless you work for a small, independent coffee [...]

crappy monday mushrooms

Posted by: Sarah on: August 28, 2007

When I rang the Capt’n, it was a catalog of doom which began and ended with “The Civic blew up.”
While that’s not exactly true — only the battery went kablammo — it’s knocked us down a car, and the Capt’n is already in the middle of an engine transplant. My car is it  for the [...]

socks

Posted by: Sarah on: August 27, 2007

At the beginning of the year — right around the big-assed snowstorm that flipped New Mexico the bird and dumped 18″ in my back yard — I took up knitting again.
Not that I hadn’t not been knitting, really, but I had fallen into a one-pattern rut for the previous (cough) five years, churning out [...]

d’oh!

Posted by: Sarah on: August 27, 2007

I have a full time job, a full time husband, a  digital camera, a copy of the Gourmet cookbook and a mother who taught me to knit. I adore the idea of living in a restored, architecturally interesting restored home, but I live in soulless suburban hell. I enjoy wine, sushi and Star Trek.
This is [...]