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This is the last day for my local yarn store's 20% off birthday coupon and I am heroically resisting the desire to go. I don't need yarn. I have several projects lined up with yarn I already have. We need to save money for trips. But I wanna go...
01:26 PM - Apr 12, 2024
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I'm back from a whirlwind two weeks of Norwescon, wedding, and eclipse. I had a good time but I never want to go back to Ohio. (We're going back in July.) My house is filthy but I'm so happy to see it again.
12:40 PM - Apr 10, 2024
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"Mom!" 12 called this morning. "I can't find my glasses! Where could they be? Did someone take them??"

"No, sweetie," I said with the calm of 34 years of experience. "You just put them down somewhere unusual and you can't see them because you don't have your glasses on." (On top of her computer.)
12:20 PM - Mar 27, 2024
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E and I went shopping yesterday. This is notable because he was diagnosed with ME/CFS a few years ago and had been unable to do much of anything. I drove him to appointments. We'd bought him a wheelchair.

But yesterday he walked through the mall with me because he doesn't seem to have it anymore.
01:02 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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#GirlScout cookie season is over! Now it's time for #NorWesCon season and #MyMothers -in-Law'sWedding season. (Man, punctuating that last one was rough.)
02:01 AM - Mar 18, 2024
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I wanted to make a little notions pouch with some fabric I wove. Looks nice, if a little lumpy, doesn't it? It doesn't work. I didn't account for the thickness of the fabric. I've only ever used this basic pouch pattern with quilting fabric. Lessons learned, I guess. #sewing #weaving
05:34 PM - Mar 16, 2024
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Here's this year's #piday bake. An apple pie, my first time doing pie crust with my hands instead of a pastry blender, and homemade chocolate pudding because 12 doesn't do pie.
11:51 PM - Mar 14, 2024
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I think my motivation fog is starting to lift. Because it's spring? Or because I backed down on my meds? I don't know, I'm just grateful.
02:18 AM - Mar 14, 2024
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I'm at 12's skating lesson, one of my two dedicated me-times of the week (the other one being 14's viola lesson), and trying to decide what to do. I want to immerse myself in my book, but I also have a handwarmer to finish and I'd love the satisfaction of a completed project. What to choose?
08:03 PM - Mar 11, 2024
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Last week was a really terrible one for me motivation-wise. Here's hoping this one is better. DST is not a great start, but it's the last week for Girl Scouts cookie booths and that brings me hope.
12:47 PM - Mar 11, 2024
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Are men okay?
12:15 AM - Mar 09, 2024
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I am "twisted my ankle in my sleep" years old.
10:05 AM - Mar 08, 2024
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Just had a client lecturing me about all the reasons his product is perfectly safe and doesn't need any of the recommendations I made based on his thirty years of experience, data he hasn't given me, and the fact that his product is just like another one on the market except for a few differences.
08:22 PM - Mar 05, 2024
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Studying today. What I need is a bookmark that's also a pencil.

(But not an actual pencil. I want this book to stay in one piece.)
05:36 PM - Mar 05, 2024
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At our #GirlScout cookie booth a man came up and said "You have them! Gluten free!" He picked up the Toffee-Tastics. "20% saturated fat? Damn. Sorry. I have to watch my saturated fat. Shit. Sorry. All the others have wheat? Damn, fuck. Sorry."

He did not buy the cookies. I was honestly impressed.
11:45 PM - Mar 03, 2024
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I got in a brief tickle fight with my 7-year-old nephew today. "Aunt Jenny," he said as he and his parents got up to leave shortly after. "Your chest feels like pillows."

"I know," I told him. "The girls think so too. And Uncle E."

"Let's go," his mom muttered. "Before you say anything else."
02:03 AM - Mar 03, 2024
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I recently asked the girls to take care of dinner on Wednesdays. "Does that mean you'll do the dishes afterward?" 12 said slyly.

I started to say "I'm okay with that," but then she interrupted herself: "Wait. You already do the dishes like three times a day, right? Never mind, we'll do them." 💗
01:57 PM - Mar 01, 2024
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12 did a "The eight dimensions of me" paper for health class and this was her "spiritual" entry. I am so proud.
12:15 PM - Feb 27, 2024
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Got a little light reading ahead of me.
03:14 PM - Feb 26, 2024
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I've bought the tickets. 12, 14, my parents, and I are going to Korea this summer. Woot! And also yikes!
02:59 AM - Feb 25, 2024
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Why am I the only one in my household who believes that if I KNOW it's in the house somewhere, if I look a little harder I'll find it?
03:04 PM - Feb 24, 2024
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Just saw an article that the Washington Senate passed a bill to ban child marriage. We have child marriage?? Ugh.
08:01 PM - Feb 23, 2024
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12 is having two friends over tonight. 14 is having one over on Wednesday. I'm starting to think I should maybe do something about the stack of boxes and bed pieces in the dining room. And the dishes backlog. And making E clean the bathroom. And making the kids clean the craft area.
11:54 AM - Feb 23, 2024
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12 was on Amazon and wanted a crocheted mushroom, but didn't want to pay shipping. I quickly said "Oh, I could make you something like that" (sorry, whoever's it was) and she agreed. So, obviously, I had to make a mushroom. Which I did. She decided it made a perfect octopus hat. #spoutibleknitting
04:48 PM - Feb 22, 2024 (Edited)
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Look! I finished my sweater! And I love it! The size is just right and I like having the knit side next to my skin, though I don't do stockinette as evenly as I could and it shows more with the purl side, which is too bad. #spoutibleknitting
10:16 PM - Feb 20, 2024 (Edited)
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I'm having a really weird feeling. I was downstairs at the Red Alder craft-in with constant talking and music and announcements, and now I'm in my nice quiet peaceful hotel room and I...kind of...miss the noise? Maybe I had a stroke in the shower.
01:23 AM - Feb 17, 2024
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I'm going to be gone twenty-four hours. Two books and two knitting projects should be enough, right?
01:54 PM - Feb 16, 2024
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12 told me she had a terrible dream that 14 and E were moving to Ohio for 14's education, and leaving her and me behind. We hugged. Then she said, "I wonder how many cookbooks they would need?" I blinked, and she said, "You know. So they could eat."

I own 109 cookbooks. Do I win or lose?
11:35 AM - Feb 16, 2024
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Addendum: the soup was a success. It's girls' night, so after dinner we watched a movie and had ice cream per tradition. "Why did I have ice cream!" 12 wailed when we put our bowls away afterward and she noticed the soup pot still out. "There is more delicious soup!"
02:39 AM - Feb 16, 2024
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Gardener problems: I'm making potato leek soup and puzzled over why the recipe insists leeks have tons of sand in their leaves. Mine don't, and why sand? After a while I realized commercial leek growers must hill them up (rather than my "throw them in the ground for a year" approach). #gardening
09:00 PM - Feb 15, 2024
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