Pensive Frog

Summer cooking is always a challenge, isn’t it? I dread turning the stove on when the mercury hits 80, but there’s only so much salad a girl can eat. So yesterday I made up a tasty dish I thought I’d share. Sure, it uses the stove, but you can eat the leftovers [...]

Yeah, it’s hot out, but it’s summer so what did I expect? The past few days were sweltering but today is pretty darn pleasant. My Cosmos seems to like it.

When I planted this flower, it was about 6 inches tall. Now, it’s nearly five feet tall. The little marker that [...]

Frasier’s Eddie was one of my favorite televised animals. At the age of sixteen-and-a-half, he’s dead. Boo! I think I’ll go chew up some slippers tonight in his memory.
And maybe pee on the rug a little.

I love it when two of my favorite things intersect. Just as my garden is really starting to go crazy, the Seattle Times publishes an article on gardening with a purpose. Mixing awesome herb-infused cocktails with herbs from your own garden! Yahoo! I already have mint, basil, and sage, but my [...]

I just sent a perfectly nice person at work an e-mail with ten attachments. And eight of them were images named:
moist
loose
snus
creamy
plug
twist
dry
toombak
Can anyone guess the nature of the project I’m working on? If his spam filter doesn’t delete my e-mail, I’ll be done with the project soon, and I’ll reward your patience with gen-u-ine [...]

Just off the top of my head, here’s a list of my current unfinished projects:
Backyard leaves scarf: 40% done
Socks (can’t remember the pattern name): 2% done
Trellis lace scarf: 10% done, requires too much concentration
Sleek Ribs Tank: 85% done, stopped working after noticing a dropped stitch in the strap
Bunny toy: 65% done, ears sewed on [...]

No no no no no no no.
We are NOT doing this again.
Absolutely not.

I love to write, but only for profit. So far, this has turned out pretty well. I’ve managed to win myself a TiVo and an iPod in writing contests, and I also got some cold, hard, cash for a wee bit of poetry. So of course I’m entering the McSweeney’s writing contest. [...]

It’s June 13th, and it’s raining. Summer doesn’t officially begin until June 21, but this is ridiculous. Anyway, just a few random notes to keep you interested.
The other day I saw a squirrel jump out of a trash can with a banana in its mouth! Now this is remarkable because I didn’t [...]

I’ve got another baby to knit for (hooray!) and I’ve got all sorts of ideas. The baby I knit for last year was a little conservative, so I knitted a few rather sober items, such as the Fixie Hat and the Umbilical Cord hat from Stitch ‘n Bitch. This year’s baby is a [...]

OK, I’ve pledged not to watch Hell’s Kitchen when it comes back for a second season this summer. Last year was dumb, dumb, dumb but I got sucked in to the plot and I had to see the drama play out. I’m not giving it another chance. Plus, it was rather disturbing [...]

I wish I had come up with this. But that would have required more time, patience, and peanut butter than I have at my disposal.