Way back in the day (in the year 2000), Matt and I went to see Dancer in the Dark.  I was super excited because I love me some Bjork and I love me some Lars von Trier movies.  We had to leave after 15 minutes because the stupid movie made me ill.  Literally.
Same thing happened [...]

What do the following things have in common:

male corsetry
cake
hookers
reformed crack hos
civil war reenactors
carpooling
toupees
vaginal secretions in the ear
dueling
prodigal daughters
cream of wheat

Give up?
They were all plot devices featured in this year’s season finale of CSI. Matt and I like to watch CSI on Tivo over dinner (always over a plate full of food, preferably with some [...]

So I’m sitting at my desk, digesting my bitter morning cocktail of espresso and birth control (sometimes I sweeten it up with a shot of grapefruit juice), and my MIND is RACING. 
All the things I could be knitting!  All the home improvement I could be doing!  OOOoo, I could be cleaning out the fridge!  Lists.  [...]

The yarn I’m using for Matt’s manly mitts is leftover from last year’s Christmas knitting.  I used it to knit an Irish Hiking Scarf for my father-in-law.  It was a thing of beauty with all those lovely cables:

This is an example of something I would not knit, if I knit for the holidays this year.

Now that I’m out of the rut, I’ve started thinking about Christmas.  Any crafter knows what that means. 
After two frantic, wrist-cramped holiday seasons, I made a vow that there would be no hand knit gifts in 2006.
Completely forgetting this vow, I gleefully started writing up a list of gift ideas, complete with hand knits and sewn items.  Then [...]