Posted on Sunday, 18th June 2006 by Maritzia
The Blogging Chicks blogroll has it’s 2nd carnival up. Be sure to check them out. There’s a nice cross section of women bloggers there, including your’s truly.
Another blog I’d like to offer up for your perusal is Joseph’s Left One. He’s an ex-mormon who writes of his disillusionment in such a way that you feel everything that he feels. I highly recommend it if you like good writing.
We ran the roads a good bit yesterday. We went to Marilyn’s Yarn Store (if you’re in the Bellingham area, I highly recommend them. Very helpful and informative, especially if you’re new to knitting), and I got a nice skein of blue lambs wool with a skein of red silk for accent for a project I’m planning to felt. I’ll let you know how it turns out, since I’m pretty much winging this. There’s not really a pattern so I have to figure it out as I go along.
Then we went to the bookstore where I picked up The Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, as well as some gardening/cooking/crafts book that were on the bargain shelf. After all, you can never have too many books. And to underline that concept, I stopped into the library to pick up 6 books I reserved.
Really, isn’t the internet a wonderful thing? I can go on-line, search the library’s card catalogue, reserve the books, and when I go in, the books are sitting on the shelf waiting for me, and I can check myself out at a self-checkout station. I love technology, especially when it makes it easier for me to get books!
Lastly we went to a Futon store, but my goodness is their stuff way overpriced. If I’m going to pay $1500 for a sofa that turns into a bed, I’ll go buy a reallly nice hideabed sofa for that money. We’ll keep an eye out on garage sales to see if we can find a futon cheaper. I’d really like to get something better for the mother-in-law to sleep on when she’s visiting us. At the moment, all we have are a couple of foamies that we put on the floor for her. But since we actually like for her to visit, we’d like to encourage it with a better place for her to sleep. Hence the search for a futon. Someday, we’d like to have a small house out in the country with enough land that she can have her own little cottage right there. That would be our ideal. I’m very lucky that I have such a great mother-in-law. I’ve heard so many MIL horror stories, and mine is just a doll. Her lifestyle and ours really mesh well, so that when she’s here, it’s not much different than when she isn’t, except that we get to play Canasta! Which, unfortunately, she usually wins *laughs*.
When we got home yesterday, I set Wiebke up with a blog on my domain. She’s always wanted to write, and I thought this might help encourage her to do so. I don’t know if she’ll make it public or not, but I do hope she writes *nudge, nudge* (yes, I’m pretty sure she’ll read this *laughs*).
Well, that’s all that’s fit to print. Have a beautiful and blessed day, all.
Posted in Books, Needlework, Personal, Recommended Links | Comments (2)
June 19th, 2006 at 10:38 am
im haveing a brain freeze here…my first (way back in the stone ages) husbands brother and parents live in Bellingham…i think ron(x-brotherinlaw) lives on samish road….not sure if either of the exparent in laws are still alive..they all live to be a 100 but the mother in law was a diabetic and was blind and in bad health last i knew..over 10 years ago..i keep thinking i will call and see how they are..but…never do…ron was a fireman..dont know if he still is or if retired…think the x husband is around there too…now i know why i kept having the bell ringing sound in my head when i read you were in bellingham…duh…
small world…
June 24th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
I took a look at that blog you recommened. Spent an hour reading him, so now I have to head to bed, but I will be back to take a closer look at yours. Enjoy your weekend.