What Are We Saving, Exactly?

You know you live in a remote area when you have to leave home to get to a place with cell signal so your phone (which is also your alarm clock) will update to Daylight Savings Time.

Today's Lesson

Do not go grocery shopping while hungry, or you will find oodles of snack food following you home. You will devour it the moment you're alone, and it will not be pretty.

It'll be tasty, though. So very tasty.

Think Positive

The interview went well. I'll hear back next week. Meanwhile, anxiety will eat my brain. Yay!

Vibrating With Excitement

I have an interview for a job I really, really want, tomorrow morning. Cross all available digits for me!

Wee Bit Chilly

It's 6ºF outside, and I just made a two-hour drive home in a vehicle with a malfunctioning heater. Just as soon as I can feel my toes again, I'm going to bed.

Fine-Gauge Luxury

I went to my local knitting group for the first time in five years last night, and in diving through the stash to decide what to bring, I ran across some luxurious yarn that had made friends with some other luxurious yarn and wanted to be a project together. Who am I to say no to something like that?

This is the beginning of a hat in alpaca (charcoal grey) and silk (mottled dusty pink) on US#1 needles, which are just a smidge bigger than toothpicks. My yarn loves me, but it also knows I'm a masochist.

On Tenterhooks

The trouble with applying for a job that's a perfect fit for me is that if I don't get it, the disappointment might just eat me alive. That didn't stop me from applying, but it does have me worried.