Apr
27
2009
Wordpress has this nice little feature where you can see what terms people are plugging into their respective search engines to navigate to your blog. The Road to Lemontines can be found, apparently, by typing “japan, geisha, bird poop, face,” “penis pattern sew” and “paper doll knitting.”
But, the most frequent search term? Ysolda Teague.
So, it [...]
Apr
23
2009
So, this young attorney dropped by our office recently, wanting to take his novel theory of defense on a test run, see if it passed the laugh test. Basically, his client was accused of saying nasty things about the police. He wanted to put on a First Amendment defense.
A few weeks later, I ran into said attorney, [...]
Apr
14
2009
Dear Senator Charles B. Rangel, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, former senator and failed nominee to head the Health and Human Services Departmen Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, former Assistant Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton and failed nominee for Chief Performance Officer, Trade Representative Ron Kirk, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, and Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen [...]
Apr
13
2009
Wendy, baker extraordinaire strikes again! This time, with her intrepid sous chef, Mr. Tall.
Ignoring Lemon’s sage advice to stick to knitting, I ventured back into the kitchen to make this year’s easter Extravaganza, Spring Flower Cupcakes. After my creativity has taken hold, and I work my icing magic, I will put Williams Sonoma cupcake [...]
Apr
08
2009
So, on Monday, Joe and I saw Adventureland. I was really looking forward to Adventureland — or at least I thought I was. The truth is, I was really looking forward to the Adventureland soundtrack circa 1987, and therein lies the error of my ways – rather than sitting through a rather bland coming-of-age tale [...]
Apr
06
2009
Look! My first quilt block, complete! Only 72 bows, and 8 blocks left to go!
Like I said in the previous post, the pattern is more of a recipe than an actual pattern. There are no clues as to color choices, no hints as to how to join the bows together once you’ve got two units [...]
Apr
03
2009
Yeah! Paper Dolls is Finished!!! After a few reknits (a little pattern tinkering by the designer, but no biggie – all is well!) of the yoke, and a bit of nervous nilliness that I might run out of yarn (definitely unnecessary worry – I had at least half a skein of yarn leftover), I [...]
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Apr
01
2009
Thank you, thank you, thank you! It was a double night of happiness on Dancing with the Stars, as both the porn star (uh, I mean model/reality star) and the woeful Wozniak were sent packing. Thank you to everyone who voted to save my two nights of sacred t.v. knitting time – and I’m sure [...]