Author: Annie

Today is a day of rest. Of sorts. But it’s a day I’ve been looking forward to! First, I slept in. As a matter of fact, I’m still in my bed right now… My beautiful bed in a beautiful hotel. This is a lovely, historic inn – and the details are so beautiful! The wallpaper,…

I’m becoming very familiar with the AM radio stations in Connecticut. I like to listen to talk radio (the wackier the better…) when I drive – it keeps me awake and it makes me laugh. Sometimes I’ll listen to an audio book, but when I’m between classes or even venues it just takes too much…

And I’m camped out at a La Quinta Inn in New Haven. Life is good. Jeeze, the roads are terrible, the drive wasn’t fun, but I’m here and I averaged 45 mpg on the way. If there were ever a trip when I’m glad to have a Prius, THIS is it! I’m already 200 miles…

I have a talking bag.He keeps me company.When I’m traveling on the roadI’m never lon-el-ey! Sometimes I’ll answer back(Folks think that I’m a nut!)But when he starts an argumentI zip his pocket shut. MEA CULPAI can blame this on no one but myself – I have achieved full air-head status (at least temporarily…) and I…

I’m feeling as if I should get an apartment here at Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. I love it here – I can get a haircut, dinner, buy a computer or an i-pod, clothe myself and my family and I think I can get glasses. I could be wrong about that last one. But I’m habitually early…

Since I’ll be gone for almost 2 weeks, we’ve been prepping for this trip. We’re pretty well stocked (and we dusted off the Simon Delivers account so Gerry and the kids can easily restock), a lot of laundry’s been finished and put away, and the kids are caught up on their allowances. There’s also prepping…

We’re all still pretty tentative around here. I was taking Maxie to fencing (Hannah stayed home) and on the way he felt as though he were going to be ill. Truth to tell, so did I. So back home… Gerry actually seems to be faring better than any of us. He’s thinking that some of…

It looks like Gerry’s joined the ranks. This is far more serious than me being ill (and I tried to be so careful about washing my own stuff, cleaning up after myself with bleach, etc.) but now Noro has claimed another victim. If we’re lucky he’ll have the Maxie-brief version. I’m getting him into the…

Argh. It’s still hard to stand for more than 30 minutes, sitting is rough and I’m not keeping food down. Still. Someone said it’s called the Noro Virus. I looked it up, and that seems to make sense. I’m changing colors for regular, long intervals, so it sounds like Noro… How Max recovered in 1…

So, remember the whole Interweave Knits thing where they wanted designers to sign an agreement assigning them electronic rights so they’d be allowed to sell (or give) our patterns at their online store for a pretty low percentage (10%?) And remember that I wrote about it – respectfully, I hope – and said that I…