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With his permission, I submit to you the front of a co-worker’s vacation postcard.

This is what it said on the back.

I’ll make it legible:

Greetings from Ireland. I must confess I ran into a bit of bad luck. Today, our first day in Ireland, I went jogging and got bit by a dog! Then Katie and I were passengers of a very violent auto collision. Our car was totaled. Katie’s neck and face were hurt. I hurt my back and broke several ribs. Feel very sore but we lived. I feel like hell. Will try to enjoy the rest of our trip.

(Update – Katie’s fine now, Bob’s kidneys and ribs are healing nicely.) I KNOW it’s terrible, but reading it makes laugh hysterically. I’m a very bad person. Luckily Bob has a good sense of humor. It’s the Very Worst Postcard Ever!

Baby-yarn ChicKami almost done. Pics this weekend. Working mad hours tonight and tomorrow and then I should get a weekend (albeit a shortened one). Fighting the cold with all my Vitamined C might.

OMG, now it’s official. Califonia is CRAZY. Gary Coleman’s in the race. See this fabulously funny East Bay Express article on the governor-race-as-art-installation.

Also: This is great. New gifts to make for Christmas.

Just because I CAN put up pictures, whenever I want! I just wanted to see his face again. Digit doesn’t repose easily, or gracefully, so when he does accidentally fall asleep on the bed next to me (so undignified!), I like to capture the moment.

Crap. Now I’m getting the cold that I felt trying to get me last week. I don’t feel sick yet, don’t feel anything but a mild ache under my skin and a thickening of my throat. That tap-tap-I’m-gonna-getcha feeling. Oh, hell, no. I’m not going without a kicking, screaming fight. Unfortunately, I’m working sixty hours this week, and I’m only half-way through. Damn.

BUT – I’m getting a lot of knitting done. Working on a modified ChicKami in that baby yarn I was using for the sweaters. Of course, I was at work last night, a brand new gorgeous big-as-they-come (but don’t admit Venti) mocha at my elbow. I turned to say something witty and sparkling to my co-workers and knocked the whole damn thing over. It flew, top cracking off while still in the air, a hard rain of mocha dropping through the room. Do you know how much coffee is in a Venti? The whole amount covered three computers, a fax machine, dripped into three drawers and drained under three floor rugs. I was devastated.

But I gotta tell ya. That Bernat baby yarn – that stuff is meant to be washed. It was the easiest mocha clean-up I had in the whole room. I had to scrub the keyboards, but I merely swiped at the yarn with a sponge and it lifted off. Hear this, young mothers. Or mothers of the young, whatever.

I was so tired driving home I forgot how to drive. Really. I made a right turn near my home and realized AFTER I had turned that I had forgotten to look left.

I will drink more coffee tonight. I won’t knock it over.

I still had energy when I got home, however, to play with Adah (note her Wendy mousies):

She’s not possessed by the devil, I swear. (Wait – that could explain a lot…..)

Hi there! Welcome!

This is my new glass house. It’s a little early to let you in, I don’t have everything unpacked, and I haven’t even figured out how the ice-maker in the fridge works (and I might not ever work that out), but the some of the pictures are hung, and I really wanted you to have my new address.

Will you bookmark me, please? And if, by some miracle of fortune, you have me listed somewhere on your site, will you update that link? I’ve been having so much fun, and I’ve found so many new fabulous friends, and I don’t wanna lose you. It’s a little frightening to me – next week would have been exactly one year at my old site, and it’s oddly painful to leave it behind…. the blogging first steps…..

BUT – I just love this new place because I have commenting! And trackback! I can’t get over it. Someone leave me a comment, please! Also still have the tagboard, although I can’t seem to work out the pixel size of the comment box, aargh. And I haven’t worked out all the coding for the rings I’m part of.

(Pulling on my cardie and putting on soft shoes), I’m so glad you’re here! It’s so nice to see you! [sung offkey] It’s a good feeling, a very good feeling, the feeling we know that we’re…. [wait for it] ….friends.

OH! – and the reason I love this new place so much is I can throw in a pic or two right with the text, whenever I want! (I know y’all have had this ability forever, but it’s very exciting to me!) So here’s one for you:

The blanket behind shedding Adah was knitted by my New Zealand grandmother for me more than thirty years ago….

This is my bee-yoo-teeful baby Winter who’s in Australia right now with his fun Mom and Dad. This was his gummy snake that gave him a sugar RUSH!

Okay, I just learned how to lose a post. It was short, but it’s gone. Don’t hit Post twice, okay? In the meantime, I wish I could find out how much this will cost and whether I’ll be able to keep this domain name. I like it! I want to move NOW! In the meantime, visit me HERE.