Have you ever had this nagging feeling that, while you are busy keeping up on your chores, everyone else is out and about having the time of their life? I get this feeling whenever I look at my ravelry project page lately. Other people’s project pages are full of exotic and adventerous projects, and here […]
Lately I’ve been hitting my ravelry queue even more than usual - planning, dreaming, matching stash yarns to projects - all the things I love to do while I’m chomping at the bit to start something new but not allowing myself to do so due to having the WIP list from hell and trying to […]
If you live around my part of Germany you cannot have failed to notice our latest food scandal. Once again contaminated animal feed has led to traces of dioxines in poultry and eggs, and right now it looks as if other livestock may be affected, too. Once again farmers who were convinced that they had […]
I received an email today from a former coworker who has recently left the project. The email was addressed to a long list of recipients, most of them men, all of them my colleagues, and basically told us he was doing fine in his new job. Actually I was glad to hear that - I […]
Is it 2010 already? I can’t believe it - where did 2009 go? No, rather: Where did the decade go? I feel like it’ s still 1999 and everybody is wondering whether 2000 will really bring civilisation to a screeching halt.
Whatever - in the good old tradition of setting oneself up for failure already in […]
This is what I’ve been reading lately. Honestly - how could I miss out on this book for so long? It’s been around since 1990 and I only found out now? Shame on me!
Don’t know what the fuss is about? Go read it.
You know, sometimes I think my mailman had the Easter Bunny for breakfast. After years of me asking him to please drop my packages at the post office if he doesn’t find me at home and him ignoring my pleas and foisting parcels on my helpless neighbours, he upped the ante and now has taken […]