When I'm not feeling cranky about other people's good luck (there's got to be a German word for anti-Schadenfreude; Freudenschade?), I've been getting my hand back into making stuff a bit:
Our fairy house in the neighborhood park
(I left the chocolate chips out, not from any misguided notions of health,
but because I tragically didn't have them on hand)
A hat for Sarah
(please let it be big enough; please let me have enough yarn)
skiiiirtcccch!
(that would be the sound of a needle scratching off a record, dontcha know)
Oh, damn. The green tomatoes. So I had all these visions of making pickled green tomatoes, right? Or maybe chutney, or tomatillo-esque salsa verde, or relish. But, um, I didn't use the tomatoes the day I picked 'em, and the next morning... white moldiness everywhere. Dang it.
Anyway! So! Soldiering on!
Oh, here's a little Public Service Announcement for you all. A great antidote to general blechiness? KITCHEN DANCE PARTY. How could I have forgotten? Let me tell you, dudes: the Go-Go's, The Wiz soundtrack, Beyonce, Blur, Fugazi... puh-lease. I defy you to mope with those beats bumping. I sure couldn't, not with a pigtailed four year old easin' on down the road behind me.
3 comments:
OMG!! Easin' on down the road and Wiz! FLASHBACK!! Surely can't mope while those notes are playing! Love the fairy house. Sorry about the tomatoes. I confess to 'mistakenly' leaving some in the sun to bake thus rendering them useless except for kids garden cooking. Hoping for enough yearn to cover Sarah's head but I confess to thinking there is going to be another color added before completion! Hoping I am wrong!!
"Freudenschade" sounds both appropriate and grammatically correct to me ...
cute fairy house! No chocolate chips = tragedy in the truest sense. I am currently knitting a sweater that was originally intended for me, but will now go to my 6-year-old daughter. I dunno...the gauge was right...I am stumped.
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