Mr. Legs

Sam is rather tall and lanky and will make an excellent runway model.

Art @ Fuel

Mosaic guitars! Glass and plaster and tile and color!

Smow!

"Where the hell am I supposed to poop?!?"

Comfy?

Snore...

Relaxation.

"I haz it."

Change on the blog

You may have noticed of late that this blog has had a lot of puppy pictures. Samwise Gamgee Vimes came to our house on February 12. He was born on December 28, 2008, and spent his early weeks on an alpaca farm in Covington, WA. Sam loves to snuggle, chew on soft toys, and watch LOST and Battlestar Galactica--serial TV dramas FTW! However Sam has no taste for The Colbert Report--I suspect he's too young to appreciate Stephen the way I do. He also doesn't like it when I laugh as it disrupts his naps.

He is a mini Australian Shepherd, blue Merle in color, with hazel/brown eyes and a wedge of blue in his right eye. David Bowie eyes, big time.

While I will try to post more often about other stuff, like knitting, foodie cooking, etc., Sam is the big news. Enjoy his puppyhood!

How to avoid road rage.

Step one: Acquire puppeh.
Step two: Take puppeh for a ride in the car.
Step three: Watch puppeh sleep at every stoplight.

Knitting a la Starbucks.

Knitting as interpreted by ceramic coffee mugs from corporate Seattle = faux-Aran cabling. And now I want to knit friggin' coffee sleeves.

OMGWTF breakfast

Jasmine rice and Greek yogurt! Best. Food. Ever. At least until dinner, which was a bit of baked sweet potato and organic plain whole milk yogurt. Way better than my ramen.

Post nap.

"I am totally awake. No, really, I'm up now," Sam said as he fell over into another nap.

Sam's post breakfast nap.

Complete with plaid fleece wubbie (AKA blanket of luv).

Hope and change...?

Inauguration day cake @ Costco. Really.

Why does the chocolate frosted cake have quotes, but the vanilla one doesn't? Say in Church Lady voice: "Could it be RACISM?!?!" And really, unnecessary quotation marks are so last Thursday... ;)

Manhattan makes bad day better!

Manhattan makes bad day better!

Sad picture of excessive wetness

View from under my umbrella. Happy January in Seattle!

Handknit finery!

My roomie Cassie, bedecked in her Malabrigo handknits.

Best. Bumper sticker. Ever.

Best. Bumper sticker. Ever.

Letters from Jen: San Jose "International" Airport

Dear SJIA,

Thanks for the free WiFi. SeaTac could learn a thing or two from you in that area. But having to take a shuttle bus between terminals which are within easy walking distance (a city block?) of one another, then going through security a second time and having to chug yet another bottle of water at the last minute (because I already freakin' went through security), all while avoiding copious amounts of construction debris, is FAIL. This is the home airport for Silicon Valley for Chrissakes--get out of the ghetto. I can see that you are trying to grow up into a big & strong airport, so this is simply a reminder that you should keep working on those improvements. Good luck becoming a 20th century facility. I look forward to whoring you out for free WiFi on my way back from Austin next week.

Love,
Jen

New series: Letters from Jen

I am starting a new feature on this blog: letters from me to various individuals and entities based on my experiences in the world.

Dear Seattle,

Learn how to deal with the snow. Use some of my tax dollars to buy a snow plow--I know you have cash lying around for the failed mass transit projects you've tried to make happen for the last few years. Or even some sand. Or salt. The Sound is made of salt, you know, and even though we don't get much sun I'm sure we can create a little "sea salt" over the short summer.

Love,
Jen

No cops out on patrol today.

No cops out on patrol today.

Holy Christ, more snow!

Holy Christ, more snow!