sad about a sweater

I’m feeling a bit depressed because N washed and ruined the sweater I knit for L.  It was hand wash only.  It’s not really her fault.  If I even told her this, and i may not have, it was when I was telling her everything at the beginning.  Regardless of the fault, though, I’m really…

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dress shopping

I’m trying to decide what dress to buy for L for my brother’s wedding.  I’m in the wedding party and will be wearing a navy blue dress.  All of the options are fairly inexpensive, so price isn’t a huge factor.  Opinions?          

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quarterly goals

I like Sarah’s idea of having quarterly goals.  I didn’t get around to New Year’s resolutions, so here are my goals for the next 12 weeks. 1.) Finish knitting the Aran sweater I’ve been working on for my brother. 2.) Exercise at least 3 times per week every week. 3.) Run a 5K 4.) Pay…

financial goals

I thought this was a good article.  One of my philosophies in life is definitely, “Never finance a car.”  Even if it was a good deal (0% interest) and I could afford to pay cash but thought it would be better to invest the money, I still wouldn’t finance a car.  I think it just…

schools

Note – I published this by accident, but there are comments, so I’m putting it back up. One thing that is really important to me is that L has a positive school experience.  My own experience was mixed, but ended on a high note and had many highlights in between, and I’d like to make…

a pope of color

People keep speculating about a pope of color, an American pope, and so on.  I’ll eat my socks if the pope is anything other than an old, white, European man.  Anything else is just wishful thinking.  People also speculate about women priests, allowing birth control, accepting gays, married priests and so on.  My guess would…