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Democracy Blues Cont.

Double poop. Apparently they never enforced the "must be on site by 6pm" rule last night. I could have participated after all.

Democracy Blues

I am so disappointed. I just spent an hour trying to get to the Democratic caucus. I was so excited to participate.....but apparently so were the other thousands of Anchorage democrats in front of, along side, and behind me on Debarr Rd between 5pm and 6pm this evening......
In the end we all missed the 6pm registration deadline. Poop. Funny thing is, I was still (and am still) totally undecided. Guess now I wait for the decision to be made for me.
Happy Super Tuesday!

Happy New Year!

I have been a bad blogger as of late, but here are some photos to keep you coming back.......

Yep, its official. I'm a wife.

Thanksgiving.....

Five hours of cooking, too few photos but a few glimpses-

Homemade potato/cheese/jalapeno Pierogies for starters....

Bethel Cranberries for sauce........

Turkey Underground.....(Homemade Seitan and stuffing covered with pastry dough) and my feeble attempts to decorate the top with a turkey. I only know how to draw a turkey using my hand, so it looks like a handprint (the knife blade is covering the turkey's head)....

A nice mellow candlelight evening with just the two of us for dinner......(well five I suppose if you count the 4 legged moochers)

Hope yours was just as lovely!

Getting in on the game

Seems my sister and her family are getting in on the blog thing, check my sidebar for links to their freshly created blogs.


I have been soooooo very bad about posting these last few weeks. I started working again, I'm now an archives technician at a government agency I won't name here. It's enjoyable and very low stress thus far. The only slight difficulty is the getting up at 6am part. I'm not really a morning person (as my family may well attest). I'm hoping this job will help me decide if I truly want to be a librarian (or perhaps I should rephrase), rather if I truly want to invest all my time and salary for the next 2-3 years in pursuit of an MLS degree. We'll see.......



We finally got some snow, but this photo is from last year I have to admit. No, the lake is not yet frozen this year (and yes, I am getting pretty worried that it won't be by Dec. 29, so if you're coming you may want to bring a canoe). The snow is a welcome change, it brightens things up and quiets the road noise a bit. I'm looking forward to more, hopefully sooner rather than later. I'm anxious to get out skiing on the trails.

One Down, Sort Of

One 2 1/2 year old unfinished project complete. Aren't they beautiful? Some of you may not appreciate the color selection, but then you probably never cared for the colors I painted my house in Bethel either.


It feels great to finish something that I'd kind of given up hope on ever completing. I guess I need to thank Oona for getting me going again. After seeing her post on the slippers she was making, I dug mine out and got her to help me figure out where I'd left off on mine. I probably should have asked for a wee but more help though because it appears that over the course of 2 1/2 years, not only did I lose my place in the pattern, but I sort of forgot which style of slippers I was making....was it high cuff or low cuff?


Oh well, now I have one of each! Yep, I goofed on the second slipper and made a high cuff one, thinking that was what I had made before. But it wasn't. I knew this was an issue before I felted them. I knew it was an issue two rows into the orange cuff, when the slipper I was knitting had more rows of purple between the sole and the cuff....but I was lazy. I didn't rip it and fix. I figured felting was a forgiving process, perhaps with some stretching I could make one match the other....but it wasn't as forgiving as I'd hoped. And now there's no way to rip and fix.

Live and learn......at least they are done, sort of.