Laurabelle’s Blog

On Friday our friend Mike and his beloved Alli were married in Eugene, Oregon. Jeff was a groomsman. We drove up for the ceremony; it was a fairly mixed trip. Two of the groomsmen had legal trouble with the car they were riding in and had to be picked up fifteen minutes before the wedding [...]

Today my husband trimmed my hair. He used a level.

As I wrote previously, I've been moving towards wearing hand-knitted socks. For the most part this has been fabulous, but it did uncover a lack in my wardrobe: black shoes. It's not that I don't own any black shoes; I have at least about five pairs. It's simply that they're all at least moderately formal [...]

Jeff's father takes a trip to Ohio every December, and this year Jeff and I went with him. We spent a couple of days in Cincinnati with Jeff's aunt, then drove down to rural Kentucky for a few days with his uncle's family, then back to the city for the last couple of days. Jeff's [...]

I finally got some wedding photos uploaded to Flickr. They're not very high-resolution images (and how I got them is a not-yet-finished saga, which I hope will eventually have a happy ending). However, they're there for folks to look at. I restricted access to friends and family for any photo that includes anyone besides me [...]

Jeff and I went to Article Pract today for a couple of knitting needles, and then we passed by Bakesale Betty. Jeff decided he wanted a chicken pot pie, so I ordered one. We were both tempted by the cookies or lemon bars but abstained. I was handed a bag containing two boxes. I said, But [...]

I tripped, fell, and skinned my knee on the way into work today. I also overstretched a muscle or something in my calf on the same leg. I’m not sure which is worse, the pain (and limping) of the strain or the embarrassment of the skinned knee. I’m twenty-mumble years old, and I thought my [...]

I created my dæmon on the Golden Compass movie site. Friends, do you think a tiger dæmon is right for me?

Morning: Got up, took a shower. Thought about cooking eggs, but no time. Shuffled groggily out the door to work.
Day: Hacked lots of sticky stuff on a command line, lunch, hacked some more until I ran out of functioning brain cells. Managed to keep myself busy until the end of the day and finish on [...]

Last week Jeff and I flew to Texas for my great-aunt Treba's hundredth birthday on August 25, 2007. She lives in south Texas, so we were a little afraid that Hurricane Dean would throw a gear in the works, but luckily Dean headed south into Mexico and left Texas well alone. (I feel slightly [...]