Laurabelle’s Blog

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 [...]

Last Thursday Jeff and I got our first box of vegetables from our organic CSA, Eatwell Farm (check out their farm news blog too). It's great so far, and I'm hoping this will work out well for us in the long run. You see, I don't like vegetables very much. You might be forgiven for saying [...]

Yesterday evening Jeff called me from work to say that he had missed his train home. He had forgotten his cell phone at home, so he'd had to bike back to work in order to call me. My phone cut out during our conversation, complaining of a low battery, so I called him back on [...]

A few months ago I switched my schedule from Monday-Friday to Tuesday-Saturday. One of the perks of this schedule is that I get to pick when to take my holidays, since most of them fall on Monday and I don't work Mondays. So I'm taking one of my holidays this Tuesday, and boy, I'm looking [...]

Last weekend Jeff and I invested in a Yakima roof rack to carry skis to Tahoe, whence we are going next weekend for Christmas. Yesterday we attempted to install it on top of the car. This was slightly more interesting than it should have been. Reading through the directions, I discovered that crucial information was missing [...]