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Believe it or not, when I opened my first blogger account back in…..2002(?) 2003(?), it was meant to be a knitting blog. I had named it “knitwit” because, as you all know, I’m very clever. I was going to revolutionize blogging, imagine - a blog about knitting! Never mind that I had just picked [...]

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Why I miss Shane

Remember my friend from the old post about the Buddy Holly Memorial Garden?
I got this email from him today:

Of course there is a story behind this, but it will have to wait.

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Borrrrrring.

This has been the most boring weekend ever. It’s Victoria Day here in Canada, so we had a three day weekend which I was looking soooo forward to. At first we were thinking we’d go somewhere. Nowhere huge, just maybe to African Lion Safari, or even just have a picnic in a nice park. I [...]

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Today was a lovely day, made all the more special by the fact that it was my birthday. Normally I don’t care about birthdays all that much, certainly not enough to blog about them, but my husband got me some really nice gifts and I wanted to share.

I have wanted this book for years, but [...]

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What’s on my nightstand

A meme.
The Rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 (or more) pages.

Thud!” Terry Pratchett
2. Open the book to page 123 and find the 3rd sentence.
Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

3. Post the next 5 sentences.
He had nightmares about being too late. He had a lot of nightmares [...]

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Moving Day

Okay, well I decided that I hated blogger and have decided to move my blog (such as it is) over to wordpress.  The images are messed up, but I can’t be arsed to go back and fix them, so you guys will just have to overlook the mess on my past postings.

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Now that it’s timeNow that the hour hand has landed at the endNow that it’s realNow that the dreams have given all they had to lendI want to know do I stay or do I goAnd maybe try another timeAnd do I really have a hand in my forgetting ?
Now that I’ve triedNow that I’ve [...]

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Evil Nettie!!

I’ve been pinged!! Ahhhhh!!
Okay, so I’m supposed to come up with a list of things I can’t live without. Well, I have to admit that I find the timing of such a task to be rather….interesting. See, as many of you know, I lost all my worldly goods when I moved to Canada. Everything. Even [...]

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Nettie Is Evil!


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Mission Statement

From Wiktionary:
dilettante (plural dilettantes or dilettanti)

A person who enjoys the arts.
An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
A person with a broad but superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge. (Sometimes derogatory.)

Some years ago I had a friend named Joe [...]

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