What I've Been Up To

I've been working. I've been knitting, and biking, and trying to get The Cupcake to school on time (Kindergarten!), and homeschooling The Biscuit (unschooling actually, which turns out to take more time & effort on my part but scares people), and wiping noses and bottoms, and connecting with hilarious people and grumpy family on Facebook, meeting tons of Bikey Friends on Twitter, and doing dishes, and laundry. Oh, and I've been helping with the accounting side of a wonderful new magazine... which I don't have time to read myself. The guilt I feel when any one of these plates that I have spinning crashes to the floor is overwhelming and leaves me in a depressed place that does no good; the depression is not so huge I can't get moving after a bit of a wallow, but it still leads to more of those spinning plates falling. Here I am, trying now to catch them before they shatter because that’s all I can manage today.

And now you know why I haven't posted.

If I have more time this weekend I will add photos to this. Otherwise you can see some on my Flickr stream.

Still More Serendipitous Neighboring Tweets

Yippee! The Chilean miners have all reached the surface. Good news via Twitter. Also, kinda funny that these 2 tweets were right next to each other in my stream.

On a side note, I found a new screen capture program so I don't have to use Alt-Print Screen anymore. It's called Awesome Screenshot and you can find it at http://awesomescreenshot.com/ -- Enjoy!

Ear bud zipper

I got inspired quite awhile ago to solve the "my wires get tangled when I put my ear buds away in my backpack" problem by this lovely post by Lau Pre (tweeted by @SisterDiane -- my siren of crafting).

I did things slightly differently because of the backpack, but it worked great. If you want to do it my way you only need a 12" zipper. I didn't separate the wires because I still wanted to thread it through the headphone wire slot on my backpack and I thought a single wire would work best; I needed to control the bit that was already separate. Other than that I did just what she said and it works, and looks, great.

Here they are unzipped.

And here they are all zipped up.

This is after I reinstalled the wire in my backpack.

It's easy to fold it into the pocket now to store them.

Nice and neat!











Go check out the simple instructions and do it yourself. All you need are a zipper, needle, thread & scissors.

Serendipitous Neighboring Tweets

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Originally uploaded by KYouell.

Every once-in-awhile I happen to get 2 tweets in my stream that make me happy just because they are next to each other. I thought I'd share them here.

Edit: I have no idea how to force clicking on that jpg to open in another tab or window. Sorry. Right-click and select "Open in new tab" like I have to, if you don't wish to navigate away.