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Adding music to your projects

Maybe it’s my reading list, but I’ve got this notion that lots of us quilter/seamstress/sewasaurus types put a movie on while we’re working. Let me just say, I’m jealous of all you who can sew and watch Downton Abbey at the same time. I tried sewing and watching Serenity once; the project I was working on took twice as long as it would have normally, and I felt like I missed half the movie. But, around here, we listen to music constantly. We cook to music, clean to music, work to music, sew to music. And because Ian is also …

Art, current events, media

Well, we’re back… I’ve been digging my way out of the pile up of Stuff accumulated while we were on vacation in California. Seventeen days, 8 different sleeping locations (two of them on Amtrak), 6 kinds of transportation, lots of friends and a new cousin. Great to see everyone, and great to be home. It’s New Year’s, and I keep thinking I should be making up a list of goals or something. Make some bold declarations. But mostly I keep coming back to wanting more of what I’ve got. I’ll keep gardening, sewing, freelancing. I suppose I could say that …

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Another “game” from Facebook: The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Books I’ve read are marked, sometimes with additional comments. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien – read, twice, before the movies Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling – read them To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee – read The Bible – read Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte – read Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell His Dark Materials – Philip …

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I read a lot. Not as much as I used to, nor as much as I’d like, and certainly not as much as some other people, but I’m pretty sure I read more than average. Some books I just read once and then move on. Some move into my head and set up housekeeping; they become a part of me and I revisit them often, sometimes cover to cover, sometimes just random sections while I’m waiting for the pasta water to boil. Some I go back to because I love the characters (Patricia Brigg‘s Mercy Thompson series, Diana Gabaldon‘s Outlander …

current events, media

Proof that the internet is waaaay too much a part of my life: I hand-wrote a letter the other day. Folded it, put it in an envelope, addressed it, stamped it, and put it where the out-going mail goes. Thirty minutes later, I was obsessively checking my email looking for the response.

Bloggy Business, media

Things on the internet last forever: Here’s more proof. Ian tells me the article is rather dull, about some one in Poland who has resigned from a post. The individual had gathered some prior media attention for being somehow involved in or an instigator of an investigation into the Teletubbies and if watching the show encouraged homosexuality in infant viewers. But of all the pictures out there of the Teletubbies, this particular blogger has made a fascinating choice.