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May 21, 2021

43.

  1. Stay cigarette free. (Over one year and counting!).
  2. Finish the Chicago embroidery project.
  3. Have the embroidered cities framed and hung.
  4. Fill a box of socks for me (with at least three different patterns).
  5. Knit a sweater.
  6. Organize the photos I have printed.
  7. Practice unapologetic self-confidence.
  8. Reframe my mom’s graduation picture.
  9. Hang pictures in upstairs hallway.
  10. Get a mole screen.
  11. Get a mammogram.
  12. Tend the garden.
  13. Go to Michigan.
  14. Take a one week family vacation, just the four of us.
  15. Go on a one-on-one weekend with each of my kiddos.
  16. Take a one week vacation for myself.
  17. Get a (paying) job.
  18. Floss.
  19. Complete the bathroom remodel.
  20. Host Champsgiving-Thanksgiving.
  21. Keep practicing manicure skills.
  22. Complete a 100 day project.
  23. Reach my goal for the 2021 goodreads reading challenge.
  24. Fill a sketchbook with creative messes.
  25. Celebrate mistakes (mine and others).
  26. Switch my office/Violet’s bedroom.
  27. Take a downhill skiing lesson.
  28. Do a kitchen cupboard/cabinet purge.
  29. Go to a theater performance.
  30. Return the dining room-school room back to a dining room (but with a bar cart full of games/puzzles).
  31. Buy myself a pretty pair of not drugstore/gas station/Target sunglasses.
  32. Take impeccable care of my skin.
  33. Try something new in knitting. (Bobbles?)
  34. Cultivate a comfortable, welcoming home.
  35. Establish (at least) every-other week dates with Jesse.
  36. Purge/Recycle excess technology.
  37. Update the family recipe box/binder.
  38. Get at least a silver (15 active days) in my monthly activity challenge every month.
  39. Zero pop.
  40. Put together/refine the home maintenance binder & checklists.
  41. Celebrate my people.
  42. Learn how to use the boat/backup the trailer with proficiency.
  43. Relish everyday accomplishments.

Birthday posts from 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42. (I guess I was too busy celebrating 41.)

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May 21, 2023

45.

  1. Stay cigarette free. (3+ years and counting!)
  2. Get the second floor remodel finished. (Please let this be the year.)
  3. Hang the family wall.
  4. Unpack and organize arts and craft room.
  5. Continue to practice unapologetic self-confidence.
  6. Take impeccable care of myself.
  7. Celebrate my people.
  8. Tend the garden.
  9. Go to Michigan.
  10. Go to Italy.
  11. Work on confidence in skiing blue squares.
  12. Invite people in.
  13. Get V their license.
  14. Frame & hang embroidered cities.
  15. Start another x-stitch project.
  16. Get a mole screen.
  17. And a mammogram.
  18. And a colonoscopy. (Yay 45!)
  19. Read.
  20. Make artistic messes.
  21. Embrace work.
  22. Take V on college campus tours.
  23. Purge bookshelves and reorganize.
  24. Set up a home gym area.
  25. Use it.
  26. Earn at least silver in monthly Peloton challenges.
  27. Purge/deep clean basement storage area.
  28. Propagate and repot the windowsill cacti.
  29. Repot the monstera.
  30. Practice identifying bird calls.
  31. Knit Jesse socks.
  32. Knit the sheep pillow to learn bobbles.
  33. Buy no yarn (excepting yarn club renewal).
  34. Continue to develop comfort in all things boat – docking, driving, trailering.
  35. Start step one of the backyard landscaping project.
  36. Clean out the garage.
  37. Find a record stand for the office.
  38. Attend the local knit night at least three times.
  39. Meditate.
  40. Sew the recreation blanket.
  41. Fix the family room cabinet.
  42. Keep practicing manicure skills.
  43. Take a class.
  44. Renew kids’ passports.
  45. Leave room for surprises.

I love making these lists every year. I surprise myself with what I do (and don’t) manage to check off them and what I find myself repeating year after year. I wonder at what point I’ll stop adding numbers to the list despite adding years to my age. I’m not there yet. Here’s a look at past years: 44, 43, 42, 40, 39, 38

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May 5, 2023

Friday Finds

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  1. Fungi is pretty.
  2. Ed Emberly’s home. (I can see his books in these pictures.)
  3. Journal ideas and writing experiments by Bernadette Mayer’s.
  4. Radio spectrum.
  5. This is so cool.
  6. Cooking trends in 2023 (the cilantro and lime flavor combo is big in our house).
  7. Top 100 lists in reading.
  8. Speaking of, Behind the Scenes of Barack Obama’s Reading Lists.
  9. Made me smile (and ALMOST want to learn crochet).
  10. I’ve been practicing this for a few months now and it’s helping.
  11. I want this.
  12. On being perfect.
  13. It goes so fast.
  14. These are beautiful.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

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December 23, 2022

Friday Finds

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  1. This book list made me smile.
  2. Honesty or support? (This (and whether it is mutually exclusive is something I’ve been thinking on a lot lately.)
  3. The shrimp tree is a tradition with Jesse’s family (we use kale as the green).
  4. I found myself wondering this the other day…and then I stumbled on the answer.
  5. Materials before vision. (Also, this.)
  6. I think these are so cool.
  7. What to watch on Hulu in January.
  8. “I hurried for a long time…”
  9. The colorful ones are my favorites.
  10. And wow.
  11. Courage over confidence.
  12. There are so many random cool things on the internet. This is one.
  13. This made me laugh, but I do love the aesthetic (as the kids say).
  14. 102 random acts of kindness. (Thanks, Kari!)
  15. Top Google searches of 2022.
  16. The Satisfaction of Practice.
  17. Journaling ideas.
  18. I love these. So much. But can’t bring myself to pull the trigger.
  19. It’s okay to not be liked.
  20. Did this quiz work for you? (It did me.)

Happy weekend!!

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December 20, 2022

Tuesday Things

Last week was exactly what my weary heart needed. On Monday evening, we had Abram’s Christmas concert. I didn’t take one video or picture. I just enjoyed the opportunity to sit with friends and watch our kids’ perform. Tuesday, Abram and I headed to the Bucks game with fingers crossed that the storm that was being forecast wouldn’t strand us in Milwaukee. The next morning, we drove home in the rain, grateful for easy driving and grumbling about rain in December. On Thursday, we woke up to schools closed and snow. Heavy, wet, wonderful Christmas snow. The kids and I shoveled. Made pancakes. Painted name tag ornaments. And shoveled some more. It continued to snow on Friday. And Saturday. I shoveled and shoveled and shoveled and (almost) finished my Christmas shopping, and wrapped presents, and dropped off a few week-before-Christmas care packages. Sunday, Abram and Jesse went skiing while V and I stayed home and puttered in our own endeavors. It was glorious.

The kids have school until Thursday this week, and while part of me wishes they had a longer break, another part of me is grateful to have the time to finish up the last things I need to get done. This has been a year where plans have…not gone to plan…but we’re rolling with it. Some days I’m grinchy. Others, I’m grateful. Not judging my feelings makes grinchy feel less gritchy (Thank you for that word, Rita. It’s perfect.) so I’m practicing that.

Let’s talk some things. (I don’t have many.)

Knitting: I’m so behind on my advent calendar squares on my blanket. It was silly of me to think that I would have time to knit two squares every single day during the second busiest month of the year. (May is always nuts for us). I’ll catch up in January and February. I’m working on a scarf and wound the yarn for a baby blanket which will also be January and February projects.

Reading: Not a thing. I have a stack of books over 20 high and a TBR list that is growing ever longer.

Watching: I finally finished this season of Lie to Me (Hulu). I don’t like it. I keep watching it. It’s stupid. Violet and I have been watching The Dragon Prince (Netflix) and I’m loving it. I needed to get a couple of episodes in though before it connected. Silly me was too focused on the fantasy cartoon and Y7 rating. We’re about halfway through the second season and I’m always hoping they’ll suggest another episode. I also watched The People We Hate at the Wedding (Amazon Prime) due to your recommendations and I loved it. Such a great cast.

Listening to: Jazzy Christmas, Baby, Donnie Benét Radio, Reading Adventure (great moody winter music).

Making: Each year we paint Christmas tag/ornaments as part of teacher gifts. I shared my favorites above – V’s Spanish flag (Spanish), and A’s angel (Religion). We ordered these cutouts in 2019 and still have plenty. I keep them stored in an old Christmas cookie tin and it makes them so easy to pull out every year. My 2023 notebook (this year’s color is pacific green and it’s LOVELY) and currently notebooks have arrived. I didn’t do a perfect job keeping up with my 2022 analog systems, but I want to make a more concentrated effort in the next year because it’s fun to look back. I’m also a happier person when I make time for creative off-line endeavors. (V is in charge of my screen time passcode for IG and FB, and that is one of the smartest things I have ever done.) We renewed plans for the community garden plot and have gotten our seed catalogs so I’ve taken an inventory and am starting to make order plans. I’m also doing some prep work for a rest-my-house-systems February goal.

So those are my -ings this week!! I hope you are all doing well, staying healthy (and happy), and enjoying the season. If you aren’t, I wish you comfort. XOXO.


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November 1, 2022

Tuesday Things

I know. It’s been a bit. It’s also been a lot. The remodel continues at a snail’s pace. Abram finished cross country and headed straight into basketball. V dislocated their knee and brought an abrupt end to their swim season. Jesse and I planted garlic and then something dug through the beds so I don’t know how much (if any) we will actually get next summer. Violet and I went with my sister and niece to Lizzo (it was amazing). Abram and I joined my niece, nephew, parents, and sister for a Minnesota Gophers game (also fun). There was homecoming and football games and 8th grade boy nerf battles. Jesse and I both had COVID (zero stars – do not recommend). Violet needed knee surgery. Abe treated a few different neighborhoods with some friends. V handed out candy. October was gorgeous, and then snowy and gray, and gorgeous again and now we are in November.

Knitting: Finished a pair of socks for my brother-in-law, started and finished a pair from Abram (because when he outgrows them, they will fit me), and am working on this scarf in the Oyster Gray and Meadow color way. The repeat took me a little bit to get right but it’s starting to go fast now that I’ve got it down.

Watching: All the things. Finished the RHOBH season with all kinds of feelings (Garcelle is my favorite. Rinna is not.) Other than that I was mainly on Netflix – Somebody Feed Phil, which I dole out one sweet episode at a time. I love it so much. Do Revenge I enjoyed with Violet. Partner Track was fun and soapy, and finally, The Watcher which was kind of eh. I’ve been watching Tell Me Lies on Hulu and I don’t like it but I also keep watching whatever that means. I’m looking forward to the HBO Max Lizzo documentary.

Listening: Lizzo (it’s a theme and I’m about it), this is a whole mood for a blustery rainy October day (my sister gets credit for introducing it to me), and this for puttering around the house (aka millennial elevator music)

(ETA because I forgot) Reading: Maybe in Another Life (★★☆☆☆) and After I Do (★★★★☆) by Taylor Jenkins Reid – she’s a bit hit or miss for me. After I Do was a hit, Maybe in Another Life was a miss. When I Ran Away by Ilona Bannister (★★★★★), On a Quiet Street by Seraphina Nova Glass (3.5 stars), Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (★★★★★). Currently reading: This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

Making: We recently went dairy free. I never thought of us as big dairy people, but actually eliminating it has made me realize how much we actually we were using. This pumpkin bread or these pumpkin oat muffins (maybe even both?) are in the plan for this week. October brought about chili season and we’ve made three batches already. My favorite go to dinner lately is an olive oil baked sweet potato with shredded roasted chicken breast – sometimes I add green beans that I put up from this summer or a big spinach salad.

So that’s me. Hope you are all doing well! Would love to hear what you’re up to in your corner of the world.

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Hi there, I'm Kate! I love yarn, photography, books, and a good cup of coffee. I blog like it's 2007. I write a lot about knitting, Netflix, and any other nonsense that strikes my fancy. Sometimes I get ranty. Welcome to my little corner of the internet!

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