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Adriene's Couch - Come and Sit a While!: The Trouble with Baking
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Saturday, May 9, 2015. The Trouble with Baking. I had every intention of taking today to sit down and blog about all the fun stuff I've been up to. I had a rare day to myself: no obligations and no major errands to run. I walked up to the pool, went for a swim, came home and made coffee, did a load of laundry while I wandered around YouTube, ate lunch, and then took a nap. I woke up and thought to myself, "I'll just make myself a batch of muffins to take as snacks for work this week.". In everything....
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Adriene's Couch - Come and Sit a While!: My Kind of Home Decor
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Sunday, April 5, 2015. My Kind of Home Decor. I had been dodging it all week: my too-short Sallah Cowl. In its net-like beauty, sat on the coffee table all week. I knew it was going to be too short, and I was too annoyed with myself to come up with a solution. It would have been nice it the problem had solved itself, but alas, this was the sort of problem that I was going to have to wade through, unless I wanted to waste all that time and yarn. And man, it worked. I love it. That extra panel with...And n...
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Adriene's Couch - Come and Sit a While!: June 2014
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Monday, June 30, 2014. Inspiration Mondays: My Noticer. I've been relatively silent over the past couple of weeks because it's been. well, it's been a rough couple of weeks. I have some new responsibilities at work that I'm still working through, and that has recruited quite a lot of my energy. On top of that, though, we've had a rough time with our little Rascal. So yeah, if you're new to this blog, Rascal is my dog. You can't help what you love. Right now, he seems to be feeling a little more comfortab...
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Adriene's Couch - Come and Sit a While!: July 2014
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Inspiration Mondays on a Tuesday: Hitting the Target. I work at a place where most of our work occurs out of town at worksites in remote areas. A lot of our employees are daddies who have to go away from their families for three weeks at a time to earn their living. It's the trade-off for living in a beautiful place like Vancouver Island; few people are able to live AND work here. And my heart broke. And you know what I'm so happy about? What if we tried to make sure we didn't giv...
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Adriene's Couch - Come and Sit a While!: December 2014
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Friday, December 19, 2014. I feel a little unbalanced these days. I decided to take today off work. It was the last day before we closed up for the holidays, and I was just out of steam. I put the "pro" in "unproductive" this week. I decided I was better off staying away from my desk. This morning, apart from my toothbrush and some extra toiletries, I finished packing. That's two days earlier. That's strange. I looked over at it a couple of weeks ago, and for the first time in my life, a poinsettia is tu...
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Adriene's Couch - Come and Sit a While!: Walking the Same Way
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Sunday, May 10, 2015. Walking the Same Way. Someone told me once that sometimes, when you're walking though life, you meet people who are walking the same way. And these people you walk with. they usually have their eyes on the same things that you do. But we're walking the same way with our eyes on the same things. How often does one have a "staycation" anyway? I hadn't had anyone stay over as a guest since we moved here nearly two years ago, and so my brain was full of things we could do. The plann...
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Adriene's Couch - Come and Sit a While!: May 2015
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Saturday, May 30, 2015. Black and White Keys. Life is like a piano; the white keys represent happiness and the black show sadness. But as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also create music. All of a sudden, I'm on the other side of the world. Life is interesting, if sometimes uncomfortable. and sometimes undesirable. It's true what they say: Anything is possible. And here we are. We've been tidying, planning, visiting, making phone calls, and doing chores. And we've been re...
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Small Frustration | Kis*Knit
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Insights from a generally narcissistic and sometimes crazy knitter and mother of one. I went to the second knitting night at my local library last night. I really enjoyed it, despite Yarnkettle. Not being able to attend. I think I lost the knitting bug a while ago and this group makes me want it back. So, yay! She called it a butterfly shawl but it had no butterflies on it. Maybe the shape is called butterfly? Anyway, it had two colors, but wasn’t striped. It had a shape sort of like this:. August 6, 2015.
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Adriene's Couch - Come and Sit a While!: November 2014
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. I knew it was time when he howled in pain at 6am yesterday morning. Rascal had been coasting along for the last month or so. He was hopping around on three legs, but he was happy and wanted to go out for long walks and to eat his food and to keep wagging his tail at everyone he met. He was in a pretty good cycle, even though he needed to get up every night at least once to go out and poop. We were hopeful. But it didn't work. And then he howled. And I knew. Adele was playing on...
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Adriene's Couch - Come and Sit a While!: The Problem with Miracles
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Sunday, March 22, 2015. The Problem with Miracles. Stupid coffee. tripping me up. I had a disturbing dream last night: I dreamed that Rascal came back. I went around telling everyone what a miracle it was. And when I woke up, I was so sad. That's the thing about miracles: they're not really things you can depend on. Lucky enough to go to Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island last week:. And lucky enough to see another spring:. After my run, I came home and cut up the energy bars I made yesterday:.
