Ah, Autumn. I've seen many entries lately on the return of Fall. It is truly my favorite season and always reminds me of buying school supplies and new clothes. So yay for the return of Fall! I can't wait to decorate for Halloween.

The work craziness continues to infringe on my blog-writing and blog-reading time. I have a fear that if I don't update regularly people will stop reading my blog so I'm trying to commit to an at-least once a week entry.

So here's what I've been up to knitting wise - I've started knitting a baby blanket for a special baby in some washer friendly Lion Brand yarn. Here is a boring square for you to look at:

8 more to go

And Lady Eleanor slowly continues...

I love knitting this but for reasons I can't get into (i.e. working 10 or 12 hour days) I haven't had any energy to knit anything. I've been trying to force myself to knit, but it's not something you can force, right? I'm waiting patiently for the knitting mojo to return.

So go, celebrate fall, bake some pumpkin pies, buy halloween candy! (My favorite halloween candy growing up was probably bubble gum - any kind that I got at halloween - even the incredibly crappy Dubble Bubble pink gum that came individually wrapped. I especially hated getting Almond Joy or Mounds at halloween. What kid likes getting Almond Joy? Ugh.)

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ETA: Trips I'm not taking this fall/winter...Rhinebeck Update. I will not be going this year. I thought I'd let ya'll know now that I very sadly can't make it. I will join the ranks of those who weep while we look at all the blog posts of those who went and met and shopped. Also - trip to visit this girl and this girl that I daydreamed about and mentioned as a possibility (though I'm not sure anyone really was counting on it happening) is also not going to happen. And visiting my friends that moved to California - probably not happening this calendar year either. I'm Pennsylvania-bound only this fall. For many reasons (some very good, some silly, some work related), and though I would love to make both of those trips - it's just not in the cards right now.

Posted by jen at 09:22 PM |Comments (4)

This week I had to fly to Marlborough Massachusetts for a one-hour client meeting. So my colleague and I flew out of Trenton NJ airport (I bet you didn't even know there WAS a Trenton Airport!) into Bedford Massachusetts. I got up at 6:30, got ready, got to the tiny airport at 8am or so. Have you ever flown out of a tiny airport like this? Let me share some things I learned on this trip:

Our Plane

Everyone in these tiny airports talks to you. Everyone is your buddy.

The tiny airport will remind you of a Greyhound bus terminal.

Airplanes from this airport only go from Trenton to Bedford. That's it. If you miss the flight - you've missed THE flight.

The same lady that ripped your ticket is most likely the lady letting you on the plane.

When you use the bathroom in the airport you are using THE BATHROOM. The only stall. No row-after-row of stalls like in the big leagues.

In Bedford Airport (also known as Hanscom Field) there is a tiny cafe. In this cafe you can buy things like apples, juice, soda, chips. And other items like a plate of steamed dumplings or vegetable lo-mein. This is either the scariest restaurant ever or a hidden gem with the best dumplings west of Boston. I'm not sure. I didn't try them.

Pilots of tiny planes flirt with passengers.

I didn't attempt to bring knitting on this trip. Considering I can't even bring water, I figured pointy sticks were out of the question.

Posted by jen at 08:11 PM |Comments (7)

Yes, yesterday was the anniversary of 9/11 but Sunday was our wedding anniversary!

September 10, 2005

We celebrated with dinner at a nice restaurant in New Hope. A lot has happened in one year - including me meeting many wonderful knitbloggers in person, us buying a house, my best friend getting married, and much more.

So happy anniversary to us.

Posted by jen at 08:48 AM |Comments (11)

This labor day I:

• Threw out my back on Friday at work. Sitting. I threw out my back sitting. I have no idea what happened, but I was incapacitated Friday night and sore for the rest of the weekend.

Ate a lot. Ate ice cream. Ate heirloom tomato salad. Made and ate chocolate chip cookies. Ate, and ate, and ate.

My weekend diet of ice cream, IZZE soda from Target (so good), and tylenol. I did not have a healthy labor day.

Who doesn't like chocolate chip cookies???

Heirloom tomatoes are weird looking.

• Inventoried my stash. I didn't count a lot of the random one or two skeins of cheap yarn I have. I don't know what to do with all that crappy cheap yarn. I may try to make an afghan. We'll see.
• Watched the classic movies Better Off Dead and Sabrina. (The original, not the remake.)
• Helped Mr. Lug bottle his homebrew. Who wants to taste test?

• Knit on Lady Eleanor, started and stopped, and ripped out a spiral scarf made out of Brooks Farm. Thought about what to knit next, came up with no ideas.
• Wrapped up the weekend watching the Different Strokes docudrama on NBC. How did I no know this was in production?

Posted by jen at 07:54 PM |Comments (4)