Tags: ravelympics2010

• the closest i’ll ever get to being an olympic champion

  fair warning – this is alllll about knitting.
  so the winter olympics/ravelympics finished like almost two weeks ago, and this post has been open in draft form almost as long as that. i earned a bunch of medals but those are just fun for rav, more importantly – i finished 4 of the 6 projects i set out to do. it was a fun process, and it helped me knock out two things that had been REALLY just sitting [...]

• where i was going to bitch completely about my braces

  now i will only bitch slightly. the adjustment? SUCKED ASS. my front left tooth was SO sensitive changing out the elastics was like pulling it out sans novocaine. then the ortho looked in my mouth and said, ‘oh, we haven’t been aggressive enough’ – that really might be one of the last things you want to hear at that moment in time. he then proceeded to put five (5!!!) sets of powerchains (see this picture, not linked for those that [...]