keelygoesfar

As I sit here looking at my packed bag, I can't help but smile. I have everything neatly in its place and packed with tons of room to spare for all the glorious yarn I'm going to stash into my carry on size duffel bag. Yep. No time like the night before to have everything organized and packed and taking the stress out of the next mornings mad rush to the airport. ................... That's what I'd love to type. But it's not true. I'm actually desperately downloading I-tunes songs into my I-pod which I'm also charging. Meanwhile I'm mentally sending telepathic messages to the dryer to finish drying my clothes faster. I don't think it hears me. Possibly the fact that I ingested half a bottle of NyQuil to make my insomnia go away is what's ... read more

Yesterday was a day of relaxation, or so it was supposed to be. My knees were in much better shape--my calves not so much. Apparently the pain from the knees superseded the soreness of of my muscles, and I was feeling it. I woke up at the joyful hour of nine (but probably didn't reallysleep more than five or six hours), had some breakfast, and then waffled into my snow clothes before being loaded in with the rest of the motley crew to head off to go snowmobiling. It was cold that day, and windy, sending snow across barren fields and freezing already frozen spindly weeds and bushes. Yet surprisingly people were outside along these stretches of land and walking pretty briskly with their dogs and children in tow. If you can't beat the weather, ... read more

After getting next to no sleep--which is not uncommon in my life--I was awoken by my phone alerting me that it was indeed 7:30, and I should...no will be getting up. NOW. Outside wind and cloud had combined to make snow overnight, and after dragging my sleepy butt out of bed and pulling on winter like clothes I headed upstairs where the smell of pancakes awaited me, along with three girls very anxious to get out in the snow. As I love snow, I had no problem with this. We lugged on our coats, gloves, and shoes and went tromping around the snow and building more walls for our EXTREME SNOW BALL FIGHT EPIC BATTLE. We were soon wrangled up and taken to Deerfield to get fitted for ski boots and skis. It didn't take ... read more

That night, after having driven around and trying to escape the heat (which you couldn't), Dana and I got to meet Ben's band. Apparently they are very popular in their niche of the music world, and must practice a lot. So we met up with his band (and one of the member's girlfriends, who also is in a band, and I'm really dying to hear her music because her description sounds really interesting) and from there we went into Capitol Hill so they could go to their studio and they could practice. The studio, it turns out, its inbewteen two bars, behind a locked door littered with old flyers, grafetti, and stickers. But once you enter down the very long and sharp flight of stairs your greeted by frosted glass that says "Underground Recording Studio". There ... read more

Do you remember being a little kid and you know, KNOW your going somewhere really awesome the next morning that includes waking up early, going through the airport, getting on a plane, and then being cattle herded into another place? Well I'm experiencing that feeling myself at the moment! In 12 hours I will be sitting next to some one--hopefully who is NOT hugging themselves and muttering about how they will enslave the human race--in an airport awaiting my plane to come and transport me to....Washington! Seattle, to be more precise. I'm going to be meeting my friend Dana there, as we're taking separate planes (and yet they take off at the same time...hmm...), and then after helping Dana manhandle her very large suite case, will be waiting for her cousin to pick us up. After ... read more