Tired of twitter and facebook. Oh-so-very tired.

I miss the days when those did not exist.

Sad news: three weeks ago, Eugene the cat passed away. He was not suffering, disabled (mentally or physically), he was just old and tired. He got to choose his time and place to go, which is the very best any of us can hope for in the end. I miss him terribly, but the grieving process *has* been an unexpected means through which Chico and I have been able to grow together as a couple. Prudence was lost and despondent without him for the first little while, but has been getting better every day since.

Good news: we moved! Still in Toronto, but in the Junction now. Funky, awesome neighborhood -- featuring the cafe Crema, with the best coffee I have had outside of Seattle! Yum! We did not have internet at the new place for the first couple of days. Good excuse to gank their free wireless. I almost wish we still did not have internet so I'd still have an excuse to go there. Budget is tight this month what with moving and everything, so I have to moderate my out-of-house coffee intake. We also an awesome local and organic market, The Sweet Potato, that has really great prices and quality. It's only a couple of blocks away, too. Loving this area!

Okay, off for now. Maybe I'll, I dunno, start to read my flist and update here more than once in a blue moon? ;)

We're moving at the end of the month, so what better time to pare down and get rid of some (almost-literal) wardrobe baggage?

I've made a flickr set for the virtual garage sale. All items are OBO. We do have cats but no smoking inside, for those with allergies. I can arrange to meet anywhere in downtown Toronto reasonably near to TTC, plus I'll be at Last Temptation in Kensington on Monday the 14th from about 8pm-9pm, if you let me know ahead of time that you are coming and what you want me to bring.

First replies get first dibs. This info will get put on the Toronto lj community on Sunday morning as well (plus L.A.M.B. skirt is listed elsewhere already). I'll try to keep the info as updated as possible as to what has sold already, but I might not always be near a computer.

Feel free to pass this post/info along to interested friends, as well. Best email address to contact me at is: dyslexia -at- gmail -dot- com

More items may be added as the days go on. I'll post here when there's new stuff to see!

Okay, onto the flickr sale set:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elizadys/sets/72157606107895538/

All pics and item descriptions are there.

Since I so rarely check in here, I need to do a purge so that when I do try to pop in and check in on people, there's not *so* much to read that it's all just impossible and I end up reading nothing.

So, no offense meant to those who're being dropped. If ya really want back in, just drop me a message (dyslexia at gmail) and I'll put ya back on.

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time." -- Willem de Kooning

This is so true.

Technical difficulties have kept me from being able to post my TAD stuff for the past week. I hope to have this resolved soon, though....

Okay, must shower now and get into work clothes to get Mel moved!

For Thing-A-Day for Feb. 1, I made cute armwarmers from socks that were too tight.



( step-by-step of what I did, with pics, after the cut )

Reply in comments here and I'll:

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - a song, a color, a photo, a word, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.

Okay, you don't really have to do #7, only if you really want to.

From WWII through now, the story of wars, told in food:

"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first." - Robert Downey Jr.

I can do a vertical step-through with my hoop. It's not consistently clean and so far it's uni-directional (so no continuous loop step-through yet, but I've only spent about 15 minutes on it so far), but there ya go. I also got way better at shoulder hooping after watching a video explaining the four-point concept of how your body moves the hoop in that position. (I'll post a link to it once I find it again.)

So, add that to the beam-me-up (messy, but there--just needs practice), isolations in both directions (again, messy), chest stall, and the atomic/orbital/whatever off-body thing where it turns as it goes around (everyone calls that something different), in addition to a lot of other off-body stuff that I have no name for, let's just say I am exploring the space more, it's not been a bad week for me with the ol' hoop.

New goals are to work on a better start from a ground position (not a kick from flat, something else....), work on shoulder duck-outs and -ins, cleaning up the stuff I learned this week (including working up to the continuous step-through), one-handed step-through, and then barrel rolls. That oughtta give me *plenty* to focus on for now....