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If you were my copy of @yarnharlot's Knitting Rules where you be? Cause it's not anywhere I've looked.

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  • sassymonkey: If you were my copy of @yarnharlot's Knitting Rules where you be? Cause it's not anywhere I've looked.
    Under the bed or fell behind the nightstand?
    from victorias_view on February 14, 2012 @ 6:15 pm
    maybe hanging out with the sock bandit?
    from KarenLynnn on February 14, 2012 @ 6:34 pm
  • sassymonkey: Ok. My light therapy light is on and by the time it shuts off I will have post. Maybe.
    In that case, I am waiting! :)
    from HomeRearedChef on February 14, 2012 @ 12:58 pm
    @HomeRearedChef I never said it was going up today. I already posted today ya know! ;-)
    from sassymonkey on February 14, 2012 @ 1:03 pm
    So did it work?
    from victorias_view on February 14, 2012 @ 1:12 pm
    @victorias_view Almost! I just need to edit and schedule. It would have worked if I hadn't gotten up to clean up cat puke.
    from sassymonkey on February 14, 2012 @ 1:23 pm
    Is the fake cat sick? @sassymonkey
    from victorias_view on February 14, 2012 @ 1:32 pm
    @sassymonkey So I will continue to patiently wait until you are ready to share. :)
    from HomeRearedChef on February 14, 2012 @ 1:46 pm
    @sassymonkey Yuk! I know all about cleaning up cat puke. lol!
    from HomeRearedChef on February 14, 2012 @ 1:47 pm
    @victorias_view Hairballs. One of the consequences of having a very fluffy cat is that you get used to cleaning them up.
    from sassymonkey on February 14, 2012 @ 1:50 pm
    @sassymonkey @victorias_view
    from victorias_view on February 14, 2012 @ 1:52 pm
    light therapy?
    from KarenLynnn on February 14, 2012 @ 4:34 pm
    @KarenLynnn I appear to have developed some S.A.D. Issues over the last few years, which usually manifest in my turning into a raging bitch (sigh, sad but true) and general mess in January and peaking in February. So I'm trying light therapy. And vitamin d.
    from sassymonkey on February 14, 2012 @ 4:47 pm
    @sassymonkey yeah, my doctor put me on vitamin d too... 5000iu a day. he said my d count was abnormally low, but we live in wisconsin. let me know how you like the light and if it helps ok? i swear, the d5000 has helped my moodiness. i've been taking it for a few months now. *hugs* gray cold days ain't good for the soul!
    from KarenLynnn on February 14, 2012 @ 5:58 pm
  • sassymonkey: The fake cat has decided that my Apple Time Machine = warm window seat.
  • sassymonkey: If you got an ARC for a book but then you got the hardcover... do you still keep the ARC? I'm feeling a bit sentimental about it.
    Yes, keep the sentimental ARC.
    from Denise on February 14, 2012 @ 12:06 pm
  • sassymonkey: Cybils! Cybils! Cybils! http://bit.ly/xOX7jK
    I don't want to look - it's tempting though. I am guessing I am not going to agree with most of the winners (but what else is new, right?)
    from Denise on February 14, 2012 @ 9:09 am
  • sassymonkey: Note to self: Today is not Thursday.
    It isn't?
    from victorias_view on February 14, 2012 @ 7:37 am
    @victorias_view Sadly, no.
    from sassymonkey on February 14, 2012 @ 7:42 am
    H-m-m-m...what happens on Thursday? Am I missing something?
    from SunbonnetSmart.com on February 14, 2012 @ 8:05 am
    @SunbonnetSmart.com Nothing. It's just not today.
    from sassymonkey on February 14, 2012 @ 9:07 am
    No it's not. Michelle Belle comes home on Wednesday (and it's Survivor Night again on Wednesday) -- I need Wednesday. Then it can be Thursday.
    from Denise on February 14, 2012 @ 9:09 am
  • sassymonkey: Hmm I should probably eat some lunch.
    I just ate - right at Noonish, that's some sort of lunch record for me.
    from Denise on February 13, 2012 @ 10:52 am
    @Denise I only had breakfast at close to 10am so the fact that I ate lunch at all is rather surprising. ;-)
    from sassymonkey on February 13, 2012 @ 11:03 am
  • sassymonkey: Ok. #mealplan done. Kinda. Mostly. http://bit.ly/Az9QJO
  • sassymonkey: I thought that since winter was less wintery this year I might skip over the really bad winter blahs bitchiness but... Nope.
    On the bright side it is almost over - soon the tulips will be blooming, the patios will reopen, and the sun will shine with warmth :)
    from victorias_view on February 13, 2012 @ 8:05 am
    @victorias_view I should have been using my light lamp. I wasn't. So I used it today. Took some vitamin D. And I'm going to try to get out for at least one walk this week.
    from sassymonkey on February 13, 2012 @ 8:12 am
    @sassymonkey A little fresh air does help :) I get very cranky if I don't have a dose of vitamin D. But I still haven't invested in a light lamp that might be something I need...
    from victorias_view on February 13, 2012 @ 8:16 am
    @victorias_view I picked up one of those small Philips GoLites at Costco. It was in the health section which I thought was odd.
    from sassymonkey on February 13, 2012 @ 8:21 am
    @sassymonkey I am going there this afternoon and will have to look for it :)
    from victorias_view on February 13, 2012 @ 8:33 am
    I hear ya, sister
    from Laine Griffin on February 13, 2012 @ 10:04 am
    Y'all probably do not want to hear from this southern gal... cold for us the last couple of days but at least we get the sunshine most days. I will take a walk for all of you and beam the sunshine back at you! Hugs, Kary
    from cookingwithkary on February 13, 2012 @ 10:18 am
  • sassymonkey: Now that is a grilled cheese. http://bit.ly/xb5wGq
    I would love to have that for lunch!
    from victorias_view on February 13, 2012 @ 8:17 am

Karen Ballum

Full Name
Karen Ballum
Member Since
January 2006
About Me: 

Hi, I'm Karen Ballum. but I'm better know around the web as Sassymonkey.

I live in Ottawa, Ontario -- Canada's national capital. (No, I do not work politics or the government.) Keeping me company are my husband and cat, commonly known on the internet as the Fake Husband and the Fake Cat. Last I checked they were both still very real to most people but according to Denise, it's not real unless she can see it.

I have been blogging since 2004 on my personal blog, Sassymonkey.ca, and started my book blog, Sassymonkey Reads, in August of 2005. I read a lot and found I was starting to forget which books I had read and what I had thought of it. So I started my book blog as way of helping me track the books I had read.

I may have a slight addition to the overuse of parentheses. (Maybe.) (Sometimes.) (It's a sickness but one I am not seeking help for.)

I am the Section Editor for Books here on BlogHer as well as the BlogHer Book Club Host.

 

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