2. I baked a cornbread! Two – since I had juuuuust enough ingredients to double the recipe and froze one against the day I need cornbread but have no energy to bake one.

3. What a WEEK.

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February 21, 2025

Good Things Friday (313) and Link Love

1. I feel so accomplished. I finally figured out (by which I mean, finally remembered to go through the manual again and found the right page) what was causing the sewing machine to throw a horrible gnarl of looped threads on the back side of the fabric. The bobbin tension was too loose (although it’s been fine forever, why is it suddenly now too loose?) While testing the machine fix, I also repaired a bag for PiC. The seams had come undone so I reinforced it with a nice piece of canvas.

2. I ALSO finally fixed a seam on one of the blankets I made.

3. We took the kids on a bike ride. I stuck with Smol Acrobat so that PiC could enjoy the adult riding part. They kept asking to go back out the whole drive home – made me feel a little guilty for making them go at my pace because I was so slow and tired but they couldn’t have kept up with the other adults. Until they emerged from a THREE HOUR NAP. Ah ha! You were way more tired than you thought!

Can you help: Celeste Pewter, my go to on all things politics, is going through some serious stuff. She was recently seriously injured by a former partner and needs financial assistance to deal with the legal and maybe medical ramifications of that. This GFM was set up to help her get away from it before this incident, so the amount is too low.

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February 14, 2025

Good Things Friday (312) and Link Love

1. I have read too many T. Kingfisher books NOT to be creeped out by Egyptian walking onions but also I want to grow them. That’s what I want for my birthday: walking onion bulbets or seeds to grow.

Challenges this week:

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February 7, 2025

Good Things Friday (311) and Link Love

1. I hauled myself across town to get to the Korean grocery store with the good fried chicken and the delicious stacks and stacks of ban chan for takeaway as far as the eye can see. They had prepared fried chicken marked down 30% off and I happened across a 20% off sale on pork spare ribs making them less ridiculously expensive. The ban chan was faaaantastic and lasts for days. If you combine some of them: seasoned cold spinach, cucumbers and bean sprouts with ginger beef (Costco), rice, and a fried egg, you just about have yourself a bibimbap.

2. Feels like a bit of a miracle we scraped through this week.

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January 31, 2025