Sarah Jordan (she/her/hers)

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

#ShowMeYourKnits Lace week

I love knitting fingerless mitts with lace patterns and these Elodia Mitts by @paknitwit.bsky.social are one of my favorite pairs

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Especially when you’re freezing and exhausted!

Cake* and eggs for dinner, because why not?

*pancakes

Happy Rodent Meteorology Day!

Dear neighbors,
It is now February. I think it is safe to take down your outdoor Christmas decorations. I’m okay if you want to keep your twinkle lights up, but can we please put away the giant blow-up Santas?

That’s exactly what I did after my meeting!

I came in to the office for the first time since I broke my foot and we can’t use the bathroom. How perfect.

We’re on a dead end, so if they come to salt, it’s usually at least a day after the snow. Most of the time we just end up clearing the part of the street around our driveways and hoping for a thaw!

It’s always a good sign when the salt truck comes down your street and starts spinning its wheels. 🙄

Perspective is a beautiful thing. Today I took my first walk outside since breaking my foot in October. It was only a mile, but it made me so happy.

I’m knitting a sweater using three skeins of handspun, and somehow I’ve got them all attached to the sweater right now.

If you’d like to make the world a better place, you could start by flushing the toilet when you use a public restroom. It’s really not that hard.

My father just Rickrolled us totally by chance.

I’d be getting a pedicure, too, but I’m still stuck in this situation:

Starting off my last day of 2024 with a manicure — i.e., treating myself. My body has had a hard year but is healing, so it seems right to pamper it a little.

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If you are so afraid to drive that you can only manage 10 mph in a 25 mph zone, you’re riding your breaks the whole time, and you roll right through stop signs, maybe you shouldn’t be driving.

Proof I need to have my coffee before I can make my coffee: Today I put in 5 scoops of coffee and 9 cups of water. 🤦‍♀️

So, is today a good day to get back on this app?

The problem with putting on eye makeup when you don’t normally wear it is that you forget you have it on until after you’ve rubbed your eyes.

I will miss running in Florida because it’s much flatter here than at home. What I will not miss is ending up looking like a poppyseed bagel because I’ve run through clouds of gnats.

The problem with having similar taste to your mother and going on vacation either her is that she might end up wearing your exercise pants.

Today is Christmas Adam, right?

Two loaves of freshly baked banana chocolate chip bread cooling in their loaf pans on a stovetop

Want to make a gloomy day 100% better? Dig out some of the frozen bananas and make banana bread.

Penn president resigns amid backlash to her testimony on antisemitism University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned Saturday as backlash continued over testimony of college presidents about antisemitism.

Breaking news: University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill has stepped down after criticism for what many called an inadequate response to questions about whether calls for the genocide of Jewish people would violate university policies.

That’s exactly what I said!

Same. This is pretty close.

I’m not sure how everyone else does it, but I just use the reading list function in Blogger.

I still blog regularly and know a bunch of other knitters who do, too!