Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Category: Life

It’s mostly what this blog’s about.

  • Otherwise Occupied

    Well, I’m not doing well with the picture a day thing. At least for the last two days. yesterday I spent an hour and a half on a self portrait that didn’t turn out really well. I decided to scrap it rather than post it here. And today I forgot my camera! ugh. I may…

  • Tragic

    I got some really bad news on Monday night. My step-brother committed suicide over the weekend. He went into the forest and hung himself from a tree. Some hunters found him early Sunday morning. It really hit me hard Tuesday morning when I was making my breakfast. I just broke down and sobbed. And then…

  • Twenty years

    Yesterday was a strange day. I recieved a message in my inbox saying that I had a Myspace friend request. Skeptical, I logged into Myspace to see who this person was. As it turned out it was a real person and not a spammer. The person was someone that graduated from my High School the…

  • I have arrived

    I now have a MySpace page. Do you? I need friends! I am such a loser right now. I only have 4 friends and one of them is Tom, the generic friend one gets when they are on MySpace. Check out my page. My username is CraftyMoni. I even have the ubiquitous loud background and…

  • An Amazing Story

    I am shaking right now, after reading about my knit-blogging friend, Lolly’s experience at the Lima Airport during the earthquake. It’s a truly amazing story. You should read it.