*In no particular order....* You cannot make someone love you. Sex does NOT equal love. People who talk a lot usually know very little. People who speak very little usually know a lot. There is no religion greater than the truth. Other people will judge you by those you associate with. Karma is a whore who requires payment up front (many thanks to LW for her eloquence ). Plaid pants and safety pins do not a punk make. Communism is a good idea in theory, but it does...

I haven't been very active here at JU for weeks.  Months, maybe.  The reasons for that are varied and many.  First of all, this having to log in every. single. time. I visit JU is tiresome.  Irksome, even.  I don't like it, and I'm tired of doing it....hence my distinct lack of participation around here.  Next, I have a family and a job to take care of.  I love both of them, by the way.  I've become very attached to my patients - and that was a dec...

Today is my third anniversary here at JU (thanks to 'miah for reminding me; I have a 103 degree fever so I'm not really coherent right now.  I'm not going to work today; I'm not risking infecting my patients with what I think is the 'flu.  That could be a disaster). Three years ago today, I was searching the 'net, looking for a place to start up a knitting blog.  I Googled 'free blog sites' and the first place that showed up was JU.  I liked the layout, I liked the communi...

I don't know if any of you noticed, but cutepablo is at it again.  This time she (I believe it's a she) has posted 10 articles in a row.  Gilford Tuttle got warned about such behaviour, is it possible that cutepablo can be warned too?  This isn't the first time they've done this, and it gets pretty old pretty quick. Admins, can you please help?!

Usually, I am the giver of knitted things, not the reciever. Our very own Spc Nobody Special decided to change all that.  I came home from shopping yesterday to find a priority mail box addressed to me sitting on the kitchen counter.  When I opened it, I found a hand knitted cabled scarf in a gorgeous colorway and a note from SpcNBS. I can't begin to tell you how touched I am that someone would think enough of me to spend time knitting a scarf for me!  I know how good it fee...

Dear Joe,   I've been wanting to say this for a while, but have never seemed to find a good time, what with holidays and executions and what not.  However, things being what they are I feel that I HAVE to say this or else I will simply go mad. I feel like you and I are drifting apart, and that scares me.  We used to be so close....you'd be the first thing I thought of when I awoke in the morning and we'd enjoy each other over coffee.  I'd think of you alot and would ...

I'm blacklisted from a certain wanna-be politician's blog.  Again. The last time was because I suggested that he might want to let CPS into his home to see that everything is as it should be rather than risk losing his family to make a statement.  He took offence to that and went off saying how my husband was fighting to protect the constitution yet I was sullying it here at home. So what did I do to get blacklisted this time?  I merely affirmed another bloggers assertion th...

I sent out an email this afternoon asking some Joe Users for their mailing addresses so I can send them Christmas cards this year.  Good idea, right? I thought so until I realized that there are some people here who I'd like to send a card to but I don't have their email address. So, I'm writing this article instead.  I'd like it very much if all of the JU regulars could send me a mailing address so I can send them a Christmas card.  If any of you are uncomforta...

SO, AngelaMarie has had her baby Link Because she was a few weeks early, she's pretty small.  Like not quite 6lbs small.  All of the clothes I got for her look HUGE now.  She'll be swimming in them; the arms and the legs will be drooping off the end of her little limbs!  Even the hat that I made for her little bean will probably come down to her nose!  That's ok, though.  She'll grow into them.  New babies grow like little weeds; all of mine had g...

Seventeen articles of insanity. Link Seventeen of them. It would be somewhat tolerable if they were interesting and informative, but as it is they're basically the ramblings of someone who appears to have lost touch with reality.  Isn't there anything that can be done about it?  A couple of these I can handle....a dozen or so I might be able to ignore....but this is just ridiculous. Help, someone?  Please?

*this article was written as I was trying to calm down after being angered by something.  Please excuse any spelling or grammatical errors!* I think that we've all told lies at some point in our lives.  Sometimes we lie to cover our asses.  We've done something wrong and, rather than be caught, we make up a lie.  Sometimes we lie to spare someone's feelings.  When someone asks us "does this suit me?" or (and I'm sure that the guys who read with will b...

As most of you know, we've got two much loved bloggers who are pregnant and due to deliver baby girls next month.  Texas Wahine and Angela Marie have both shared their pregnancy news with us; we've watched them struggle with morning sickness, delighted with their babies first movements and have oohed and ahhed over their ultraound pictures. LW has very kindly offered to act as a rally point for gifts that people would like to send to Tex.  I'd like to do the same for Angela Marie.&n...

I've changed the name of my blog.  It's not 'Life as an Air Force wife' anymore.  It's now 'Confessions of a yarn junkie'. 'Life' had become...stale.  Matter of fact, my whole blogging experience has become stale of late. So, rather than give up the entire blog, I figured I'd give it a new coat of paint and re-arrange the furniture, so to speak. So, welcome to Confessions.  You can expect there to be a lot of talk about knitting and the qualities of various yarns and fi...