Sarah Jane Humke

The life of a traveling, reading, writing, spining and knitting shepherdess.

I keep not wanting to go to crochet group and then go knowing that I would regret not going if I didn’t.  Seriously, they are my prozac.  I feel depression trying to edge in on me and I know that I need “my people” now more than usual, but it also makes me just want …

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This is what my weekend was about:             It was all about babies and friends getting married and drinking and eating.     This is why I love to visit Chicago. It holds most of those nearest and dearest to me.         Even the newest ones are …

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So, I am finally able to show you a picture of one of the super secret projects that I have been working on for a while.   This is on a Cal. King sized bed.  It is about 100″X100″.  It made me really hot working on it towards the end (imagine, having that ENTIRE THING …

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So, I thought that I would recap my goals and see how well I did with them….   1.) Will not spend more money than have.  Did ok on this one.  I worked pretty much as a cash only thing so I couldn’t spend more than I had. 2.) Will not get drunk and diss and/or start …

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  So, I am now going to show-and-tell so to speak.  So this will probably be another pretty picture heavy post.  If you have slow Internet connection, I apologize in advance.  This will take a while…..     So, first off, I promised pictures of my glove/mitten hybrid.  They are 100% alpaca and were hand …

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I’m sitting here in the Newark airport writing this.  It is 9 o’clock Monday morning, always a sober slap of reality, more so today more than usual.  I am not used to rush hour traffic going into New York City.  Hell, I’m not used to rush hour traffic at all!  So getting here was more …

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Oh My God.  I so don’t know how to describe today, it was seriously just too overwhelming.  I guess that the best way to do it is to start at the beginning, right?   I left the muggle in-law’s house today at around 5:30-ish.  The sun was still a ways from being up, let alone …

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Ok, so it is official, United totally sucks sweaty athlete balls.  Not that I have actually sucked any sweaty athlete’s ball (I’ve always been attracted to a man I could have a good conversation with and the athletes in high school [and really the ones in college] tended to have difficulty putting together sentences).  Oh, …

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Not a lot of excitement here at the Humke-Mengel abode.  Today I cleaned house and loaded books on CD onto the iTunes so that I can listen to them on my iPod.  Very, very exciting stuff…  However, things started to get  a little crazy around here come nightfall.  First I gave Jiji a bath.  She …

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