http://justoneanna.com with way too many hobbies. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:53:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In 10 simple steps, my creative process for blogging and writing short stories: Step 1 - Have an idea. Possibly mine said idea out of twitter, emails, conversations, comments, or creative friends Step 2 - Start writing something. Be unhappy with it, but write anyway. Keep writing until you have something ... http://justoneanna.com/navel-gazing/how-i-write This is one of those "variable" recipes - the basic ingredients (center cut porkchops, onions, canned tomatoes) stay the same, but the spices and side dishes are pretty infinitely variable. It's good, simple, hearty food that isn't fussy and is easy to throw together on a weeknight. Here's the setup: Four 1'' ... http://justoneanna.com/kitchen/basic-baked-porkchops (I apologize to anyone who is not expecting political talk on this blog. I rarely go there, and if you hate me for it, you can pretend this post doesn't exist. :) ) Let me start this off by saying that I am not a rocket scientist. I don't claim to ... http://justoneanna.com/life/constellations-lets-play-connect-the-dots I am a self-confessed sticky notes addict. I love them. I have them in multiple sizes and colors. (I even have some 12''x12'' ones. Yes.  one foot square) I use them to remember stuff, to overwrite things in my planner, to make notes that can be moved around. I even use ... http://justoneanna.com/life/sticky-notes Soundtrack to Waking Ned Divine Soundtrack to Chicago (film, not original cast) Count Basie - Lil' Ol' Groovemaker Soundtrack to Mr. and Mrs. Smith Norte de Havana - demo CD Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club Wayne Bergeron - You Call This A Living That was the trip out. Trip back will probably look ... http://justoneanna.com/random/soundtrack-for-a-300-mile-drive My feedreader tells me that today means something. It means a new beginning, a new year, a new end to the date on the checks I write every month, at least 17 of which I will screw up before March, and probably one more in June or something, when I'm not ... http://justoneanna.com/navel-gazing/1-jan-2010 Some people sing in their cars. I conduct orchestras with the music on full blast. (Nothing like a little Stravinsky to get weird looks from the car full of guys next to you at the stop light.) I should not, however, be allowed to listen to certain pieces of music, because I get ... http://justoneanna.com/random/vehicular-orchestration I am not a Facebook apologist. I frequently am frustrated with it, check it mostly to delete invitations to parties from friends I've not seen in 12 years and who live halfway across the country and to block applications from sending me junk mail. No, I don't want to play Mafia ... http://justoneanna.com/life/behold-the-power-of-facebook I get it.  Christmas is coming. There are cards and trees and tinsel and badly played tinny renditions of carols on every other commercial on TV. (It's only mid-November, so it's not /every/ commercial yet) But that's not all that different. Nor are the "buy your kids 12 billion things to ... http://justoneanna.com/fiber/peeved-at-the-tv Left Mitten, unblocked. Pattern is Bella's Mittens, by Marielle Henault. I'm just now casting on its opposite. Yarn is Malabrigo Merino Worsted (single spun) in colorway Pearl Ten, held double. Knit on size 8 circular (yes, I know the pattern calls for a size 11 needle. I knit loosely, and my intended ... http://justoneanna.com/fiber/priorities