Where My Brain ’s At–Vol 1, Issue 1: Spoonulas, Hexies, Grunts and Beer

A friend once told me, while I was lamenting about my lack of expertise in anything, I am indeed an expert—at knowing stuff about a lot of things. I tend to forget that I posses that talent and instead follow my tendency toward ADOBSO. This is a weekly collection of the myriad of bright shiny object which have captured my attention. For the record, I am not sponsored or paid to talk about anything on this blog so the opinions are my own and this is stuff I either like or hate. Me, blunt.

What I’m reading:  Grunt: The Curious Science of Humas at War by Mary Roach on my Kindle. I love Mary’s snarky sense of humor and her way of taking things like death, sex, or pooping in space to the next level. I want to write like her when I grow up.

What I’m hearing:  America’s Test Kitchen podcast. I binge listen to them on my way to work from my iPhone. Just listening makes me want to go cook something.

What I’m using:  My new Spoonula. Stupid name but this thing is bitchin’.

What I’m making: Hexies for a quilt I am working on. They are a shape which is part of a technique known as English Paper Piecing. AKA: the quilt that will never be finished. (this is a hand sewing technique)

Hexie English Paper Pieced Quilt

What I’m watching:  Star Trek Voyager via Ben’s Netflix binge. Originating in the 1990s, this seemed to be a bad version of the other iterations of Star Trek, but the more I watch, the more I like it. Especially the...

Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - October 27, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Emily Tags: Where My Brain's At Source Type: blogs