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* The blank page awaits / Neurons firing, keyboard taps / The next great novel.  #TuesdaysAreForHaiku * Achievements unlocked: mushrooms fried in bacon grease, & using a whole box of mushrooms before they become stinking black slime. * Have achieved word count nirvana (5054 words) and can knit with a clean conscience.  Hello yarn, I&

* The quietest thing in the world is a phone that hasn't rung yet. * World seen through a cup / of sweet hot jasmine green tea / is a better place. #TuesdaysAreForHaiku * Will be enacting scenes from "The Great Snotsby" all day.  Apparently "what's yours is

* I got gauge first time on a new knitting pattern with the needles it suggested. This has never happened before. I'm stunned. * Winning the 2011 inappropriate shoes contest by pairing karate pants, sweat, workout top, and nice black pointy-toe high heels. * Seeing rips and tears developing in my

* Instead of just Answer or Decline, my phone needs a "Mouthful of oatmeal, please call back in 2 minutes" button for incoming calls. * I love a little petrichor on a sunny evening in Creve Coeur. * Quietly knitting, / Background noise of kicks & yells, / At karate school. #TuesdaysAreForHaiku * I

* Yarn dyers: someone needs to make a colour called "Rotting Zombie", shades of brown, dark red & a hint of green. * Spinning BFL/silk & watching vintage Doctor Who (7th Doctor in Survival) with a cat curled up next to me. * I wish I were a hibernating creature

* The QA department will stop finding bugs in the application when the programmers stop putting them there. * Got my green belt in Chinese Kenpo from Tracy's Karate in Kirkwood, shared a meal with great friends, and beat a Porsche off the lights :) * Final ten seconds: / Spar my karate

* Jasmine scents drifting / Mug too hot to hold right now / Awaiting my tea. #TuesdaysAreForHaiku * Overheard at karate: "I have six-pack abs, they're right there, under the keg." * Dear weather, please stop melting everything, I have no wish to fry eggs on my driveway, and it'

* "Quotes are free, friendly, helpful, and sometimes we have cookies" (from a business card). Shouldn't all businesses be like that? * Welcome to Missouri, where the outfit you wore for the blistering hot morning weather is utterly wrong for the stormy rainy afternoon. * Tuesday back to work

* Black tea, milk, sugar / kettle steam and shiny spoon, / a moment of calm.  #TuesdaysAreForHaiku * Found a Ferrero Rocher on my mousepad when I came back from the status meeting, but from whom? My whole team was in the meeting with me... * PSA: If you care about someone and do nothing,

* Things you don't want to hear in sparring class #1: "I'm fine. I didn't like those teeth anyway." * This day brought to you by the number 6500, the letters R, P, and M, and the volume cranked up to 11. * Car sales