...which actually seems to be increasing as Sara grows older and is more able to entertain herself, I enjoy:

*Surfing the Internet (for anything from shopping to parenting advice to music)

*Reading (mostly mysteries by Patricia Cornwell, Sue Grafton, Dianne Mott Davidson - any mystery with a female main character)

*Sending and reading email (though I spend far more time weeding through SPAM than reading good email)

*Baking cookies and other fattening pastries - no low-cal, low-fat goodies for me!

*Gardening (with Sara's "help", of course).

I gave up on learning Perl - I couldn't get past the first chapter. Guess I'll leave the programming to Chris.

However, I have decided to learn how to knit, so I can make Sara a sweater (I can hear my mom groaning now, because she knows she's going to be the one I ask to teach me - she can knit anything.) Besides being really good at decorating cakes (a skill I acquired a few years ago, but only really comes in handy for kid's birthdays), I don't seem to have inherited my mother's crafty ways. My mom can sew, crochet, knit, cross-stitch, hook rugs (and I don't mean those latch hook kits you can buy at craft stores - she's into primitive rug-hooking) - you name a craft, she can do it or learn how in a day. But knitting doesn't look that hard, so I'm sure I can figure it out. Prepare yourself, Mom...

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