Blatherings 2006 Index
Welcome to the 2006 archives of Debbie's Blatherings, a personal blog where I've been posting since 1997. To get back to the main Blatherings page: http://debbieohi.com/blatherings. You can also find me on Twitter: @inkyelbows (writing), @DebOhi (personal friends/family, non-work), @BGGgirl (board gaming), @iPadGirl.
Because of various online moves, my archives are split into different journal pages:
1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010+ (current archives).
Entries by Title
Click on an entry title below to view the full text of that entry.
- Interfilk donation items
- peace
- I only speak Greek
- Happy Holidays!
- marmots, monsters and obnoxious cellphone users
- but she's a girl
- taunting squirrels
- Urban Tapestry recording session
- Something called the Internet
- Craftiness and Hooking Tanya
- Franklin chocolate! And geeky college photos!
- Doodling
- Nieces, Christmas trees, and Butterfingers
- It can't be December already
- Eichhörnchen
- Renovations
- scrabble, squirrels and line rider
- boardgames, paranoia and astrophysics
- Writer's Digest article, Maya Bohnhoff interview
- Book news!
- sensual cooking and spiral staircases
- artificial fire logs
- Chocolate-covered grasshoppers
- Adventure cooking/eating survey!
- Illustration Friday: Thanksgiving
- Blog reading habits
- Straight on 'til morning
- running on ooblek
- Rand and Erin visit (part 2): friends, music and tea
- Erin and Rand visit (Part 1)
- photo archiving
- Patricia Storms: creative dynamo
- Impaled Strangled Jaundiced Under-nourished Mutant Duck-Snowmen With Spotty Skin
- Flying dreams
- Urban Tapestry practice
- Illustration Friday: Smoke
- Orkut scrapbook wars revisited
- Songfrenzy
- My husband, the cell phone
- Creative frenzy, chocolate, and Pegasus Awards
- All we want to do is eat your brains
- Baby bunnies on his underwear
- Closure
- Beckett's photos
- Will Write For Chocolate (and OVFF highlights Part 2)
- Post-OVFF
- Back from OVFF
- Will Write For Chocolate updated
- Postcards from Germany!
- busy lives and priorities
- Muoi rayes
- Mr. Twilight, Trek, Lemony Snicket and Elfquest
- Andybirthday, my new mouse, Interfilk cookbook, heulschniefschluchz
- Blog reading survey
- Will Write For Chocolate, blog comment etiquette, Robin McKinley
- Wooly aphids, second breakfasts and Turkish Star Trek
- Cottage and bug question
- Things I'm thankful for
- chocolate, css, Leo Laporte and books
- birthdays and mortal Mesozoic mice
- Why writers aren't normal
- Birthdays and home recording studios
- Illustration Friday: Quiet
- Inkygirl revamped
- Someone kicked my head off and stuffed it down a barbecue pit
- Why I shut down my LinkedIn account
- Happy birthday, Ruth!
- It's a Nanowrimo day
- More TVstuff
- 20 months without cable TV
- Parry and Carney
- Urban Tapestry on MySpace and our NEW DRUMMER!
- Cottage, MySpace, Mr. Twilight and Hula Girls
- Chocolate and Trek, M-Audio disappointment
- Why I read kids' books
- Bulldog Coffee: best lattes in Toronto
- He's Dead, Jim!
- I Play Magic Now
- Embracing my nerdgirl soul
- safe
- glass dragonfly
- Kaiseki Yu-zen Hashimoto
- Squirrels ate my high-speed access
- Technonerdgirl
- Happy birthday, Dad!
- laser regatta and camera lust
- pluto-less and daikon cranes and BABIES!
- anniversary
- Recording session
- Ego-bruising
- Chocolate, disk space woes and CSS
- CSS, Wordpress and Irish tunes
- DebbieOhi.com!
- WWFC, herb corpses, and oatmeal cookies
- Dragonfly summer
- Cottage visit
- Will Write For Chocolate updated
- Nature questions
- Writing, illustrating, music and creative procrastination
- Snakes, phone woes, and Will Write For Chocolate
- Hot
- David Francey at Hugh's Room
- NYC visit
- Kaarel birthday, favourite sandwich survey
- Will Write For Chocolate updated
- Garageband and my magnetic wall
- Cottage visit
- Franklin Gunkelman & Urban Tapestry DVDs
- Inkygirl comics and Tom Swifties
- Will Write For Chocolate, Andy's award, Nancy Drew nostalgia
- When book geeks turn to crime
- ComicLife
- Urban Tapestry's Aurora Award, my new MacBook
- Google-izing, face-to-face, and judging books by their covers
- Eye check-ups and book buying survey
- Camera Obscura at the Horseshoe Tavern
- Technonerdboys, recitals and The Goose Girl
- My Life In A Nutshell
- Happy Canada Day!
- Ingo
- The Girl Who Could Write Stories In The Air
- Chocolate from Germany, Will Write For Chocolate
- John Howe, D&D and The Time Traveler's Wife
- D&D, opera and neighbourhood barbecues
- Pride Parade, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
- Flatmouse affection, ceramics, and male underwear
- Pride Toronto, Flatmouse, and the end of my reign as BBQ Queen
- Cartoons, a sad squirrel tale and Will Write For Chocolate
- Plot for sale
- Why I love travel
- Wedding and birthday wishes!
- My very first Web page
- The Demon Squirrel In Our House
- Zarusoba
- My technonerdboy hero!
- Europe trip (Part 12): Rome
- Europe trip (Part 11): Siena
- Europe trip (Part 10): Lost in Siena
- Europe trip (Part 9): Pisa, Fiesole and Volpaia
- Europe trip (Part 8): Cinque Terre
- Europe trip (Part 7): More Florence
- Europe trip (Part 6): Florence
- Europe trip (Part 5): La Petraia
- Europe trip (Part 4): Montalcino and Montefiridolfi
- Europe trip (Part 3): Fonte de'Medici in Italy
- Europe trip (Part 2): More Paris!
- Europe trip (Part 1): Paris!
- Will Write For Chocolate updated
- Back home!
- Going offline for a while...
- cottage reflections
- savouring moments
- My Beloved Monster and Me
- Exercise survey, writing and OnlineComics.net
- Mourning dove chicks, more Corel Painter 9.5 experiments
- Will Write For Chocolate, Red-winged blackbirds?
- QOOP and driving through Paris at 180 km/hr
- Selling prints online, seeking Europe advice
- Writing, monster bunnies, and mortality songs
- Monster bunny art recipe
- Europe trip, KJB daughter update, and Dr. Who
- Corel Painter 9.5 experiments
- Close Your Eyes: an anti-lullaby
- How to enjoy chocolate
- Eva and Rafael
- Illustration Friday: Spotted
- spring, mouse mover and autocloning
- Toronto, city of romance
- Life and happiness and priorities...
- Carolyn Brown kudos
- FKO highlights (part 4)
- Davevisit
- FKO highlights (part 3)
- FKO highlights (part 2)
- Post-FKO
- Corel Painter 9.5 experiments
- Making onigiri
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
- My talented photographer friends
- Sibylle visit
- Sibylle's in Toronto!
- Illustration Friday: "Monster"
- postcards from Amanda!
- monkey moves
- randvisit
- Squirrelbuster triumphs!
- Dan Gibson
- Urban Tapestry practice
- Need home recording advice!
- Off Panel is seeking niche comic strips!
- Our Mystery Package
- Winter cottage adventure
- Illustration Friday: "Tattoo"
- sleep poll
- Mystery crackers from Japan, Pocky and books
- switching from BBEdit to Textmate
- Music, art and writing: I love my life :-)
- What kind of book person are YOU?
- Chester Brown, Will Write For Chocolate
- Walter at FilKONTario!
- family photos,Värttinä, new postcards
- Illustration Friday: "Tea"
- Session sketches, Wendy Cope interview
- AppleMail vs Eudora
- E-mail woes
- Lord of the Rings musical: a review
- snailmail submissions and n'MC sketches
- Xlibris, Writing.com and Demon Squirrels
- Poetry FAQ: A Young Poet's Guide To Poetry and Poetry Writing
- Valentine
- Tranzac session Web site, community volunteering
- Cartoon sketches for the n'MC t-shirt
- bookstores and chocolate and LOTR musical
- Tranzac session, Australian pottery and a package from Beckett
- Finding inspiration
- Things I've Learned
- Happy birthday, Jeff!
- My Life In A Nutshell updated
- James Frey exhaustion, a plug for Inkygirl
- Will Write For Chocolate updated
- Urban Tapestry and Franklin concert at FilKONtario!
- babies and nMC and tunes
- Mighty Craic
- Irish music session at the Tranzac
- postcards and Will Write For Chocolate
- Daniel Cook, Stripe and meat floss
- The Not So Glamorous Life of a Freelance Writer
- Waiting For Frodo...again?
- Stripe the Star!
- Dreamdoodle
- Tea and writing and music and more tea
- My Life In A Nutshell
- My new Burke whistle!
- Cynthia McQuillin
- thanks and a survey
- GAfilk highlights (part 3)
- Dancing at GAFilk (GAfilk Part 2)
- Home from GAfilk!
- GAfilk bound
- A New Year's Resolution
- New Year joy
- Happy New Year!
Entries by Week
Click on a week below to view a list of articles published during that week.
- December 24, 2006 - December 30, 2006 (3)
- December 17, 2006 - December 23, 2006 (3)
- December 10, 2006 - December 16, 2006 (2)
- December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 (5)
- November 26, 2006 - December 2, 2006 (5)
- November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 (6)
- November 12, 2006 - November 18, 2006 (6)
- November 5, 2006 - November 11, 2006 (5)
- October 29, 2006 - November 4, 2006 (7)
- October 22, 2006 - October 28, 2006 (5)
- October 15, 2006 - October 21, 2006 (4)
- October 8, 2006 - October 14, 2006 (6)
- October 1, 2006 - October 7, 2006 (5)
- September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 (5)
- September 17, 2006 - September 23, 2006 (6)
- September 10, 2006 - September 16, 2006 (3)
- September 3, 2006 - September 9, 2006 (5)
- August 27, 2006 - September 2, 2006 (5)
- August 20, 2006 - August 26, 2006 (5)
- August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 (5)
- August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 (3)
- July 30, 2006 - August 5, 2006 (1)
- July 23, 2006 - July 29, 2006 (3)
- July 16, 2006 - July 22, 2006 (4)
- July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 (6)
- July 2, 2006 - July 8, 2006 (5)
- June 25, 2006 - July 1, 2006 (7)
- June 18, 2006 - June 24, 2006 (5)
- June 11, 2006 - June 17, 2006 (7)
- June 4, 2006 - June 10, 2006 (10)
- May 28, 2006 - June 3, 2006 (2)
- May 7, 2006 - May 13, 2006 (2)
- April 30, 2006 - May 6, 2006 (2)
- April 23, 2006 - April 29, 2006 (6)
- April 16, 2006 - April 22, 2006 (6)
- April 9, 2006 - April 15, 2006 (4)
- April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 (6)
- March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 (5)
- March 19, 2006 - March 25, 2006 (6)
- March 12, 2006 - March 18, 2006 (6)
- March 5, 2006 - March 11, 2006 (4)
- February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 (5)
- February 19, 2006 - February 25, 2006 (5)
- February 12, 2006 - February 18, 2006 (6)
- February 5, 2006 - February 11, 2006 (5)
- January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 (5)
- January 22, 2006 - January 28, 2006 (5)
- January 15, 2006 - January 21, 2006 (7)
- January 8, 2006 - January 14, 2006 (4)
- January 1, 2006 - January 7, 2006 (4)
Entries by Month
Click on a month below to view a list of articles published during that month.
- December 2006 (14)
- November 2006 (25)
- October 2006 (23)
- September 2006 (20)
- August 2006 (18)
- July 2006 (19)
- June 2006 (30)
- May 2006 (4)
- April 2006 (22)
- March 2006 (24)
- February 2006 (21)
- January 2006 (22)