It was a quiet Halloween. I’m still sick and I had to leave for my business trip that evening anyway, so we didn’t really have time to watch a horror movie or do much of anything else besides eat dinner and toss candy at little kids in costume. So we made mummy dogs for dinner [...]
The meeting yesterday morning was surprisingly short – at least the part we were required to attend. Outside the little building we were in, a series of busses drove up and deposited load after load of high school children in the parking lot, so there was a constant level of noise in the background most [...]
It occurred to me, at some point this evening, that when my older sister called earlier today I should have suggested meeting her at the mall. She was off on a solo shopping trip to find shoes and pants, and I too need shoes and pants, and lately it seems as if I rarely ever [...]
We were on our way home from another meeting up in Seattle – although this one started late enough in the morning that we could fly up and fly home in the same day. There was enough time between when the meeting finished and when our flight was to leave that we could take our [...]
We made our yearly trip up to Apple Hill today. The way things worked out, this was really the only weekend we’ve had so far where we had the entire day (or at least most of it) free.
I’d figured it would be a good time to come as well since we’d miss the Halloween crowds, [...]
I would like to point out that the downside to watching “Into the Woods”, especially if it happens to be one of your favorite plays and you have most of the lyrics of the songs memorized, is that you will then be plagued for days (DAYS) afterwards with random snippets from songs in no particular [...]
I have been baking bread all week, so the house has smelled marvelously of pumpkin and cinnamon and ginger and allspice. I do this every year – fill up the freezer with loaves of pumpkin bread, and then thaw them out the night before, just in time for the church craft and bake sale. It’s [...]
When my mom sent me the info about this, I knew we needed to go. It was scheduled at the last minute, and noon on a Thursday afternoon is rather a hard time for most people to go anywhere, especially with very little notice. But considering the reason, I knew I had to be there, [...]
Somehow or other, through actual planning or just good luck, we managed to get everything we needed for Thanksgiving *before* Thanksgiving. So no one had to do a frantic run to the store for something last minute. Naturally this means, I am sure, that the grocery stores were all open far later than they normally [...]
It was absolutely lovely to be able to sleep in this morning to the oh-so-late hour of 7:30. That’s about when my brain simply could not stand being idle any longer, followed a fraction of a nanosecond after by the arrival of several of the cats, who all could immediately sense that I was finally [...]
