Tagged: goodthings

06
Feb
2007

A DOUBLE HANDFUL OF THINGS I’M THINKING ABOUT THESE DAYS

Salad’s not so bad, if you add lots of things you like to it. That wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would be, why the hell didn’t I start this sooner? I’m STOKED. Martin starts piano lessons this week. Does this mean we have to get a piano? Good god, where would we put it?? Karin wants to take karate lessons. Why am I not surprised? WHY doesn’t LJ let you search for communities? Why are some of the books I read as a child and loved not nearly as great as I remember them when I read...

27
Jan
2007

I KNEW THAT I WOULD, NOW

Oh! I feel good (da nanananana!) I was gonna post yesterday but first I was at work (no posting allowed (ha! (I just typed aloud) by order of me) and then I was racing to the grocery store to buy ingredients for my super wonderful yummo dinner that I was hosting for my first friends and then I was cooking cooking COOKING like a madwoman, and then I was cleaning up the hot chicken bouillon broth water that I slopped all over the stovetop, the front of the oven and the kitchen floor when I suffered a lapse in judgement...

22
Jan
2007

WINTER IS HERE!

When I woke up this morning there was a thin layer of puffy white sparkle dust on everything and it’s been SNOWING all morning…and it’s STICKING! Yay! FINALLY!!!

19
Jan
2007

RAISIN THE CURRANT STANDARD: A POST WITH A-PEEL

I’m really weird about fresh fruit. I love it, but it has to be perfect. It has to be just right. Take apples, for instance. I can’t eat most apples, they’re too gooshy and the peel comes away from the flesh and feels like a wet sticker, still with the adhesive on, that slightly mushy fruit meat. I only like Royal Gala apples: so crisp and clean and crunchy with a peel that seems like part of the fruit, like a coating of flavor instead of skin. I like d’Anjou pears, the ones that look terrible, bruised and swollen, that...

17
Dec
2006

I WAS GOING TO COUNTDOWN BUT I ONLY HAD FOURS AND FIVES

Only 4 more days until the solstice and the days will begin lengthening again! Only 4 more days of work before Christmas vacation! Only 5 days until my brother and Simone arrive for a week! Only 5 more little presents to buy and I’m done! Only 5 more days to payday, thank goodness! Things That Made Me Happy This Weekend: talking to my oldest best friend Becky last night and hearing how well things are going for her this year after a couple of really rough ones; reading the pregnancy announcement of a dear online friend; receiving a box from...

10
Dec
2006

I DON’T KNOW IF THERE’LL BE SNOW, BUT HAVE A CUP OF CHEER

I joke about stressmas, but the truth is, I love Christmas preparations and I love Christmas. I do as much as I can to make sure that the holiday magic is there for both myself and my family. If that means knocking myself out for a month, so be it. The thing that actually causes the stress is that I can’t leave off doing all the regular daily stuff to just concentrate on the holidaze! Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without the cookies, the tree, the ornaments, the nativity and all the hope that goes with it, the decorations, the cookies,...

28
Nov
2006

COOKIES REDUX

What’s better: taking a bag of Reindeer Poop cookie bags to divvy out to a bunch of excited cookie-loving women, knowing that they are the BEST (also best-named) COOKIES THERE… …or bringing home 12 bags of different kinds of cookies, INCLUDING 2 bags of your very favorite cookie in the WHOLE WORLD: *crescendo* Fudge Puddles! Or, as I like to refer to them: double-stuffed-addictioncup-porncookies. After a fairly stressful day and a VERY stressful 2 hours after work, when I raced home to pick up the kids, drove to farmor and farfar’s house to drop them off, raced off again with...

27
Nov
2006

HAPPINESS IS A HAPPY LIST FULL OF THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY

Reasons for happy (other than COOKIES!, which really, what more do you need? I am spoiled rotten with the good things) Anders is on a business trip to Germany, but that’s not the good thing; however, he gets to spend the evening with my brother John and his lovely wife Simone, and I’m glad about that. Leftover turkey in sandwiches and with stuffing and coming up, in a casserole! YUM! I did an 8-page brochure layout at work and my colleague, who is the Approval Master Past Whom All Collateral Must Flow and who is really, really good, albeit really...

26
Nov
2006

C IS FOR COOKIE, THAT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME

Considering that I didn’t go to sleep until 4 a.m., I think only sleeping in until 11 was pretty good. Other than running the dishwasher 2x and handwashing a boatload of wineglasses and reading a really good modern fairytale, I spent most of my day with chocolate hands:

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