Tagged: thisisjusttosay

The yellow of the rapeseed. The horses out back. The black cat that hangs out on the neighbor’s porch across the street but never seems to get let inside. The fact that the lilacs are almost here. ALMOST! The way the sky went blue and the clouds went puff and the rain went away. The way the lights bends down to bless us in the evening. The funeral for Anders’ father. Weight-loss. Walking. Surgery. Eye infections. The fact that Karin stayed home with a sore throat again today for the 45,589,382,411th time this year. The fact that I have to...

I’ve got crazyworkbrain. Can’t stop thinking about it, stressing, etc. GAH. I wake up at 4:30 a.m. or 5:30 a.m. or 6:00 a.m. and can’t get back to sleep because crazyworkbrain starts right up. No matter how fast we work or how much we do, the amount that is left to do is the same or more when we leave each day. *sigh* Good thing I love my job, eh? On the plus side, (haaa!) I’m also obsessed with Treadmill Time. Every day when I come home, it’s the first thing I do. 20 minutes minimum and usually up to...

A friend of mine recently told me that she started the Couch25K program and couldn’t understand what had happened in her brain to even make her want to TRY it. This morning, a Sunday morning, a Sunday morning with NO PLANS and a rather late night last night, I woke up at 7:30 a.m. I managed to doze off again, but then I reawoke just before 9 and all I could think about was getting up and getting on the treadmill. WTH? So I did. I speed-walked for 30 minutes, for a total of 2K. Before 10:30 a.m. on a...

We’re in the middle of storm number 2 so far this winter…60 mile per hour winds: it sounds like a freight train outside. It’s not cold enough for snow, but the forecast is for sleet. We’ve lost power already once, right as I was preparing dinner, so our halfway-heated mashed potatoes were warmed with the bernaise sauce that Anders had JUST finished making. Thankfully the schnitzels were already done! It could go out again any moment, so this will be a short one just in case. I have my list of Christmas cards to start working on, plus Martin’s birthday...

Went to gather the cookie-making stuff and discovered that I have: 1 bag of peanut butter chips 1 bag of cinnamon chips 1 bag of raspberry chips 1/4 bag of white chocolate chips 2 bags of butterscotch chips 1/2 bag of chocolate chips I need at least THREE bags of chocolate chips and since I can’t get to a store that has them until Monday evening and the cookies have to be MADE TOMRROW, I will have to go buy baking chocolate and chop it up. Drrrr. However, in the midst of hunting for the chocolate chips I discovered that...

Watching Cake Boss…while doing laundry…and petting the dog…and we have no Internet so I don’t know if this will post. Phoning it in tonight… 🙁