I try, very, very hard, not to indulge too often or too deeply in schadenfreude. I've had that turned on me far too often to feel any kind of good about turning it on other people, no matter how deserving. And so while every so often, someone's disaster gives me a moment's squee, more often than not, it's the other way around ( Read more... )

It snowed yesterday morning, and then ramped up again in the afternoon, so I was feeling kind of gloomy about getting Mom and Dad squared away, snow-removal-wise ( Read more... )

Today is a WAH day, and I was sitting here minding my own business, and WHAM--the power went out (Paul posts about it here as well).

It was So. Much. FUN. It was like being in school again, and cutting class! ;-) We weren't even gone that long--just long enough to snag some breakfast, but it made a world of difference ( Read more... )

( Pictures of the grand reunion behind the cut... )

As you can imagine, during this time I've been keeping my eye on my inbox for more weirdness from Neale Donald Walsch.

I know it's crazy. I know that the thing is a blinkin' CHAIN email. But for some reason, I hold onto it like an idiot, searching it for messages.

This is today's:

"On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know ( Read more... )

Le Bec Fin is, without question, Philadelphia's finest restaurant, earning Mobil's five star rating for 26 years. It's the only restaurant in the state that has that priviledge, and only one of 17 in the whole country ( Read more... )

My DH and I are coming up on something of an anniversary in a few days--the fifth anniversary of the day my life changed, because it was the day he let me know how he felt ( Read more... )

It's the first day of spring (Happy Ostara out there! as well as happy Purim, and happy Maundy Thursday, and happy day to everyone else more secular). The trees are just beginning to go red with new buds, and spring flowers are poking their heads up, and the grass is breaking dormancy and going green. The wind is March-cool, but the sun is warm and ( Read more... )

...I'm so happy today that I could cry.

Oh, and I made a lasagna that feeds about 50.

Who needs dinner?

So I didn't tell you about my wild ride out to the hinterlands, did I ( Read more... )