I went crazy and signed up for a three-day Baking Boot Camp this weekend. In the past two days I've made ( Read more... )

I have a meeting downtown tonight for a volunteer committee I'm on, and I so very very want to use the option to call in instead of making a personal appearance! For one thing it's cold as hell out. For another, getting there and back, since I don't work downtown, adds an hour and a half to the amount of time it takes out of my very busy schedule ( Read more... )

I had the thought to offer a snippet from my current WIP today, but after running around doing Other Things all day I'm looking at it and I can't decide on one snippet that seems finished enough to share. It all looks like gibberish to me. Maybe I should make Sunday my "snippet from WIP day" instead ( Read more... )

You know how sometimes you have a thing you look at all the time, that gradually gets more and more beat but you don't really notice it happening? Like, you think your winter coat looks fine until one day you're in a store looking at new coats and you catch a glimpse of what you're wearing in the mirror and you're like WHO IS THAT HOBO ( Read more... )

The brownies I made last night are dangerous and I should not be trapped in the house with them. They're trying to make me eat them, send help!

Actual sensical post later. Meanwhile, here's the view from our front window this morning:


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I promised myself a post each day in February, no matter how ridiculous, so here's my first: It's blizzarding outside! I just took brownies out of the oven, and watched a lone driver try to get down my street, I suppose not realizing that the bare pavement at the intersection was only bare because all the snow had been blown into one huge drift ( Read more... )