The Twelve Days of Christmas is usually a lie I tell myself as I fail at thinking of presents and posting cards and packages and decorating and baking so that everything is in place no later than the morning of December 25th. As things slip, I go, “Christmas is really twelve days, I can send New Years cards instead,” et cetera, but then actually as ( Read more... )

Happy new year! I still have three more days of Christmas in which to finish up my holiday correspondence, but other than that I’m back, and so are most of those around me. Sanguinity and I had a good few days with her parents- I’m not usually one for posting photos of presents I receive, but check out the awesomeness from my in-laws:


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Of the five Christmas albums I own that include “Here Comes Santa Claus,” four of them have it as the first track:

• Christmas with the Chipmunks, The Chipmunks
• Croon and Swoon: A Classic Christmas, Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
• Christmas RFD, Merle Haggard
• A Very Special Christmas, The Pointer Sisters

Only one, Christmas Guitar Dreams with the ( Read more... )

The holidays arrived and I was like HEY I SHOULD MAKE FOOD PRESENTS, but of course what came to mind was something I’d never tried before. Rose-flavored meringues, you guys! Pink, and maybe in the shape of roses, delicate yet shippable, and related to Portland.

I made my first attempt over the weekend, with one of the eggs from my co-worker’s happy ( Read more... )

Text sent to sanguinity at 4:50 p.m. yesterday: “Coming home a little early- yay! Because my back hurts- booo!” I was quite gleeful at having caught an early bus despite the tweaky back.

Text sent to sanguinity about half an hour later: “Never mind, bus rear-ended at 26th and Powell. Will be delayed.”

Even though hardly anyone felt the hit, ( Read more... )