I was supposed to have Christmas dinner with my organist's family, but unfortunately the snow was such that driving, or even being driven, to a town fifteen minutes away just really did not sound like a good idea.  So I stayed home, instead, and made myself some pork chops on my new reversible grill/griddle that mom got me for Christmas.  I think ( Read more... )

I just got back from my aunt's wedding- five days straight of traveling, except the wedding day itself.  Went off without a problem or an incident (practically unheard of, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop) but I'm still sleepy.  I'm also conducting a funeral tomorrow morning for a woman who died the night of the rehearsal dinner ( Read more... )

Would you believe I've already come up with ideas for my novel for next year?  Maybe I'll participate in the February thing.

Anyways, I've started boning up on current events for the holidays- dad being a debate champion always makes the season interesting.  I've got a few good quips ready- what would Ben Franklin say to Chris Dodd about the ( Read more... )

It is now in the sixties and supposed to stay there for the next several days- which is great, because for some reason most of my dress wardrobe is designed for fall.  I just like buying long sleeved shirts better than short sleeved- I was raised in a family where, unless you were wearing a dress, short sleeves were automatically casual, men or ( Read more... )

So the paper is done.  And now I am off to my grandparents' house, to help out while Grandma finishes recovering from her surgery.  (It went very well, she'll be fine.)  So for a couple days I doubt very much that I'll have internet access, as they have dial-up and that generally makes me want to tear my hair out.  So think of me when you talk to ( Read more... )

Due to various things, I've spent a couple hours on ancestry.com lately, and have discovered that we may be able to trace back bits of my family to the 1500's, and I might be slightly Swiss.  Other members of my family have done some work on this but I don't think they found some of this stuff.  Of course, it's all unofficial so far.  (There are ( Read more... )

I'm in another hotel room with my mother (and her husband) and having flashbacks to last summer, only without the Pringles and a heck of a lot less drama.  In any case, I'm here for my cousin's graduation (daughter of my aunt's husband from a former marriage) from college.  The ceremony doesn't promise to be fascinating, as only a few such ( Read more... )

I'm home, I'm chatting with friends, and the original Gojira movie just ended (the version before Raymond Burr decided to save the universe), life is good, if slightly dull.  But homemade toffee helps.  And in a few days, I get on a plane for many many hours!  And I now, thanks to the combined efforts of three family members and myself, have a ( Read more... )

That is, I have them in the fridge, left over from last night's fabulous dinner.  I am of course sharing them with my housemates, but I've already had some again for lunch and there's certain to be enough left over for dinner.  I miss my mom's lasagna.  Mmm ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in mom's hotel room, using the free wireless internet of the hotel, in a comfy bed with a Starbucks Frappuccino next to me, and BBQ Pringles next to that.  CSI just finished and in an hour Psych will start.  The hotel won't start shaking in the morning because there isn't a deconstruction site next door where they think wrecking balls ( Read more... )