You know that out-of-sorts feeling? It’s like a creeping fog of discontent, hovering around the edges of almost-happy, threatening to obliterate the fragile seedlings of enthusiasm you are trying to coax into full bloom. Just FYI - the fog usually wins, at least it did this holiday season. Christmas 2013 will go down in my personal history as the ( Read more... )

Too many "posts" have run through my head but never escaped through my fingers to the keyboard. So many thoughts and rants I wanted to share (air is more true) and never made the time, but rather than backtrack I'll just vow to be a better LiveJournaler in 2010.

This has been one of the best holiday seasons for me in years.  It's been a whirlwind ( Read more... )

Our celebratory vegetarian meal was made up of cheeses, and hummus and crackers; a thick, vegetable, lentil soup; pumperknickle bread and cheesy-garlic biscuits and butter; and a dessert of baked apples served with either English custard or ice cream.   We built a Yule fire, wrote down the things we wanted to leave 'in the darkness' of the old year ( Read more... )

Fell a tad behind on the Happy Days posts -- not good -- unless being too busy to post is a 'happy thing' in itself ? 
So to catch up:

Day 3 - had my dog's best friend over for the day - a West Highland Terrier named Bailey.  "The Girls" adore each other, and I enjoy having two happy dogs in the house for company.

Day 4 - my husband's company's ( Read more... )