I'm over at my sister's place. When I go there I usually bring over some of the cafeteria rolls I bake. My niece loves 'em, and in fact she insists I smell like bread. Seriously, she will come up and smell me all over and declare that I smell like bread, even though I haven't baked anything for weeks. Today she was huffing me for hours ( Read more... )

I spent the weekend at my sister's place. We talked and hung out and did a little shopping and whatever. Y'know, family stuff. They got a new iMac, so I got my hands on a Mac keyboard for the first time. The keyboard is weird and wafer-thin. The screen is iMax-sized. It's fast and cool - but it is a Mac, and thus I must dis it somehow. Um ( Read more... )

Uuuugh, I feel icky. Last night I was at my sister's place, and as I'm a light sleeper I woke up around 4:00 with the wind blowing hard and rattling the windows and generally being unnerving. Then Ron, my sister's husband, tapped on my door - there was a tornado warning, better come downstairs. I wrapped myself in the blanket and wandered ( Read more... )

This weekend Mom took me to my sister's place and we did the birthday thang early. (Next weekend would not work for various reasons.) We went to a nice teppan-yaki place, then had cake. My brother-in-law painted a portrait of me. I told him to do it in his own style - don't paint a straight portrait, don't make me look pretty - run with it! ( Read more... )

Survived the birthday party with all the 8-year-old-or-thereabouts boys and their various younger siblings. It wasn't bad, though it was regularly punctuated by tantrums and meltdowns. The usual, in other words ( Read more... )

I got my turkey today. It's a tad early, but I didn't want to have to fight the mobs which will inevitably descend closer to Thanksgiving, and I especially don't want to be forced to choose between leftover chickens or turkeys the sizes of roc chicks because all the more friendly sizes have already been bought up. So, Thanksgiving dinner is in my ( Read more... )

I took the day off work, and my mother and I went to my nephew Ian's birthday party. Not the official one, with loads of yelling seven-year-old boys, but the family one. By and large it was a good party, and I got to see a lot of family-in-law I haven't seen in a long, long time. Ian liked the Star Wars book and the foot-long yellow pen I gave ( Read more... )

Not a lot happened this weekend... I went to my sister's place on Saturday, and we did family stuff. I brought melon bread, which was very well received - even by Ian, who is the fussiest eater I've ever seen. We watched "Master of Disguise," in which Dana Carvey takes a script that Robin Williams threw in the trash and shows that he can out- ( Read more... )