Things here at Chez Sandykins have been very busy and life has conspired to keep me from posting to LJ, or I have just been lazy about it, one or the other. So, you are going to get a bullet list of things and goings on.

Oh, before I forget... Happy Birthday to my friend andy51! I hope you are reading this! Have a great day! Hope to plan a trip your way ( Read more... )

For those of you in Scandinavian or planning to visit this summer ( Read more... )

So, now I can show you what THIS really is. olivia23 was right, it is Elizabeth Zimmermann's Baby Surprise Sweater. I made it as a baby gift for reebert. Hehehe! I attended a baby shower in her honor today.

( Lookie! )

What a great couple of weeks, filled to the brim with blog fodder. I have been very negligent in my blogging duties, so I am hereby attempting to cram it all into one MEGA-post.
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So, here we are in the big city of Malmö, staying in a nice hotel and trying to celebrate L's birthday. In the last 24 hours we (both of us, individually or together) have driven 95km/hr in a 120 km/hr speed zone, tried to get reservations for 13 people at several restaurants in Malmö on a Saturday evening (one finally said "Yes"), changed our mind ( Read more... )

Well, it snowed last night. I warned DH that it would snow after Easter (always does) as he was changing to the summer tires on Saturday morning. I just didn't think it would be this soon. It spent a couple of hours spitting out the white stuff yesterday evening, starting sometime before sunset. This morning I awoke to a winter wonderland. Not a ( Read more... )

Someone on my fl here in blogdom recently wrote about their relationship to sleep, just can't remember who it was at the moment (I read 170 entries yesterday!). Anywho, I have some of the same problems, when I need to sleep, because of important plans the next day, I can't fall asleep for the life of me and I wake up really early after I have ( Read more... )

Dinner on Saturday was a huge success! There are lots of leftovers since we had just under 50 show up and I had orginally planned for 60. That's okay, since I will get to eat it for lunch at work all week! I love Thanksgiving leftovers! I do need to apologize to kornrd, I took the camera with me, but was too tired to go get it when I finally remembered ( Read more... )

Looks like I'll be fine come Saturday...

Write grocery list Saturday
Organize guest and help list Saturday
Buy dry and frozen groceries, including 25 kg (50 lbs.) of turkey Saturday
Buy dairy and refrigerated groceries (leaving that for Friday)
Cook and freeze pumpkin (2) Saturday
Cook and freeze whole sweet potatoes Sunday
Bake pumpkin bread in ( Read more... )

Well, looks like there'll be about 50 of us for my annual Thanksgiving Dinner. Here's what I have done so far:

Write grocery list
Organize guest and help list
Buy dry and frozen groceries, including 25 kg (50 lbs.) of turkey
Buy dairy and refrigerated groceries (leaving that for Friday)
Cook and freeze pumpkin (2)
Cook and freeze whole sweet ( Read more... )