I was standing in the coffee room at work, waiting for my asparagus to finish nuking, and wishing for a ham and cheese sandwich. I was really trying to convince myself that I was being good by eating my veggies and I didn’t need to walk down to the cafeteria and spend money on a grilled ham and cheese sandwich when the cafeteria food nearly always ( Read more... )

Christmas was nice. GM and I went to visit my parents in SoCal, so on Christmas day we went to the San Diego wildlife park to say hello to the rhinos and condors. On boxing day, we went to see the Adams Family Musical. Like most musicals it was charming, if a little thin on plot Then we came back home and lay around the house in utter sloth for a ( Read more... )

There was a dead hawk in the backyard, caught between the fence and the wisteria, when I got home from Thanksgiving weekend. I found it last night and did what any grown-up would do; called my mom. Call animal control, she said. Sadly, budget cuts in my county mean that animal control doesn’t deal with dead things in your backyard. If I wanted to ( Read more... )

For weeks, there’s been a lovely green and yellow spider living above the rose bush just to the right of my front door. She’s about the size of a small person’s thumb. I was so hoping she’d stay until Halloween, so I could decorate her web with some food-safe silver spray to make her really stand out, but alas she appears to have moved on to ( Read more... )

It’s been a good week, outside of work. We had Aasa’s early birthday at Wednesday dance practice, with a celebratory sour cream and raisin pie (my link button no workie!  http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Sour-Cream-Raisin-Pie-14458). Actually it’s been pie week all around, as GM made a chicken pie and I made cherry pie for dinner on ( Read more... )

In good news, I did manage to get most of the garden planted before the foot surgery. It’s especially good news as I’m not back to normal as soon as I was hoping for.  Bad news, the critters have eaten all the tiny little basils I planted. Hopefully when the larger, hardier basil plants are at the shops I’ll be up for digging again. I was worried ( Read more... )

I like the Friday five, it’s nicely alliterative, and lets you know what is going to be here, even if my numbers are a little off.

Last weekend we got a lot of bookcases out of greatsword’s old house and moved them to my house. GM had wanted new bookcases, and somehow the idea that we were getting a lot of new bookcases never caused me to think that we’d ( Read more... )

Me: Most everything is ok, except my new glasses. Like an idiot, I let the Dr railroad me into to getting two pairs of glasses, one for driving and one for distance, and now I hate them both. I can't do hand work and watch TV at the same time, and when I forget the change before a meeting, I can't see the screen. I want bifocals again. I haven't ( Read more... )

1) This weekend will be my first weekend at home since May 7th. GM has a plan to fire up the smoker, and I'm going to weed the garden before my poor basil plants give up entirely. 2) The funniest thing I've read all week, Towels or Chicken, time to decide. 3) Half my coworkers are angry, and half are doing the I-told-you-so-Dance. Best quote so far ( Read more... )

Last weekend: GM goes to band camp every Labor day weekend, so I usually go south to visit my parents. Mom and dad seem to be doing well, and grandma was mostly coherent (she suffers from some form of dementia). Grandma and I folded laundry together, and she seemed to stay on-task a lot better than I would have thought from mom's descriptions. Mom' ( Read more... )