While walking Sable today, I discovered three mulberry trees in our neighborhood. Like, within a stone's throw of my back door. I don't know how I didn't notice them sooner. They weren't really on anybody's property, so I picked as many berries as could (which wasn't much, because the branches were so high) brought them home in my shirt, washed ( Read more... )

Things that have made me happy recently:

1. When I walk Sable around the neighborhood now, the jasmine smell is so fragrant ... which is odd, because I have yet to spot the first jasmine blossoms of the year, and I know just where to look for them.
2. When I call Cici's to order pizza, they no longer ask for my phone number. It's possible that they just ( Read more... )

When I was about 10, this was one of my favorite songs, and I used to hum it to myself whenever I felt stressed or upset about something (even though I didn't really understand what it was about at the time). What I had to be stressed or upset about at that age, I don't remember. But anyway, I loved it. Today, February 20th, would've been my dad's ( Read more... )

A woman somehow got hold of our store phone this evening; I think it was given to her by one of our stockers, who obviously didn't know that we're not supposed to let customers use the phone (and this woman wasn't even a customer). She was the perfect example of why Boss Man made that rule in the first place. She must have talked for twenty minutes ( Read more... )

Mom has been asking Sara and me, almost non-stop, to come over and help her decorate the Christmas tree. I must have been misinformed, but I somehow got it into my head that tonight she was expecting us (or me, at least, since Sara's sleeping) and was buying pizza. I went over there tonight in the rain, but Mom never emerged from her room, and I ( Read more... )

It was sunny and warm when I left for work today, but about an hour before I got off, the clouds started rolling in. By the time I got off, the sky was pitch-black and the rain was coming down in sheets. I had to make a mad dash to my truck, and wind was making the rain fall at such a slant that my left side got soaked, while my right side, ( Read more... )

I've decided to make rice krispy treats, decorated to look like little American flags. I'm looking up the recipe in another window right now, and this afternoon, I'll be bringing them to a hamburger cook-out with CJ & Company. I hope they turn out well. I haven't had home-made rice krispy treats in forever. I was (I think) in elementary school when ( Read more... )

I've said it before and I'll say it again: No one on God's green earth can cook like my grandma. Today she served up barbecqued pork ribs, macaroni & cheese, pork & beans, green beans, and brownies for dessert. I helped her cook the beans and wash the dishes afterwards, while she told me how old everything in her kitchen is. Her trashcan dates back ( Read more... )

B...
You -- you said B.
B...
You said B! Good!
B... good...

So Sara did this thing on her journal where you blog about songs on your iPod starting with the same letter. She told me to do it with B. Maybe it's a hard letter, or maybe I'm a boring person, but I can't think of many interesting things to say about the B songs on my iPod.

Babylon, David Grey ( Read more... )

In the last 48 hours, Rebecca has....

• Bought three goat cheese pizzas and eaten two. Also had Heather take pictures of me eating the pizza. (Yeah, we all know what I’m going to miss.)
• Bought a chocolate bar, a bag of nougat (it's a little different from what we know as nougat in the US; it's little white cubes of dough with peanuts in it, and damn, ( Read more... )