12 of 13 West Virginia miners are found ALIVE.

A lefse story. This one brought tears to my eyes.

Something that made me smile is this set of recipes from the same site which includes one for a candy that sounds suspiciously like the bonbons my ex would make - and claim were a secret family recipe! *snerks* I should make some and send them to him ( Read more... )

We're home. We're a bit worn around the edges and quite tired, but we're home safe ( Read more... )

It happens every major holiday. Someone gets hurt ( Read more... )

All righty then. *rubs hands together, not quite gleefully ( Read more... )

Jay and I went to the store after I saw Kenneth off to school. We're both beat. Target was a madhouse, even for it being the middle of the week and day ( Read more... )

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Looked through my Japanese cookbook over breakfast, trying to find something different but not, well, weird for Christmas Eve dinner ( Read more... )

I still feel poorly, but not as bad as yesterday. Kenneth continues to improve, which offers me hope that one day I won't feel like my head is two sizes too small. The problem I've run into is the mechanism that's inflaming the tissue inside my sinuses is moving south to my lungs, setting off my asthma. SO I need to watch myself and keep an inhaler ( Read more... )

The cold is worse. My head is full to bursting and meds don't seem to be doing much for it ( Read more... )

We got the threatened promised DVD today. It's sitting on my desk right now. Along with it, we got a "friendship bag": a little fabric bag with assorted stuff in it, supposedly reperesenting tenets of friendship ( Read more... )