I finally made my mom's recipe for whoopie pies.  I halved it, as she suggested, because this is one of those recipes developed in the days when you had to make an awful lot of everything, either because you had a big family, or a big church.  Or both.  (And they were the same thing.) Anyway, I wimped out on halving the vanilla cream filling part  ( Read more... )

It occured to me that it is a condition of life on earth that we will always have unfulfilled desires.  If I somehow got a thing I wanted with all my heart, it wouldn't quench my desire.  And not even because of bad desires.  It's the condition of living in a broken world.  It is never perfectAlso I thought about how when we're faced with a hard ( Read more... )

So Toby had a birthday yesterday, in which he received a Lego Mindstorms set from Lisa's dad.  Apparently, Toby's been asking for and dreaming about them for ages.  His grandfather told him some time back that when he could read, he would get one.  Not long ago, Toby approached his grandfather and said, simply, "I can read."  Because kids don't ( Read more... )

Work was stressful.  Even though I got a whole new chunk of RAM in my machine.  (I only had a gig.)  I was in rather a bad mood when I left ( Read more... )

Thought for the day: I don't have to know the road if I can see the next step ( Read more... )

I have a question. Those of you who have seen Being Human: does the first season end depressingly?  Does it get unnecessarily dark and angsty?  Because we watched the first two episodes last night, and we found it very intriguing and well-written, but with signs of decending into an angst-fest.  For reference, we like Supernatural, but Torchwood: ( Read more... )

Am attempting to find a good pair of knee-high riding boots.  Not much luck.

Am also attempting to find what I can on the spiritual gift of prophecy by people whose theology I feel I can trust, and not much luck there, either.

( I didn't want to see that )

I was out shopping today and overheard two ladies (probably in their sixties) discussing some recent outing or other, and one asked the other if she'd seen the pictures on Facebook yet.

Why yes, this is the twenty-first century ( Read more... )

Today I tried out for a Christmas drama at my church.  Though I might not be able to be in it anyway, as the tentative performance dates are the same weekend as the annual choir Christmas concert, which I am very much not going to skip.  But it was fun.  I've always wanted to do drama, but other stuff has come first ( Read more... )

I hate it when my computer sits and churns and thinks and doesn't actually do anything.  That happened this morning at work.  For some reason, it had failed to log off properly when I last left.  This morning when I tried closing out the error boxes and telling it to log off already, it just sat there with the little "processing" cursor going, ( Read more... )