Live Blogging Thursday
Hi Thursday. I’ve been off in my own world lately, doing things. One of the things I have been doing is trying to sort out some issues with my blog and the funky charset issues that occurred with an upgrade to a newer version of Wordpress. As a result I’ve been going through my archives, [...]
Thunder cupcakes
Make these. They are the perfect accompaniment for thunderstorms, especially when made and eaten with little boys.
* 1 8-ounce package cream cheese
* 1 large egg
* 2 tablespoons sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
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A weekend roundup
First off, I very much loved reading about your media habits the past couple of days. I have continued keep a record of what I’ve been consuming media wise, and I think that it’s made me much more conscious and thoughtful about my choices… I’ve decided to keep the record going over at twitter. It [...]
Sweet things
Things that I loved about today: figs & raw honey, a four mile run (!) and a swim in our neighbor’s pond. Oh how I love to swim…and somehow I had forgotten this. I don’t know why it’s taken me three years to go and jump in, the surface rippling green, bluebirds swooping about. How [...]
For the love of food
I spent the day in the garden: discovering what weeks of rain and heat and neglect can do to leggy tomatoes and lettuces. Do you know that when a lettuce bolts, it shoots up four feet tall? I’ve learned so much from my garden this year—my first in this state, in this rocky soil and [...]
It’s only the beginning
I’ve grown accustomed to being hunched over. Hunched, as in, knees up, back rounded, almost fetal. This is the way I spend my day, curled on the couch, attached at the hip to my laptop, mostly, between tentative forays into the kitchen, and occasional attempts to be useful in any way. It isn’t pretty. Remember [...]
hormone insanity
In the restaurant the other night, this is what transpired:
Me: I’ll have a Tom Ka soup and an order of spring rolls.
DH: I’ll have—(some weird unpronounced-able pork thing)
Me: He’ll have (pointing to Bean) one spring roll, please.
Waitress: So you want two springrolls?
Me: No, an order of springrolls for me and one for him.
DH: Wait, HOW [...]
Sunday brain clutter
I went into my classroom for the first official time since I got the job. A big geometric room, with yellow paint and fairly new rugs. It’s still waiting for summer cleaning though, so other than sitting in the middle of it to draw a quick floor plan on the back of a used piece [...]
So much goodness
Sweet cantaloupe for breakfast, like golden crescent moons on our plates, and tonight a dinner party with our neighbors. Red wine by the glass full, thai noodles, chicken grilled to perfection. Laughter and unexpected ease. Our neighbors are amazing people. The kind of people I always wished I had as neighbors, but never believed really [...]
“The moon, Mama!”
The smell of chocolate cake baking makes me heady. My friend’s birthday is this weekend, and I’ve spent the evening whipping frothy egg whites, melting dark chocolate and licking my fingers.
The house is quiet, in that way houses get at the end of the day when everything is put in it’s place and children are [...]