This week I’m specializing in eating the stuff that nobody else wants. Like Thursday, I made open face cheese-y melt-y things and leftover soup for dinner. We had two soups, some cream of turkey with wild rice soup, and some butternut squash chili. Mark and Maja both opted for the turkey-wild rice, so I had … [Read more…]
We went to Chicago yesterday for an overnight to see the Symphony perform Beethoven, the 8th and 5th symphonies. So popular and a Saturday night, it was a much more mixed-age group than the Friday or Sunday matinees we go to, where in our 60s (oh, and 70s I keep forgetting …) we’re the youngsters … [Read more…]
Oh January. It’s cold, the news is awful, and I’m having a hard time NOT feeling like things are getting worse than ever, as well as personally losing it, lowering my standards. I spent this back to work week feeling like I was hardly working; rather than updating syllabi and getting my online classes up … [Read more…]
I’m officially on winter break at the moment – I took vacation on Wednesday (when we went to Chicago to see a live production of Frozen, that despite my trepidation, and having to get up at 6:30 on a vacation day, turned out to be quite fun) and Thursday, and today is a paid holiday … [Read more…]
So, 2021 will go down in history (infamy?) as the year I almost burned down the house. Mark’s son and his fiance brought us a centerpiece for Thanksgiving, with dried flowers and candles, something like this: I should have thrown it out, probably after it sat on top of the bookcase drying out since Thanksgiving, … [Read more…]
Here it is Christmas Day, very happy merry to all! and I am just now getting to the party/cookie season wrap up. [probably] Needless to say, I did not take any pictures of cookie platters when I was making them for the pandemic-style party, with people coming in shifts, all eating & drinking upstairs, cookie-box … [Read more…]
Oh, hey, hi – remember me? I’ve been not doing a lot of stuff recently … not taking pictures of cookies, not writing blog posts, not keeping track of what I’m eating and how much I’m exercising in my diet & exercise app. Some days I walk 5 miles, some days none. I have been … [Read more…]
We had two Thanksgivings-es this year: the first on the actual day, at Al & Emma’s, and the second here at home, on Black Friday, which is when we’ve been doing our Thanksgiving for a quite a while now. For Al & Emma’s I made an apple slab pie that took over the world – … [Read more…]
Last Sunday we took a day trip to Chicago for the opera, a cool staging of Mozart’s Magic flute, that looked very 1930s Deco with singers in silent movie white face makeup. I thought it was a remake of an actual jazz age production, but it’s 21st century, in that style. The production was designed … [Read more…]
I started writing this post last Sunday as Halloween 2021, continued yesterday, a week later, when nothing had gotten written except the title. So I changed it to Stuck. And now I am continuing on post-fall-back Monday morning, when it seems like I have a little extra time to write, before I go out to … [Read more…]