So this week, I started writing this post before yoga same as last week, but [thankfully] did not descend into fatness crisis again and actually stuck with and enjoyed the yoga class. I got started on taxes, sort of. At Christmas I never did boxing day and cleaned up all the papers on my desk. … [Read more…]
This is the nowhere week between Christmas and New Year’s, that I usually like, probably based on when it was a school holiday when I was a kid, when we did fun stuff like sledding, and later when I was an older kid, in college, it was also fun, being back home and seeing who … [Read more…]
I had a bunch of cooking plans on Xmas Eve, two pages in my little notebook. Continuing using up cookie leftovers and CSA box produce, sourdough bread plans (my sourdough has gotten way too big, BTW, even though I’ve only been feeding it half cups of flour & water. I might have to actually discard … [Read more…]
My first day of winter break started with various cooking adventures to keep using up my produce from my CSA Thanksgiving box. Specifically, wilting coleslaw and roasting beets. Mark was going for his regular long loop walk, and I said I’d go too, and peel off at Whole Foods, because we needed lettuce and sour … [Read more…]
Mostly trying to catch up with friends, give cookies away, and eat and drink a little too much, in a typical holiday fashion. Saturday my Dad would’ve been 99 years old if he was still here having birthdays – he stopped in 1998 at 77 (though the metadata in this Pitt Archives photo is incorrect; … [Read more…]
… cookie fairy escapades, grading, working remotely constantly, and all the way up to Christmas Eve. Sunday morning after the party I washed the last serving platter at 9:37. I made this cranberry ginger cake from Milk Street Kitchen that I had had a vision of serving warm with mascarpone whipped cream at the party, … [Read more…]
The Madison Schools have had six snow (or extreme cold weather) closure days this winter. Unheard of. That’s like 3 years worth of snow days – they only build about 1 or 2 extra days into the calendar each year for weather closures. Our global-climate-change winter has been crazy disruptive this year. And February’s not … [Read more…]
Thursday night I went to see Michael Nesmith at the Neptune Theater. The announcement said with Scott McCaughey and Ben Gibbard, and I didn’t know exactly how it was going to work. It turned out to be a short solo acoustic opening set by McCaughey, followed by Nesmith performing, seated with a 12-string guitar and a … [Read more…]
The governor made us do it. We were perfectly happy as what the state of Wisconsin calls Domestic Partners, DPs. In that status, we could share our state benefits, but not share other assets we have from our families that we want to go to our kids. When gay marriage became legal in Wisconsin, the … [Read more…]
On the last night of January 2016 I had a Dinner at DebS soup dinner. It was a nice, smallish group – 11 10 adults and one kid, counting me and Megan. Natasha’s husband stayed home with their son, who’d fallen asleep, and she came with their daughter and to-go containers to take home food … [Read more…]