I seem to have devolved into a once a week blogger, so I guess I might as well report on my week. Backwards – weekend to weekend. We were going to go to Chicago this weekend but got scared off by the weather predictions of ice storm and crazy wind. It turned out to not … [Read more…]
On Saturday, I put myself to bed at 9:00 p.m. with a hot toddy (bourbon, honey, lemon, hot water) trying to cure my cold. I didn’t sleep all that well because it was really stormy that night – it felt like I spent most of the night listening to the rain and wind hit the … [Read more…]
Sleepy, and my head hurts, and feeling like I haven’t done anything creative. Long ago (2007), I did an April is the Cruelest Month dinner. I was into savory pithiviers for awhile; here’s the recipe. And wait isn’t this supposed to be a food blog? I made cinnamon scones on Saturday morning. They had cream … [Read more…]
“Seeing, oh, January, oh” It’s official – I did a Sunday morning weigh-in today for the first time since before Christmas, and I didn’t gain any weight over the holidays. Although, in truth, I know I hit a cookie low at some point, actually probably multiple points. Because of the increased activity of staying up … [Read more…]
I’m pretty sure the movie version with Audrey Hepburn as Eliza, and Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins, was my father’s birthday movie in December of 1964. We had a family tradition (that I mostly upheld with my kids) that after the age of 7, no more big birthday parties with lots of little kids – … [Read more…]
All the stuff I did do this weekend … and all the stuff I didn’t do. And, well not even all, because, of course, there’s stuff I didn’t even know about that I didn’t do. It was one of those weekends with about a million things going on. Friday I went to the Rousers geezer … [Read more…]
It’s an often talked about thing that with the Internetz and 159 channels and time shifting and there’s no town square and we don’t all sit down to watch Uncle Walter at the same time on the CBS Evening News (“in an era when network news was central to many people’s lives.” as it says … [Read more…]
It could’ve been foreshadowing of what was to come in my yoga class, where of course the teacher was going to talk about well being. Or it could’ve been the weather – which is back to “normal” for late February in Wisconsin, cold, snowy, sunny. Or maybe because I was happily thinking that plans I’d … [Read more…]
Take today, fer instance: I went out for a walk, and it’s a beautiful sunny day – but that just filled me with dread and grumpiness. Because it’s FUCKING FEBRUARY in Wisconsin and it’s not supposed to be 50°. Or Friday: After reading friends and friends of friends facebook posts about how they’re dealing with … [Read more…]
Stop your mind with dirty snow. Jefferson Airplane, Ice Cream Phoenix, track 9 on Crown of Creation. Early January, what should be the brutal time of winter here in Wisconsin, is a little weird this year. Yes, it’s been brutally cold, but only for the last few days: on Monday & Tuesday it was in … [Read more…]