I feel like a broken record, repeating myself, but I’m still trying to adjust to this retirement thing. I wish I had more energy and I wish I slept better. I’ve been overeating and I think it’s because there’s a time during the day, usually about 4:00pm, when I just feel like I need a … [Read more…]
And immediate aftermath. At 3:34 p.m. Christmas Day, it was 53° and raining. Christmas Eve day it was just as warm and less wet and I ran into a neighbor who called it “lovely, but so wrong”. A perfect way to describe the weather. I wish I had thought of the phrase 10 years ago … [Read more…]
Google remembers the dearly departed Alan Rickman. Google Doodle, April 30, 2023 Kind of nice to commemorate a day when he had a career success in the theater, rather than death day, or even birthday. What a week – the electricians are here, curing the knob & tube – essentially rewiring the entire house – … [Read more…]
I felt so shitty when I was writing Friday night. I’d eaten too much and not gotten enough done at work and just generally felt deadlines and fat phobias and stuck-ness and pandemic blues crashing down on me. I was headachey and my stomach hurt and I was cranky and tired. And there was a … [Read more…]
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…]
And family togetherness. On Saturday morning we tried out the big Farmers Market again, followed by a stop at Madison Farmers Unite to pick up a pre-order. It’s a nice bike ride, until you get the vicinity of the county facility where the market is held. The bike paths peter out, and even though this … [Read more…]
I was just sure I must’ve written something with this title before; looks like it was hashtag winterblahs in 2014, and winter blahs in 2013. Nothing on the newer blog for winter blahs, but I found Still January from 2018. Anyways, I’m feeling frozen and not in a good way – sluggish, like my metabolism … [Read more…]
I’ve been giving away cookies like crazy, a plate to work on Monday, and 2 big foil pans to the food pantry on Tuesday. But, now’s the time of year when I worry the most about gaining weight. I’m not as active as during cookie season when I’m baking till all hours of the night; … [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…]
When cookie season is terribly compressed. Not enough weekends, and the ones I do have, I keep giving up for trips to Chicago. I’ve made one cookie kind so far, the lebkuchen. This year I tried a new recipe, from King Arthur Flour, and I kinda like it. I made my normal batch using the … [Read more…]