Posts Tagged With: daughter stuff
When Life Gives You Lemons…
…make lemon upside-down cake!! Oh yes. One of my favorite Christmas gifts this year was a lovely package of 13 amazing little orbs of sunshine, aka home-grown lemons, from the always-fabulous Roxy. They arrived a couple of days after Christmas and after simply eating one right out of the box, I’ve been trying to figure [...]
Love, Guilt and Insanity aka Christmas
It builds slowly. I’m not sure exactly when it starts, maybe around Halloween. There’s a shift, subtle, like a drop or rise in barometric pressure. Maybe it’s the appearance of Christmas trees and wrapping paper in the stores even before the Thanksgiving turkeys have a chance to gobble. Maybe it’s the energy that kids put [...]
Never Mind…
Was going to do a long, moaning and groaning post about the daughter and her recent situation (let’s just say it’s utility-related and many things hang in the balance). After a very intense day at work yesterday combined with late-day “woe is me” IMs from her, I was nearly at my wits’ end. Feeling the [...]
Microcosm Moment
Today has felt like a completely wasted day. Last night, my daughter called and asked if she could come over and wash “some clothes”. Sure, I said, not realizing she was going to wash enough clothes to cover the Chinese army. She arrived at just after 8 a.m., Killer in tow, along with 19 or [...]
Be Bright, Be Brief, Be Gone
When I worked for the Mari0tt, that was the motto for conducting meetings. Hence, a brief update. I have so far walked 36.5 miles this month. I am 2.5 miles off my goal. This morning, my eyes popped open at 4:45 a.m. (which would have been 5:45 two weeks ago!). Lying in bed, wide awake, [...]
Foto Friday
My daughter at age 4: And my oldest grandson, at the same age: She never thought they looked alike till I showed her these together!
Allowing
So, after the events of last post, we found out we needed more work on the car. This did not surprise me. What happened was the car blew a head gasket, which I got fixed, but then we discovered the entire cooling system needed to be fixed, too–new radiator, reservoir, etc. In for a penny, [...]
Derailed But Hanging On
Today, I woke up full of plans. I was going to exercise, get started on making the things I needed for my smackdown recipes, “put up” some veggies, and generally just enjoy a very productive day in the kitchen. I got to the exercising part. Then my daughter called all bummed because her car had [...]
Winner – week of 04/30/12!
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