We saw the wild turkeys yesterday! But alas, there were only three. And they were being chased (cruelly) by the neighborhood teenagers. I wanted to stop them. My husband stopped me, “They’re teenagers!” As if they were some mysterious alien force that might turn upon us.
“They’re being mean!” I [...]
After yesterday’s post-MFA-thesis catastrophe, I decided to right things today with some retail therapy and lunch.
And thus–I bought myself a jacket, a pasta roller, and treated myself to lunch, where I savored a sinfully yummy popover with strawberry butter (one of my favorite food treats).
Found via Charlotte’s Web–Who’s your inner European? (My hubby took the quiz, and his inner European is French!)
Your Inner European is Dutch!
Open minded and tolerant.
You’re up for just about anything.
Who’s Your Inner European?
I forgot to take a little time out for myself after I turned in my MFA thesis yesterday.
It all started out very casual. I got to school early. I met a classmate and friend who was also turning in her thesis, someone who’d entered the MFA program the same semester I had, the [...]
I printed it out today. In Times New Roman font, thank you for the input! I’ve always used Times, it was quite satisfying to watch my thesis, comprised of short stories and a novel excerpt, print out in familiar type. I even thought of a decent title for my thesis, too. [...]
I don’t think I’m as recovered as I thought. Every afternoon of this long weekend, I sleep, and then wake up for dinner. And then I go back to bed early and sleep some more. Wake up late. At first, I thought it might have been an oncoming flu–but no. [...]
Happy Thanksgiving to you!
I woke up to the smell of onions cooking (my husband had started his annual business of cooking Thanksgiving dinner early). I took a mid-afternoon nap (why am I so tired and spaced out? Am I coming down the flu?), and woke up to a cooked turkey and fixings.
I ought [...]
I have halted the revision of my thesis–! It’s due on Monday, for Pete’s sake. There’s not much I can do within the next four days to improve the thing substantially. And I personally think it’s better for me to set the pieces aside and revise them further a few weeks later, [...]
You know you live in a hippie town and only go to hippie grocery stores when you have to go to FOUR grocery stores until you finally find: a bag of marshmallows* and a bottle of light corn syrup**.
Happy Thanksgiving!
*My husband requires marshmallows on his yams, no substitutes! Marshmallows. So I went on the hunt. [...]
Tagged by the individual voice…and also check out charlotte’s web for hers.
A note from moi: I am not a fan of the phrase “guilty pleasures”–I don’t really feel guilty for having these acts of comfort and delight. But I did list things that I do that I find secret joy out of doing, [...]
oh p.s. I’m off of plavix! The echocardiogram results are in: the hole in my heart has healed, and there are no leaks. No more pathway for errant clots to shoot up into my brain. Thus, no plavix.
And yet, I found myself still taking the plavix this morning. Why?
It is [...]
I am…officially so busy I don’t have time to work out, I don’t have time to eat a proper dinner, and I’ve got to whittle my life down to my core priorities. It’s going to be just work and writing. My passion for cooking is going to be put aside, no more baking, no socializing, [...]
