Rachel and I have a new project, but everyone can give us their input! We are starting a family cookbook, and you will be able to see and leave comments, suggestions, and requests at our site here!
In other news, Rich and Maddy are having a sleepover at our house tonight, and I hope it's going well for them. She went to sleep in the portable crib in our room at 9, and Rich went to bed at 9:30, so he would get some sleep, just in case she doesn't really sleep all night like her parents claim she does. He's the Baby Whisperer, so I'm sure it will all be fine, and I trust that when I get home in the morning, they will both be sleeping soundly.
Kim is counting down to the end of the semester - she comes home next Friday! Yay!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
In which we start with a full moon and end with meatloaf.
It looked like a full moon tonight when I got to work. I drove to work a few minutes early so I could get a spot in the closest parking lot (Rachel calls it Princess Parking!), so I called Diana from the car and asked her what the name of the full moon is this month. Apparently it is the Pink Moon, and it will be completely full tomorrow.
Rachel brought Maddy over this afternoon so we could get a walk. It's our first walk outside since the incident last Wednesday, and we managed to walk the two miles without anyone getting hurt. Maddy was dozing in her stroller with her hood over her face most of the way - "I'm blind!"
What I'm knitting today:
Finished a pair of booties for Maddy. I don't usually (ever!) make booties because they are too small and fiddly, but I saw photos of cute booties on someone's knitblog, and I just wanted to try them. They turned out to be fun and not as fiddly as I expected, so I might make more.
I have a sock to work on tonight that I'm knitting with some beautiful handpainted sock yarn that I got at the Fiber Festival a couple of weeks ago. If there is any yarn left, maybe I will make a pair of booties!
What I'm reading today:
I'm reading The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer. It's comforting and familiar like a grilled cheese sandwich, which sounds pretty good right now too. I love to read Heyer, and I wish I could convert more people to her.
What I'm watching today:
Well it was yesterday, really, but we watched The Invention of Lying. It was cute, but not great. I could listen to Ricky Gervais talk British all day.
What I'm cooking today:
Well, it was pretty much leftovers night at our house, but Carolyn asked for a recipe, and then Jeanette asked for it too, and then Jeanette suggested that I compile some recipes for her, and Rachel and I started listing things we used to make a lot when Jeanette lived with us, and now I am thinking of how good some Tater Tot Casserole would taste tomorrow.
So maybe we should make a family cookbook? I have some recipes already, like Kathy's White Chili, and Uncle Joe's raisin cake, and Harold's Good Meatloaf, but if you have a favorite one that you make all the time, so often that you hardly need to look at the recipe, send it to me and I'll include it in the collection.
Rachel brought Maddy over this afternoon so we could get a walk. It's our first walk outside since the incident last Wednesday, and we managed to walk the two miles without anyone getting hurt. Maddy was dozing in her stroller with her hood over her face most of the way - "I'm blind!"
What I'm knitting today:
Finished a pair of booties for Maddy. I don't usually (ever!) make booties because they are too small and fiddly, but I saw photos of cute booties on someone's knitblog, and I just wanted to try them. They turned out to be fun and not as fiddly as I expected, so I might make more.
I have a sock to work on tonight that I'm knitting with some beautiful handpainted sock yarn that I got at the Fiber Festival a couple of weeks ago. If there is any yarn left, maybe I will make a pair of booties!
What I'm reading today:
I'm reading The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer. It's comforting and familiar like a grilled cheese sandwich, which sounds pretty good right now too. I love to read Heyer, and I wish I could convert more people to her.
What I'm watching today:
Well it was yesterday, really, but we watched The Invention of Lying. It was cute, but not great. I could listen to Ricky Gervais talk British all day.
What I'm cooking today:
Well, it was pretty much leftovers night at our house, but Carolyn asked for a recipe, and then Jeanette asked for it too, and then Jeanette suggested that I compile some recipes for her, and Rachel and I started listing things we used to make a lot when Jeanette lived with us, and now I am thinking of how good some Tater Tot Casserole would taste tomorrow.
So maybe we should make a family cookbook? I have some recipes already, like Kathy's White Chili, and Uncle Joe's raisin cake, and Harold's Good Meatloaf, but if you have a favorite one that you make all the time, so often that you hardly need to look at the recipe, send it to me and I'll include it in the collection.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
In which I don't go for a walk.
At the beginning of the school year, when Kim moved into her apartment, she called me and was very upset because she couldn’t find her ipod and was sure someone had stolen it out of her car! I tried to be helpful and told her to look carefully through her stuff because it’s small and she probably tucked it into something else as she was carrying an armload of her stuff into the apartment, but she had been looking for it and was furiously convinced that someone had stolen it!
It never turned up and she borrowed my iPod to use, and mourned the loss of her own iPod and also the iTrip I had just bought for her that enables the iPod to play through her car radio wirelessly. She uses it when she drives back and forth between school and home to listen to books she downloads, which lets her do her assigned reading painlessly – she’s an English major so she has to read a lot of books that we refer to as Medicine Books, that is, books that are good for you.
Today I saw that in her status on Facebook, she was happily announcing that she found the missing iPod! She was cleaning out her desk, because it’s nearing the end of the school year and she’ll be moving back home in a couple of weeks, and she found the iPod inside her housing folder at the bottom of a desk drawer. Oh, the happiness!
This afternoon Rachel brought Maddy over so we could take our two-mile walk, but we ended up not getting the walk after all. We went outside to get the stroller out of the trunk of Rachel’s car, and I was carrying Maddy, when we saw a friend across the street, and called her over to see how big Maddy has gotten. We crossed our side of the street and she crossed her side and we met in the grassy median, where we said hello and she admired the baby, and then we turned and started back across the street to the house.
At the time I didn’t know what tripped me, but I went pitching forward! (Later I saw that I had stepped in a pothole.) As I fell I rolled to protect Maddy (like a ninja!), and when I hit the ground, she was perfectly fine and uninjured – she didn’t even touch the ground – but I knew I wouldn’t be able to get back up with her in my arms, so I pulled her up with my free arm, and she dangled in the air by her arm for all of about 15 seconds until Rachel grabbed her and we got out of the street!
I was very shaken, and Maddy was also surprised, so we sat on the front steps and inspected my scraped knees, and decided we wouldn’t take a walk today. We went back in the house and made some dinner instead.
When Rich came downstairs from his office, we told him what happened:
Me: I tripped and fell but I saved Maddy! I saved her LIFE!
Maddy (Rachel really, in a squeaky Maddy voice): Poppa, I could have DIED!
Me: No, I rolled and saved you!
Maddy: My whole life passed before my eyes!
Rich: Really? What did you see?
Maddy: Bottles! Lots of bottles!
Me: (Sniff) My knees…
No one was impressed by my amazing ninja skills, except Carolyn, when I told her about it later. She’s a good girl.
It never turned up and she borrowed my iPod to use, and mourned the loss of her own iPod and also the iTrip I had just bought for her that enables the iPod to play through her car radio wirelessly. She uses it when she drives back and forth between school and home to listen to books she downloads, which lets her do her assigned reading painlessly – she’s an English major so she has to read a lot of books that we refer to as Medicine Books, that is, books that are good for you.
Today I saw that in her status on Facebook, she was happily announcing that she found the missing iPod! She was cleaning out her desk, because it’s nearing the end of the school year and she’ll be moving back home in a couple of weeks, and she found the iPod inside her housing folder at the bottom of a desk drawer. Oh, the happiness!
This afternoon Rachel brought Maddy over so we could take our two-mile walk, but we ended up not getting the walk after all. We went outside to get the stroller out of the trunk of Rachel’s car, and I was carrying Maddy, when we saw a friend across the street, and called her over to see how big Maddy has gotten. We crossed our side of the street and she crossed her side and we met in the grassy median, where we said hello and she admired the baby, and then we turned and started back across the street to the house.
At the time I didn’t know what tripped me, but I went pitching forward! (Later I saw that I had stepped in a pothole.) As I fell I rolled to protect Maddy (like a ninja!), and when I hit the ground, she was perfectly fine and uninjured – she didn’t even touch the ground – but I knew I wouldn’t be able to get back up with her in my arms, so I pulled her up with my free arm, and she dangled in the air by her arm for all of about 15 seconds until Rachel grabbed her and we got out of the street!
I was very shaken, and Maddy was also surprised, so we sat on the front steps and inspected my scraped knees, and decided we wouldn’t take a walk today. We went back in the house and made some dinner instead.
When Rich came downstairs from his office, we told him what happened:
Maddy (Rachel really, in a squeaky Maddy voice): Poppa, I could have DIED!
Me: No, I rolled and saved you!
Maddy: My whole life passed before my eyes!
Rich: Really? What did you see?
Maddy: Bottles! Lots of bottles!
Me: (Sniff) My knees…
No one was impressed by my amazing ninja skills, except Carolyn, when I told her about it later. She’s a good girl.
Monday, April 12, 2010
I’m posting the picture of a gnome that Karin knitted for me because a couple of people wanted to see it, and also, Wendy is making one. My gnome’s name is Rusty Thistledown, and is he not darling? Karin, if you see this, leave a note in the comments about what you used to keep his hat standing up – hairspray or fabric starch?
Rachel and I went to the local Fiber Festival today! It was a beautiful sunny day, not too windy, and not too hot. We took Maddy with us and she rode around in her stroller, being admired, which is just what she likes! We went with a plan to not spend too much, and we did okay, just buying some sock yarn from two of the vendors and some needles that we didn’t need. I brought a skein of yarn with me to work tonight and wound it into a ball, but when I cast on with the new bamboo needles, I was a bit disappointed. They aren’t smooth enough, so the knitting drags. I like my wooden Harmony needles from Knitpicks much better, and fortunately I have a set of size 1s in my purse!
I’m at work tonight, with my beautiful sock yarn and a library book, so it will be a nice night. When I got to work tonight, Lana told me there was a wedding in the hospital cafeteria earlier! So that explains the group we saw when Rachel and I took Maddy for a walk after dinner – as we passed the hospital, we saw a woman in what we guessed was a bridesmaid dress, and two men in tuxedos, standing on the sidewalk across the street from the hospital, smoking cigarettes. We thought they must be going to a wedding, but it never crossed my mind that it would be at the hospital. How funny. The bridesmaid dress was great, by the way, it was chocolate brown in a great silky fabric with a cream-colored sash. Darn, I should have taken a picture for Diana!
What I’m reading today:
Actually it was last week, but I read a great book called The Reformed Vampire Support Group. It was so good that I read it twice! The vampires aren’t glamorous or charismatic, they are a bunch of whiners, who have been meeting every Thursday for years for group therapy. One of them is killed by a slayer, and the rest of them have to work together to find the killer before he kills one of them. It is funny in a dry way, my favorite kind of funny, and I love the characters.
Yesterday I read The Broken Teaglass, and that was another book I liked a lot. I like learning about how people do their jobs, and the main character of the story works as a lexicographer – he defines words for the dictionary.
What I’m watching today:
I should say what I’m not watching today, because I got Zombieland from Netflix, and I was told that the first few minutes were gory but then it would be funny. I don’t know about the funny, because I was trying not to watch the first few minutes, but ugh. I couldn’t do it. I wanted to watch it because of Jesse Eisenb@rg, since I liked him a lot in Adventureland. That movie also had Kristen Stew@rt from the Tw***ght movies, and I think she’s a pretty girl, but she only has two expressions, pained and seriously pained.
That's all the news for now.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Because Diana shamed me into it.
Diana posted bitterly on Twitter that she doesn't care if her cousin never updates her journal, and that cousin is me, and I felt sorry for never updating for her entertainment, but you know there was the internet ban at work, which is where I write my posts! And I can't seem to be bothered to do it when I think of writing a post when I'm at home, so there you go. Nothing gets written and Diana just has to make her own entertainment.
However, here I am, awake at 4 in the morning after being sleepy and falling into bed at 10 last night, and I think I can manage to write a little something, because what else am I going to do at this time of the morning?
As I mentioned before, Rachel has been sewing and so far she has made two skirts and a pair of pajama pants with little monkeys in karate uniforms printed all over them. So cute! She says I am not better at teaching than I am at sewing, meaning there is just as much frustrated cussing when I am just telling her as there is when I am doing it myself, but hey, she knows how to make a skirt now, so she can just shut up and be grateful!
Since Rachel is all about sewing now, and we have made about 50 trips to the fabric store in two weeks, I went online and ordered a book that I saw on Amazon a while ago, about how to make things out of t-shirts, and yesterday I made pillows out of two of Kim's old t-shirts! It was easy, except for the cutting, because all of my scissors are dull, and now she has two cute pillows for propping up on to read in bed.
In knitting news, I'm almost done with a vest I am making for Carolyn's brother Brinton, who is going on a mission to Peru, and when that is done, I have to finish the sleeves of a sweater for someone at work who has a new granddaughter, and then I can get back to work on finishing Carolyn's new sweater. As always, there is a long list in my head of other things I want to knit, but they all have to wait until these three things are done!
Tomorrow is Kim's birthday and she will be 21! So we are having pizza for dinner and also birthday cake! I asked what kind of cake she wanted, and she said Angel Food, so we are going to have Angel Food cake with chocolate sauce for dipping! Rachel and I thought it would be fun to make faux cocktails, too, since she is going to be 21, old enough to drink, except that we don't drink, so Ash is going to make virgin cocktails for us, and Rachel and I shopped for supplies today.
We took Maddy with us to the store to do the party shopping, and she was not having the best shopping trip of her life. First, it was too sunny and windy outside, and she hates having the sun in her eyes, so we pulled her blanket over her face, but she also hates having a blanket in her face, and the wind kept blowing it off anyway, so then eek! the sun was in her eyes again!
When we got her in the store, out of the weather, she was slightly happier, except that she was hungry! Rachel made a bottle using powdered formula and some bottled water, but nooo, Maddy didn't like that! We think she didn't like the taste of the bottled water, which was a brand that I don't like either, so I understand it, but I thought the formula would cover up the taste of the water, but apparently it just ruined a perfectly good bottle of formula!
Maddy managed to survive the hardships of weather and food, and make it back to the house where she could get a decent bottle and play on the floor with Rich while Rachel sewed pajamas and I made pillows, and then Kim came home!
She admired the pillows, and the baby, and collapsed on the couch, tired from driving five hours to get home! She managed to revive enough to get her laptop from her car and then all was well as she sat on the couch, computing. Sando showed up an hour later and brought his Xbox, and they made frozen pizza, just like always.
I knitted and watched Sando play the latest Final Fantasy game, and then I was so tired I couldn't stay awake, so when Kim and Sando went to the store at 10 to buy a video game, I went to bed! Rachel and Maddy were long gone, and I hope Rachel is getting some sleep tonight, too!
So that's what has been happening here, and I just have one more thing - I'm reading a book called The Reformed Vampire Support Group and it's great! The vampires are a bunch of whiners, who have to find out who killed one of them before the Slayer can strike again, and I liked it so much that when I finished it, I wanted to read it again! Two days later, I am reading it for the second time, that's how good it is.
However, here I am, awake at 4 in the morning after being sleepy and falling into bed at 10 last night, and I think I can manage to write a little something, because what else am I going to do at this time of the morning?
As I mentioned before, Rachel has been sewing and so far she has made two skirts and a pair of pajama pants with little monkeys in karate uniforms printed all over them. So cute! She says I am not better at teaching than I am at sewing, meaning there is just as much frustrated cussing when I am just telling her as there is when I am doing it myself, but hey, she knows how to make a skirt now, so she can just shut up and be grateful!
Since Rachel is all about sewing now, and we have made about 50 trips to the fabric store in two weeks, I went online and ordered a book that I saw on Amazon a while ago, about how to make things out of t-shirts, and yesterday I made pillows out of two of Kim's old t-shirts! It was easy, except for the cutting, because all of my scissors are dull, and now she has two cute pillows for propping up on to read in bed.
In knitting news, I'm almost done with a vest I am making for Carolyn's brother Brinton, who is going on a mission to Peru, and when that is done, I have to finish the sleeves of a sweater for someone at work who has a new granddaughter, and then I can get back to work on finishing Carolyn's new sweater. As always, there is a long list in my head of other things I want to knit, but they all have to wait until these three things are done!
Tomorrow is Kim's birthday and she will be 21! So we are having pizza for dinner and also birthday cake! I asked what kind of cake she wanted, and she said Angel Food, so we are going to have Angel Food cake with chocolate sauce for dipping! Rachel and I thought it would be fun to make faux cocktails, too, since she is going to be 21, old enough to drink, except that we don't drink, so Ash is going to make virgin cocktails for us, and Rachel and I shopped for supplies today.
We took Maddy with us to the store to do the party shopping, and she was not having the best shopping trip of her life. First, it was too sunny and windy outside, and she hates having the sun in her eyes, so we pulled her blanket over her face, but she also hates having a blanket in her face, and the wind kept blowing it off anyway, so then eek! the sun was in her eyes again!
When we got her in the store, out of the weather, she was slightly happier, except that she was hungry! Rachel made a bottle using powdered formula and some bottled water, but nooo, Maddy didn't like that! We think she didn't like the taste of the bottled water, which was a brand that I don't like either, so I understand it, but I thought the formula would cover up the taste of the water, but apparently it just ruined a perfectly good bottle of formula!
Maddy managed to survive the hardships of weather and food, and make it back to the house where she could get a decent bottle and play on the floor with Rich while Rachel sewed pajamas and I made pillows, and then Kim came home!
She admired the pillows, and the baby, and collapsed on the couch, tired from driving five hours to get home! She managed to revive enough to get her laptop from her car and then all was well as she sat on the couch, computing. Sando showed up an hour later and brought his Xbox, and they made frozen pizza, just like always.
I knitted and watched Sando play the latest Final Fantasy game, and then I was so tired I couldn't stay awake, so when Kim and Sando went to the store at 10 to buy a video game, I went to bed! Rachel and Maddy were long gone, and I hope Rachel is getting some sleep tonight, too!
So that's what has been happening here, and I just have one more thing - I'm reading a book called The Reformed Vampire Support Group and it's great! The vampires are a bunch of whiners, who have to find out who killed one of them before the Slayer can strike again, and I liked it so much that when I finished it, I wanted to read it again! Two days later, I am reading it for the second time, that's how good it is.
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