Couple weeks ago my aunt Sue was in town for the 80th birthday party and she brought her gorgeous little girl, my cousin Evelyn.
God, I thought i was going to go into diabetic shock watching her watch Spongebob while sitting on the special Spongebob chair, playing with the dogs, feeding the dogs her food and playing legos with David. Sigh.
My favorite part? Immediately as she got home, she took a pink marker to her hair! Here I am, influencing future generations! You go girl.
Of course the dogs loved her because 4 year old girls are just mobile candy buffets.
Wallow in the frosting sweet goo that is my dogs with a 4 year old girl…
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It is my opinion that marginalizing crocheters is a bad move on the part of yarn stores everywhere. Don’t delegate my pattern books to a dusty shelf in the corner, don’t store the crochet thread in a cabine that is unpoenable for being under a stack of crap, don’t just show gauge swatches in knit. Share the road! Still, didn’t stop me from buying yarn, thread, lace hooks and beading needles. oh well.
Soon, I must go make split pea and ham soup for my lunches and some buns for the hell of it and then later a moroccan squash stew with quinoa.
Preiously this week i’ve made stuffed eggplant (incredible!!) and kabocha squash mol� with seasoned black beans, rice and roasted carrots. I’m getting back into the swing of cooking.
Okay, I’m off to be domestic. Laundry, dishes, crocheting, soup making and squash roasting calls my name.
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Been a long time and there are a million photos. I’ll only bother you with a few. I promise.
I made homemade buns! There were tasty good, I used a honey wheat recipe. I probably should have cut and weighed the dough to make consistent sized buns and I should have stretched them more to make them flatter, but I don’t care. I have nice buns.
And here’s Ghengis and my focaccia bread. He’s a good fella, the littlest of the fellas and he approves of the focaccia bread.
Aaaah maddie does it get better than this?
Sometimes life is like this and sometimes life is like THIS. It is warm, it is happy, it makes me laugh in my belly.
People, the grand finale…the perfect moment…THE HIPPOSAURUS!!!! You honestly cannot imagine how happy it makes me to hug this thing, to look at it! and to share my chocolates with it.
So, there are your pictures!
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today is a day of hooray!
1) I accidentally discovered that my car does indeed have a 20 cd changer in it. I’d suspected it did when I got it, but I didn’t have a manual and the crypticly (cryptically? Alex?) labeled buttons on the stereo were no help. Were they referring to 20 disks or 20 preset channels?? I couldn’t tell, I assumed channels since after much investigation I could not figure out how to get 20 cd’s into the stereo…and YES I did look in the trunk for a changer, it wasn’t there. LO!! The angels sang down on me and as I drowsily tried to turn the knob from CD to FM so I could listen to the news on the way to work I grabbed the wrong knob, turned from CD-01 to CD-02 and it asked me to insert a disk. I grabbed the first cd I could get my hands on and shoved it in there…and it played! and so did the 3rd, 4th and 5th. WOW. I totally deserve a 20 disk changer in my car! I totally deserve to find out about it 8 months after I buy it. It’s like a late christmas present that you don’t mind is late because it is so awesome!
2) Speaking of christmas presents that are late but you don’t mind because they are TOTALLY AWESOME!!!! Meggers sent my christmas gift and I got it today!! A Hipposaurus!!!!!! (this may be the most exclamation point intensive post ever!!!!!) I can’t even begin to describe the absolute coolness of this gift, a handmade hipposaurus stuffed animal in his own eggshell with the cutest story about how he came to be and how he hoards chocolate and how he has to come live with me now and he brought all of his chocolate with him to share with me. I am so in love right now!!!! Pictures will be posted soon.
okay, only 2 discoveries, but two pretty cool discoveries! I’m going to go eat my dinner then head over to the land of the katamari…I mean hedgehog.
KATAMARI
What did I do this weekend? All I remember is playing Katamari Damacy! I drive around and see fence panels and street signs and dogs that all want to be rolled up into my katamari!
I’m sure there was something else I did…
1) took care of eddie the hedgehog. he really is cute even though I’m not really supposed to see him. His spines are pokier than I expected and he has a really cute nose. I keep telling my sister I’m poking him. I tell her this because I love her and I have a sick sense of love. April, I am not really poking your hedgehog. In fact, I’m not really doing anything to your hedgehog except looking at him. And feeding him.
2) last night I got together with some people from the cooking group for dinner at Yummy! in no particular order we ate flank steak, jellyfish, peashoots, lo mein lobster, eggplant, flounder, froglegs, crab, fish stomach, shrimp, scallops, pork knuckle, fried rice, chicken and about a million things I don’t remember. The nice thing about going to a place like that with a group of ten people is that you can order a million different things to share. I highly recommend Yummy’s jellyfish, it’s not nearly as chewy as it could be, it has a great sesame flavor and is on a bed of carrot/jicama slaw. Actually, there was not a single thing that I ate last night that I didn’t enjoy immensely.
3) yeah…nothing else, just playing video games at my sister’s (don’t worry april, we’re not breaking anything!!!), crocheting like mad, eating like a pick and getting maximum cuddles!