Sunday, December 13, 2009
Book Lover's 12 Days of Christmas
9:30 p.m. / 21:30
A Book Lover's Christmas
Twelve Grishams Gripping
Eleven Unfortunate Events Unfolding
Ten Clancy Heroes Leaping
Nine Hobbits Dancing
Eight Plots Thickening
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Six Book Club Meetings
Five Little Golden Books
Four Da Vinci Clues
Three Chilling King Tales
Two Green Eggs & Ham
A Potter in a Pear Tree
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Gratuitous Cat Pictures
Late Night Stone Soup
12:45 a.m. / 00:45
From time to time, I throw a bunch of stuff in a pot, cook it & eat it, all without consulting any recipe or even thinking about it much.
Things thrown into the pot tonight:
pasta
(fake) ground beef
corn (frozen)
tomatoes (fresh)
condensed broccoli cheddar soup
dijon mustard
Kraft American cheese slices
salsa
Monday, October 05, 2009
Cool & Cold Weather Gear Checklist
10:50 a.m. / 10:50
Fall seems to be settling in for good, which is alright with me because I am so over hot, humid weather right now. I'm really not a fan of cold weather either though... especially not winter-cold. This is a list of things I recommend keeping in stock at home to make it through the cool months.
- hot chocolate
- other miscellaneous warm beverages
- blankets
- cozy bed
- knee socks and / or thick socks
- flannel pajamas
- normal hoodie
- fleece-lined hoodie
- books
- cats
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Unimportant Notes
10:59 p.m. / 22:59
I used to post a lot about the books I was reading. I know once I posted a list of the fiction I own. That list has changed a lot. I've gotten rid of a lot of those and added others. I've read some of the ones I hadn't read yet then. Maybe next month I'll post a three year anniversary of the list update post thing. Anyway, I wanted to tell you that my current percentage of read books in my fiction collection is about 60%. I'd like it to be about 40% higher, but this is progress! I've cut back on buying books in general and cut way back on buying books I haven't already read.
I'd like to link you to my Library Thing account, but I can't remember the address and wouldn't you know it, Library Thing is down right now. Of course, when it comes back, you can get to my account via the widget on my sidebar. I list books I own & have read on Library Thing... except I think there are a few non-fiction titles I haven't actually read.
I thought my font issues were worked out, but I still can't fix those posts and I expect this one will not be any different.
My last post, which was, heaven help me, in March, was about silicone baking cups. Update on that: I don't like them very much.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Silicone
9:25 p.m. / 21:25
I know most people love silicone bakeware, but I've always been skeptical. It just seems like the type of thing that ten years from now we'll be reading is unhealthy. So when I received some silicone cupcake wrappers from my grandma tonight, I wasn't sure how to feel. Then I remembered reading this earlier in the month. It's not exactly advocating for silicone bakeware, but it made me feel better about silicone all the way around. It doesn't sound horribly unsafe and as far as these cupcake wrappers go, I can actually save paper using them. I might still use paper sometimes if I'm taking cupcakes somewhere I'd be afraid to loose the silicone ones, but otherwise I'll probably keep using the silicone ones. Well, unless I find some horrible flaw in their function; I've already noticed the might be smaller than the paper ones I'm used to.
And now an unrelated, gratuitous Fizzgig picture, because I haven't posted one of him since he was tiny. He's almost 10 months old now; much bigger, but still growing!
I know most people love silicone bakeware, but I've always been skeptical. It just seems like the type of thing that ten years from now we'll be reading is unhealthy. So when I received some silicone cupcake wrappers from my grandma tonight, I wasn't sure how to feel. Then I remembered reading this earlier in the month. It's not exactly advocating for silicone bakeware, but it made me feel better about silicone all the way around. It doesn't sound horribly unsafe and as far as these cupcake wrappers go, I can actually save paper using them. I might still use paper sometimes if I'm taking cupcakes somewhere I'd be afraid to loose the silicone ones, but otherwise I'll probably keep using the silicone ones. Well, unless I find some horrible flaw in their function; I've already noticed the might be smaller than the paper ones I'm used to.
And now an unrelated, gratuitous Fizzgig picture, because I haven't posted one of him since he was tiny. He's almost 10 months old now; much bigger, but still growing!
This List Is More For Me Than It Is For You
8:45 p.m. / 20:45
- I have less time. It's not the greatest excuse in the world; many, many people who are busier than I am find time to blog, but then again, time management is far, far from being one of my strengths.
- I think of great ideas during the day at work, but then I'm too tired to care later. Lame.
- I can no longer blog about work. At all. Ever. This is probably pushing it. There's been a big thing about social networking and what's considered public and what's not and it hasn't been pretty and I really cannot say anymore.
- I blog as part of my job now. Not often, but when I do it's usually about books, which is was I originally wrote about here.
- Life is good. Honestly, it's harder to write about the good times than the bad times. Also, I wouldn't want my blog to turn into some fluffy ode to my tiny house, my furry kitties and my wonderful boyfriend (who still needs a blog nickname). That's okay for others, but not for me; just not my style. I don't think.
- I might just be loosing interest. This blog is about four years old. That's a long time for me to engage in any hobby. Reading is one of the only things that's ever stuck like that. Maybe blogging has run its course with me. It's not an idea I'm comfortable with, but it still might be true.
- Facebook & Twitter. I never really got into MySpace, but I'm a little addicted to Facebook and Twitter, although I cannot use them at all during work hours anymore. Maybe in some way they are fulfilling whatever need blogging was fulfilling before.
Let's Just Get This Out Of The Way Here
8:20 p.m. / 20:20
My hope is that by devoting a whole post to this subject, I might, might not feel the need to complain for a sentence or two in every future post.
I understand that this is probably only annoying to me but isn't that enough? They say you have to blog for yourself, not for your readers. I've tried stuff to fix it too. I went so far as to mess with the html the first time I had this problem. It didn't help. So maybe I'm just doomed to inconsistent fonts. Watch... this one will probably post correctly just to make me look like an idiot.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Lamest Post Ever
9:50 a.m. /09:50
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Holiday
8:20 p.m. / 20:20
It is still the Christmas season. People seem to find it a little odd that I still have my tree up and I'm still listening to Christmas music. There are more Christmas books on the shelves at work now than there were on December 1st... because everyone thinks Christmas ended last Thursday. Everyone's tired of Christmas, because they dove into it more than a month ago. I'd be tired of it after a month too. How did I end up the backwards person? Okay, I'm often the backwards person, but how in the case of Christmas? You know those 12 days of Christmas? Well, they're going on right now. The first day of the 12 days of Christmas is Christmas Day. So this is the Christmas season. Yet, I when I fuss about people putting up lights Thanksgiving weekend, I'm being a Scrooge or a Grinch. It isn't that I don't like Christmas or that I only want to celebrate it on the one day, it's just that I don't want to start celebrating while people are still eating Thanksgiving leftovers. It is not yet Christmas then! Christmas lasts until Epiphany; the day the three wise men supposedly arrived in Bethlehem to see the baby Jesus. I will not leave my decorations up all of the way until then, but I see no reason to take them down right now. I also see no reason to stop listening to Christmas music, although I doubt I'll do that more than a few more days. Oh, but Christmas parties / gatherings / celebrations of any type? I am so done with them. It is, however, still the Christmas season for a few more days.
