We try so hard every year, and every year we become exhausted, stressed, and depressed in a futile effort to make this the Best Christmas Ever. Why?! Why do we insist on working music to death from October to Christmas Eve? Why do we spend hours, days even, in the kitchen making favorite dishes for [...]
Archive for December, 2008
22 Dec
Gimme a C, Gimme an O, Gimme an L, Gimme a D…Gimme a break!
Because I’m an idiot that’s why! Because it’s 5 degrees outside. No, I didn’t forget to type a number, it’s just five! FIVE! Plus, there’s a windchill advisory that currently shows a -10 degree windchill outside. That’s 42 degrees below the freezing temperature of water…and, apparently, just a few above the freezing point of my [...]
17 Dec
It’s…
A GIRL!
No doubt, to many of you this will come as a surprise. To some of you, it will simply be old news, but still exciting. And to a very few of you, hopefully, I’ll need to ask you to pick your jaw up off the keyboard at this point to keep from drooling on [...]
16 Dec
The story of life
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
A man and a woman stepped forth from their cave with a new son. Beneath the silvery gleam of the half moon and the sparkle of a billion stars, this new life was consecrated with the earth and the heavens in mutual understanding. As the days [...]
11 Dec
Missing the heat
It’s winter here in Kentucky, no doubt about that. It’s cold outside, it’s cold in the office, and my Christmas Spirit gauge shows that I’m about 3 quarts low. Check that, it’s flat dry. I don’t have the desire or the energy to put up with Christmas in any form: holiday luncheons, choir practices, etc. [...]
8 Dec
Happy Days…no, not the sitcom.
Some days are just happier than others. Believe what you like about cosmic influence, higher powers, luck of the draw…there are some days that are simply better than others. Today, oddly enough, seems to be one of those days. It certainly didn’t start out that way.
I was exhausted when I woke up this morning. I [...]
5 Dec
Frosty the Cyclist…everybody sing!
I do not like winter. I don’t hate it, but I don’t like it. There are some aspects of winter that I enjoy. Hot cocoa, gently falling snow, warm crackling fires…but on the whole I could leave winter behind any given day. Today was the day I started disliking winter this year.
I ride my bike [...]
2 Dec
A Very Vegan Thanksgiving
Intertubes, I apologize for not posting throughout the Thanksgiving weekend, but when I tell you about the trip to Flagstaff, Arizona, you’ll understand. It was a most amazing weekend and I can go no further without thanking our hosts, TAFKAA and SV, profusely. Their kindness and affability throughout the week was without equal…but, the meals…the [...]
