My sister sent me two pounds of my favorite coffee for Christmas - Black Cat Crack Blend. I'm drawing on a hefty cup of it now and it has made my day.


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It's wonderfully sunny here for about the sixth day in a row. Who said the PNW was depressing? 45-50 degrees and sunny in December? I'll take it! We've all been doing lots of hiking, especially me and Byron. All-Terrain Doggie is his new nickname. The boy is fearless from cliff to beach. And he loves going off-leash on the trails. I try to do that ( Read more... )

I've never lived under a more chameleon-like sky. It has more shades of gray than I'd ever imagined possible. And a single sky can hold about 13 different characters. Look to the west of the island and see little blue patches peeking with sun streaming here and there. Look to the east and it's graveyard-gloomy. But the gloomy part will be revealing ( Read more... )

It turns out that nightlife on a Puget Sound island is not so different from nightlife in central Illinois. I get hit on by drunk older men and Amy runs into her patients. Made me feel right at home, yes it did.

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So, how excited am I for this movie! Call me a sucker for gay cowboys and I'll call you ... perceptive! As a bonus, Jake Gyllenhaal looks quite a lot like My Sweet Baby. Wouldn't she make a great gay cowboy? For reals.

And the soundtrack looks fantastic. Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, Emmy Lou Harris, Steve Earle and Rufus Wainwright? That shit's ( Read more... )

Ok, so it'll barely stick, but the fact that white stuff is falling out of the sky in a region I'd come to believe would never see such a thing has got me feeling all super-cozy and extra-cup-of-coffee-y.


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Driving to the gym today, I saw the clearest views yet of both the Olympic and Cascade mountains. This is strange stuff for a girl from the corn fields.

Maybe if I'd known that brining a turkey would render it somewhat ham-like, I wouldn't have done it. My sweetie has eaten nothing with eyes other than seafood for the last several years. This year, she started in on the free-range chicken, so turkey seemed like a great idea. Welllll, not so much with the brining because the fucker tasted vaguely of ( Read more... )

We're half-watching the Cowboys-Broncos game while the turkey roasts and she pipes up with "I really like the Cowboys' new uniforms - the color, the stars on the shoulders. Nice."

I just adore her!