At last, the final day of February. It's over and there are only three more weeks until the Spring Equinox. I realize that living in Cleveland means it will probably be three more months until actual warm weather, but at least I know it's on it's way.

We celebrated by making cake. I used the recipe on the side of the Hershey's cocoa can. I ( Read more... )

I have a tendency to think that some of my quirks are experienced to a far greater degree than most people. For instance, I hate using the phone. Talking on it isn't so bad, although I will avoid that if I can. Making phone calls, however, can send me into such fits of anxiety that I put them off forever, sometimes just emailing people or coercing ( Read more... )

How much more time can I possibly waste today?

Things to do:

-vacuum bedrooms
-clean bathroom
-laundry
-shake out rugs
-iron baby shirts and take pictures for Etsy

Went out to my old neighbor's house last night and stayed far too late. When I got out to my car, it wouldn't start. The windshield wipers came on, as well as the lights on the dashboard but nothing else. We'd been having problems earlier in the day and I probably shouldn't have gone but oh well. Jessie gave me a ride home--I only live 10 minutes ( Read more... )

Snow! Finally! The girls are trying to get me to make a snowman with them, but so far I have been successful in blowing them off. I love snow--sitting inside, drinking a cup of coffee and watching it gently fall. Or lying in bed, looking outside my window and watching it gently fall. Outside, not so much. They are playing quietly right now so I don ( Read more... )

Another gray, rainy day. I haven't been out of the house in daylight hours since last Monday. We need to do something, I am getting strangely disoriented as to what day it is. It's Martin Luther King Day and the museums are having either free or half-price admission but it's generally so crowded I am not sure I want to bother. Plus, it's already 12 ( Read more... )

My plans for daily walks around the neighborhood with the girls have been thwarted by Ivy's new terror of the wind. It's been a gradual thing, for a while she hasn't really liked feeling it blow against her but the past few weeks she refuses to go outside if it's at all windy, screaming that it's going to blow her away. Nothing has helped, not ( Read more... )

Ivy--Can I have a flashlight?
Me--Why do you need a flashlight?
Ivy--So I can look at my uvulaNow she has two gingerbread cookies shaped like stegosaurus, she bit the head off the one and is making the other one say "brother? brother? BROTHER ( Read more... )

Someone on my friend's list referred to her goals rather than resolutions and I really liked how that sounded, because it seems to put more emphasis on the process rather than the outcome. So, my goals for 2007 ( Read more... )

It's not Harry Belafonte, but it will do