Yeah, I know it has been a couple of weeks, but I've been running since we got back ( Read more... )

Alright all you food people, I'm ready to make a change. I want to make good food, using fresh ingredients- and that will help me lose weight as well. Go gently on me, I've spent 41 years avoiding cooking except on occassion. Change my mind! Give me easy, tasty ideas. Oh, must also appeal to 6 year olds. BTW, new restaraunts in Sewanee have ( Read more... )

So, I've pretty much accepted that as a theatre person, it is almost impossible for me to enjoy a movie, tv or live performance without picking apart technical and/or design things. I found it really annoying for about 10 years, then I learned to deal with it. Hey, David finds it fun when I pick out re-used locations or continuity problems. (We ( Read more... )

Squee! A local craftsman just came by with a prototype Glastonbury chair. After the fiasco chasing down the merchant from GWs last year, we decided to see if a local guy would want to take it on. The price is going to be the same, which is cool because this guy has never made one and is working out the pattern and such. I'm excited, and I think ( Read more... )

Being a child of the '80's, it probably wouldn't surprise you that I like the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?." I mean, who wouldn't love some of the most awesome pop/new wave entertainers from the UK? I've heard a lot of people complain that the song is kind of a downer. I'll admit, it does tend to make my eyes moist and I develop a catch in ( Read more... )

And literally so. Lovely snow on Saturday morning. Just enough to make it pretty. Of course making it squishy later maybe not so great. Of course, I was up until almost 3 talking in the hall, so the snow was no surprise in the morning ( Read more... )

So, back from Crown List and I had a great weekend. I'm sort of tired, so let me sum up some things ( Read more... )

. . . when you see a bumper sticker that says "Bucklers Live Longer" and you think, "Well, kinda, but a dagger would be more fun."

And it takes you 1/4 mile to realize it was a car safety message.

Really, I try to leave off the politics here. Mostly, things have gotten so silly I can't even be bothered to comment. However, being at home all day yesterday, I discovered that there is a major issue flooding the waves ( Read more... )

I was looking through my students research files for a millinery class and found a picture of peteyfrogboy.livejournal.com in a hat. Thankfully, I didn't have a mouthful of diet Dr. Pepper.