Another week of books and movies and old recipes. Another week of random thoughts that I collect throughout the week to dump on you. Ready? Here we go. My Job is Hard A big part of my job is editing and formatting documents that go out to clients, and refer to changes in payroll and payroll reporting. The thing that sucks is that sometimes I see a grammatical error, and when I check the source, the source has that same error, so I have to leave it. Maybe if I had more power I could argue that our doc should be correct, even if the source isn’t, but since the…

Here we are again, Friday, full of random thoughts. The photo above is from the wall of a local coffee shop. Last Friday I walked to the post office to mail a gift, and stopped by for a latte and a scone. I like this little coffee shop, though I don’t stop by terribly often. Ready for randomness? Let’s dive in. One Thing a Day Someone was collecting warm clothes to send to Ukraine, so Maya and I went through our closets to see what we had. I had been waiting for the weather to change before deciding what to do with some sweaters, so this was handy. Maya grabbed…

Sometimes I think my blog has turned into book reviews and randomness, with the occasional recipe thrown in. Was it ever anything different? I don’t know. I mean, for about 5 minutes in 2005 I wrote about local restaurants, but that didn’t last at all. So without any further ado, here is your random content for the week. Earthshake*Monday morning we were awoken in our absolute favorite way, a 2:55am earthquake. They’re unsettling, because you’re never sure whether that jolt you felt was the worst of it, or if they are going to get stronger. This one was a quick jolt, then some rolling, then it (thankfully) stopped. A 4.3…

Apparently last week’s theme was day by day (Music Monday, Wordless Wednesday, etc.) and this week was recipes. Did I plan this? Not really, but it worked. Where to start? Oh, I know. In hell. Politics Maya has been sucked into the ‘Trump is Dead’ internet speculation, and starts each day telling us the current conspiracy theories. Allow me to show you a corner of my recently cleaned out closet. Tucked in with my bulkiest sweaters…ready and waiting. It’s been there since January. Painful Things The latest school shooting, this time in Minnesota, reminded me of this poem. So frustrating, so heartbreaking, so infuriating, so avoidable. I love a lot…

I’m finding my ‘get rid of one thing a day’ project very satisfying. On Sunday I went to the Farmers’ Market and came home with a bunch of produce AND three house plants that I had not intended to buy. Erm…I don’t NEED more house plants. However, I like house plants, and I have some empty pots laying around, plus I had a larger pot that had held several plants, but 1/2 of those plants had died. As I was bringing in my haul, I started thinking about how I did not need 3 new houseplants, so the first thing I did was to repot one of them and send…

Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend, and I wish you all joy. If you have kids, I hope you have a good relationship with them and are able to celebrate in some way. If you still have your mom, I hope you have a good relationship with her, and are able to celebrate in some way. If you have a bad relationship with your mother or your child(ren), I wish you peace. If you no longer have your mother or your child(ren), I wish you peace. Mother’s Day can be a complicated and difficult day. Ever since my mom died in 2008, it has been a complicated and difficult…