Friday Randomness
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Sunday 6 (If you include Mulder’s butt)
Here we are at the END of NaBloPoMo, so above is a picture of Mulder’s END. Maya showed me this picture she took one Christmas morning, which I had never seen before. So fluffy! I’ve mostly run out of steam, but here is a little Sunday Randomness for you. I saw these two at the weekly protest last week. I’m not sure about being aligned with Antifa, but I am definitely anti fascist. We went to dinner at a local spot last weekend, and right in my line of site was this poor guy. His light colored belt with his dark jeans looked like a plumber’s crack to me. Warn…
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Friday Randomness
It’s the last Friday of NaBloPoMo, and look, I have more stupid randomness for you. I am sure you’ve been waiting all week, right? Let’s dive in. Before we move on, though, the cartoon above is for Nicole, who loves the Wham! song, Last Christmas, and does not understand nor participate in Whamageddon. I may or may not be participating this year, though Ted’s company Christmas party usually throws me out pretty early, and I can just enjoy the song if it pops up somewhere. Last Sunday, Maya wanted to go see the new Wicked movie, and she wanted to go to Chilis and have their Wicked themed margaritas. This…
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Friday Randomness
First of all, let me tell you all that I have been sucking at commenting for NaBloPoMo. I have tried, but November is a busy time in my industry, and in the evening I’m a bit worn out. I’m sorry that I haven’t been by your blogs more often. We’re all doing our best, and sometimes I just read and don’t comment, and sometimes I don’t even manage to read. Le sigh. OK, who’s ready for this week’s drivel? I’m going to keep it to 5 things, because I suspect we’re all struggling with reading these days. My decluttering ‘one thing a day’ project has slowed, as I run out…
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Friday Randomness
Will I have enough content for a post? Will I go overboard with stupid memes? Time will tell. Know what? I’ll make it a Friday 5. This week I was given a new laptop for work, which should be a simple thing, but my team uses some tools that are specific to us and are finicky, and my files weren’t transferring over to my new laptop well. So I spent a lot of time with a lovely IT guy in our Chicago office. We got to chatting a bit, as one does while waiting for processes to run, and I told him that it was raining and I was loving…
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Friday Randomness
Let’s see if I regret using up several random type items in one post during NaBloPoMo. I have a couple more recipes and book reviews for you, so we’ll see what happens after that. For now, I will keep today’s post to 5 items. One of our local Little Free Libraries has been converted to a food pantry for those losing SNAP benefits due to the government shutdown. I hate this. I mean, it’s a great idea, but I hate that it’s come to this. Thankfully, my county is handing out pre-loaded debit cards to folks that get SNAP, so at least there’s that. My decluttering project continues. I gave…
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Friday Randomness
Another Friday, another brain dump of randomness. Look at the crowd in the drone photo taken of our local No Kings rally last Saturday! The crowd is estimated to be between 8,500 – 10,000, which is amazing, especially as there were even larger crowds in Oakland and San Francisco, and that our neighboring town had their own large crowd. I counted this as my CBWC walk for that day, though honestly I didn’t walk much because it was so crowded. I took pictures, but they sucked because of so many people, so here are some fun photos from the professional photographers that shared their photos on our local Indivisible FB…
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Friday Randomness
You know, I’ve been thinking about NaBloPoMo this year. Some years I have a theme, like A – Z, or book reviews. Other years I wing it. And there have been plenty of times over the last 20 years that I haven’t participated at all. But these Friday Randomness posts are a whole lot of stupidness, and that is exactly the vibe I’m looking for this year. So I’ll be posting every day in November, and trying to read fellow NBPM blogs, and just putting my brain dump of stupidness into daily posts instead of combining them into one post a week. I plan to keep my posts short, too,…
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Friday Randomness
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…
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Friday Randomness
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…
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Friday Randomness
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…
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Friday Randomness
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…
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Flashback Friday
Yesterday’s post was a list of 13 things that I have given away recently. Today’s post is about something that I tried to give away, but couldn’t. Looking at the picture above, from an Easter Sunday years ago, notice the adorable hat I’m wearing. I love that hat. I will never wear it again, however, and Maya doesn’t want it, and no one on Buy Nothing wants it, and I can’t bear to think of it going to Goodwill and no one wanting it and it being used for stuffing or rags or something. It needs to remain a hat. This is our beautiful girl, Genevieve, borrowing my hat back…
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Friday Randomness
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…
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Friday Randomness
So much randomness this week…this one is going to be scattered. Let’s dive in. Eggy GoodnessLet’s start with eggs, shall we? Maya and I watched a video on YouTube the other day about egg cooking hacks. If you need a lot of chopped up hard boiled eggs for egg salad or something, she has a tip where you crack raw eggs into a baking dish, bake them until they are set, then chop them up. That looked pretty good, but I can’t tell you the last time I needed a bunch of chopped hard boiled eggs. She had a trick for making poached eggs in the microwave that I had…
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Portland Randomness
We had a lovely time in Portland last weekend! My step-mom, my sisters, and their families live in Portland, and we haven’t been up to ‘just visit’ in a long time. Actually, it’s been over a decade. We have gone up for weddings and parties and funerals and to scatter my father’s ashes, but a visit with no schedule, no plans? I think our last one was in 2013. (Edited to say, um, the 2013 trip was for my Dad’s 70th birthday, so it’s been even longer since we went up without an occasion than I thought. No wonder Ted’s mom asked, ‘and why are you going up?’) The last…
