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Picture with Santa
We brought our daughter, Maya, up without Santa. My mom said she would not lie to us, so did not tell us stories about Santa Claus. Ted’s parents did raise him with Santa, but they failed him, in that when he learned Santa was not real, it was because his parents forgot to buy stocking stuffers, and left a note (In his mom’s handwriting) that said, “Sorry kids, I ran out of candy…see you next year.). Perhaps because he was the 4th of 4 kids, this was the amount of energy left. So we didn’t have the experience of a parent telling us that we were ‘part of the magic’…
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Meme Monday – COVID Christmas Edition
Merry Christmas to everyone, and let’s just hope that 2021 brings us an end to the Pandemic, and an end to the stupidity of Trump and his evil minions. I know things won’t change on January 1st, but I will say that the world already feels lighter and more hopeful, and has to me since the election in November turned out well, and since the announcements of (hopefully) safe and effective vaccines. I’m sleeping better at least. We’ve never spent Christmas just us before. It’s going to feel weird. But we will see some of Ted’s family on Christmas Eve, outside with masks. California is a shit storm right now,…
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Sunday Funnies
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Wordless Wednesday – Local Deforestation Edition
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Meme Monday – Rudolf and Santa
This is the year when it all comes out, I guess, when we finally get to talk about what jerks Santa and the other reindeer are in the TV show, and to a somewhat lesser extent, the song. I saw Nance discuss it on her blog, in a discussion with her husband. I’ve seen it on Facebook several times. And now there’s a meme. Well, actually, I’ve seen a couple of memes about it. Just like #Metoo and #BlackLivesMatter, though, isn’t the reality that it has NEVER BEEN OK? NEVER? Hasn’t it always been shitty how poor Rudolph was treated? Hasn’t it always been shitty that every woman you know…
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(Almost) Wordless Wednesday – Stupid Human Tricks
My friend Jennifer shared this picture that she took while out for a walk in Portland, Oregon. Look to the right, and you will see an idiot practicing their tightrope walking on the railing of the bridge. This bridge is really close to my parents house, and is very high, over a gulch, not over water. Here is a picture I pulled from the internet, of the bridge from below, so you can see just how high it is. Why are people so stupid? No one knows.
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Meme Monday – Back to Lockdown
I posted this meme on Facebook last year after reading Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, which is a great novel that I really enjoyed, about an 85 year old woman meandering her way to a party in New York on New Year’s Eve, 1984. Ms. Boxfish was a very talented ad woman for Macy’s in the 1930s, and the character is based on the real-life ad woman, Margaret Fishback. Facebook likes to remind you of things you posted on this day in history, so this popped up, and I decided it’s a meme, and it sums up the whole feel of Shelter in Place (SIP) so perfectly. Speaking of Shelter…
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Meme Monday
Sorry for that meme, but yeah, we all feel that way sometimes, right? I saved it for you awhile ago, and was reminded of it while out running errands with Ted the other day, when cut off by someone who then stopped short to turn into a driveway, of course without signaling. Sigh. I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving. We did. We went out to Ted’s parents house, just us 3, his parents, and his brother. We worked on being safe and socially distanced, and hopefully none of us had anything to pass around. We’ll see in a few weeks whether that worked or not. Other than the…
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Meme Monday
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Meme Monday
Mostly just the meme today, since I told you everything that I was going to do over the weekend, and now it’s Monday and I have to work and get things under control there. A few notes… In Stockton yesterday, we stopped to get BLTs for lunch with my Great Aunt, and there was some kind of Christmas festival going on in the shopping center. So we saw some sheriffs deputies on horse back, and Santa on a firetruck. I looked it up later and there were also reindeer to pet, and a snow machine (it was 70 degrees) for the kids. Seems like a really bad idea in the…
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Saturday Randomness
I’m sitting here relaxing, listening to a Sade CD (Diamond Life), having a cup of tea and deciding whether to have a piece of pizza for lunch. We’ve been getting takeout once a week to try to keep our local businesses open, and last night was pizza night. (Update – just writing that made the decision for me, and now I have a piece of cold ham and pineapple pizza next to me…I hope we can still be friends) Tomorrow we’re going to Stockton to see my Great Aunt, so I baked some raspberry scones this morning. I think they could have used another minute in the oven, but they…
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Grilled Swordfish
Gorgeous photo and recipe found here. The other day, I was making my trusty Lentil Soup recipe, which is from my Ina Garten Barefoot Contessa cookbook. While paging through, I saw a recipe for swordfish with tomato and capers that sounded good, and I thought I might make it. When I went to make a grocery list, however, I was upstairs at my desk, and my cookbook was downstairs, and I googled Ina Garten swordfish, and got this recipe. It looked even better to me than the one in the cookbook, so I decided to make this one instead. The original recipe is by Marcella Hazan, and is almost, but…
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Wordless Wednesday – A chilly morning walk
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Meme Monday
OK, not really a meme, more just a funny. See how lighthearted we can be when given the chance? I don’t have a lot to say here today, because it’s Monday morning already and it’s 32 degrees outside and I wish I had known it was going to get that cold, I would have covered my avocado plant with a sheet to protect it. I’m having a cup of tea and waiting for the sun to come up a bit so Mulder and I can go for our walk. One nice thing about wearing a mask outside is that it keeps your face a little warmer. That’s a bunch of…
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Celebrating