If you need me, text me.

I’m going to try to spend today away for the internet, and instead doing things and enjoying being alive.

In honor of all the ducklings I keep seeing on my walk home, today’s word is: goose

In theory I am posting this from my phone while waiting for the Chieftans to start. In reality? You’ll know before I do if it actually works.

I know I’ve been extremely quiet recently. Busy at work has lead to lack of interest in the computer at work. But now spring is here I hope at least to take more pictures.

Yeasted Sweet Rolls

(eaten with butter and strawberry preserves)

Chocolate Pudding

Today I am thankful for: orange juice

Today’s word: fan

Things that are Awesome, originally uploaded by Random Michelle K.

Kit sent Grandmom flowers. Today, Kit received a card.

This was Vince’s last day with us, so we decided to visit Fallingwater on the way (sort of) to the airport. The nice thing about being on vacation is that getting lost doesn’t much matter.

Which is good.

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LET’S GOOOOOOO!

MOUNTAINEERS!

ADDENDUM:

:(

Don’t tell the cats, but they’re going to the vet this morning.

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserved them? So, now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
– Marcus Cole, “A Late Delivery From Avalon”, Babylon 5

Bah Humbug.

Well, we’re back at the Charlotte airport, waiting to go on to Denver. Flight is booked, near us are two children running around very loudly.

Wish us luck!

Humph.

Just finished reading the C.S. Harris mystery Where Serpents Sleep.

Excellent.

I love really her Sebastian St. Cyr series and highly recommend it to anyone who likes Vistorian mysteries–or mysteries in general.

Holy moley!

14 – 14 and the first quarter isn’t even over.

Neither of their touchdowns was pretty. We’ve got to play better than this!

I just realized that when I pulled out the cookie cutters–the ELEPHANT cookie cutter was MISSING!

I have NO elephant Christmas cookies!

:(

How will the Christmas elephant ever forgive me?

Have a blessed Hanukkah.

Go!

During my lunch walk, I came to some conclusions about fashion. At least, my opinions about fashion.

To put it plainly, I don’t get it.

Take shoes. I admit that I buy expensive shoes, but that is because I want my shoes to be comfortable, and I’m willing to pay well to make sure my feet don’t hurt. But I see no reason to wear shoes that draw attention to themselves.

Why do I want someone staring at my feet?

Same goes for clothing. I try to dress at least someone professionally for work, because I feel that if I look professional people are more willing to accept me as an expert. No, it’s not fair the world works that way, but there it is. If I am teaching, I want people to look at me as the expert in the class, and so I dress accordingly. But I do not want clothing that will draw so much attention to itself that people are looking at my clothes and not me.

I want people to look at me and to listen to what I am saying. I don’t want them staring at my shoes or at my clothing. Those things are the background and should remain in the background.

And if I’m not teaching, I want clothing that will allow me to blend into the background and remain unremarkable. Why? Because that’s how I am.

I used to dress aggressively to give off the attitude, “don’t bother me,” and although I liked that and it was effective, it’s not very helpful for getting assistance if you need it. So instead I go for wallflower. And don’t understand people whose clothing wears them, instead of vice versa.

(What prompted this? A pair of boots that looked like a cross between a moccasin, a bedroom slipper, and a dead rabbit.)

When Michael and Grandmom got back from the store, Michael yelled at me to look at the crows. I looked out the front door–nothing. So I slipped on my clogs, grabbed my camera, and went out the kitchen door (where he and Grandmom were coming in).

I’ve never seen so many crows before; when the traffic eased, you hear the raucous noise they made all cawing together.

I’m reminded of a story in the Sandman series, “A Parliament of Rooks.”

Why were so many crows all gathered in one place? They were circling in the sky, and perched in the top of trees, so it doesn’t seem like anything on the ground was the cause (at least I hope not, considering the sheer number of crows).

And here is a good page from Cornell about crows. It doesn’t look like crows in this area should be migratory, though I suppose it could be a group coming in for the winter. Though that seems unlikely.

Yesterday and today, I awoke from my nap to discover that the server on which my website lives had gone down.

Not only do I have the sense of missing things while I’m asleep, I wake to discover that I was actually missing things while asleep.

This happens once more and I’m going to be afraid to take a nap.

So my website was down for about three hours, and I have to say my dealings with Dreamhost were about a thousand times better than my dealings with iPowerweb. I received updates on my Dreamhost Panel and then through e-mail, as to the status of my website.

Of course down time always sucks, but I understand it happens sometimes, and appreciate knowing what is happening.

In the meantime, Grandmom has returned; Mom and Dad dropped her off before the game.

And speaking of the game, WVU is playing Cincinnati, and things aren’t going well for our heroes.

(sigh)

ADDENDUM the First:
Umm… Tony just called Pat White “tough as an acorn.” I think he just made that up.

Plus, Pat White just took a swing at someone? WTF?

ADDENDUM the Second:
HOLY CRAP! OVERTIME!

ADDENDUM the Third:
Shit.

Sorry. Nothing Halloweeny here.

Move along.

And winter is peeking around the corner.

And that means it’s now officially sweater weather. Yippee! Sweaters were pulled out, and shorts and short-sleeved were put away. Plus, I pulled out the down comforter. I think snuggling under a down comforter is definitely one of the better things about winter.

The down side to this was I spent the entire day washing bedding. Not just the bedding that was put away for the winter, but also our blankets, and the blanket and comforter on Grandmom’s bed as well. Plus the normal assortment of sheets and such. Let me tell you, there is little more boring than spending the entire day at the beck and call of laundry.

On the bright side, however, I had leftover pizza and apple pie for lunch. Yum!