Archive for the 'holiday' Category

Halloween, part 6

Monday, October 24th, 2005

The final day of the final long weekend. Much madness, but with direction.
B stayed over, and we all ran errands this morning before re-grouping at the house around 2 p.m.. I got extension cords and more purple lights. This is the third trip out for purple lights. It’s very purple around […]

Halloween, part 5

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

The progress towards Halloween continues. The threat of rain (which never materialized) was enough to keep us from having lots of people over, but slow and steady was sort of the pace today anyway. After last night’s over-indulgence at the state fair, we got off to a sluggish start. After a bit of […]

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program

Friday, October 21st, 2005

Well, that got interesting.
After getting loads of stuff accomplished over the weekend, I headed back to work feeling quite satisfied.
Good thing, too. The lovely lady who is the head cheese at Red Hat Magazine fell ill and the latest issue of the now-year-old publication ended up in my lap.
It’s up. It’s not late, […]

Halloween, part 4

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

And, now, today… The Big Push.
With our progress outside stymied by falling trees and failing-to-show tree removers, today we had a huge workday.
The weather was gorgeous—not too hot, not too cold—with no rain and sun all day. The trees had been chopped down and removed Friday afternoon, and though they didn’t fix the fence, […]

Halloween, part 2

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Progress:

K got four bags of party food in the deep freeze over the weekend. A double batch of wontons, and another of mummy toes. Also, sausage balls.
Three trips to Lowe’s. The first lasted three, almost four, hours. The second was an hour, to exchange the pansy-ass drill the guy sold me […]

Halloween, part 1

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Halloween is happening; things are getting busy. Expect less-than-frequent blog updates, though I intend to take some pictures to record the entire insane process.
Tonight we made the attic run, and pulled down the 30-odd boxes of lights, streamers, props, masks, beads, shredded cheesecloth, and body parts. The joyful business of unpacking the boxes […]

Vacation, holidays, return to work, plus a new season of television.

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

The holidays totally rock, especially since the company I work for sees fit to give some folks a little extra time off around December. This year, it was pretty much the last week of December. I had a little time to burn as well, and it turned in to a fabu almost-2-week sabbatical. […]

Before it’s Friday again

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004

Ok, so this is last week’s cat blog. Or, rather, Cat/Dog/Christmas blog.
(click for full versions of photos; thumbnails are usually cropped oddly. Because my teachers told me to. Thanks, Rich!)
ArG is first up. It is, after all, still cat blogging Friday. Even if it isn’t Friday anymore. I took […]

the continuing quest for the perfect gingerbread cookie

Saturday, December 11th, 2004

Another entrant in that classic holiday quest: the search for the perfect gingersomething cookie.
Gingerbread, gingersnap, whatever. I’m not sure which it was–it was really sort of in-between–but it’s this mythical cookie I recall fondly from my childhood, something my great-grandmother used to make. It was spicy and sharp, crisp around the […]

Great things about $Holidays

Friday, December 10th, 2004

One of the excellent things about Christmas this year is… Holiday Spice Pepsi. Seriously. That shit is the bomb.
I wonder if Pepsi Co will ship it by the case so I can have some all year round. Hmmmm…
Though I noticed they seem to disavow any dabblings with the greatest of all soft […]