The metaphor for the past week...
Whew...
11/21/2003, 2205Any thoughts on that?
(From the Blatant Plug Division of the Back Porch)
Onesome: Holiday Sweets-- What is your favorite holiday sweet? You know, the one you only really can get your hands on once a year? Homemade almond roca. Oh, yeah, baby!!! Shelley's mom used to make it before she passed on; now I get it from Shelley's brother's wife's mother. Finest kind...
Twosome: Recipe-- ...and can you get the recipe for it? ...or is this one of those closely guarded family secrets handed down mother to daughter. ...and hey? What about us guys? How are we ever supposed to figure out how to do this stuff? ...or should we even try <g>? I haven't tried yet, but I suspect this is something I'll have to learn to do myself! But hey...
Threesome: Exchange-- But if you do have that recipe and you can bear to share, why not stop over at the exchange and drop it off? Barring that: do you routinely exchange sweets at holiday time? Yeah? What kinds? ...maybe someone out there has a recipe for it and can pass it along over at the exchange? That would be cool. I mean, I've already contributed!
How about you? What satisfies your sweet tooth? Drop by and let us know, over on The Back Porch...
11/20/2003, 2219
Season's end?
The miniatures one house further away don't seem to think so.
11/20/2003, 0045
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Easily amused...
Really, I am. ...especially if I can catch a free moment and not have to be doing something. I just came back from the store where I ran across a chicklette who reminded me of a TV ad I saw last night. (Shelley came in and turned the Evil Box on while I was working here; I don't watch much TV, so I'm endlessly surprised by ads I haven't seen. ...which is most of them.) The ad showed a goth gal receiving a 'gift card' to an upscale ladies dress shop. She didn't fit in well there, what with the overly solicitous sales staff and the clothes only her mother and her friends would wear. ...and then the scene shifts to what would happen if she had received a prefilled credit card gift card as she wanders into a shop more to her style. ...and where the sales gal from her own age bracket more are less just nods at her as she enters. I'm not sure how accurate that is, but then I got to thinking that neither goth chicks nor I are the target demographic for the ad; they're really after the ladies who frequent the first dress shop and who have little goth chick nieces and no clue what to get them!
...and that bring us back to Miss "I'm Working On My Attitude" at the store, as she shepherded her wayward younger siblings towards Mom, which freed her up to revert from 'helpful big sister' to 'teen chick who doesn't give a rip'. ...and I thought about that ad. ...but even better was the bit where her family got in line behind me and she wandered off from "those people" and moved in front of me, dragging herself toward the exit as every teen chick has since time began. ...just as a bag boy came in the door.
...and I so loved the next twenty-two seconds. ...as her body posture changed radically. ...and his face lit up ("chick my age" was all I think his brain registered) and he dropped into the current teen swagger. ...and he cheerfully greeted me as he went by (so she could pick up on his new voice, 'cause I sure didn't know him). ...and she dropped back into her 'posture of oppressed teen' and headed over to check out the Thanksgiving bears.
For those keeping score: mine are twelve and nine...
11/19/2003, 2312Night school...
11/19/2003, 0005
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Shameless shilling...
Let's see... Close enough. Here are a few Christmas links in case you are in need of something different than what you'll find at the local Target!
Hmmm... Sarah has added candles to her soaps and bath products:
...and Lori is now selling cards in addition to her other artwork!
That crazy neighbor lady, the one with the chocolate fetish, has her annual List-o-Links up for the places she shills for (I have to admit to using one or two of them myself <g>).
...and if you are interesting in just a little give and take, the Back Porch is putting on a recipe exchange. Nope, nothing to buy; just enjoy...
That may give you an idea or two...
11/18/2003, 2235Somehow it seems fitting...
11/18/2003, 2110
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Signs of the times...
At the store...
On the way to the store...
I know: easily distracted...
11/17/2003, 2322Any thoughts on that?
Distance...
Well, since Moosie is safely back home from Anchorage, I guess I can post the answer to last week's guessing game. I'm sure you'll understand I wanted all the distance I could get... I mean Kenai is far enough away I think I'm safe; Anchorage was just too close!
You'll recall how dirty the air has been here? When it finally rained, the accumulation of dust on the open weave umbrella over the patio table made its way onto the table. Quite a mess...
Now do you see why I wanted some distance <g>? Not to mention that fence in the background is on the north side of the property. ...which makes those vertical streaks more or less "Northern Lights".
I'll be going now...
11/16/2003, 2211Any thoughts on that?
Parallel universes...
Friday was a day of lines, both inside...
...and outside.
11/15/2003, 2141
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