Which "rhymes with 'if only in my dreams'" variation is most suitable to my annual return home to Connecticut? I'm leaving tonight, so I give you, dear reader, the choice:
I'll be home for Christmas,
You can count on me.
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents under the tree.
Christmas Eve will find me,
Where the love light gleams.
I'll be home for Christmas,
_________________.
a) listening to mom's parrots scream!
b) drinking dunkin' donuts coffee (which is mostly cream)!
c) cheering for my tundra bowl team!
d) watching gutter icicles gleam!
e) admiring the hot tub's steam!
Happy Holidays!
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Unprecedented
I left home at 8:15am today. I got into work at 8:35am. I never dipped below 40 miles per hour on the bridge, whose speed limit, I believe, is usually 50mph by law and 15mph by practice.
Happy Holidays to ME!! People need to take vacations more often!! If only every morning could be THAT easy!
Cheerfully yours,
EHH
Happy Holidays to ME!! People need to take vacations more often!! If only every morning could be THAT easy!
Cheerfully yours,
EHH
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Not Terribly Clever
You're all probably familiar with the myriad names that a spoof or spam email will use to get their emails past your spam detector. "Thurnbockle Snogglesworth" has sent you an email entitled "BEST STOCKS ACT NOW," for example.
Which is why I had to laugh when I opened my spam folder to be sure an email wasn't accidentally diverted into it, and saw maybe the least clever cover name I'd ever seen attached to a spam email.
It said, simply: PARASITE.
Which is why I had to laugh when I opened my spam folder to be sure an email wasn't accidentally diverted into it, and saw maybe the least clever cover name I'd ever seen attached to a spam email.
It said, simply: PARASITE.
Monday, December 05, 2005
Driving Miss Piggy
I left the house at 8:05am today, and got to work at 8:40am.
I left the house at 8:15am on Thursday and got to to work at 9:15am.
There is no calculating Calicommuting...you just leave a little early and cross your fingers.
Last night S. and I had a baking fest. Don't know what inspired us exactly -- he got a hankering to bake a pumpkin pie, because it's one of the only sweets he likes, and because he's not "a baker" and wants to start learning. So I gave him my favorite pumpkin pie recipe and we dug up a graham cracker crust recipe (which we used old girl scout shortbread cookies for -- at last!! a use!!) and he buckled down to bake (or should I say, bakled down?)
I got a hankering for bread. Hadn't used the ol' bread machine in a bit, and hadn't yet used the birthday book o' bread baking recipes (or should I say, the broeakingday o' recipes? Hmm, that one didn't work so well...) I got from L., so I dug up a yummy sounding recipe and another yummy sounding recipe, and made a bread machined loaf of parmesan olivey goodness and an traditional oven baked loaf of Pumpkin bread, substituting the 1/2 cup of oil in the recipe with cinnamon applesauce as a low fat option, thanks to a trick my stepmother taught me.
The parmesan olive one kinda came out a little shrunken and none of the olives incorporated into the inside of the loaf -- so it has a very elaborate crust!! But it still came out okay and is quite flavorful. And the pumpkin bread is too moist. I didn't think pumpkin bread could be too moist, but I cooked it at a slightly lower temperature than was recommended -- so S. could bake his pie at the same time -- and I'm wondering if some of that moisture was meant to burn off? Or was it the applesauce substitute? Dunno.
S. reports that his pie tastes great, though the crust is stuck to the pan. So I guess it was a moral victory for us -- sheer creativity points -- rather than an awesome success.
I have been getting over a cold. I seem to get one annually, and this one came right on the heels of my flight back from VA, so it makes sense. I think yesterday may have been my first full day of energy post-cold, which may explain the sudden burst of baking endeavors...
Happy Christmas Season!
I left the house at 8:15am on Thursday and got to to work at 9:15am.
There is no calculating Calicommuting...you just leave a little early and cross your fingers.
Last night S. and I had a baking fest. Don't know what inspired us exactly -- he got a hankering to bake a pumpkin pie, because it's one of the only sweets he likes, and because he's not "a baker" and wants to start learning. So I gave him my favorite pumpkin pie recipe and we dug up a graham cracker crust recipe (which we used old girl scout shortbread cookies for -- at last!! a use!!) and he buckled down to bake (or should I say, bakled down?)
I got a hankering for bread. Hadn't used the ol' bread machine in a bit, and hadn't yet used the birthday book o' bread baking recipes (or should I say, the broeakingday o' recipes? Hmm, that one didn't work so well...) I got from L., so I dug up a yummy sounding recipe and another yummy sounding recipe, and made a bread machined loaf of parmesan olivey goodness and an traditional oven baked loaf of Pumpkin bread, substituting the 1/2 cup of oil in the recipe with cinnamon applesauce as a low fat option, thanks to a trick my stepmother taught me.
The parmesan olive one kinda came out a little shrunken and none of the olives incorporated into the inside of the loaf -- so it has a very elaborate crust!! But it still came out okay and is quite flavorful. And the pumpkin bread is too moist. I didn't think pumpkin bread could be too moist, but I cooked it at a slightly lower temperature than was recommended -- so S. could bake his pie at the same time -- and I'm wondering if some of that moisture was meant to burn off? Or was it the applesauce substitute? Dunno.
S. reports that his pie tastes great, though the crust is stuck to the pan. So I guess it was a moral victory for us -- sheer creativity points -- rather than an awesome success.
I have been getting over a cold. I seem to get one annually, and this one came right on the heels of my flight back from VA, so it makes sense. I think yesterday may have been my first full day of energy post-cold, which may explain the sudden burst of baking endeavors...
Happy Christmas Season!
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